Many thanks to Eddie Bush and Lee Wright for all the maintenance work they accomplish inside and outside our beautiful building.  They paint and scrape and spray and clean and perform a myriad of small jobs (and some large ones, too) that are seldom noticed but would ultimately result in the deterioration of our church. 

For cost-cutting reasons, the Diaconate has decided to not do a blanket mailing of the second quarter donation forms.  We will continue to do the first quarter, third quarter and end of year reports.  If you want a donation report you can contact me or notify the office and I will gladly send you your form.

                                        Eddie Bush

                        Financial Recording Secretary

Three cheers for Linda Thomsen who has been doing a fabulous job keeping our church bright and shiny!  Thanks, Linda, for the many hours you dedicate to our church and for the wonderful work you do.

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always added, that as much as I wanted the fancy office, the first building priority had to be more bathroom facilities.

            The Trustees agree about the bathrooms. It hurts me to admit they have been uniformly rude and disrespectful about the ornate office suggestion.

            There is no question that we are woefully under-bathroomed for a building of our size. But our bathroom facilities are also inadequate in the way they are set up. For years people have complained about how handicap unfriendly we are. The Trustees have looked into retrofitting the bathrooms but have discovered that any renovation would be terribly expensive and still fall short of disability standards. Retrofitting would also decrease our already diminished capacity.

            As far as we can determine, our sewage outlet flows between the women’s bathroom and the utility room. Since this is our only sewage outlet, it severely restricts where we can site new bathrooms.

            We have determined that the area with the shortest access to our outlet is the storage closet on the west side of the fellowship hall, directly across from the women’s bathroom.

            Unfortunately, the back wall of the closet is load bearing and cannot be breached. To make the bathrooms big enough for a wheelchair we will need to sacrifice four feet of the fellowship hall. However, even with the new bathrooms, the hall should be large enough to accommodate all our activities.

            We also will not be able to match the tile on the floor. So, the new tile will contrast with the old.

            The estimate for one bathroom came in at about $22,000. The second bathroom will cost $11,000 more. The Trustees agree that we need the extra capacity and sometime in the future it will cost more than $11K to bring a crew back into the building to construct a second facility. Because of this, they recommend that the two facilities be constructed at the same time.

            A couple of weeks ago I poked around the Boise First church. It was built within five years of our building. I was struck by the fact that both buildings lack adequate bathroom facilities. What was acceptable in the mid 1960’s is not acceptable today. By building this facility we improve our building and extend our hospitality to visitors and members alike.

            If you have any questions about this project call me or any member of the Trustees. And please, come to the congregation meeting on June 13.

                                                Tep