St. Paul’s Steering Committee

Meeting Minutes 4/1/2003

The meeting began at 6:35 PM.

Dan Jones will be leaving the SC meeting early to participate in the Cemetery Board’s regular meeting.

A general discussion of the Program Planning workshops was begun.  The members seemed to agree on the overall success of the programming process.

The Steering Committee welcomes Paul Reeping as the Friend and liaison to the Ministry discipline.  That leaves only the Non-Worship Spaces and Social disciplines needing a liaison on the SC at this time.  Fr. Jerry joined the meeting briefly, he too will be attending the Cemetery Board’s meeting.  He informed the SC that two additional parishioners from the Spanish-speaking community will join the SC at the next meeting.

Discussion then focused on which firm should be selected for our Capital Campaign, Kirby-Smith or CCS.  Again, various attributes of each company were brought up and discussed without a group consensus.  It is a very difficult decision to make and one that should be made when all members of the SC are in place, most especially the SC members who best represent the Spanish-speaking community.  It was suggested that a master list of the pros and cons of each company be compiled for use in comparison.  The topic was shelved until the next meeting. 

The next topic on the agenda was what is recommended next for the various committees. Many parishioners and committee members are wondering: “What should we be doing now?”  “Is there an immediate need for each committee to meet and begin working together?”  It is necessary for some but not all committees to be actively meeting at this time.  All committees could meet just to define what they feel is important and fine tune their agendas.  It is important at this time that any information gathered is fed up from the committees and presented to the SC.  Jeff suggested a way to facilitate this exchange of information would be to invite committee chairpersons to an open forum meeting to discuss the process and exchange ideas.  In light of the timeline of events to come it was decided to have this meeting on April 22 in place of the regular SC meeting. 

The meeting was adjourned at 7:30 PM.