Brother Knights,
We are almost 4 months into our Fraternal Year, and the Advent Season is fast approaching. This is an important time of year for us in many ways. First and foremost as Catholics it is a time to prepare for the coming of the Christ Child. Secondly two major fundraisers are planned, the Charity Appeal and the Keep Christ in Christmas Campaign, which also has a evangelization message involved. Finally, October is traditionally “Membership Recruitment Month”.
As was announced last month your executive conducted a survey of the council membership regarding Council Meetings, Programs, and value of membership. We had 56 responses out of 125 members in our Council and I am pleased with both the quality and quantity of the responses. Your executive will be looking at the results in detail, but there was one outcome that was very apparent. The content and quality of council meetings must be improved. Starting next month all Officers, Directors, and Committee Chairmen, will submit written reports the day before the meeting. Those reports as well as my report will be available for you to review when you arrive at the meeting. This will allow a more abbreviated presentation during the meeting and help those presenting to be as efficient as possible and speed up our meetings. We will try it for November and December and then review it.
The other portion of the council meeting advise that we received was that you want more interesting content and discussion at the meeting. Many of you indicated that the overall length was not your greatest concern but the quality of the content. State has recently released a new Faith Program for inclusion in council meetings and we will be implementing that next month. If you have other suggestions for new meeting content please let your executive know and we will look into it.
For the good of the order we will continue to move forward in our busiest months of the year.
Vivat Jesus!,
Stefan Farrow
We are almost 4 months into our Fraternal Year, and the Advent Season is fast approaching. This is an important time of year for us in many ways. First and foremost as Catholics it is a time to prepare for the coming of the Christ Child. Secondly two major fundraisers are planned, the Charity Appeal and the Keep Christ in Christmas Campaign, which also has a evangelization message involved. Finally, October is traditionally “Membership Recruitment Month”.
As was announced last month your executive conducted a survey of the council membership regarding Council Meetings, Programs, and value of membership. We had 56 responses out of 125 members in our Council and I am pleased with both the quality and quantity of the responses. Your executive will be looking at the results in detail, but there was one outcome that was very apparent. The content and quality of council meetings must be improved. Starting next month all Officers, Directors, and Committee Chairmen, will submit written reports the day before the meeting. Those reports as well as my report will be available for you to review when you arrive at the meeting. This will allow a more abbreviated presentation during the meeting and help those presenting to be as efficient as possible and speed up our meetings. We will try it for November and December and then review it.
The other portion of the council meeting advise that we received was that you want more interesting content and discussion at the meeting. Many of you indicated that the overall length was not your greatest concern but the quality of the content. State has recently released a new Faith Program for inclusion in council meetings and we will be implementing that next month. If you have other suggestions for new meeting content please let your executive know and we will look into it.
For the good of the order we will continue to move forward in our busiest months of the year.
Vivat Jesus!,
Stefan Farrow
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