Church of St. Catherine Parish Pastoral Council

Wednesday, May 13, 2009, Meeting Minutes

 

Members Present:  Dan Nath, Norma Stewart, Patrice Hohn, Dick Smook, George Langford, and Mary McLaughlin Members Absent & Excused: Deb Goebel, Jeff Wieneke, & Fr. Tom.

 

The meeting was called to order and a prayer was led by Dan.

 

The meeting minutes of March 11, 2009, and the Agenda were approved as printed.

 

Old Business

A)        Video Camera and TV for Sunday Mass Broadcasts (Dan & Pat)

Dan, Pat, Mike Jarchow, and Mary had a meeting with Dean Sim from Sim Sound & Video in Winona; he made a very detailed presentation on what he believes we need to be able to tape the Mass for Cable TV and an updated sound system, projection system and a camera system. We have a donation of $3,500 for this project and we may be receiving some additional funds from a bequest soon that could be designated to pay for at least part of the proposal. There was a discussion, but no decisions were made.

B)        Recipients for 1% Charitable Giving – 4th Qtr: The decision was made to give half of the money to Second Harvest and half to ChildrenŐs Home Society.                        

New Business

A)     Elections for Pastoral Council: Deb has decided not to run for a second term. Paul Doherty, Tom Nelson, Annie Opitz, Rosie Paquette, Tony Weis and Dick Smook have agreed to run. Elections will be May 16 & 17. Patrice is unable to be here, so George, Dan and Pat will count the ballots. We thanked Patrice for making all of the phone calls.

Reports

A)     Liturgy (Dan) Six lay people have been trained to do a Communion Service in case of an emergency when a Priest would be unavailable.

B)     Faith Formation (Dan) The last night of class the students did a service project and raked lawns, about 9 trailer loads of leaves were picked up. The recipients were very pleased with the work that was done.VBS is scheduled for June 1st – 5th. Pine Ridge mission Trip is July 19th -24th, they are still in need of transportation .Dick volunteered to see if he could get a vehicle from Enterprise.

C)     Knights of Columbus (Dick) they had and excellent Good Friday fish fry. They made an $808 donation to RCO from their tootsie roll sales, and they gave a donation to the Pine Ridge Trip.

D)    LCCW (Norma) The Salad Luncheon is June 18, and still in need of a chair, and the Parish Picnic is June 28.

E)     Finance Council (Mary) The Parish debt is down to $80,500. We will have a container out for contributions when there are other second collections, so parishioners and non parishioners can still contribute to the building project.  The custodial situation seems to be going well. Mary said if anyone has any questions or problems with anything please contact her at the office.

F)      Social Ministry: Social Ministry minutes were distributed.

G)    Administrator (Mary) We have received a bid on furnaces for the school, and are looking at the possibility of a color copier. It was suggested to look at a Digital Color copier. Mary will be going to training for Logos in August.

H)    Pastor: No report.

 

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 at 7:00 pm.   The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 pm.

Respectfully Submitted, Mary McLaughlin, acting Secretary