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MINUTES OF THE PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL MEETING
HELD ON TUESDAY 4 APRIL 2006
Present:
Apologies:
Matters Arising from the March
Minutes:
Planning meeting:
AOB:
Present:
Fr. Vincent Gallogley, Fr. John Kealy, Barry O’Halpin, Dan Nickerson, Judith Carr, Walter Huyghe, Brigid Alty, Yvonne Nielsen, Mark Price and Johny Van Der Bracht.
Apologies:
Yvonne Stausbøll, Bernie Lindop and Horst Dengler.
Matters Arising from the March Minutes:
Letter to the Diocese: this evening we heard that the Diocese has accepted our monthly contribution of €350 and this is a great relief to Fr. Vincent. The Parish should appreciate the work done by Liam Breslin and the Finance Council. Payments will start at the end of April.
The new letterbox is desperately needed as the rain is getting in and destroying the mail that is arriving.
Paddy is still in ICU but should be out tomorrow. He has had a triple heart bypass operation.
The film, “The Passion of Christ”, is still being shown on Friday.
Cookery Book: not a great response so far so Judith will try & make a poster/flyer that can be handed out.
The March minutes were approved.
Planning meeting:
Yvonne S and Dan met last week for a preliminary meeting and then about 7 people turned up on Sunday. Fr. Vincent gave a history of the previous plans and how the Church had been developed. It was suggested that the Gemeente be contacted to see if they still had copies of the original plans for the enlarged hall. Dan will send a copy of the minutes of this meeting to Judith.
It then emerged that Johny had copies of some of the original plans and had had a very informal discussion about what could be done with our land with someone at the Gemeente. This had happened at the time of the sewage project. It appears that we can have a building on the new land that could be 25m x 12m which is much larger than our present hall. The land which can be built on measures 8 ares and is 63m long so could we extend the building to 40m long? If we could build something which could also be used by the Gemeente, this would help to keep good relations.
We now need a think tank which would produce some plans and then we could look into the financial aspect of the project.
We would like the Finance Council to produce a written “statement” giving the background on where we stand with planning/building permission.
ACTION: Finance Council.
AOB:
Visiting Choir- Charles King had asked Barry about using our Church for rehearsals and a concert. They could use the Church on Monday or Tuesday evenings if it is free but it is not available on Saturdays.
Toussaint 2006 - Dan suggested having a drive to find families willing to host English speaking visitors to this event. He will try and get about 1000 more forms. It would be helpful to us if the forms were returned directly to the Parish rather than the central office.
It was decided that as a Parish we should hold an all day workshop which would reflect the international nature of our Parish.
100,000 people are expected to attend the event and activities will be spread over the 500 church in the Diocese.
At next month’s meeting, we will have a brainstorming session to decide what will happen at the workshop. We have chosen Saturday 28 October to hold this. There will be 3 sessions with Mass at 6pm. Barry will draught out a rough programme by Friday so that Angela can send it to Alda.
Barry said the closing prayer and the meeting ended at 21.05.
The next meeting will be on Tuesday 9 May at 19.30hrs.
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