St. Paul’s Steering Committee

Meeting Minutes 4/8/2003

The meeting began at 6:40 PM.

Dan Jones and Paul Reeping will be leaving the SC meeting early to participate in the School Board meeting.

Patsy Lodge of Our Lady of the Valley was a guest speaker for the meeting.   Patsy shared with the group many of the lessons the parish had learned as they went through the process of building a new church in Caldwell.  Among her recommendations were:  Maintain open communication with the parish throughout the process; compel the architect to make whatever changes necessary during the design process regardless of the difficulty or extra effort required (it is better to be momentarily annoyed than permanently disappointed); get as much involvement from the entire community as possible; endeavor to do door-to-door solicitations during fundraising.  Her insight and comments were much appreciated and invaluable to the SC team.

Paul Reeping has switched from being the Liaison to the Ministry discipline to being the Liaison for the School discipline.  The Non-Worship Spaces, Social and Ministry disciplines still need a liaison on the SC at this time.  The SC is attempting to fill this open positions and hopes to do so within the next few weeks.

Discussion once again 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.  The major topic of discussion was the value placed upon a bi-lingual director and what impact it would have on St Paul’s community to choose a firm that is not able to offer a bi-lingual director.  Rusty agreed to ask a few people representative of the Hispanic community their opinion on the matter. The topic will be on next meeting’s agenda. 

Each Liaison was asked to call and invite their Committee chairpersons to the meeting on April 22 in Dempsey Hall. 

The meeting was adjourned at 7:40 PM.