ST. MARY OF LOURDES

Planning Advisory Committee

Minutes of September 15, 2002

 

The meeting was called to order by Gary Loertscher at 7:05 p.m. Member present were: Gary Loertscher, Don Sparby, Carla Wolf, Teri Nolden, Barb Wachter, Jerry Jansen, Tim Stadelman, Joe Donlin, Doug Waelti, Kay Parish, Jerry Rabas, Carol Eberhardy, Jeanne Felix, Yogi Brown, Brian Lamboley, kk.

 

Minutes of the June 9, 2002 and August 4, 2002 meetings were accepted.

 

The St. James parish council will forward a list of thoughts and ideas to the planning committee. It will summarize their discussions about building a new church and its impact on them.

 

The Fundraising subcommittee reported:

·        A membership update will occur at Mass during the last two weekends of September

·        Information has been gathered about professional fundraising; there is some support on the planning committee because of the potential magnitude of our fundraising drive and to insure the need for confidentiality in fundraising

·        Rick Francois has a video that was successfully used by an Oregon church to promote fundraising.

 

The Communications subcommittee reported:

·        Website is up and working; receiving positive feedback

·        Discussed possibility of doing a promotion and providing information at the Parish Dinner; concluded that the day is too hectic to try to do anything formal

 

The Ad Hoc Architect subcommittee reported:

·        Architect interviews will occur on September 26th; three firms will make presentations

·        The subcommittee is recommending that John Buscemi be hired as a liturgical consultant to help guide us through this process

 

Discussion was held pertaining to the voting procedure;

·        Estimated timeline for the parish vote is Spring, 2003

·        Should consider doing vote by ballots in pews at Mass with a show of hands for members, versus mailing of ballots

·        Concept of requiring a 2/3 majority for approval was discussed; this would indicate the required strong mandate from the parish for successful fund raising and building

 

The next meeting will be at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, 2002.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 p.m.