Members Present -Sr. Marilyn Breen, Doug Olk, John Schwind, Dan Neebel, Jenni Malcom, Marlin DeWeerdt
Members Absent-Fr. Lyle, Brian Walsh, Andy Neebel, Sue Krukonis, Jonathan Tschiggfrie
1) The meeting was called to order at 7:05 pm-Doug offered a prayer
2) The minutes of August 28, 2002 meeting were distributed and approved.
3) Financial Considerations Update-
-Parent Association request-Doug and Jenni updated the group on their meeting
with the Parent Association on September 10, 2002. For the year 2002-2003, the
Website Committee will need only to forward the annual bill for website maintenance
to Tim Thill of the Parent Association. Sr. Marilyn agreed to do this.
-Final Payment to Net Smart-will be made once the website is up and running
and Net-Smart has sent us the bill.
-Upcoming expenses-Sr. Marilyn reported that we have purchased a photograph
software program (Paint Shop Pro 7) for $60 (after $30 rebate). Money left over
from the DRA grant was used for this. This program will be used by the Youth
Group. The group discussed some other general computer upgrade needs of the
Parish and Youth Group. It was felt that future consideration of these issues
would need to be addressed by Technology Committee and Parish Council.
4) Website Review-A final review of the website was done by the group. Overall,
the group is very pleased with the website. Some suggestions were made that
Sr. Marilyn will forward to Net-Smart.
-It was mentioned that final website training of Parish, school and Youth Group
staff will take place soon.
-It is felt that the website will officially be up and running with the next
week or two.
5) Other-
-Sr. Marilyn reminded the group of the previous Website Policies that we had
reviewed at a previous meeting. These policies will be forwarded to each Committee
member by Sr. Marilyn prior to our next meeting for review and final approval.
-John asked that a central file of all passwords and written website procedures
be kept by the Parish for future reference. Sr. Marilyn felt that this could
easily be done.
6) Future Direction of the Committee
-The Committee felt that it would be important to have another meeting about
a month after the website is officially put up to discuss concerns and issues.
If all is going well, the Committee envisioned meeting every 4-6 months after
that to address future needs and changes as they might arise.
-The Committee discussed the need for keeping a "future needs" list
for future website changes. One such example was the idea of entering various
Parish Committee meeting minutes onto the website. Options/obstacles for accomplishing
this were discussed.
-In an effort not to exclude parishioners who don't have a computer at home
or work, Doug asked the group to consider the idea of hosting a monthly "Computer
night" for interested parishioners to learn more about computers and the
internet; in particular the parish website. Individuals with little or no computer
experience would be encouraged to attend. The group will discuss this again
at the next meeting.
7) Next Meeting-Will be Monday, November 25, 2002 at 7:15 pm.
8) Meeting adjourned at 8:15 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Doug Olk