To accommodate Friends at yearly meeting this summer we will rent additional tents for sleeping.  There will be one tent for high school boys, one for high school girls, and one for general use.  The tents will have screen sides and opaque sides which can be rolled up or down to provide ventilation or privacy.  Friends are also encouraged to bring their own tents for camping.  Even if you don't want to camp yourself bring your tent for others to use!  We are also trying to get a group discount at a motel to help out Friends who cannot camp.  (Details about this will be included with the yearly meeting registration information.)

Friends may have heard about our initial plans to rent the Putnam County Jr. High School gymnasium for sleeping accommodations.  While this appeared to be a good solution to our needs, the Putnam County school board decided against approving the plan.

What is the future of the dormitory building?
The future of the dorm is a matter for the IYM Site Envisioning & Building Committee.  That committee will need to make a recommendation for the consideration of the yearly meeting.  Our consulting architect, Michael Lambert, has provided a number of suggestions, with cost estimates, in his report.  The options range from razing the building completely to converting it for another use to fixing all the code problems for use as a dormitory.  The building is structurally sound but it is in need of a new roof.  The roofing on the dorm has never been replaced except for a "quick and dirty" (and cheap) job that was done by a group of Friends in September 2000.  The roof developed a leak on the north side which had been patched several times and still leaked.  A group of five Friends, and two others helping with food and logistics, applied rolled roofing on top of the existing shingles on the north half of the roof.  This work seems to have stopped the leak but it won't last much longer.  The building needs a tear-off and re-shingling if it is not going to be torn down.
I hope that this information addresses the questions and concerns of many Friends regarding the IYM dormitory.  I am always willing to discuss these matters further.

IYM Development Committee News and Help Wanted

The new Development Committee is getting established this spring, after getting a nearly full slate of members approved at March Continuing Committee.  Our work will involve getting Illinois Yearly Meeting better known within its monthly meetings, expanding ways of giving for the support of the services IYM provides to Friends and encouraging giving on behalf of all IYM programs and projects.

We have a very specific need to know about good resource persons with professional experience in fundraising, who may be able to assist IYM in the future as volunteer or paid consultants.  They can be persons from within the yearly meeting or known to Friends.  Please get your ideas to Cathy Garra at 847/864-3218 or [email protected].
 

IYM Finance Committee Recommends Incorporating as a 501-C3
By Robert Foulkes

Illinois Yearly Meeting is a community of Friends who gather to worship and act corporately.  The State of Illinois has a process for recognizing such entities as Illinois Yearly Meeting -- Incorporation as a 501-C3 non-profit corporation.  Corporations exist as an "entity" in the eyes of the State with the ability to hold property and act to further their stated purposes.

There are three primary advantages to incorporation.
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