Executive Council Summary of Action-- Not Minutes
Diocesan Press Service. February 22, 1973 [73058]
February 20-22, 1973
I. PROGRAM AND BUDGET
A. By the following resolution took preliminary action on a 1974 budget for recommendation to General Convention:
RESOLVED, That the Executive Council does adopt preliminarily a General Church Program with budget for 1974 of $13,779,300 as follows:
Education $ 225,000
Evangelism 70,000
Communication 350,000
Grant Program 1,174,000 GCSP Hispanic Work Indian Work APSO
Lay Ministry 60,000
Specialized Ministry 50,000
Stewardship (Development) 69,800
Overseas Base Support and support 4,750,000 of Missionary Appointees
Ecumenical Relations 225,000
U. S. Jurisdictions 1,100,000
Indian Work $ 200,000
Hispanic Work 200,000
Young Generation 350,000
Armed Forces 150,000
Black Colleges 850,000
Experimentation 20,000
Public Affairs 30,000
Social Welfare 70,000
Executive Council Staff 1,900,000
General Convention Committees 131,000 and Commissions
Operation of "815" 851,000
Executive Council Meetings 115,000
Missionary Pensions 376,000
Church Army 7,500
Church Periodical Club 5,000
Union of Black Episcopalians 150,000
Board of Theological Education 300,000
TOTAL $13,779,300
and be it further
RESOLVED, That in adoption of this budget the Executive Council:
1. Approves in principle the model of the Program Group on Empowerment for a Grant Coordinating Committee to administer "non constituency" grants.
2. Agrees there is need for accountability to the Executive Council of agencies receiving program funds from the General Church Program and notes efforts of the Joint Commission on the Structure of the Church to deal with this concern.
3. Requests the Management Team to propose at the May meeting (with lay consultation) a program of lay ministry.
4. Directs that funds for a continuing program of diocesan visits not be eliminated from the budget for 1974.
5. Designates the following breakdown of funds pro- posed in the budget for grant programs:
GCSP $ 650,000 Hispanic 120,000 Indian 120,000 APSO 95,000 Support 189,000 $ 1,174,000
6. Directs that proposals for $1,000,000 in program priorities be submitted at the May meeting for inclusion in the 1974 budget should additional funds become avail- able.
B. Directed the Joint Sub-Committee of Development and Finance, augmented by committee chairmen, to bring a program and budget proposal to the May meeting for final adoption.
C. Requested the Trust Fund Committee to investigate and report on the feasibility of increasing the yield of Trust Funds used for budgetary purposes to at least 67./year and resolved that, for the years 1974-1976 such income should be used only in the year following the year in which it is earned.
D. Decided that notice of diocesan apportionments should have attached a copy of a proposed budget and that, when requested, the Executive Council will provide an interpretive visitor.
E. Accepted the report of the result of diocesan visits prepared by the Summary Committee.
II. GENERAL CONVENTION SPECIAL PROGRAM
A. Received a report regarding the administration of the GCSP and requested members desiring further action to ask for it from the Presiding Bishop.
B. Requested the Presiding Bishop to appoint a committee to consider suggestions regarding membership on the Screening and Review Committee.
C. Accepted the resignation of Mr. Masquelette from the Screening and Review Committee, delayed election of a new Screening and Review Committee until May, extending the life of the present committee and elected the Rev. Stewart Matthews and the Rev. Stewart Wood, Jr. to vacancies on the same.
III. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
A. Elected Mrs. Carman Hunter to the Governing Board of the National Council of Churches and expressed gratitude to Mrs. Howard Bateman, whom she succeeds.
IV. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY- IN INVESTMENTS
A. Adopted the following resolutions:
1. RESOLVED, That the Executive Council authorize the Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments to support and proceed with the shareholder resolution filed with Exxon Corporation by the Department of Edu- cation and Social Concern of the Unitarian Universalist Association (Appendix A) under the framework of the Charter. (Concerning examination of the effects of proposed investment in Angola.)
2. RESOLVED, That the Executive Council authorize the Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments to support and proceed with the shareholder resolution filed with American Metal Climax, Inc. by the Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa (Appendix B) under the frame- work of the Charter. (Asking withdrawal from operations in Namibia.)
3. RESOLVED, That the Executive Council authorize the Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments to support and proceed with the shareholder resolution filed with IBM by the Project on Corporate Responsibility (Appendix C) under the framework of the Charter. (Requesting a procedure for shareholders to submit nominees for the Board of Directors.)
4. RESOLVED, That the Executive Council authorize the Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments to support and proceed with shareholder resolutions I and II filed with General Motors and Kodak by the Project on Corporate Responsibility (Appendix D) under the framework of the Charter. (Requesting the charters be amended to require annual disclosure regarding political funds and lobbying.)
5. RESOLVED, That the Executive Council authorize the Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments to support and proceed with respect to Resolutions II and III of the shareholder resolutions filed with General Electric and Exxon by Clergy and Laity Concerned, and to abstain from voting with respect to Resolution I (Appendix E) under the framework of the Charter. (Requesting disclosure of involvement in military procurement, production or research in sup- port of military action in South East Asia and urging amendment of the by-laws to establish a Committee on Economic Conversion.)
6. RESOLVED, That the Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments is authorized to request by letter that corporations in which the Society holds stock furnish information on employment practices
and policies with respect to women and minority groups such as that filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and is authorized to support shareholder resolutions requesting such disclosure.
B. Defeated the following resolutions:
1. RESOLVED, That the Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments is authorized to vote the proxies of the Society in favor of shareholder resolutions advocating:
a. location of shareholders as factor in choosing sites for annual meetings;
b. the desirability of shareholder rather than management ratification of auditors.;
c. The improvement of post annual meeting reports;
d. wider availability of transcripts of meetings;
e. the ending of the stagger system of board elections; and
f. the ending of management's automatic voting of unmarked proxies.
2. RESOLVED, That the Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments is authorized to vote the proxies of the Society in favor of shareholder resolutions essentially similar to those approved with respect to other corporations in which the Society holds voting shares of stock.
V. RELATIONS TO JURISDICTIONS, U.S.
A. Approved a statement from the National Committee on Indian Work expressing support for "the original intent of the Trail of Broken Treaties" and appropriated $15,000 to the NCIW to broaden Indian/Eskimo involvement in decisions resulting from that effort.
B. Received a report on the Trail of Broken Treaties.
C. Received a telegram from the Rev. Webster Two Hawk for the National Tribal Chairmen Association requesting careful evaluation of future funding of the American Indian Movement.
It was noted that NCIW is in the process of such evaluation and that funds sent to the Trail of Broken Treaties did not go to AIM.
VI. FINANCE
A. Received the report of the Treasurer, noting that
1. There was a lapsed balance for 1972 of $112,827.
2. There will be increase of about $300,000 in payments from dioceses in 1973.
B. Set aside the lapsed balance for 1972 for future program needs.
C. Approved funding in the amount of $100,000 for 1973 to advance action on a program in Christian Education, need for which was expressed in diocesan visits.
D. Appropriated $5,000 for St. Barnabas' Leprosarium, Lolowai, New Hebrides, for a nurses' staff house.
E. Elected a Trust Fund Committee as follows:
Mr. Frederick G. Atkinson Mr. Samuel L. Brookfield Mr. Thomas D. Cunningham, Jr. Mr. Edward B. de Selding Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry Mr. George T. Guernsey III Mr. Longstreet Hinton Mr. Douglas T. Yates
VII. RELATIONS TO JURISDICTIONS - OVERSEAS
A. Established a companion diocese relationship between San Joaquin and Western Mexico.
B. Extended the companion diocese relationship between Rhode Island and Dacca.
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS
A. Authorized the Secretary/Administrative Officer to sign certain contracts relating to the operation of the Episcopal Church Center.
B. Referred to the committee considering criteria for membership on the Screening and Review Committee the question of establishing identical criteria for member- ship on all Executive Council Committees, especially those with power to handle funds of the Society.
C. Elected the Rev. John F. Stevens Secretary to serve until the annual meeting in 1974.
D. Confirmed appointment of Ms. Betty Louise Acton and Mrs. Joseph Lockwood as Assistant Secretaries.