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MEETING MINUTES St. Isidore Parish Pastoral CouncilJune 19, 2003Members Attending: Glenn Bunnell, Rev. Richard Butler, Rosa Chow, Deacon Charles Cornell, Ann DeChristofaro, Nancy Dome, Mark Douglas, Kathleen King, Sharon McCann, Susan Peabody, Rosario Rizzo John Sangermano, Members Absent: John Colonna-Romano, , Domenique Sexton, Evening Prayer including prayer for Fr. Ed Gaudette who died earlier this week. Welcome: Newly elected members welcomed, updated roster distributed. Minutes: Minutes of May 8th accepted. Death of Fr. Gaudette Media notice of delinquent parishes not affecting St. Isidore. Thanks to the efforts of the finance council and the response of the people, we are beginning to turn things around. We will end this fiscal year with current bills paid and bridge loan below 25,000. We are moving ahead with the child abuse prevention teams. The TAT (Talking About Touching is next on the schedule; Nancy Dome attended training sessions this week; this poses more challenging logistical problems but we will begin to address them. Plans evolving for a ministry of welcome to new parishioners with a home visit that would embrace them in welcome and share with them expectations of participation (ministry, liturgy, catechetics, financial). (Cautioned not to be too aggressive in this.) Plans are underway for planning a fall festival/fair, “Apple Fest” Oct. 12. First planning meeting scheduled for June 25th. Religious Education registration is now underway. Lack of bus transport is causing a shift in choice of class days. Hopefully this will be worked out soon. St. Vincent de Paul is moving ahead well. The purpose and process of council meetings; setting priorities for next year. The role of the council is to provide vision and advice to the pastor. It is to go beyond the mechanical logistics of organizing committees and making the coffee; it is rather a think-tank. Typically it is to meet at least five times a year. Our custom has been to plan on the second Thursday of each month – excluding the summer. Given snow dates, etc. this gets us well within the minimum. It was agreed we will do that again next year. Each September we look to the leadership. Ex-officio the pastor is chair. The members elected Rosario for a one-year term as vice chair a year ago. In September that position will again be looked at. We have not been operating with a formal secretary. Rather Fr. Butler jots down these brief minutes. This too is looked at anew each September. Each September we look anew at priorities identifying one or another for concentration and reflective planning. (Thus in recent years the structure of the social committee, the plan for a youth committee, the development of a St. Vincent de Paul.) This too will be looked at in September. First task for new members is to discuss existing structures (via conversation with other members) and, as it were, to see “inside the box” how things are done. Hopefully, then to think “outside the box” of new ways of doing things. It was decided that copies of Archbishop Pilarczyk’s book on the parish be obtained for all to read. [Since the meeting it was discovered that this book is out of print.] Most of the remainder of the meeting offered anecdotal thoughts of how the council might go forward. Review of meeting“Welcome to the new members; nice to have a full hous.” “process is lighter than expected.” “nice start” “look forward to the next meeting.” “pleased to hear of the Youth Commission.” Next meetingWednesday September 10, 2003 |
