St. Jude Catholic Church

Attending: Father Ken, Mary Hawley - Chair, Miranda Lucia, Angie Flynn, & Roger Hermann. Guest: Charlie Simpson, FMC.

The meeting was called to order at 7 pm and Father Ken opened with a prayer.

1. Minutes: May 14th minutes were discussed and accepted as presented.
2. Financial Statements:
   
   1. Balance Sheet - Reviewed and accepted as presented.
   2. Income Statement - Reviewed and accepted as presented.
3. Old Business:
   
   1. Partitions for Religious Education Classrooms – As requested at PC, Charlie checked into temporary alternatives to the current patricians.
      
      1. Joe Biltz has offered to donate his shop and tools if the Church supplies the wood and hardware to build storable partitions.
      2. Charlie has a crew of volunteer wood workers ready to build the partitions. Charlie needs $5,000 for materials. FC approved up to $5,000, to be paid as purchased, out of current income. If current income is not adequate to cover the costs, the unpaid balance will be paid from the General and Church Maintenance contingency funds.
      3. Charlie expects the partitions to be built in 3 weekends and will be ready for the new school year in September\
   2. Building Committee – Father will appoint the members and insure each major Council is represented.
      
      1. Miranda Lucia will represent FC.
      2. Charlie Simpson agreed to represent FMC.
   3. Finance Chair – The new Fiscal Year begins on July 1. Mary Hawley has completed her year as Chair. Father asks the current members to give prayerful thought to who should be the next chair. Decision to be made at the next meeting.
   4. Bishop’s visit – We are as prepared as we can be for his visit and discussion of We Walk By Faith.
4. New Business:
   
   1. Catholic School Donations - Father mentioned that with the Diocesan fund drive for Catholic Schools underway, we, as a Parish should consider giving to our local Catholic Schools directly. Roanoke Catholic has 5 students from our parish and St. John Neumann Academy has 14. Father recommended we donate $100 for each student attending. These would be unrestricted donations and Father would provide a cover letter to accompany the checks. FC approved Father Ken’s proposal. Funds will come from our current J & P budget.
   2. PT Custodian – It is recommended that we modify our Credit Card agreement with SunTrust to provide Bruce with the ability to continue to purchase supplies, etc. w/o charging them to his personal Credit Card. We need to do the same with our Lowe’s and other charge accounts currently in force. FC approved the increase in our CC limit to $5,500 and a $500 limit for Bruce. FC also approved adding Bruce to our other corporate charge accounts. Mary will continue to monitor all expense charges.
   3. Chapel – PC asked FC to advise on a Chapel improvements project. PC Requested $5,000. FC withheld approval, ask for more details. FC suggested saving money by installing a glass wall without a glass sliding door if that would meet the needs. FMC is requested to look at alternatives to a sliding glass door.

Please Note: The next FC meeting will be Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 7:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall. This meeting will allow us to look at the end of the 08/09 FY and the Annual Report as well as plan for August activities.

Father Ken closed the meeting with a prayer at 8:30 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Roger Hermann

CC Parish Council

Charlie Simpson