Meeting Minutes March 16

 K of C Council 15485 Meeting Minutes

James M. Morgan / March 16, 2021

7 p.m. Call to Order

• Warden's Membership check (Conducted)
• Prayer Our Father
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Roll Call of Officers
• Minutes from last meeting approved

7:05 p.m.  GK's (Mark Gregoire)  Remarks

        

             Marc said he would post the 1st Video Message recorded my   

        the new Supreme, Patrick E. Kelly on the blog an put a link to it on the next agenda.

             He discussed the Catholic Men's Retreat at Powell Butte.

             And he discussed Fr. Theo Lange's Easter Spiritual Retreat; He is our Oregon pastor.

         and the retreat will be shown on U-Tube. In conclusion, he discussed the 3 resolutions that have been suggested for the 2021 State Convention.  

7:10 p.m.  Forms Due

•  The semi-annual Council Audit was finished 2/15/2021.
•  We don't have a Circle group anymore, so there was no form for it.  
•  We had an Evaluation of the Financial Secretary position and afterwards Phil Jarvis agreed to serve as the Financial Secretary for another year.
• We discussed the Oregon State proposed Blessed McGivney Fund and will continue discussing it. 

7:15 Pm.   For the Good of the Order: Mike O' Phelan is absent.

7:20 p.m.  Treasurer's Report; Mike Devlin explained:

1. Our 1/19/2021 beginning checking bal. was $ 1,967.69
2. we took in $ 35.00 for dues
3. we paid out for the Oregon State K of C Capital Acct. $ 295.50
4. On 3/16/2021, that left a checking acct. Bal. of $1,707.19
5. Our unity Savings has a bal. of $ 543.55
6. Charity Savings has 10.67   

7:25  p.m. Financial Secretary Report / Phil Jarvis

             Reported that 6 members haven't paid their dues.

7:30 p.m.     Committees Reports / Program Director Gene Andres 

           reported that there are bottles out at St. John Fisher.

             Parish & School up-dates:

• St. Clare Parish & School report - represented by Ted Seeber & Mike O'Phelen:  Fr. Don advised us to focus on 1 charity function at a time.
• St. Elizabeth of Hungary represented by Marc Gregoire reported no new news.
• St. John Fisher represented by Gene Andres & Mike Devlin reported that the school is open and everything else is proceeding as normal.         

Faith Director / Don Mey

        2/3rds of the students have returned to school Monday thru Thursday; others are attending on Friday.

Community Director / Michael Chau

        

        Nothing new to report.

Life Director / Ted Seeber  Think about what we can do for our mother's on Mother's Day.

Family Director / Ted Seeber  Nothing new to report.

Membership Director / Ted Seeber

        We are going to make our  membership quota because his son Christopher is joining our council.

Retention Chairman / Mike P'Ohelen is working on members who haven't paid their dues yet.

No Neighbor left behind / James Morgan   

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8 p.m. New Business

        State Convention 2021 candidates from our council are needed to attend the April 30 - May 2 Klamath Falls Convention.

        We should create a Degrees Team for this summer.

        Any members experiencing financial issues can get their dues dismissed by State.

8:10 p.m.   The District Deputy / State Officer, Dan Boone is absent.

        The Parish Book Program is financed by the Church Budget.

8:15 p.m.  Sick or in Distress

        A prayer for Phil Jarvis daughter-in-law Karen, Janet Lindell, the 

Executive Secretary for the Seminarians, and everyone who is in need of the Lord's grace.

        God bless the work of the council and its members and grant eternal peace to the souls of departed members.

8:20 p.m.  Closing Prayer

        Prayer for the Canonization of Michael J. McGivney