Endowment Board January 2016 Minutes
Endowment Board Meeting Minutes
January 17, 2016
Members present: Sue Haymaker, Dana Bauer, Ray Moeder, Father Warren, and Stan Durler.
(Lee Durler—not a member—acted as secretary for the meeting)
Meeting was held in the new Center, and most of those attending were looking through everything when Father Warren arrived and began the meeting with a prayer. Sue Haymaker ran the meeting.
We had not written minutes from the previous meeting, but Dana Bauer was able to read them from his phone. After this, Dana mentioned that we might need to look at the bylaws which say our endowment association only provides for Catholic grade school children’s needs and that perhaps the language should be changed. That suggestion was put on the table for further discussion at a later time.
Stan Durler asked about how the pledges were going, and Father said there were only maybe three who have not been able to give what they had considered giving and had been notified just in case they forgot.
Ray Moeder handed out a cash flow chart for how the Endowment Fund is doing so far, and the committee liked the completeness and the fact that we have the money we currently need to take care of our needs.
Ray also noted we need to make new signature cards for those who need to cash checks at First State Bank.
We also discussed the Memorial Book and how it’s pages haven’t been kept up to date and that we should probably condense the missing years, and then restart a page people can use to note memorials to their loved ones. Ray said that he had gone through the years missing and had found that some people used the memorial envelopes that come with our weekly donation envelopes, but had not written in the book proper.
It was discussed that the Endowment board needs to do more “advertising.” So people know what is going on, and Ray is working on a letter that can go out to families when they have lost someone, and maybe even make copies for all parishioners and send copies to the local funeral homes.
The board spent the rest of the meeting discussing the new Center, what is in it and how everything works. Thursday, Jan. 21 will be the first mass in the new chapel, and the Bishop will be here on the evening of the 23rd to bless the facility. We are hoping for a possible open house for the community in February—possibly on a Sunday afternoon.
The meeting ended in prayer.
Lee Durler, Substitute Secretary J
