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2004 Facility Committee NewsDecember 2004Elves on Fire!Well, not exactly. Did you know that we have our fire alarm system tested every year? We also have the fire system over the kitchen stove checked out. The fire extinguishers get their yearly review and re-tag as well. The boiler (yes, we have a boiler that is used in heating the sanctuary and narthex) gets an inspection every third year. You may think us safety-minded elves; this is true. The greater truth is that all these paid professional inspections are legally required for our commercial building. This is part of our yearly building expense. November 2004Declarations from the Facilities Elves Our narthex, where we gather before Sunday services, gets quite crowded with all of our wonderful members and visitors every week. Did you know it is actually all right to head on in to the sanctuary before the service, find a good seat (up to you whether that means up front, to the side, or waaaay in back), and wait in there! You can also head to the Fellowship Hall to see what’s going on in there while you await the start of the service. Here are a couple of other requests that will help keep our narthex open and inviting: Narthex Table Usage: If you have an activity or project that you wish to set up a table to promote, the tables belong in the Fellowship Hall, not the narthex. In the future, any tables that are set up in the narthex will be moved by the Elves or their Minions. Thank you for your cooperation on behalf of all squished members and visitors. Authorization to Set Up Tables: Please coordinate any fundraising projects that you wish to set up tables for with Sarah Swords, Live Oak’s Fundraising Coordinator. You can contact her at 257-1739 or sswords@austin.rr.com. We ask this so that our money-raising efforts are spread out through the year and members/visitors do not become overwhelmed with requests for donations to various projects. This applies to non-Live Oak projects as well – please check first before setting up a table. If you have a social action or social outreach project you with to promote with a table, it would help to check the calendar with Audrey Jensen (administrator@liveoakuu.org) or phone the church during office hours). If there is a lunch scheduled on any given Sunday, all the large, white tables will be needed to seat diners or serve food. You can still set up a card table or other table of your own, but it will help to consult with Audrey on recommended placement, etc. Thanks! Heeding these suggestions, along with some rearrangements we hope to implement in the future, will improve traffic flow and enable our greeters to more effectively direct visitors to our informational tables and our members to find their nametags with some elbow room. One final declaration and we’ll get back into our hollow trees: we’d like the community corner bulletin board to be a place where we can share non-church related events, services, and requests. If you have social action, membership, district, or other church-related postings you want to make, please use one of our other spacious and inviting bulletin boards. We also ask that you put your name on any posting on the Community Corner board, so we will know whom to contact to see if an aging posting needs to come down yet or not. Sue Ann Kendall, Technical Writing Elf to the Facilities Committee Another Successful Work Party! On October 16 several worker elves accomplished quite a bit of magic. The rotten wood on the mower shed was covered up with roofing tin, several electrical switches were repaired, Room 111 was painted, lots of weeding, trimming, and general grounds improvements were made, ceiling tiles replaced, road sign washed, and the lighting in Room 103 was upgraded (no hum, more light, better color rendering, longer lasting bulbs, and 30% less power used). Thanks to Siboné Gardner, Tere Kaulfus, Hella Holoubek, Jon Montgomery, George Huntington, John Iacoletti, Stuart Wetterschneider, and Bill Dower. September 2004Secrets of the Facilities Team How the heck do we take care of our big building? I’ve inferred that building elves get lots of work done every month. This is only part of the secret workings. We contract a cleaning crew from JaniKing, who come in every Wednesday to empty trash, clean bathrooms, dust, mop, vacuum, and stock toilet paper and hand towels. They pretty much keep everything clean except the kitchen, where they just mop floors. Kitchen users keep the kitchen clean. The routine grounds work is done by LGM Lawn Services. Graduate Pest Management drops by quarterly to help control pests, and Commercial Services of San Antonio comes to replace air filters every fourth month. For those who don’t know, the Green Team at church maintains the gardens. Since the building elves skills have their limits, professionals are called for necessary repairs. In the last year there have been over a dozen service calls. The church administrator is the primary coordinator for all of these building visits. The Planning Elves meet monthly, now on the second Thursday of every month, at 7:30pm in the Elf Den (aka room 106). This secret meeting is also known as the Facilities and Campus Use Team meeting. Wannabe elves are always invited. Our next gathering is September 9. Our last and more dearly protected secret is that we have fun in this service to the church!
Humbly submitted by the Federation of Elves, Live Oak Chapter June 2004
*The term large women’s restroom and smaller men’s restroom are not meant to describe who may use the restroom, but instead the size of the restrooms themselves. Elf activity reported by the Facilities Team REMINDER: QUARTERLY CHURCH WORK DAY SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 26 The Facilities Committee and Men’s Group invite you to our inaugural quarterly workday, Saturday, June 26 from 8:30 am to noon. There will be a list of tasks to keep the building in tip top shape, both inside and out. The Men’s Group will serve breakfast at 9:30 am. Please email ghuntington@austin.rr.com if you plan to join us for breakfast. May 2004QUARTERLY CHURCH WORK DAY SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 26 The Men’s Group and Facilities Committee invite you WE HAVE A NEW DISHWASHER!
George Huntington for the Facilities Team
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our quarterly workday, Saturday, June 26, from 8:30 am to noon. There will be a
long list of indoor and outdoor tasks to choose from. The Men’s Group is
planning to serve breakfast at 9:30 am to those who start working at 8:30 am.
Please email 
We
replaced our commercial dishwasher last month, as the very old one finally
passed away. Why is this news? Well, we went from a model that used Clorox to
sanitize our dishes to one that uses 190° F hot water to kill all the germs.
Please be careful when using the dishwasher, as it makes for a lot of steam
and very hot dishes. For those who don’t know, a commercial dishwasher does
one “rack” of dishes at a time, each rack taking about two minutes to
complete. Instructions for use are posted in the kitchen above the dishwasher.
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