MACCWT committee proposal vote

The MACCWT Board did NOT make a decision on our Home Suite Hope proposal as there were insufficent members present and they were not familiar with the proposal. many of the same questions were asked which is frustrating. One encouraging outcome was that the board members who were aware of the proposal and had given is thought were generally supportive. Those who were hearing it for the first time were frightened of it. Consequently, my choice was to move that the proposal be tabled once again and that a special meeting be called to discuss this proposal alone, and that is what happened. The special meeting idea was popular and it was agreed that each church should bring people to this meeting who were interested -- some of the reps were quite supportive and had ideas for people who might be interested in getting involved. This special meeting will be planned for 2 hours, with the first hour open and guests. The second hour would be closed and involve only the MACCWT board. That way, we can have a vote on the proposal immediately with the same people who have heard the information. The special meeting date has been set for Thursday, May 6 -- location TBA but I'm going to see if there is space at St. Paul's. It will be necessary to put together a package of information that includes our original proposal, the chronology of our journey so far with this, and a summary of what is being asked of the MACCWT, and hopefully a projection of how we see this developing over the next few years. We have most of this information gathered already. We'll send this info package out in advance of the May 6 meeting, which will hopefully allow us to summarize the proposed project in 30 minutes and then field questions for 30 mintues before we move on the the voting part.