Parish Administrator’s Notes
Phil Grant, Pastoral Administrator and Safe Environment Coordinator
September 13, 2026
Reports
Our parish Finance Council met on September 1. Highlights:
- We reviewed how we closed out F26 (our fiscal year 2025-26, which ended June 30). We had several big (costly) projects, which we’ll move to our capital assets ledger. We financed those big projects in order to get them done in a timely fashion. We’ll pay for them over the next several years. Using the accounting techniques of capitalization and depreciation, we can show that we ended F26 in good shape—and strengthen our financial position over time.
- As of July 1, we’re in F27. The good news so far is that many of our school building projects have been paid for out of current income from Quantum STEAM Academy (QSA), our charter school tenant. That means we haven’t had to take on any additional financing.
- I’ll use the F26 year-end reports and our new F27 budget to prepare our annual financial report to the parish in a few weeks.
- If you’d like to know more about our Council or parish finances, let me know, or talk to any member of the Council. (By the way, our Finance Council could use one or two more members. It involves about two hours a month.)
Our Facilities Committee also met on September 1:
- Thanks to many people, we’ve accomplished a great deal of work in our school building over the past three months. (I listed details in a recent bulletin.) It’s a win-win situation, in that our building has been improved—and the QSA students have a better learning environment. There’s always more to be done, but now that QSA has resumed classes, we will proceed at a slower pace.
- We’ll now turn more attention to projects in the church and Parish Center buildings. Some of them are featured in our “case statement” for our Lord, Renew Your Church (LRYC) capital campaign.
- LRYC continues for a few more months. Parish volunteers have been contacting more people each week. Ultimately, we expect everyone in our database of contributors will be contacted at some point. However you decide to participate—through prayer, volunteering, and/or contributing—thank you for your support!
Have a great week!
Phil Grant, Administrator
Safe Environment Coordinator
pgrant@st-matts.org
651-224-9793
