Annual Meeting 5780

At the Judea Reform  (Virtual) Annual Meeting on May 31, 2020 (at 4 pm) the160 members present unanimously voted to pass our budget for next year, approved the slate of Nominations for the Judea Reform Board of Trustees and the Cemetery Board,  heard from our President and Rabbi, and celebrated our 2020 Volunteers of the year.  If you were unable to join us (or if you were there and want to experience it again), this page is for you:

• Watch our beautiful opening retrospective video of 2019/29 – "We Are All In, Together"
• Listen to (or read) the speeches by our President Ziva Raney and Senior Rabbi Matthew V. Soffer
• Learn about our newly elected General Trustees to the Judea Reform Board and Cemetery Board
• Qvell over our Volunteers of the Year: Helene Bosworth, Jane Carnathan, Judy Holland, Hannalee Isaacs, Arnie Lerman, Nancy Luberoff​​​​​​​, Carrie Norry​​​​​​​, Lily Posner-Hess, and Jodi Preminger

Documents for the Meeting

• Agenda
• President and Treasurer's Letter
• Minutes from the 2019 Annual Congregational Meeting (Approved)

Nominations

• 2020 Slate of Nominees (Approved)
• Bios for 2020 Nominees

Budget/Finance 

• Statement of Fund Activities
• JRC Balance Sheet as of June 30, 2019
• JRC Balance Sheet as of April 30, 2020
• 2020-21 Budget Overview (Approved)

Judea Reform Cemetery Corporation Business

• Agenda
• Minutes of 2019 Annual Members Meeting (Approved)
• Cemetery Financials (Approved)

Procedures for this Meeting

The Annual Meeting was virtual via Zoom. Attendees were required to RSVP to receive the private Zoom link to join the meeting.
To vote on slate and budget, members were required to access meeting via Zoom.
Zoom is free, and we provided assistance with acquiring Zoom, registering for our meeting, and managing the Zoom program on the day of the meeting.
We provided guides, videos, an email address for asking for help, and a "day of" help line.
We opened the Zoom meeting 30 minutes in advance.
We asked that attendees not share the link and password they are sent, explaining that the Annual Meeting is a closed meeting for congregants only.
We verified members and counted registrants so we could meet our constitutionally mandated quorum.
We asked that only one device per household would be used.
All materials for the Annual Meeting (budget and slate) were posted by May 20 on our website and we sent links via email to all who RSVPed.