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Parish
Pastoral Council Meeting Minutes
October
9, 2008
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Opening with
Evening Prayer
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Attendance
Members Present: Fr. Dave, Deacon Charlie Cornell, Nancy Buck,
Charley Corley, Jennifer Cunningham, Dave Goulet, Marcia Melone,
Brian Perreault, Bill Sullivan
Members
Absent: Deacon Bob Brady, Jason Crotty, Sue Ormand, Cara Schomp, Jack
Waldie
PFC
Liaison: Rosario Rizzo (present)
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Approval
of minutes from 9/11/08 meeting
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Mission statement
NOTE:
We spent most of the meeting reviewing/modifying the mission
statement. Some general discussion items are included in the
minutes, but the specifics of the mission statement draft are not
included.
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Review and
adoption.
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PFC wondering
where the mission statement is?
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Mission
statement should be something for all councils, parishioners to
work from
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Needs to be
something “measurable” for PFC to use as guidance
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Don’t make
statement too vague
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All about
introducing people to Christ, everything else flows from that
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Copy of Dreams
and Visions to be distributed to PPC/PFC members who don’t
already have one
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distribution to
parishioners
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Statement still
in progress, won’t distribute to parish until complete.
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Parish goals
NOTE: We skipped this item during the meeting.
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discussion of
goals
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Finance Council
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budget to mission
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grand annual
collection
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PPC speak at
Masses on 2nd weekend of Nov. (8th/9th)
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Collection takes
place 3rd weekend of Nov. (15th/16th)
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PFC will provide
guidance for the statement
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Volunteers to
speak: Marcia Melone, Nancy Buck, Dave Goulet
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Might need
someone from PPC/PFC to do the 5PM?
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Committee updates
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Social Committee
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Ran parish
picnic during September
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Ice cream social
Jan/Feb timeframe
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Game night?
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St. Patrick’s
Day
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Building and
Grounds
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New pH filter
into well system ($3K)
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Too much copper
in water
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Someone will
check on it regularly
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Pride Mechanical
retained for heating fixes
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2 new boiler
guns, hot water tank, control system
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deposit = $3K,
total cost = $12K
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Trying to
reduce price
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Working w/Bob
Norton to lower cost
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PFC had idea for
people to sponsor specific projects
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New sign
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New lawn mower
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New downspouts
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Faith formation
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GoF
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Last minute
bailout of new caterer
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Able to retain
previous caterer
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Keeping better
track of meal funds coming in
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Coming soon –
allowing people to charge meals ahead of time when registering
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Incorporating
Pauline year into GoF
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Bring back the
bag
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2 year
confirmation program instead of previous 1 year
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33 kids
participating
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Trying to
increase number of participants. Had less than 300 (~240) for the
September session.
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Stewardship
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Currently
struggling, lost about half their members.
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Charlie Cornell
will suggest to that the committee disband temporarily and restart
next year.
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Responsible for
ministry fair. Who will run it if committee disbanded?
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Other issues
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Next meeting
11/13 @ 7:30PM
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