Weblog of the PoP Building Committee activities

Attending: Tom Kettler, Mary Delaney, Jim McKenna, Neil Howard, Kurt Nelson, Cherie DeGeorge, Steve Sullivan, Pastor Sarah (Steve and Neil were there, but not in the picture below)

Tom discussed some work he had done on his own to check out any big possible hangups if we were to get into a new major building project. Based on a short discussion with people at Loiderman-Soltesz (a site planning and engineering company which has worked for us before), increasing the parking lot would be a big hitter because of storm water management issues. Tom related that he has solicited a proposal for a Capital Reserve Study from a company named Facility Engineering Associates (FEA). We have sent them our info, but have not received back a proposal from them.

Neil reported no interim feedback on the building survey questions we brainstormed last meeting. Mary added one additional question (#1) during the meeting. See the attached Building Committee Survey for a list of the questions. We divided up all the ministry teams for contact as follows:

Staff – Neil, Cherie
Worship & Music – Kurt
Social Ministry – Steve
Building – Tom
Education – Kurt
Church Use – Cherie
Witness – Tom
Youth – Jim
Property – Neil
Finance – Mary
Stewardship – Kurt
Fellowship – Steve
Creation Care – Jim
Decluttering – Cherie
Church Council – Tom

The plan is to contact the chairperson (or ministry team members in the event of no chairperson), send them the list of survey questions in advance and solicit their input in any format: attending their meeting and getting on the agenda, via email, via telephone, face-to-face, etc. We will gather up whatever feedback we have to date at our next meeting and then decide if and when to have a public forum soliciting input from anyone else in the congregation who did not otherwise have an opportunity to respond.

Pastor Sarah suggested we start a Building Committee blog. Neil will look into this. Since you are reading this, looks like it happened!

Next Meeting is Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 7:30pm in the BYC. Everyone is invited.

Our Challenge
Do you think that PoP has any building needs? Some ideas that have been informally bandied about are: Hey, when do we get a real Fellowship Hall? Where am I supposed to put all the stuff my ministry team needs; we don’t have any room to store stuff around here!