CCC Capital Campaign - Needs Assessment
Needs Assessment Phase - Completed (May 2022 Annual Meeting)
The Capital Campaign Needs Assessment Committee has been busy adding to our list of possible projects and would like to hear your suggestions for, and reactions to, project ideas.
Based on input collected so far, we have identified the following categories of projects:
Project Ideas Under Consideration:
- Sanctuary and chancel: paint; carpet; reconfiguration for space, lighting, sound and technology
- Kitchen: bring facilities up to code (exhaust system, grease trap/s, floor and counter tops)
- Fellowship Hall: refresh (floor, paint, storage, room & stage curtains, announcement streaming)
- 9 Worthen: mold abatement and usage upgrades
- Green church: electrify; heat pump; permeable parking lot; electric charging station
- Church exterior and grounds: electricity & sprinklers North Rd. entrance; handicap access for Worthen St. entrance
Please refer to the linked Capital Campaign Proposed Project List below for a full list of the ideas collected along with supporting information.
Events - Next all-church input sessions for Capital Campaign
Purpose: to review current, best available cost estimates and to get input on project area priorities together with which items under each have the most support to undertake
Dates:
March 16 - Capital Campaign Congregational Meeting on Zoom, 7:30 pm
March 27 - Capital Campaign face to face Congregational Meeting following Worship
May 15 - Annual Meeting - to discuss and vote yes or no on the following motion: to launch a Capital Campaign, starting in the Fall of 2022 with the goal of funding significant improvements to the church
If yes, then votes will be taken to:
- Approve the members of the committee who will run the Capital Campaign
- Approve the project priority areas and the items to be included under each area and their cost based on the best available estimates
- Approve the Capital Campaign’s total fundraising goal
- Earmark the additional funding sources to be used to complete the approved project list
- Designate the authority that will establish the timeline and start date for the approved projects
Links to Campaign Resources
Capital Campaign Proposed Projects List
Capital Campaign Annual Meeting Information Sheet
Needs Assessment Committee Members
Christine Williams, Chair (Trustees)
Mary Horne, Secretary (House)
Lynn Horton (Council)
Rev. Dr. Rich Knight, Pastor
Peter Morin (Diaconate)
Dick Papenfuss (Treasurer)
Alan Wisniewski (Trustees)
The Needs Assessment Committee began meeting regularly in the summer of 2021.
Use the Comment Form below to provide feedback to the Committee. Thank you.
Important Links
For more information about the phases of this Capital Campaign, please visit these pages: