First Presbyterian Church of

Mount Vernon Ohio

106 North Gay Street

Mount Vernon OH 43050

740-393-1326

Office Hours: 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. M-F

BUILDING and GROUNDS COMMITTEE

 ANNUAL REPORT

BUILDING AND GROUNDS COMMITTEE

2007

Following the renovation excitement of the previous few years, 2007 was a more ordinary year consisting of a number of maintenance/upgrading projects including the following:

1.    Repairing the frozen pipes, enclosing exposed pipes, and enclosing the crawlspace under the ladies             restroom.                         

 2.    Installing a new Fellowship Hall PA system.

 3.    Repairing a kitchen refrigerator that was leaking water.

 4.    “Relighting” the cross hanging from the front Sanctuary ceiling.

 5.    Repairing plaster and repainting the back inside stairway wall.

 6.    Installing automatic closers on the restroom doors.

7.   Repairing a stand alone, full length mirror in the Knox Meeting room to be utilized by bridal parties when dressing.

 8.    Painting outside windows on the Education wing and passageway.

 9.    Power washing and painting selected outside white doors and the garage door/trim.

10.   Resealing and restriping the rear parking areas.

11.   Replacing the kitchen window air conditioner.

12.   Installing a new “parking” sign post at the Chestnut St./Alley corner.

13.   Preparing new “handicap” parking and “visitor only” parking signs for use in front of the Church   building.

14.   Tuck pointing of the Sanctuary/Fellowship Hall/Passageway brick walls along Gay Street.

15.   Initiating repair of Sanctuary roof flashing and a broken sanctuary painted glass window.

16.   Initiating the implementation of a new outside door locking mechanism.

17.  Repairing lights in both  Jonathan’s and Holly’s offices and replacing with more energy efficient,   brighter types.

18.   Planting, mulching, weeding, trimming trees/shrubs, raking leaves, and numerous small repair jobs  throughout the year.

19.  Preparing a list of Memorial Gift ideas to be incorporated into our 200^th Anniversary  celebration next year.

 

Thank you one and all for your help and continued support for the care of God’s house. Special thanks to those who make the effort to turn off all lights and pull doors tightly shut when leaving the building at night.

 

Bob Meldrum, Chairperson

Before we get started on this Spring's projects, for the record, an update of happenings over the Winter months is in order.

First and foremost, the large broken Sanctuary window was replaced by Franklin Art Glass. Joe Hirsch made three "grouting/mortar" patches to keep out Winter moisture and Trent Kaufman repaired a folding table in the Education Wing. Mead Weil installed a new "drop safe" in the office, coordinated the installation of two new gas stoves in the kitchen, and installed a costly broken window replacement in our front door. 

George Stone then cleaned sticky tape residue off the front doors, which was a result of people taping signs to the outside door. Hopefully this will now cease.

Our young people under the guidance of Kyle Peters and Mike Eaton, have painted the newly designated "Youth Room" in the Education Wing. Two of our Boy Scouts, who are working toward the distinguished Eagle Scout Award, have committed to painting two Sunday School Rooms each, in the Education Wing with adult monitoring.

 Jerry Mann, Perry Trinkner, and our Pastor Jonathan have been trying to convince our city officials to properly repair and repave the Alley behind our Church building. You could assist this effort by calling/writing your city councilman to explain the very poor condition and the potential liability the city could face for a broken axle or worse yet, for broken bones caused by the uncorrected, unsafe condition. Safe street and alley roadways are a primary responsibility of city government.

Based on the remaining "Renovation pledge monies" that we still expect to receive this year, we will soon begin the renovation of the flooring from the back Alley door to the Lobby. This will cause an inconvenience for those who use that entrance/exit and we ask for your tolerance and patience with us. We want to finish that effort well before we have our 200th Anniversary celebration.

Finally, our Spring planting/mulching day is scheduled for Saturday, May 31, at 1005 AM. Hopefully we old guys will have help from the Youth groups and the men who attend the last Saturday morning prayer breakfast earlier that morning. All interested woman and men are invited to help. Many hands make for short work time !!! As usual, we expect to be done before Noon.                     

 Thanks to everyone for your continued help and support.                                          Bob Meldrum