Parish Council
Meeting Minutes

December 16, 2014

Present:     Location: Begin Time: End Time:	Fr. Mark Pavlik, Sheryl Rose, Samantha Smith (Secretary), Jeffrey Smith, Diane Amell, Doris Brandner (Co-Chair), Maureen Scaglia, Judy Black   Parish Office Conference Room 6:06 pm 7:20 pm
Next meeting:	January 20, 2015-6pm

I.Prayer

• Lead by Diane Amell

II.Old Business-Parish Membership & Pledges

•     902 Households as of 12/1/14

• 32 new since July 4
• 18 removed (4 deaths, 11 moved, 3 no addresses)

•     481 households pledged (53%) for $616,630
 

III.Facilities & Finance Update from 12/11/14 Meeting

• Finance met with Facilities to discuss where they are at with the building
• Facilities Committee talked about the need to develop a comprehensive list of issues/problems that need to be done in the next 3 years
  • Tuck pointing problems on the outside of the building
  • Inside there is water damage that needs to be addressed
  • Parking Lot concerns
• Proposed the next 3 months the list of major projects will be generated along with the costs
  • March Meeting will have the list of what they think needs to be done along with the cost
• Attempt to come up with $400,000-$500,000 worth of work that needs to be done-via fund raising efforts

IV.Committee Status & Structure * Possible Assigned-is there anyone that feels strongly to be liaison to any group

• Members attending meetings would report back to the Parish Council
• Possible Pastoral Council Members to go to the following Committee Meetings
  • Finance –Diane (PCM*), Sheryl, Fr Mark (Staff Member)

• Facilities-Paul (PCM), Tom & Sheryl (Staff Member)
• Faith Formation Children-Lizzie (PCM), Terri (Staff member)
• Faith Formation Adult-Coming 2015-Jeff (PCM), Fr Mark, Cindy, Terri (Staff Member)
• Parishioner Resource –Maureen (PCM), Sheryl (Staff Member)
• Worship Committee-Doris (PCM), Fr. Mark, Cindy (Staff Member)
• Pastoral Care-Judy (PCM), Joleine (Staff Member)
• Justice-How & when to get committee up and running

 

V.Ministry Fair

• Parishioner Resource will be headlining this
• Ministry Fair moved to May 16-17, 2015
• Parish Gift Celebration-Ministry Fair is merging with volunteer appreciation (language on marketing will be key)
• Working on getting volunteer lists & groups updated
• Looking at follow up/through with people that sign up at the fair and a way to keep track of this
• Ideas for tie in with Corpus Christi
• Follow up meeting with staff & committee Jan 8, 2015

VI.Identity of St. Richard's Church

• Not one thing, all inclusive church

VII.Tentative Agenda for next meeting

• Amount raised for last capital campaign-background information and numbers
• Report on pledge completions of calendar year 2014
• Review of Committee Status & Structure & Contact Information
• Discussion of who/should PCM be at Facilities March Meeting
• Additional discussion on Identity of St. Richard’s Church
• Update on Ministry Fair

   
* Parish Council Member (PCM)