Father Albert J. Todd Council 12119

1005 Wilbon Road Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526

www.kofc12119.org

Monthly Business Meetings are held at St. Bernadette Church on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:30pm

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Meeting minutes for: August 13, 2013 Prepared by Chris Eby, Recorder

1. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by GK Bill Barry at 7:32pm.

2. Warden’s Report on Membership Cards (Bro. Robert Langendoerfer): All present are in possession of

a current membership card.

3. Opening Prayer: The Lord’s Prayer was led by GK Bill Barry.

4. Pledge of Allegiance: The pledge was led by GK Bill Barry.

5. Roll Call of Officers:

Grand Knight Bill Barry Present

Chaplain

Deputy Grand Knight Sonny Butler Present

Chancellor Nick Longo Present

Recorder Chris Eby Present

Financial Secretary Jim Ryals Present

Treasurer Bob Mayen Present

Lecturer Michael Zazzeri Present

Advocate Tony Perna Excused

Warden Jim Burke Excused

Inside Guard Lou Mennona Present

Outside Guard Robert Langendoerfer Present

3 Year Trustee Chris Craney Present

2 Year Trustee Steve Raedy Excused

1 Year Trustee Mark Leuver Present

6. Opening Ode: Sung rigorously with vigor.

7. Reading of Previous Meeting Minutes: A motion was made by Bro. Mark Leuver and seconded by

Bro. Pete Majewski to approve the minutes of the June meeting. Motion was passed by unanimous

verbal consent.

8. Report of Admissions Committee and Reading of Applications: Bro. Bruce Meyer read the transfer

application for Thomas Fornabaio.

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9. Balloting for Membership (New members, readmissions, reapplications, transfers): A motion was

made by Bro. Bruce Meyer and seconded by Bro Mark Leuver to approve the transfer application of

Thomas Fornabaio. Motion passed by unanimous verbal consent.

10. Initiations: None.

11. Grand Knight’s Report (GK Bill Barry):

Worthy Brothers All,

On July 12th and 13th, the Worthy Deputy Grand Knight Sonny Butler, Worthy District Master Dave

Onofrio, Worthy District Marshal Rick Lewis and I all attended the 2013 Organizational Meeting in

Raleigh. The meeting was very informative and we had the opportunities to speak with the State

Program directors.

Our council received the NC State Council 2012-2013 Semi Annual Top Program Award for

Membership in Division 4. Thank you to our Worthy Membership Director Bruce Meyer for your

efforts last year as membership director.

We will be voting on our budget tonight and have our major events calendar pretty well established.

Name Badges. They are a great tool for increased communications within our council. By wearing your

council name badge, members may recognize a brother knight and ask for information in regards to

council activities. Please wear your council name badge to all church Masses and functions. If you

have not received your name badge, please see our Financial Secretary.

Tomorrow, Wednesday August 14th our council is hosting a second degree. Any first degree brothers

present who has not let me know already that you will be making your second degree, there is still

time to sign up tonight. Please see me after the meeting. All second, third and fourth degree brothers

present, I encourage you to attend the second degree tomorrow to support our first degree brothers as

they take the next step to full knighthood. I want to thank Rob Phillips and Jim O’Donnell for calling

some of the 1st degree brothers to request them to make their 2nd degree. Light refreshments will be

available after the degree.

Back in 2009 our council gave the Life Memorial Stone to St. Bernadette’s. Last month the Life

Memorial Stone helped a young couple from our parish who found that they were pregnant to make

the right decision. The wife of one of our brother knights sent this beautiful true story.

Today when visiting at church, I spoke with a parishioner. She asked me to give her thanks to those

responsible for the Life Memorial. She said she knew a young couple (19-years old) who found that

they were pregnant. They knew that abortion was wrong, but they were still considering it as an

option. The young man came to the church to meet with this parishioner. He saw our Life Memorial

outside the Learning Center. He paused then went in to meet her. He told her that the Memorial gave

him his answer. He went home and brought his girlfriend to see the Memorial. They made the decision

to keep their baby. Their baby is due to be born in October.

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12. Chaplain’s Report (GK Bill Barry for Fr. Robert Staley):

Dear Brother Knights and friends in Christ,

Thank you for having given me the honor of serving as your Council Chaplin. I hope the council will

continue to flourish and grow. You have a great group of officers, directors, and members. As you

move forward, please continue to remember to put prayer first. The Knights are not just another

community group. We are rooted in faith.

May God continue to richly bless Council 12119,

Father Robert

13. Treasurer’s Report (Bro. Bob Mayen): The current bank balance as of July 31, 2013 is $20,206.87. See

Addendum for more details regarding the July 2013 report.

14. Reading by Grand Knight of Receipts of Treasurer to Financial Secretary:

Receipts – See attachment to these minutes.

15. Reading of Bills and Communications:

Bills (Warrants from Financial Secretary to Treasurer) – See attachment to these minutes.

Communications – None.

Thank You letter from Special Olympics North Carolina

Thank You card from Nicholas Fields (scholarship winner)

Thank You note from Fr. Robert (parties)

Thank You card from Fr. Tom Duggan

16. Financial Secretary’s Report (Bro. Jim Ryals): We currently have 141 Associate Members, 70 Insurance

Members and 5 Inactive Insurance Members for a total of 216 Members. Included in the total are 3

Honorary Members and 14 Honorary Life Members.

We had no Associate Member gains last month and we had one loss. We had no gains or losses of

Insurance Members.

For our Fraternal Year 2013-2014 our Associate membership quota is 15 and our Insurance membership

quota is 5.

17. Report of Auditors and Trustees: Bro. Mark Leuver reported that the Worthy FS report has been

received and all is in order.

18. Chancellor’s Report of Vocations (Bro. Nick Longo): Omitted.

19. Report of Service Program Committees (DGK Sonny Butler): Former Family Director Dan Walters

recently sent a note conveying that he misses ‘the guys’ and everything about the Council – he has

settled into his new home in Virginia, but wants us all to know he is still thinking of and praying for us.

Something else that was communicated to the GKs & DGKs at the State meeting was to always wear

our badges to church as well as carrying our rosaries

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Culture of Life (Bro. Mike Mroz for Bro. Joe Lee): Flyers for the upcoming ‘Run for Life’ event are

available – please take one at the end of the meeting and consider participating.

Youth (DGK Sonny Butler for Bro. Jim Burke): Next on the agenda is the Soccer Challenge. More

details will be shared with the Council as they become available.

Family (Bro. Rob Phillips): reminder to everyone that the picnic is coming up on the 14th of next

month. Please RSVP so that we know how many to plan for. He council will be providing hot dogs,

hamburgers & soft drinks. Plenty of activities are planned, but please bring any outdoor games you

have and would like to play. Also, Supreme has designated August 11-17 as family week – please

reflect on your family and plan to do something special with them.

Council (Bro. Al Munno):

Bingo: As always, we can use help, whether it be 1 hour or 3 hours, we’d greatly appreciate it! Bro.

Chris Craney also reported from that we wrote the 1st $5,000 check for this fraternal year from Bingo to

the Council just a couple weeks ago.

Fr. Robert’s 50th party: went very well

Knight in Need Dinner: Really need help - expecting about 200 attendees; need help from: 9:00am –

12:00pm (prepare food and take care of kitchen); 6:00pm - 8:30pm (serving in the hall and handling take

out service). Cost it $15.00 per person.

Community (Bro. Joe Beiras): A list of Special Olympics list of activities has been received. Plenty of

opportunities to get involved but there’s a request to help out in Wilson, NC on September 21st with

Soccer, Golf and Bocce – more details will be forthcoming via email.

Church (Bro. Jim Lawson): We will be sponsoring Seminarian Bryan Fegley this fraternal year. We

sent him a letter in July and received a response back expressing his thanks and excitement. He shared

that he is a 3rd degree Knight and was formerly the DGK of Council 12244. He will be attending

seminary in Philadelphia and looks forward to an opportunity to visit and meet with us during one of

his breaks. In the meantime, he can be ‘friended’ via Facebook – you can search for “Bryan Fegley”.

LAMB (Bro. Rich Bodnar): Omitted.

Membership (Bro. Bruce Meyer): Omitted.

20. Report of Standing Committees:

Blood Drives (Bro. Dave Dillman): We had 29 donors turn out at the drive 2 weeks ago, which is not a

very good response. The next drive is scheduled for October 10th which will be the final one for the

year – please consider donating!

Pancake Breakfasts (Bro. Jim O’Donnell): Discussions under way with plans for further discussion

during the next business meeting in September.

Yard Sale (Bro. Jim O’Donnell): Scheduled for September 28th. The primary goal is to raise funds for

perishable items for the food pantry to supplement donations during masses. We’ve been holding this

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event every other year since about 2000. Loads of help is needed – watch for further email, but the

general overview is as follows:

Wed 9/25 Set up the hall

Thu 9/26 9:00am 9:00pm Accept donations & pricing

Fri 9/27 9:00am 9:00pm Accept donations & pricing

Sat 9/28 7:00am 3:00pm SALE!

21. Unfinished Business: The proposed budget, which was shared and reviewed at the July Council

meeting as well as distributed via the minutes needs to be voted on. Bro. Mark Leuver made a motion

to accept the budget as presented and discussed. Bro. Sonny Butler seconded the motion. Motion

passed by unanimous verbal consent.

22. New Business: A motion was made by Bro. Tim Roberts and seconded by Bro. Mark Leuver to donate

$200 to help with medical costs for Bro. Jessie McKee, a fellow Knight involved in a motorcycle

accident in New York. Motion was passed by unanimous verbal consent.

DGK Sonny Butler was recently asked for a group of Knights to act as pall bearers at funeral on very

short notice. While we weren’t able to accommodate the request, we are considering creating a list of

contact information for anyone interested in helping out in the future should the need arise. Please

contact DGK Sonny Butler if interested.

23. Report of the Fourth Degree: GK Bill Barry reminded all of the next 4th degree exemplification

scheduled for October 26th at the Sheraton Imperial in RTP. If any 1st, 2nd or 3rd degree Knights are

interested in making their 4th degree at that time, please contact Bill Barry and he’ll work with you to

get everything lined up in advance.

24. Insurance Field Agent’s Report (GK Bill Barry for Bro. Michael O’Rourke): Just a reminder that as

we begin to send our kids back to school in the fall it is a good time to meet with your field agent. First

to consider insurance on their children and second to make sure they are covered to ensure their

families future.

Our worthy Field Agent can be reached at:

Michael O’Rourke

Phone: 919.845.5595 or 919.612.5559

Email: michael.o'rourke@kofc.org

25. District Deputy’s Report (DD Tom Eifler):

Worthy Grand Knight, Brothers, I bring you greetings from our Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, from

the Board of Directors of the K of C and our worthy State Deputy Greg Murray. First let me welcome

Thomas to Council 12119 here in Fuquay and I encourage you to continue to attend meetings and get

involved. We really were blessed to have Fr. Robert as our Chaplain and for him to show up at as

many meetings as he did was just phenomenal. Perhaps we’ll have to have an outing to go visit him.

The District Meeting was held this past Saturday and you were well represented by GK Bill Barry and

DGK Sonny Butler. The purpose of the meeting was to get together for discussion and share ideas. As

mentioned earlier, there is a 2nd degree tomorrow night here, beginning at 7:30pm as well as both 1st

and 2nd degrees in Cary on Monday, September 23rd. Upcoming state events: State golf tournament on

the weekend of October 5th & 6th in Fayetteville – cost is $125/golfer; State Bocce tournament on

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September 7th. The icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be coming to our District during the month of

September with a goal of having it be at all parishes in the District. Reminder that, if participating in

the Soccer Challenge, the kit should be ordered by August 20th. Just a note that yesterday was Fr.

McGivney’s birthday. Let me close by saying that I appreciate the opportunity to be your District

Deputy, I’m starting my 3rd year and my goal is to do 4 years and it’s been a great job thus far, I

appreciate your hospitality and look forward to seeing you at many more meetings.

Vivat Jesus

26. Good of the Order: Prayers were requested for:

• The repose of the soul of Bro. Vincent Dioguardi and his family – it would have been his birthday

today

• The Magee family

• Bro. Ed Undercoffer and his wife Marilyn

• Janet Binsell

• Bro. Bruce Meyer’s father Kenneth

• Bro. Mike Mroz’s family members Debbie Mroz and Irene Sevigny

• Bro. Nick Longo’s sister-in-law, Mary Morrow

• All military personnel, both home and abroad

• Bro. Michael Forbes

• Joanne Gerling

GK Bill Barry suspended the business meeting at 8:27pm due to a fire alarm. GK Bill Barry reconvened the

regular business meeting at 8:39pm following the all clear from representatives of the Fuquay-Varina Fire

Department.

Family of the Month (July): Bro. Dave Dillman

Brother and Sir Knight David Dillman and his grandson are recognized as the Family of the Month for

the time they spent helping other brother knights to erect a fallen tree in a brother’s knight yard.

Without David and his grandson coming with their 4 wheel drive vehicle and pull the tree up, the

other brothers that were helping would not be able to lift the tree.

Family of the Month (August): Bro. Al Munno and wife Pat

This brother and his wife you always see at Bingo. They are extremely active in their participation and

work with bingo. This couple has been heavily involved most recently with Father Robert's birthday

party at Cooley’s.

27. Chaplain’s Summation: Omitted.

28. Closing Prayer: The closing prayer was led by DD Tom Eifler.

29. Closing Ode: Omitted.

30. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned by GK Bill Barry at 8:45pm

31. Attendance drawing: Attendance drawing was held with Bro. Bill Seiberling’s name drawn. Bro. Bill

was not in attendance. Next Month’s drawing will be for $70.

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Addendum:

Financial Secretary’s Report, Treasurer’s Report, and Communications

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Knights of Columbus Council 12119

Fraternal Operating Budget for 2013-2014

INFLOWS

OUTFLOWS

Dues & Initiations Dollars

Donations Dollars

Dues $4,500 Bingo Proceeds to St. Bernadette $10,000 Initiation $300 Boy/Cub Scouts $1,000 Miscellaneous Donations $200 Clergy $500 PPDPK (Passthrough) $500 Coats for Kids $800

Food Banks/Pantries Total D & I $5,500

Fuquay Food Bank $1,250

Holly Springs Food Cupboard $1,250 St. Bernadette Food Pantry $1,250 Knight In Need $2,000

Fundraising Events Dollars

LAMB (Council Donation) $1,000 3rd Degree $200 Miscellaneous Donations 50/50 $400 Church $500 Baby Bottle Campaign $6,000 Hike For Christ $250 Bingo Game $20,000 Our Cathedral Campus $500 Bingo Snack Bar Receipts $8,000 PPDPK (Passthrough) $500 Fish Fry $5,000 Veterans in Need $500 Golf Tournament $4,000 Right to Life $6,000 Pancake Breakfast $2,500 Scholarships Spaghetti Dinner $600 Sean O'Donnell $750 St Patrick's Dinner $1,000 Military Chaplain $250

State Raffle $1,500 Zsoldos $750 Talent Show $8,000 Seminarian Donations (RSVP) $1,000 Yard Sale $5,000 Special Olympics $1,000

State Convention Total Fundraising $62,200

Bishops Fund $100 Right to Life $100

RSVP Rebate $200 Youth Activities $300 Youth Ministries (EDGE/Challenge) $1,000

Total INFLOWS $67,900

Total Donations $32,550

Expenses

Dollars

3rd Degree $200

Awards $200 Baby Bottle Campaign $600 Bingo Snack Bar Expenses $3,750 Chamber of Commerce Dues $100 Church Utility & Kitchen Supplies $1,200 Computer Hardware/Software/Services $600 Council Badges $300 Council Capital Fund (20% bingo share) $2,000 Fish Fry $2,500 Fin. Secretary (8% dues collected) $360 Get Well Baskets, Cards, Flowers $2,000

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Golf Tournament Expenses $3,000 Grand Knight Fund (Misc.) $500 K of C Catholic Advertising $200

K of C Culture of Life Fund $350 K of C Liability Insurance $200

K of C NC Per Capita $1,200

K of C Supreme Per Capita $600 Member Attendance Award $120

Membership Drive Events $500 Memorial Dinner $800

Officer Travel $500

Pancake Breakfast $1,350 Postage $500 Roaming Cooler $500 Robes and Banner (Cleaning & Maint.) $400 Social Events $2,400 Alter Server Dinner $300 Council Picnic $300

Pasta Dinner $300 St Patrick's Dinner $800

State Raffle (Half of Fundraiser) $750 Supplies $1,000 Talent Show $4,000

Yard Sale $500

Total Expenses $34,880

Misc Unbudgeted Expenses $470

Total OUTFLOWS $67,900

Net Cash Flow $0