Parish Council Meeting
Meeting Minutes

May 19, 2015

Present:

Fr. Mark Pavlik, Sheryl Rose, Doris Brandner (Co-Chair), Samantha Smith (Secretary), Jeff Smith, Judy Black, Diane Amell, Paul Kujawski, Lizzy Cullen, Maureen Scaglia

I.Prayer

Lead by Jeff Smith

II.Update on United Properties

• Assessor was called and companies names given to review and should be a fair assessment for a low fee of $1,000
• Appraisal needs to be done in order to get approval from the Archdiocese
• City meeting with United Properties was done & some push back by the neighbors
  • Depending on the site re-zoning might be needed

III.Summary of Gifts Celebration

• Outlier tables had more traffic on Saturday vs Sunday
• Several committees had interest generated from the celebration
• Looking at possible weekends for the 2016 celebration
• New parishioners signed up during the celebration
• 166 people entered the drawing for door prizes

IV.Possible New Candidates for the Council

• Rotating off
  • Lizzy Cullen
  • Jeff Smith
  • Diane Amell
• Possible Candidates Reviewed
• Possible youth member as 10^th non-voting member of the Council

V.Finance and Facilities Recap

• Facilities
  • Statue of St Ricard may be removed from the wall and have a base built
  • Tony is doing Eagle Scout painting project
  • Carpet cleaner is being fixed
  • Knights of Columbus will be doing some painting
     
• Finance
  • Changed the order of when Finance meets
  • Discussion on being behind Sunday giving
  • Discussion on funds & where to place/where the needs are
    • Speakers from the Archdiocese will be meeting on 5/21 to help with options to make use of our funds and what other churches have done

 
 

VI.Update on Committees

• Pastoral Care
  • Senior luncheon 6/16
    • Price is going down
    • Donating to our parish with anything that is left
  • Put meeting minutes on where to find it in the bulletin
• Faith Formation
  • Last meeting was planning the Gift Celebrating
  • Sending out information on the Bible School for Summer
• Adult Faith Formation
  • Book Club will be forming
  • More informational talks between masses in the social hall with Fr. Mark & open forums for discussion
  • Starting to form the Parish Formation Group
• Coffee Shop
  • Moving to the 1^st and 3^rd Sunday’s starting 6/1
  • Possibly have the other committees take a Sunday
• Worship
  • New member joining
  • Reusing the table from the Gift Celebration in October
  • Pictures on the website possibly be updating-looking into someone taking new pictures
  • Putting out calendar out in the fall for upcoming events
  • Ministry in-service 10/10^th for ministers

VII. Next Meeting on 6/16

• Pot Luck at Fr Mark’s

VIII. Tentative Discussion

• Fall Grill Out/Welcome Back
  • After masses on Saturday and Sunday at 11am
  • Rally Sunday
  • Possible funding
  • Parishioner Run Event
  • 8/29 or 8/30^th possible dates

 

IX. Next Meeting

• August 18^th first meeting of the new year