Pastor's Pen - May 3, 2015

NOTICE FOR TRUSTEE NOMINATION !
As pastor, I am legally bound to inform you at this time of the fact
that the position of parish corporate trustee/secretary is open for nominations. Please read the following.

A parish trustee is an active, responsible lay parish member who is called to serve the parish as a member of the corporate Board of Directors and acts in a leadership role as a member of the Pastoral and Finance Councils. Each parish has two lay trustees, one serves as the parish's corporate treasurer and the other as
corporate secretary. Each serves a two year term, with no limitation on consecutive terms. Here in our parish we have staggered the terms of our trustees so that we don't have both positions vacant simultaneously.

This year we will have an election for the parish trustee-secretary. Candidates must be practicing Catholics who are parish members and who are at least 25 years of age. Each candidate must submit his/her name along with the signatures of 10 supportive parish members. The deadline for submission of your nomination to the pastor is May 20, 2015. The State Statutes allow the pastor to nominate one candidate in addition to those who seek their own nomination. If only one candidate is nominated, that person takes office without an election, subject to the approval of the Archbishop, the parish's corporation president. The trustee’s term would begin with the new fiscal
year.
The trustee-secretary is responsible for corporate record keeping at the parish other than financial records, such as corporate minutes, documents, notices and correspondence. He/She is also
responsible for maintaining records of all real property, property tax exemption, the parish inventory and the parish census.

If you have the basic qualifications to serve in the role as parish trustee-secretary please consider nominating yourself.

Fr. Ralph