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Sacred Heart Catholic Community
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Sacred Heart Parish Board of Total Catholic Education SACRED HEART PARISH September 21, 2006 Meeting was called to order by Mark Fuller at 6 p.m. In attendance: Father Len, Mark Fuller, Mary Ellen Waldvogel, Lois Maczuzak, Penny Demerath, Denise Stueck, Brenda Onesti, Fred Ponschok, Correen Lewis and Tom Berg Excused: Nancy Schauer, Alex Schreiner, Ron Henn, and Becky Dillenberg Opening Prayer : Led by Mark Fuller Approval of Agenda : Ponschok moved, Berg seconded to approve agenda. Motion carried.Approval of Minutes of August 2006 : Stueck moved, Ponschok seconded to approve minutes. Motion carried.Approval of Financial Statements —Faith Formation and School. Berg moved to approve financial statements, Ponschok seconded. Motion carried. Organization of Committees: Fuller stated that our goal for this year is to be an active board. Fuller asked the administrators to keep the board informed to aid in fulfilling this goal.Chairpersons and members of board committees were appointed. Technology—Ponschok Chair, Berg, Skarlupka members. Personnel—Fuller Chair, Lewis member. Policy—Stueck Chair. Budget—Stueck and Fuller members. Development—Onesti Chair, Schreiner member. Discussed adding an Activities Committee. Lewis to Chair Activities Committee. Committee appointments to be determined for Schauer, Henn, and Dillenberg.The board was reminded that committees could be comprised of all parishioners. Need to recruit members other than just from the board. Goal for each board member for October is to recruit at least one person from the parish for each committee. Informational Reports:School Administrator: Lois submitted to the GB Diocese a detailed religion curriculum for each grade level broken down by what is taught each month. This Religion Curriculum was distributed to each board member. Text is “Blest Are We”—more info on content of textbook is available on Blest Are We website.New superintendent of schools for GB Diocese is Mark Singleton.Mrs. Skalecki, the 5 th grade teacher, is about to take MLA. A substitute has been arranged.Currently there are 132 students enrolled.“Safe Touch” program will be offer to the students of the school at least 3 times in order to be compliant with standards set by the GB Diocese.DRE: Two persons were interviewed today for the middle school coordinator position.“Kickoff” for Faith Formation is next week.“Safe Touch” program was discussed. Faith Formation will offer at least one program in order to be compliant with the Dioceses. Parents have the option to “opt out” if they do not want their child to participate in this program.Preschool will be offered every Sunday starting Sept. 24 th during the 10am Mass. Mrs. Patty Fuller is supervising this program. Children age 3 through Kindergarten are welcome. Children will be escorted out of church just before the first reading and will return after communion. The gospel story will be presented in an age appropriate manner.Katrina Mente has offered to organize a nursery program for children ages 1 through 3 to be offered on Sundays during the 10am mass. Volunteers are needed for this program. Katrina is working with Penny who was unavailable to present the specifics of this program to the board—particularly the location, needed supplies, biohazard waste disposal issues, the need for VIRTUS/Protecting God’s Children training for volunteers.Mary Ellen offered to read a memo from Alex Schriener regarding moving Faith Formation classes to Sunday instead of Wed evening. We will table this discussion until the Oct. meeting when Alex is present.Catechists are still needed for 8 th grade, one for high school.Kindergarten Faith Formation classes were added this year. “Blest Are We” pamphlets have been ordered since there is not a textbook. This program will be evaluated at the end of the year to determine if it will continue to be offered. Because the Kindergarten class was added the 5 th grade students will now meet after supper with the rest of the middle school students (grades 6-8 th).Mary Ellen was asked to provide the Religion Curriculum for Kindergarten through High School to be presented at the October meeting.Old Business: Lois reviewed plans for 125th anniversary of school. Mielke Park “walk in the park” will be Oct 14. There will be music performed by Sacred Heart Students and High School students. Sacred Heart students will have artwork on display. Bishop Zubick will be coming Oct 29 th. Names and addresses of Alumni have been gathered. A big celebration for alumni is in the planning stages for the end of the school year—possibly a dance and/or dinner. The youth dance that was held during parish picnic in August 2006 had approximately 30 of our youth in attendance. Some felt that it was not publicized enough—a lot of the kids were not “talking about it” or aware it was going on. It was advertised in the bulletin and on the parish website. New Business: The "Gathering" will be held in Green Bay at St. Norbert’s College starting on Oct 6 2006—there are religious education classes available for teacher, catechists, and lay people.Other Business : Ponschok requested to have committee reports added to the October agenda.Closing Prayer: was held.Next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006 at the Parish Center, Upper Level Meeting adjourned at 7:15 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Denise Stueck Secretary
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