Our Needs

Our parish offices are located in our old, deteriorating convent building inconveniently located a distance from our other parish and school buildings.
The offices are difficult for parishioners and visitors to find.
They are inconvenient for our office staff whose activity management is most often in other parish buildings.
The decades old office building was originally our school nuns’ residence, and, therefore, is not well designed to be used for professional offices.
The small reception area is not very welcoming or inviting.
The work and storage spaces are poorly sized and shaped for professional staff.
The aged lighting and electrical systems are not cost or energy efficient.
The furnace is unreliable and past its useful life.
The outdated plumbing needs to be replaced before it fails.
Potentially expensive deferred maintenance is required and includes exterior siding repairs, painting, ceiling cracks, and a leaking roof.
Any major renovations or remodeling will likely trigger expensive seismic and ADA accessibility upgrade requirements.
It would be almost as costly, if not more costly, to repair the building to current code requirements than it would be to build a new office center.
Remodeling and repair would still not make the current building better sited or suited to our needs.
We lack large social space that is convenient and easily accessible to the church. Celebration Hall, our only community space, is located across the street.

Our school building’s old heating systems are long past their useful lives, are cost and energy inefficient, and increasingly and unnecessarily expensive to maintain.
The old systems makes heating the school difficult and there is no air-conditioning. This means the building is almost always uncomfortable, but it is especially so on warm weather days.

Both the parish office and school buildings are not fully handicapped accessible. This affronts our sense of social justice and doesn't meet building code requirements.
Neither building has an elevator and both have steps to enter them and staircases between floors.
This makes it difficult, if not impossible, for those with mobility issues to partake in the various meetings, activities, and events that we hold in these buildings.

We do not have a convenient, reverential chapel for smaller, more intimate services, Eucharistic adoration, and other activities.
Using the main church for small gatherings requires us to light and heat or cool this large space.

Our aging gymnasium is too small for many sporting and other events and has no built-in bleachers or stage.
Our locker and restroom facilities are in poor shape, are not ADA accessible and need to be renovated or replaced.
The dedicated youth space upstairs of the gym is not ADA accessible or soundproof, so it cannot be used when there are practices or games in the gym.
We do not have adequate St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry space. This ministry is a needed and valuable service to provide free food goods to parish and local community members.

We need to plan for more room in our school sometime in the future.
Our school has seen a resurgence of growth since we added preschool and kindergarten classes and because of the Covid pandemic.
We do not have adequate, dedicated spaces for important science, technology, and music programs.
The success of our preschool and kindergarten programs has created requests and demand for a new daycare program. Having this could serve as an added feeder program and source of income for our parish and school.

We need more adequate parish social space that is convenient and easily accessible to the church.
We also need a space that is available for events like funeral luncheons. Currently, these meals displace our students who use Clebration Hall, our only large social space, for their lunchroom.