Guide to Procedures
The Guide to Procedures describes the operations of Intermountain Yearly Meeting. Some of the procedures described in the Guide are specified by minuted action of the Yearly Meeting and other procedures are based upon practices that the Yearly Meeting has found to be successful. The Guide attempts to provide a description of what people in the Yearly Meeting have grown to expect from its officers and committees. (Note: The name of the Guide was changed to "Guide to Procedures" by action of the Executive Committee Minute EC 07-08 (9/15/07).) For more information about the Guide or if you have suggestions, please contact Cynthia Smith, Clerk of the Guide Committee, at cjs@manzanasprings.com. NOTE THE PRINT BUTTON in the upper right corner of each page. Pages can also be directly downloaded by copying and pasting the text into your own word processor. (August 2007)
- Committees
- Appointments
- Who Makes Appointments, To Assist New Nominees, Clearness Process for IMYM Nominations, So I'm a New Clerk or Coordinator?, Nominating Committee
- Finance
- Scholarships, Who Pays for Travel, Budgeting Calendar, Finance Committee, Financial Report Forms
- Officers
- The officers are the Clerks of Yearly Meeting and Continuing Committee, Recording Clerk of Yearly Meeting, Registrar, Treasurer and Clerk of Finance Committee. (1998 Guide)
- Children's Yearly Meeting
- Children's Yearly Meeting is the program at annual gathering for children from infancy up through those entering the 5th grade.
- Junior and Senior Young Friends
- Current practice specifies that Junior Young Friends are those youth entering 6th through 9th grades, and Senior Young Friends are entering 10th grade or older. Senior Young Friends assist Junior Young Friends in organizing their activities and selecting officers, and provide leadership to encourage growth of their sense of community and their understanding of the Quaker business process. At least two Senior Young Friends are appointed to work directly with the Junior Young Friends in a support capacity.(08/12/05)
- Coordinators and Other Appointments
- Coordinators (Interest Groups and Seminars, Worship Sharing, Operations, Bookstore Sales Support, Brinton Memorial Visitor), Recording Clerk of Continuing Committee, Advocate for Persons of Differing Abilities and Kitchen Liaison, Historian-Archivist, Host for Heberto Sein Memorial Visitor, and Web Clerk .
- Representatives to Other Friends Organizations
- Representatives appointed by the Yearly Meeting to FWCC, AFSC, FCNL, Friends Bulletin and Friends Peace Teams.
- Coordination with Ghost Ranch for Annual Gathering
- Information pertaining to the working relationship between IMYM and our host for the annual gathering.
- Guide Topics Not Yet Posted
- (08/07)
- 1998 Guide to Operations of Intermountain Yearly Meeting
- See Approved Operational Changes document to see which provisions have been changed by minuted action of the Yearly Meeting at its annual sessions between 1998 and 2004. Changes are also documented in the current Guide text.
- Approved Operational Changes from 1998 through 2004
- The 1998 Guide annotated to show operational changes as documented by Yearly Meeting actions through June 2004.
