Meeting Notes 5/19/2026

 7:00 PM - Call to Order

• Prayer – Our Father
• Pledge of Allegiance

7:05 PM - Aubrianne Trout

• June 6 2026 Open House 1-3 
• RSVP to Aubrianne 503-706-6069

7:10 PM - Roll Call of Officers

• Grand Knight- Present
• Financial Secretary- Present
• Deputy Grand Knight- Excused
• Chancellor- Present
• 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
• 13 Brothers Voting Strength

7:12 PM - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes

(corrections & additions?)

• Motion accepting minutes into the record

7:13 PM - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey)

• Membership Challenge
• State Convention
• St Clare Pancake Breakfast June 7
• Committee Opportunities and Activities

7:30 PM - District Deputy Remarks

• 4th Degree 250th Anniversary Saturday June 13th (announcement has been on the blog)
• Discussion on Insurance- Ted Directed to put Karl Inman's GiveSendGo on the blog

7:35 PM - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin)

• Fraternal Checking balance              $3,247.53

• Unity Savings Account balance        $544.81

• Charity Savings Acct. balance          $5.71
• Motion to accept report accepted

7:40 PM - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers) N/A

• Mother and Child Mother's Day donation to be delayed until after July 1 to get ASAP
• Ted and Erik tried, we think we dropped one member and transferred another, but the website was unclear.  State officials failed to show up, will try to reschedule
• Motion to accept report - passed

7:40 PM - Membership Reports

• Membership Director (Dan Riechers)
• Andy and Greg on hook
• Retention Chairman (Richard Digregorio)
• No Neighbor Left Behind Phone Calls

7:45 PM - Committees

• Parish / School Updates
• St. Clare (Don Mey)
• School was accredited, Archbishop Sample was here for the Mass
• Cute story of how the 2nd grade choir just kept singing at the end of Mass
• Acts Retreat Mid September 
• St. John Fisher (Mike Devlin) N/A

7:50 PM - Business

• Pancake Breakfasts Winter/Spring
• St. Clare
• Sunday June 7th (Ted Seeber)
• Ted will start asking for Volunteers before the end of the month and will check on the timing
• Monthly Meeting Discussion segment
• Michael O'Phelan and David Villegas to determine discussion topics from books or articles
• Target date is the first meeting July 21st, of the 2026/2027 year
• Member drives, be ready, 
• SC, SJF, St Thomas Moore, Summer Dates and Time, TBD
• Hope’s Garden Maternity Home
• Donation of $500, Financial support, issued.
• Hope’s Garden Open House for KofC Councils, June 6th, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.
• Council Officer’s 2026/2027
• 2nd and final round of nominations.
• Vote and approval of candidates, pending any issues.
• Initial officers nominations for 2026/2027 slate. 
• Grand Knight
• Mey, Donald A
• Deputy Grand Knight
• Daniel Riechers
• Chancellor
• O'Phelan, Michael J
• Recorder
• Seeber, Theodore
• Treasurer
• Devlin, Michael
• Advocate
• Daniel Salomon
• Warden
• Chau, Michael H
• Inside Guard
• LeAir, Mark
• Outside Guard
• Dave McAllister
• One Year Trustee
• Morgan, James Michael
• Two Year Trustee
• Resweber, Paul
• Three Year Trustee
• Gene Andres
• Slate voted in as a total, unanimously
• Installation of Officers will be at June Meeting- All officers are requested to be there

8:05 PM KofC New Business

• Provincial Summons to all Knights of Oregon, Washington, Idaho. Saturday, June 13th, 2026 @ the Proto-Cathedral of Saint James The Greater, Vancouver, WA. ( See the blog for information and costs )
• Hope's Garden Open House, once again, will be on blog 
• Coats for Kids, August 15th deadline coming up
• Open Business

8:10 PM - “For the Good Of the Order” Mike O’Phelan

• Billy Graham reading King George V's happiness writing- service 

8:15 PM - Closing Prayers

• Intentions for the Sick and/or in Distress – Hail Mary
• Kathy Lynn Inman- who lost her husband May 9
• For Rachel, whose father committed suicide
• All victims of war
• Gary R. from Joyful Noise
• Bridgitine Monks in Amity, OR - Last Monastery in the world for this order- pray for vocations
• Daniel's sister Rachel in Israel- praises for finding a better pet solution for custody battle
• Eileen, friend of the Mey's had a fall and hit her face
• Mila Maskell
• 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.

8:20 PM - Adjournment