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AM 2024 passes two resolutions and budget

The Pacific Northwest Conference UCC Annual Meeting 2024 delegates meeting April 26 to 28 at Plymouth UCC Seattle voted to approve two resolutions.

Moderator Indigo Brown and vice moderator Esther Sanders lead the Annual Meeting.

One resolution will require antiracism training for all conference staff and board members, to be renewed every 3 years. Training will be provided by organizations vetted and approved by the Board, in consultation with the leadership of the PNC-UCC Antiracism Fund, the COM, and the Dismantling Racism Ministry Team.

All UCC clergy and local moderators are encouraged to attend anti-racism training at their own initiative or to join the trainings offered to conference staff and board.

No funds from the Antiracism Fund will cover the cost of trainings. Funding streams will be added to the annual budget.

The second resolution expressed PNC-UCC opposition to two initiatives on Washington’s Nov. 5 ballot: 1) Initiative 2109, similar anti-capital gains tax initiatives and other laws enacted that support and further regressive tax policy, and 2) Initiative 2111 adopted by by the state legislature on March 4, 2024 and any efforts to limit future possibility of implementing a graduated income tax.

The resolution stated opposition to all regressive tax structures in Washington, Idaho, Alaska and across the nation, and calls on conference members and churches to vote and be vocal in their communities and to their legislators when regressive tax structures participate in systemic oppression.

“We believe that when graduated income taxes are implemented in conjunction with limits and reductions on other regressive taxes, we will take one of many important steps forward in unveiling the just world for which Jesus strived,” the resolution stated.

The plenary also passed the proposed budgets for 2024 and 2025 for conference operations, Pilgrim Firs Camp and Conference Center and N-Sid-Sen Camp and Retreat Center.

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