Did you know that UUCC owns ~90% of the entity that is the Owen Brown Interfaith Center? We share ownership with Christ United Methodist Church (CUMC). You can learn more about this arrangement here.
The success of OBIC is integral to the success of UUCC: not only are we financially responsible for the operations of OBIC, but OBIC is a tangible way we live our pluralistic values here in Howard County.
OBIC is its own 501(c)3 nonprofit separate from the two owning congregations with its own management, staff, and board of directors. UUCC is represented on the board by 5 UUCC congregants. This year’s representatives are Linda Adcox-Kimmel, Ed Gaddy, Gregory Seidman, Lindsay Thompson, and Richard Yocum.
To help UUCC congregants understand and learn how to support OBIC (and UUCC as a result), our UUCC OBIC directors will share highlights and updates from the OBIC board here in this Good Governance blog.
The OBIC Board met over Zoom on Tuesday, April 16 for regular business. The Board allocated funds to the independent review of 2022 and 2023 finances, and approved executing on the energy saving lighting project discussed in previous meetings. Revisions to the OBIC by-laws will be reviewed for final approval by or before the next meeting, and the ratification of those revisions can be expected to be on both owning congregations’ 2024 annual meeting agendas. Concerns about finances continue to dominate discussion, but OBIC has been pursuing and winning grants for various material improvements free of such concerns. The Board closed by choosing Tuesday, May 21 for the next meeting.
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