PARISH COUNCIL MEETING NOTES
CALL
TO ORDER: Fr.
Santen opened the meeting at
ATTENDANCE: Father Santen, Patrick Belding, Barb Potter,
Jeff Bunten, David Bytnar, Patrick O’Driscoll, Don Torretta, Bob Nickel, Dianne
Muccigrosso, Jane Ott and Lori Padberg.
NEW
MEMBERS: Prior to the official meeting, the executive
board and Fr. Santen reviewed the applications for new membership. The applications were then shared with the
other Council members. The applications
belonged to Ed Austin, Paul Griessemer and Catherine Mack. A few more people may still turn in
applications. The new members will be
chosen by lottery and invited to the December meeting.
FACILITIES
PLANNING:
Transition
Space Parking Lot/Church, i.e. redesign area around the Church proper
Larger
Adoration Chapel
Expand
Church
Stations
of the Cross
Baptism
during Mass
Get
shades for Church
More
statues in Church
Playground
New
multi-purpose center (added fields)
Parish
Potlucks
Education/formation
Expansion of school; library, labs, music etc.
Adult
Spiritual Growth Program
Toddler/Preschool
Program
Bringing
together PSR and full-time school
Education/formation
Families
with mixed religions
Hosting
Catholic speakers at Parish
Training
alter boys and girls
Better
awareness/involvement/cross pollination of ministries
Youth
Ministry
For
“homework”, we were each assigned a category. We were then asked to come
up with our opinion of the top five short-range topics from that
category. We were encouraged to also look at the bullet items within the
long-range categories to see if some items may be pulled out as short-range
action items. As an example, the bullet item "Big Chairs"
within the long-range worship category of "Transition Space Parking Lot/Church"
is obviously something that we could do right now.
Fr.
Santen is going to see that the data is added to the website. In addition to the raw data, there will also
be a response form that parishioners may use for additional comments. A bulletin article will let people know about
the data and response form. Hard copies
of the response form will also be available in the parish office.
The
January leadership meeting will focus on these findings as well. Each attendee to that meeting will receive a
packet of information prior to the meeting.
One of items within the packet will be a hard copy of the Town Hall
meeting data.
November 21 Posting of the
“Open Space” results on the parish website and providing a response form for
the bulletin
December 8 Deadline for responses from
parishioners
December 11 Parish Council meeting to discuss, collate, and prioritize the results of the “Open Space”
gathering
January 8 finalize the data for the
“Leadership Day on January 24
January 12 Mail out materials for Leadership
Day
January 24 Leadership Day—present
the report as part of the agenda
March 1? Town Hall meeting #2—Report to the
parish
Outline next steps
Introduce committee
CLOSING The meeting closed at