1.e) It shall recommend to the Annual Conference an amount determined in
consultation with the Commission on Equitable Compensation to be used for
compliance with the approved schedule of equitable base compensation
for pastors (¶722.3) meeting the needs of the conference for
pastoral salary supplements in missional situations.
3. World Service and Conference Benevolences
Budget.--a) In preparing the conference benevolences budget the
council, working together with the conference Council on Ministries as
provided in ¶711.3b, shall make diligent effort...Basing its
judgment of needs upon the information secured, and in consultation with the
resident bishop, the council shall recommend....After receiving the
recommendations of the conference Council on Ministries, the The
council, in consultation with the resident bishop, shall also
recommend...Such recommendations should reflect agreement with the
conference Council on Ministries on program agency allocations as specified
below.
b) The Council on Finance and Administration and the Annual
Conference Council on Ministries shall work together to establish and follow a
procedure which shall preserve the following principles: (1) It is the
responsibility...It is likewise the responsibility of the council to study the
budget requests for any agencies or causes to be included in the conference
benevolences budget other than the conference program agencies,
including the requests of the conference Council on Ministries, and to
give...
(2) [Delete.]
(3)[Delete.]
c) [Third sentence] Administrative expenses which are directly related
to the program, mission, and benevolent causes of conference program
agencies, including the expenses of the conference Council on
Ministries, may also be included...
d)4. General Church Funds: The
council, on receiving from the treasurer of the General Council on Finance and
Administration a statement of the amounts apportioned that Annual
Conference for World Service general church funds for the
support of general agencies, councils, and commissions, shall
combine the total World Service apportionment, without reduction for
the quadrennium, and the approved conference benevolences budget
(¶711.3a). The sum of these two amounts shall be known as World Service
and Conference Benevolences. The World Service and Conference Benevolences
budget thus established shall include a statement of the percentage for World
Service and the percentage for conference benevolences. (See also
¶712.) recommend to the Annual Conference the amount of each
such apportionment which the Annual Conference will accept for apportionment to
the local churches, with the exception of the Episcopal Fund and funds for
conducting the General Conference, which shall be apportioned without
reduction, and the Annual Conference shall act to adopt or amend those
recommendations as a part of the business of its annual session. These
apportionments shall not be combined together, nor shall they be combined with
conference benevolences in the apportionments to local congregations.
General Conference Webmaster: Susan Brumbaugh
PETS Creator: John Brawn
Petition Text: 20588-FA-711.1-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference