Preliminary Parish Pastoral Council Minutes
January 9, 2007

Prior to our meeting, the following committees emailed their reports to me.  I collected the reports and distributed them to everyone on council one week prior to our meeting.   

These reports can also be viewed at (click here)

The following committees did not submit a report for this month:

Social Action Committee (submitted at meeting)
Vocations Committee
Liturgical Committee

Minutes from this month's Parish Council meeting
 will be displayed below ASAP

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Pastoral Parish Council 

MINUTES
January 9, 2007

 The Meeting:

·        Meeting called to order at 7:00pm

·        Opening prayer deferred to Pastoral Planning meeting

·        Attending:  Kevin Walls , Bob Senese , Ray Ring, Joan Parker , Carol Johnson, Laura Eger , Frank Blee , Joann Malecki, Ed Walls, Connie Peters, Paul Bishop, Margaret Quigley, Fr. Perry, Fr. Cosme , Rev. Mr. Joe Becker

·        Absent:  Addie Blee, Rev. Mr. Bill Peters, & Pat Bentley

Last Month’s Minutes:

            Changes: next meeting date should have read Tuesday January 9
            Motion to approve minutes:  Ray, and Ed seconded
            Motion was accepted & minutes were approved

Committee/Group Reports:

Prior to our meeting, the following reports were submitted and distributed to council.  As always they can be viewed at our website www.stelizabethannseton.com

Building & Grounds Report
Family Life
Youth Ministry
Children’s Religious Education 
Publicity & Community Events Committee
Social Action Committee
Evangelization / Adult Education Committee
 

The following committees did not submit a report for this month:

Vocations Committee
Liturgical Committee

 Discussion of Committee/Group Reports:

Social Action submitted its report at the meeting
There was no further discussion on any of the reports

Old Business: 

1. Assumption School- the idea of displaying pictures of the school’s progress was tabled until our financial responsibility with the project is disclosed
2. Pre Cana Fr. Perry advised the diocese that he is interested in reforming our Pre Cana team.  The team would accept any engaged couple from the diocese and would probably meet once a year.  It was also thought that we could solicit a neighboring parish to supply more manpower for more teams.  As a result, we could present Pre Cana more than once a year. But due to the time consuming Pastoral Planning meetings, this has been tabled until later
3. Steeple repair- Deflection pans were installed at the base of the steeple.  Hopefully, installing these will solve the leaky roof problem.  Now it is wait and see, if it indeed works.  The steeple is still in need of a painting.  Iaconelli will be supplying a crane and Pitney will do the painting.
4. Amendment to election bylaws-tabled
5. Outreach to Young Adults and Young Families- This project is an offspring of the Youth Ministry.  Peter Logue, Kristin Earl, and Pat Bentley are trying to focus on reaching the 20 to mid-30 year old adults.  One example of their efforts is offering baby sitting during the appreciation party.

New Business: 

1. Parish Council/Pastoral Planning meetings.  It was decided that in order to get all of the meetings in, that we were going to conduct both meetings on the same evening.  Before May 15, we are scheduled to hold 8 meetings. 2 before February, 4 between February and Easter, and 2 after Easter.  Because we are doubling up the meetings, Fr Perry noted that he would be unable to discuss in detail everything that he normally would like to.  It was asked if he could simply consult a member or two of council to get their feed back, instead of lengthening a meeting and discussing it in front of all.  Quickly he noted four items that he wanted to address in the near future:
1. Remodeling the chapel/cry room to make it more warm & functional.
2. Resurfacing the parking lot
3. Carpeting the church
4. Placing awnings outside the Parish Center doors.

After a quick discussion on each, it was decided that they were all worthy endeavors, and pending approval from the finance committee should be undertaken.

Open Forum

            Nothing mentioned

 Summary of topics discussed:

Those Pending: 

Those Closed: 

Those Tabled: 

 Next meeting

Tuesday February 6, 2007 in the Parish Center    
Time 6:00 pm  
Food will be served and it will be another double meeting with the Pastoral Planning team

 Respectfully submitted by:
Bob Senese ,
Secretary

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