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Feasibility Study
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Curé of Ars Feasibility Study Case Statement
- Our Challenge:
- The church roof was installed in 1978 and is in need of attention.
- Our 80 ministries have only two meeting rooms to share.
- The bid to repair our pews was $100,000 more than our bid to purchase new oak pews.
- Our parish community has only a small space for socializing after Mass and funeral meals.
- Our parish office space is not ADA compliant and is obsolete.
- In our 2023 Space Needs Survey, parishioners indicated their most important “space” priorities as: deferred maintenance, parish hall, faith education, staff workspace, fellowship, meeting, storage and outdoor.
- Our Vision:
- Our parish finance council is planning strategically to prepare our parish facilities, that are built to last, for the next generations.
- Ideally, we will have a worship space that is leak proof, with comfortable, durable pews.
- A larger gathering space adjacent to the church entry, to accommodate our community building social connections and funeral meals
- A new office building with numerous meeting spaces that functions as a service hub for our parish staff and 80 ministries.
- Our Plan:
- To ask all members of the parish to make a three year pledge to underwrite the church, parish hall and office improvements in 2025.
- And break ground in 2026.
- We estimate that our facility improvements will require a budget of $12M.
- Urgency:
- We have systematically been working our way through our delayed maintenance priority list. Now we are facing improvements that we cannot fund from our operating budget.
- Fr. Storey has built tremendous good will and community cohesiveness during his tenure.
- With no debt, we are operating from a position of strength.
- Now is the time to conduct a capital campaign to fund our long term facility improvement.
- Our Challenge:
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