St. Andrew’s Vestry Meeting

May 19, 2009, 7:30 PM

Peabody Room

 

Present:  Al Colburn, Linda Kaferle, Fr. Alan MacKillop, Mary Medeiros, Louise Rogers, Erica Scattergood, Marianne Welton

Absent:  Dick Dabrowski, Sue Hildreth, George Miller, Don Ulsch

 

I.                   Opening Devotions & Prayer

II.                Priest-in-Charge Report (Fr. Alan)

A.     Vestry Retreat

1.      Fr. Will Bergmann to share the retreat with Fr. Alan

a.      Voted to pay stipend of $100 to Fr. Bergmann and pay for his expenses (subsequently changed amount to $200 plus expenses since Fr. Alan decided to let Fr. Bergmann lead the retreat by himself due to Priscilla Andrew’s Memorial Service to be held that same day)

B.     Kyle Bertulli’s 6-month contract review

1.      Fr. Alan met with Kyle to go over any issues

a.      Both the church and Kyle and very pleased with his employment

i.                    The choir will be “off” during July and August

ii.                  Kyle will take his allotted time off and will be back to play at the summer 9:00 services

C.     Two baptisms scheduled for Pentacost Sunday

 

III.             4/21/09 Meeting Minutes Accepted as Presented

 

IV.              Wardens’ Report (Linda Kaferle)

A.     Safe Church Training Date Added by Diocese

1.      October 17th at St. Paul’s Church in Natick

a.      Hope to get all church school staff and Vestry who have not attended in the past to go since this is the closest location

B.     A financial consultant from the diocese has been in contact with the wardens and treasurer about meeting to go over the church’s financial status prior to calling a new rector

1.      When Dick returns from vacation, a meeting will be set up

 

V.                 Treasurer’s Report (None)

A.     ACTION ITEM:  Sue Hildreth to e-mail report when finished

B.     ACTION ITEM:  Linda to contact Sue about planning a Vestry meeting on a Sunday after the service when Sue feels up to attending

 

VI.              Search Committee Update (Mary Medeiros)

A.     May 15th was the cut-off for receiving applications

B.     Committee planning to meet May 31st to review all applications

VII.           Commission Reports

A.     Pastoral Care (none)

B.     Altar Guild (Louise Rogers)

1.      Reported that Barbara Kamb would like to buy (or possibly make from purchased material) a blue advent burse and veil and a white brocade burse and veil

a.      The assumption is that there is money in the Worship Expense budget line item for use by the Altar Guild

C.     Stewardship (none)

VIII.        Old Business

A.     Memorial Gift Policy

1.      Voted unanimously to accept the policy that the wardens and Fr. Alan drafted after last month’s discussion

2.      ACTION ITEM:  Fr. Alan to ask Lynn Ferrillo to send Erica Scattergood any information on memorial donations in order for Erica to write thank-you notes

B.     Proposed Business Policy Change

1.      Al Colburn asked that we consider requiring two signatures on checks over $2,000 from our regular checking account (last month we voted for that policy on our investment account)

a.      Voted unanimously to standardize the policy for all our accounts

i.                    ACTION ITEM:  Linda to ask Sue Hildreth for procedural help in changing our checks so that this policy can be put into practice

ii.                  This policy to be added to our existing Business Policy

C.     Special Parish Meeting – June 14th

1.      For the purpose of authorizing the Vestry to act on behalf of the Parish when the time comes to call a new rector (as required by the St. Andrew’s by-laws)

2.      It was the consensus of the Vestry members to insert an absentee ballot in the next newsletter

IX.              New Business

A.     Rectory painting quotes discussed

1.      Received two quotes

a.      ACTION ITEM:  Linda to ask for a third

2.      Talked about aluminum siding as an alternative to painting

a.      ACTION ITEM:  Linda to ask for a quote

X.                 Next Meeting – June 16, 2009, 7:30 PM, Peabody Room

XI.              Closing Prayer

XII.           Adjournment – 9:15 PM

 

Respectfully submitted,

Linda Kaferle