Meeting Minutes 7-15-2025

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 7:00pm - Call to Order

  • Warden’s Membership Check
  • Prayer – Our Father
  • Pledge of Allegiance
  • Pope Leo XIV Prayer

7:03pm - Roll Call of Officers

  • OLJC- Present
  • GK - Present
  • FS- Present
  • DGK- Present
  • Chancellor- Present
  • Treasurer-Present
  • Warden-Present
  • OG-Present
  • IG -Present
  • 1YT-Present
  • 2YT-Present
  • 3YT-Present
17 members present - 2 online

7:05pm - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes (corrections & additions?)

  • Accepted

7:07pm - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey)

  • Membership Challenge
  • Thank you
  • Fraternal Benefits
  • SAFE Environment
  • Membership Challenge

7:10pm - District Deputy Remarks

  • N/A

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

  • Fraternity-$3725.24
  • Unity: $544.61
  • Charity $5.71
  • Report Accepted

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

  • Supreme Assessment $120.50
  • New Year
  • Report Accepted

7:25pm - Membership Reports

  • Membership Director (Dan Riechers) 
  • 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)
    • St. John Fisher (Mike Devlin)
  • Programs:
    • Faith
    • Community
    • Family
    • Life

7:40pm - KofC Business

  • Wine & Cheese at SJF Saturday July 26th after the 4:30 PM Mass.
  • Pancake Breakfasts Fall
    • St. Clare (2)
      • October 5th - mark your calendars
      • November 2nd - mark your calendars
    • St. John Fisher (2)
    • St. Thomas More Member Drive Ideas? Dates?
    • Sr Catherine waiting on us to get bodies
      • 1st Saturday in August- email
    • Lynn Vanek- waiting on her to get straightened out

7:45pm - KofC New Business

  • Fund Raising; Bottle Drop “Blue Bag Program, possible focus on Coats for Kids?
    • Other councils are doing this
  • Initial round of donations 2025/2026, approvals;
    • Mt. Angel Seminarian - $500
      • passed
    • St. Andrew Nativity School - $500
      • passed
    • Unbound - continue donations? - $40/month, $480 total
      • tabled until already allocated funds run out next spring
    • New - “Diversity as Gift”, Fr. Jim Galluzzo charities - $500
      • passed
    • Mother and Child Education Center Flower Sales $680
  • Another Yard Cleanup- between Oleson and Vermont
    • Possibly not a SJF Parishoner

8:00 pm - For the Good of the Order (Mike O’Phelan)

  • Feast of St. Bonaventure
    • Born in Tuscany in 1221
    • Name means "Of good fortune",
    •  one of the earliest Franciscians, 
    • friend of Thomas Aquinas and St. Louis
    • Superior of the Franciscans
    • Died in 1274- theory he was poisoned at the Council of Lyons
  • A bit of Good Irish Wit-  Fr. O'Mally of Texas and the dead jackass with Sgt Flattery

8:10 pm - Closing Prayers

  • Intentions for the Sick and/or in Distress – Hail Mary
    • RIP Christine, prayers for Paul Reswebber
    • John 
    • Sheila Seeber
    • Fr. Jim Galluzo
    • Erik Riechers
    • Friend of Dan & Jay:  Troublesome pregnancy (heart condition)
  • 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

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