Meeting Minutes

7:00pm - Call to Order

• Warden’s Membership Check
• Prayer – Our Father
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Pope Francis Death, Pope Leo XIV & Prayer for Peace and Unity

7:03pm - Roll Call of Officers

• GK Present
• FS - Present
• DGK Present
• Chancellor- Absent
• Recorder - Present
• Treasurer- Excused
• Advocate- Present
• Warden - Present
• Inside Guard -Present
• Outside Guard- Present
• One Year Trustee - Excused
• Two Year Trustee - Excused
• Three Year Trustee - Present

7:05pm - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes (corrections

& additions?)

• Accepted

7:07pm - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey)

• Membership Challenge
• The reality is that North Dakota has more membership than we do in Oregon- with less population
• We need to keep asking, even through the no
• State Convention Comments
• Thank you to State officers
• go to https://oregonkofc.org to see the notes
• Vocations 
• 6 priests on the altar at Church during State Convention
• Support Seminarians 
• Fraternal Benefits Training- On-line Every Wednesday at 7:00 PM  
• SAFE Environment - https://kofc.org/SafeEnvironment
• Membership Challenge

7:10pm - District Deputy Remarks

• New State officers

7:15pm - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin)

• Fraternity: 3115.49
• Unity: 544.47
• Charity:  5.71
• Report Accepted

7:20pm - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers)

• Correspondence and thank you from Mother and Child
• Thank you from Holy Family Catholic Clinic
• St. Andrew Nativity School Fundraising dinner
• State assessment has been paid
• 8 members have not paid dues yet
• Report Accepted

7:25pm - Membership Reports

• Membership Director (Dan Riechers)
• Invites for Dan's wedding 
• June 21 his life will settle down 
• Retention Chairman (Richard Digregorio)
• No Neighbor Left Behind Phone Calls

7:30pm - Programs

• Program Director - (Gene Andres)

7:35pm - Committees

• Parish / School Updates
• St. Clare (Don Mey)
• Confirmation- Archbishop Sample 
• 40 young people Confirmed May 18
• Go to St. Clare website to watch
• St. John Fisher (Gene Andres)
• May 31 Feast of the Visitation Pilgrimage to the Grotto (link to SJF Bulletin)
• 10:30 Am start (insert itinerary info)

• Programs:
• Faith
• Community
• Family
• Life

7:40pm - KofC Business

• Frarternal Benefits
• On-line Every Wednesday at 7:00 PM  (Click Link on Blog)
• Wine & Cheese at SJF Saturday May 31st after the 4:30 PM Mass.
• Pancake Breakfasts
• St. Clare June 1st - mark your calendars, volunteers needed, see Ted Seeber. Member Drive assignments also needed.
• St. John Fisher June 8th - mark your calendars, volunteers needed, see Mike Devlin. Member Drive assignments also needed.
• Need Member with Costco membership to volunteer for shopping, Ken Paulsen needs to take a step back
• St. Thomas More Coffee and Donuts Sundays between Masses, need a few volunteers (Contact; Jonathan.Jungwirth@gmail.com)

7:45pm - KofC New Business

• Nomination of Officers 2025/2026. John/Clare Council 15485
• GK- Don Mey
• DGK- Gene Andres 
• Chancellor- Mike O'Phelan
• Recorder - Ted Seeber
• Treasurer - Mike Devlin
• Advocate-Dan Richers
• Warden- Michael Chau
• Inside Guard- Mark LeAir
• Outside Guard - Daniel Salomon
• 1 year Trustee - Marc Gregoire
• 2 year Trustee- James Morgan
• 3 year Trustee- Paul Reswebber
  

8:00pm For the good of the order- Give Us This Day Pentecost Reflection Don Mey 

8:10 pm - Closing Prayers

• Intentions for the Sick and/or in Distress – Hail Mary
• Paul Pompili
• Erik Riechers
• Bernice Jones- mother of 3591 Treasurer- Stroke
• Kyle LeAir (fractured knee on soccer field)
• Daniel Salomon's Sister and Parents
• Erik's Father-in-Law Tom
• God Bless the work of the council and its members and grant eternal peace to the souls of the departed members.
• Prayer for the Canonization of Father Michael J. McGivney.

8:15 pm - Adjournment