Petition Text: 20588-FA-711.1-D

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Amend ¶711:

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.

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Petition Text: 20588-FA-711.1-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference