How long did the diocese know the CMC was in financial trouble?
In 2008 the Catholic Multicultural Center received the report of a locally conducted feasibility study. That study reported many findings and made many recommendations. Among the findings were that the CMC was underutilized and not as vibrant as it could be, as well as that it should be a more self-sustaining facility. Recommended changes were to make the CMC a venue for meetings, trainings, education, and programs, but that the CMC not run these programs itself. Likewise, it was recommended that the CMC no longer house a food pantry and have outside agencies run any other food programs. It was recommended that it rent out space, for reasonable rates and on a sliding scale, the rooms of the CMC, as a means of income; that it run an annual community and congregational appeal. Even given these findings and recommendation of that feasibility study, the diocese changed little and continued to fund the CMC and allow it to run as it had in the past. The diocese had every intention to continu
