Bishop Larry Silva has picked a retired University of Hawaii planner to head the team that will execute his five-year pastoral plan.

Dr. Colleen Sathre is the new chairwoman of the Implementation Commission of the Diocesan Road Map for Pastoral Program and Facility Needs: 2008-2013.

Sathre, vice president emeritus of Planning and Policy at the University of Hawaii, is a parishioner of Sacred Heart Parish in Honolulu. She has been a member of the committee that created the “diocesan road map.”

The members of her commission will include the chairmen and chairwomen of six subcommittees — one for each point in the plan — and their co-chairmen and co-chairwomen.

The commission will also have about a half-dozen additional at-large members.

Named by the bishop as Sathre’s co-chairmen are vicar general Father Marc Alexander and diocesan director of planning Tom Papandrew.

According to Joy Bulosan, executive assistant to the vicar general, the “co-chair” assignments are actually subordinate positions, and not equal, as the prefix “co-” might imply.

The six sub-committees, and their chairmen and chairwoman, are as follows:

n   Ad Hoc Task Force for Leadership Development: chairman Capuchin Franciscan Father Michel Dalton; co-chairman Rafael Mendoza.

n   Ad Hoc Task Force for Youth and Young Adult Programs: chairman Michael Weaver; co-chairwoman Edwina Fujimoto.

n   Task Force for Faith Formation: chairwoman Jayne Mondoy; co-chairwoman Dr. Carmen Himenes.

n   Affordable Housing Task Force: chairman Msgr. Terrence Watanabe; co-chairwoman Carol Ignacio; co-chairman Jerry Rauckhorst

n   Task Force for Repair and Maintenance: chairman Vincent Vernay; co-chairwoman Peggy Leong.

n   Diocesan Land Asset Management and Acquisition Committee: chairman Thomas Papandrew

Each task force will have its own targets and objectives as defined by the pastoral plan, and additional members who will not be a part of the implementation commission.

Not yet named are the at-large members and the co-chairman of the Diocesan Land Asset Management and Acquisition Committee.