MINUTES OF PARISH COUNCIL FOR
CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH
18 JUNE 2019
                                                   
Roll call was called at 6:33 pm for parish council meeting and Meeting Attendance sheet was signed by the following: Larry Hamilton; Jim Link; Jen Dwight; Roxanne Fischer; John Rizzo; Mimi Sisson; Fr. Viet Huynh; Murray Casey; and Robert Pacheco. The first order of the meeting was a motion by Larry Hamilton to turn over Secretary duties from Jim Link to Murray Casey. Murray Casey was nominated, and the order was seconded in that same motion. Jim Link stated he will miss the position and all members thanked Jim for his diligence. After some side bar discussion between Jim Link and Robert Pacheco about working the recorder machine, Larry Hamilton suggest to new Secretary, Murray Casey, he should look into a digital “upgrade” to the magnetic tape recorder machine. Next Larry Hamilton begins with a motion to accept last parish council’s minutes, it was seconded, and council moved to old business.
Old Business was turned over to guest, Robert Pacheco, to continue briefing council on Youth Ministry and Corpus Christi CCD program. Pacheco’s emphasis was continued engagement of young parish members after the sacrament of Confirmation. Robert open to the floor the concept continued service as practicing Catholics emphasizing on service. He then presented the idea of 100+ community hours and rolls and responsibilities within Corpus Christi Church as opportunities. Roxanne Fischer briefed meeting attendees on a program she witnessed from Inverness, IL, a parish in the Chicago area. A mission statement within the program Roxanne presented was This is Not Your Parents CCD. There were then many inputs and side bar discussions on youth agendas such as missionary work, community service, how CCD classes are taught, and how our older children are not relating to a classroom setting. CCD classes are held between 9:15 and 10:30 Sundays. Fr. Viet pointed out the role of educating our children is their spiritual development and not necessarily to engage the children. There was then a motion of create a Youth Education Plan of Action for Robert Pacheco to create. It was seconded.
Robert Pacheco then stated its, “parents who make a promise to God to raise their children in the Roman Catholic Church.” Pacheco informed all on the textbooks, and on Spanish Mass, and on Spanish CCD education including textbooks in Spanish. Robert was firm that Spanish textbooks are not necessary. Which lead to a short discussion on Spanish Mass opportunities and possibilities. When the question of was directed to Fr. Viet for information and opportunity of additional masses, father stated it is supported. Fr. Viet emphasized there is great opportunity to serve stateless people and he witnessed for himself the need, visiting populations near Cambodia, South East Asia. Father then asked Robert to cater to what God wants by inspiring and servicing spiritual needs especially as the occurrence of stateless is increasing. Fr. Viet alluded a UN study which estimates there are 14 million stateless people. This discussion lead to the next agenda: what do we need people in our parish to do?
For this new discussion we all agreed that September 8 ^th will be the date for the parish CCD instructors’ meeting and then we broke into engaging each other with how to enlist parish volunteers. Some of the ways council members discussed were small missions such as a Mission Sunday Idea, hanging signs for volunteers, registering children, borrowing Knights of Columbus signs, selling donuts, and personally inviting individuals. These ideas were socialized and a request for Robert Pocheco to improve the parish website and church projector were discussed. These discussions were topped by agreeing we need to schedule seasonal social gatherings for Halloween and Christmas. At this point we tabled the discussions for New Business.
New Business items were: 1) George Giganti of the Finance Committee, not present but budget was approved; 2) building concert wall as a perimeter to rectory and southern property line; and 3) call for new stewardships such as security manager, eucharistic ministers, and schedulers per each stewardship.
With the budget approved, council members began talking about costs, options, and benefits of a perimeter brick wall. Fr. Viet’s vision is a mason wall with sign delineating front of Corpus Christi with sideway and continuing along the property line. This proposal will add necessary privacy between rectory and adjacent neighbors. An estimated cost of $30k to $40k was discussed. Council members agreed to verify this cost estimate because there was some doubt to the estimate. As a contingency, the ideas of a wooden fence and metal fence were offered as well as the likely costs per wood or metal compared masonry. Fence discussion ended with agreement to schedule contractors for each type of material.
Because of Paul Pivirotto’s death, Murray Casey was nominated and made security manager for Corpus Christi, given the security notebook, and tasked with creating a security workshop for the parish.
A short discussion next began on scheduling for different stewardships. The main stewardships of Eucharistic Ministers, Ushers, and Lectors create their own schedules per masses. The issue was syncing each stewardship schedules with the overall mass schedule and the idea of having one scheduler per mass rather than five different schedules. After some discussion and few conclusions, council decided not to change current system. Larry then shared a Catholic Stewardship example from the Diocese of Charlotte: https://charlottediocese.org/development/parish-stewardship/ .
The council meeting then concluded with our final prayer and next meeting was scheduled for September 26, 2019. Meeting adjourned 8:48 P.