New York Quarterly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business Flushing Meeting House, Flushing, NY 28th day, tenth month, 2018 AGENDA READING: Approval of interim clerk for the day, Beth Kelly Agenda review Dates for NYQM in 2020: January 19th: Brooklyn Friends Meetinghouse April 19th: Fifteenth St. Friends Meetinghouse July 18th: Saturday, Quaker Cemetery, Prospect Park October 18th: Flushing Meeting M&C report on threshing sessions Nominating Report and consenus slate Audit and Budget update report Brooklyn Friends School Annual Report Manhattan Monthly Meeting Report Flushing Monthly Meeting Report Morningside Monthly Meeting Report Staten Island Meeting BREAK: READING: Brooklyn Monthly Meeting Report Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting Downtown Allowed Meeting Friends Seminary Board of Trustees reply to July QM minute 2018.07.07 (FSBT will do their annual report in January). …(6) request clarification of what processes Friends Seminary is committed to leading up to a decision to fire a faculty member for cause, and how these processes are consistent with the EPPPs, (7) request processes of care for the Quaker members of the Friends Seminary Board of Trustees (FSBT) so they may report back to the meeting regarding FSBT decisions, (8) whether Quaker members of FSBT season responses to the Quarterly Meeting community, and whether those who stand aside are minuted, (9) clarity about who makes FSBT decisions and how FSBT decides who communicates them, (10) requests a copy of the contract that is the basis for arbitration of Friends Seminary labor disputes. Care Relationship Committee responds to the following July QM minute: 2018.07.09 The meeting invites Mark Doty and the rest of the CRC to the threshing session noted above to further address the following concerns, Mark’s initial responses to which the meeting hears and appreciates: (1) the CRC’s discernment regarding discourse on the alumni page and the meeting of Robert Lauder with the students, (2) when the CRC prefers relationship-related concerns in writing as opposed to meeting in shared worshipful discernment, (3) requests that expressions of relationship-related concerns from the Quarterly Meeting community go to the complete FSBT, (4) requests clarification of the nature, mission, spiritual foundation and processes of the CRC. Worship Sharing CLOSE OF MEETING Recording clerk: Beth Kelly Friends Seminary Board of Trustees report is held over until January 2019 Friends in the City Report is held over until January 2019 2019 NYQM dates: January 20th: Brooklyn Friends Meeting, Brooklyn April 21st: Fifteenth Street Meeting, Manhattan July 13th: Quaker Cemetery, Prospect Park, Brooklyn in case of rain, meet at Brooklyn Friends Meeting October 20th: Morningside Meeting, Riverside Church, Manhattan New York Quarterly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business Flushing Meeting House Flushing, NY 28th day, tenth month, 2018 ADVANCE AGENDA Time: 11am-12pm: all are welcome to join Flushing Meeting for worship 12-1pm: potluck and fellowship (please bring something if so moved), childcare provided. 1 pm: Quarterly Meeting *The following order of agenda items may be changed prior to the Meeting. *Reports received prior to the Meeting will be posted to the website during the business day they are received. *Please bring two signed copies of your report for the clerks table. Any corrected final reports can be emailed to the clerk and the assistant clerk immediately after the meeting. *No further reports will be scheduled going forward. Dates for NYQM in 2020: January 19th: Brooklyn April 19th: Fifteenth St. July 18th: Saturday, Quaker Cemetery, Prospect Park October 18th: Morningside Monthly Meeting -Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting Report -Flushing Monthly Meeting Report -Staten Island Meeting Report -Manhattan Monthly Meeting Report -Morningside Monthly Meeting Report -Brooklyn Monthly Meeting Report -Downtown Allowed Meeting Brooklyn Friends School Annual Report Education Fund Nominating Report and slate *the slate is posted on the website and has been available and distributed since early October Handbook Cmte (?) FSBT will reply to QM July minute (FS will do their annual report in January): 2018.07.07 Elizabeth Enloe offers responses to the following expressed concerns: (1) priorities of adherence where there are apparent conflicts between the guidance of the arbitration procedures with the Friends Seminary Teachers’ Association (FSTA) and the Essential Principles Practices and Procedures (EPPPs) agreed to as a condition for separate incorporation, (2) whether the confidentiality currently upheld during the process of binding arbitration will still be upheld when the arbitration decision is rendered, (3) whether the Trustees of the Quarterly Meeting and the Care Relationship Committee can be included among the parties privy to the confidential details of this labor dispute, as per the EPPPs, (4) whether Friends Seminary considers restorative justice processes an option—even if not a procedural obligation—when there is a labor dispute, (5) requests that a response be made to 15th Street with regard to their minutes 2018.4.11 and 2018.6.14, (6) request clarification of what processes Friends Seminary is committed to leading up to a decision to fire a faculty member for cause, and how these processes are consistent with the EPPPs, (7) request processes of care for the Quaker members of the Friends Seminary Board of Trustees (FSBT) so they may report back to the meeting regarding FSBT decisions, (8) whether Quaker members of FSBT season responses to the Quarterly Meeting community, and whether those who stand aside are minuted, (9) clarity about who makes FSBT decisions and how FSBT decides who communicates them, (10) requests a copy of the contract that is the basis for arbitration of Friends Seminary labor disputes. CRC responds to the following July QM minute: 2018.07.09 The meeting invites Mark Doty and the rest of the CRC to the threshing session noted above to further address the following concerns, Mark’s initial responses to which the meeting hears and appreciates: (1) the CRC’s discernment regarding discourse on the alumni page and the meeting of Robert Lauder with the students, (2) when the CRC prefers relationship-related concerns in writing as opposed to meeting in shared worshipful discernment, (3) requests that expressions of relationship-related concerns from the Quarterly Meeting community go to the complete FSBT, (4) requests clarification of the nature, mission, spiritual foundation and processes of the CRC. Friends in the City Report is delayed until January 2019 New York Quarterly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business Flushing Meeting House, Flushing, NY 28th day, tenth month, 2018 Present: Nancy Britton, clerk. Beth Kelly, acting recording clerk Attendance: 15th Street—11; Brooklyn—14; Flushing—5; Manhattan—0; Morningside—7; Staten Island—1. Visiting: New Paltz MM—2; Ithaca MM—1; Beaufort (SC)—1; FS Trustees—1; BFS Trustees —1; QM Staff—1. 2018.10.01 New York Quarterly Meeting gathers in worship at approximately1:00pm. Out of the silence, the clerk reads the following: "Our gracious Creator cares and provides for all his creatures. His tender mercies are over all his works; and so far as his love influences our minds, so far we become interested in his workmanship and feel a desire to take hold of every opportunity to lessen the distresses of the afflicted and increase the happiness of the creation. Here we have a prospect of one common interest from which our own is inseparable – that to turn all the treasures we possess in to the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives." John Woolman, 'Plea for the Poor', in the Journal and Major Essays, p 255. 2018.10.2 Today's recording clerk, Beth Kelly, is approved. 2018.10.3 The agenda is distributed and approved. 2018.10.4 The clerk proposes the following dates and locations for New York Quarterly Meeting's regular Meetings for Worship with a Concern for Business in 2020: January 19th: Brooklyn April 19th: Fifteenth St. July 18th: Saturday, Quaker Cemetery, Prospect Park (BMM as rain location) October 18th: Flushing Monthly Meeting Friends accept these dates. 2018.10.5 The clerk reads a brief report by Steven Monroe Smith, clerk of Ministry and Counsel, on the Threshing Sessions held on the 19th and 26th of Ninth Month, 2018, to consider the relationship between NYQM and Friends' schools. The report, including the Call to Threshing and roll, is accepted and attached. 2018.10.6 Jim Morgan of Brooklyn Meeting announces a conference based on query "What would it take to achieve a world in which every human being can live a decent and dignified life?" The conference will take place on May 4, 2019 and will focus helping people understand the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Persons in attendance, including local youth, will explore issues of justice and participation. The event, called "Yes, Another World Is Possible," is being cosponsored by Brooklyn Meeting, NYQM African Education Committee, and NYQM Committee on M&C. Jim Morgan requests NYQM endorsement. Discussion follows. The request for endorsement is approved. 2018.10.7 Elizabeth Powers of the Nominating Committee presents a report from the committee. Discussion follows. Friends accept the report, which is attached. The following Friends have requested release from service: Barbara von Salis BFS Trustees Janet Soderberg Cemetery Committee Caroline Harting African Great Lakes Education Committee Friends accept these requests for release and direct the Nominating Committee to seek new members to serve if they have not yet done so. Elizabeth Powers presents the consensus slate of nominees for NYQM positions. The slate is accepted; the new committee roster is accepted and appended. 2018.10.8 David Garrity, clerk of the Audit and Budget committee, presents a requested report updating Friends about the current and projected financial state of the Quarter with and without the Friends Seminary contributions which are currently in escrow.