Executive Council Summary of Action
Diocesan Press Service. May 2, 1973 [73121]
May 1-3, 1973
I. PROGRAM AND BUDGET
A. Revised and adopted a 1974 Program and propose to the 64th General Convention as follows:
FEBRUARY PROPOSAL
Education $ 225,000
Evangelism 70,000
Communication 350,000
For Racial and Ethnic Minority 1,479,000
Ministry with Black Episcopalians 131,000
Appalachian Peoples Service Organization 95,000
Lay Ministry 60,000
Specialized Ministry (Aged, Deaf, Blind, etc.) 50,000
Development/Stewardship 69,800
Overseas Base Support Missionary Appointees 4,750,000
Ecumenical Relations 225,000
U.S. Jurisdictions 1,100,000
Young Generation 350,000
Episcopalian Armed Forces 150,000
Black Colleges (Formerly A.C.I.) 850,000
Experimentation 20,000
Public Affairs Social Welfare 100,000
Executive Council Staff 1,931,500
General Convention Agencies 443,500
Supportive Cost (Oper."815") 838,500
Executive Council Meetings 115,000
Missionary Pensions 376,000
$13,779,300
REVISED COUNCIL PROPOSAL
Education $200,000
Evangelism 60,000
Communication 350,000
For Racial and Ethnic Minority 1,386,000
Ministry with Black Episcopalians 131,000
Appalachian Peoples Service Organization 95,000
Lay Ministry 60,000
Specialized Ministry (Aged, Deaf, Blind, etc.) 50,000
Development/Stewardship 69,800
Overseas Base Support Missionary Appointees 4,670,000
Ecumenical Relations 245,000
U.S. Jurisdictions 1,164,000
Young Generation 350,000
Episcopalian 50,000
Armed Forces 150,000
Black Colleges (Formerly A.C.I.) 850,000
Experimentation Public Affairs Social Welfare 165,000
Executive Council Staff General Convention Agencies 443,500
Supportive Cost (Oper."815")928,500
Executive Council Meetings 115,000
Missionary Pensions 376,000
Total $13,793,300
1. The revisions were as follows:
a. Education reduced $25,000 with the understanding that money will be available from the Constable Fund to make up the difference.
b. Evangelism decreased $10,000. This new program is as yet undefined.
c. Reduction of work with racial and ethnic minorities by $93,000 in various items.
d. Reduction of the Overseas total by $100,000 (none of which will come from diocesan base budget support) and addition of $20,000 for overseas scholarship commitments.
e. Ecumenical increased by $20,000 by shifting support of the Joint Strategy and Action Committee to this item (from Experimentation).
f. Support of U.S. Jurisdictions (Coalition 14) increased by $64,000.
g. Fifty thousand dollars to keep open options for the Episcopalian.
h. Public Affairs and Social Welfare increased by: (1) $55,000 to permit research and development, particularly in innovative parish ministries and implementation of the Bonner Amendment and (2) $10,000 for the Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments.
I. Reduction of staff costs by $47,000, eliminating a second assistant for the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces and transferring cost of two staff persons to the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief.
j. Increasing supportive costs by $100,000 for contingencies incident to establishing the administration of a new Presiding Bishop and reduction of $10,000 by eliminating a reserve for salary adjustments.
B. Voted to recommend budget totals of $14,100,000 for 1975 and $14,400,000 for 1976.
C. Voted to recommend a formula which would place all diocesan apportionments at between 37 and 67. of disposable parish income and set apportionment totals as follows:
1. For 1974 - $11,500,000
2. For 1975 - $11,800,000
3. For 1976 - $12,100,000
D. Requested the Development and Finance Committees jointly to prepare, for consideration in September, alternative procedures for parishes, dioceses and the national church by which they may be helped to increase income and directed that, if such increase is forthcoming, overseas work, particularly diocesan development be a high priority for its use.
E. Received without action a list of additional budget priorities requested from the Management Team.
II. SCREENING AND REVIEW
A. Received the report of a Committee to Consider Membership on the Screening and Review Committee and discharged the Committee with thanks.
B. Took the following actions on suggested revisions of the Charter of the Screening and Review Committee:
1. Declined to change the composition of the Committee.
2. Declined to specify information to be included in biographies of nominees for the Committee.
3. Set a quorum for conducting business of the Committee and prohibited mail, telegram or telephone votes.
4. Requested a statement, by September, 1973 of criteria and procedures for grants to coalitions.
5. Tabled a set of specific financial disclosures to be required with grant proposals.
6. Declined to direct submission for approval in September, 1973 setting forth priorities in funding.
C. Directed that the Committee report in September regarding the matter of policy in funding profit and not for profit corporations.
D. Requested the President to appoint a committee of Council to investigate facts of a disputed grant to the Centro Joaquin Murieta de Aztlan, Inc. of Los Angeles, California.
E. Declined to fund two proposals recommended by the Screening and Review Committee and opposed by the diocese:
1. Black Youth Forum of Durham, North Carolina.
2. Minority Services, Inc. of Gainesville, Florida.
F. Elected the following Screening and Review Committee to serve until the Annual Meeting in 1974:
Iris Zavala
Quince Duncan
Howard Spencer
Kwame McDonald
Byron Rushing
Della Warrior
Paul Schultz
The Rev. Jesse Anderson, Jr.
The Ven. Irving H. Mayson
Mr. Guernsey
Mrs. Bailey
Canon Wood
Dean Robinson
III. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN INVESTMENTS
A. Approved filing disclosure resolutions with General Electric, IBM, Caterpillar Co., Gillette.
B. Approved filing a shareholder resolution with Phillips Petroleum Company (or other companies operating in Namibia) similar to those submitted this year (moving that operations be discontinued).
C. Approved filing shareholder resolutions with General Motors, IBM, General Electric, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Kodak or any other company operating in South Africa or Namibia requiring:
1. A South African Review Committee
2. Following of non-exploitive, non-discriminatory employment practices.
D. Approved filing a shareholder resolution with American Metal Climax, Inc. regarding ecological damage.
E. Adopted the program recommendations of the Committee for 1973-74, as follows:
1. Continued participation in the Inter-Faith Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments.
2. Support for research on social responsibility of corporations.
3. Sponsor educational programs within the Church on social responsibility in investments, and on specific issue areas. Join with others in general educational programs aimed at institutional investors.
4. Continued development of Guidelines for Developing Social Criteria for Areas of Special Concern.
5. Support for development of new models for investment.
6. Develop avenues for disseminating public interest proxy information.
7. Support for efforts to broaden the disclosure and reform the proxy requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
8. Continue activities related to ecological concerns.
9. Support the Diocese of Puerto Rico regarding proposed copper mining in Puerto Rico.
10. Continue activities related to Southern Africa including withdrawal, disclosure, and positive employment practices.
11. Continue to explore, examine and assist, and/or cooperate with others, especially local groups, in examining the record of corporate practices as they affect minority group persons, military contracting, consumer protection, and ecology.
F. Authorized litigation in case the Securities and Exchange Commission does not require any specific resolution submitted by the Committee to be included in a company proxy statement.
G. Confirmed nominees of the President to the Committee as follows:
The Hon. William Booth
The Rev. Edgar Lockwood
Mr. Philip Masquelette
Ms. Virginia Ressiger
Mr. Jack Wheeler
IV. WORLD RELIEF AND INTERCHURCH AID
A. Approved a charter for the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief.
B. Received a report of the Committee on World Relief and Interchurch Aid.
C. Confirmed appointment by the President of the Committee on the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief as follows:
The Rev. A. Theodore Eastman
Mr. George Guernsey
The Rt. Rev. Willis R. Henton
Mrs. Howard Hoover
The Rev. Gerald N. McAllister
The Very Rev. Dillard Robinson
Mr. Curtis Roosevelt
The Rev. Albert Sears
The Rt. Rev. Furman C. Stough
Mr. John Ulinski, Jr.
Mr. Fernando Venter
Mrs. Robert M. Webb
Mrs. J. Wilmette Wilson
A Youth Representative (to be appointed)
V. NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON INDIAN WORK
A. Endorsed a statement of the NCIW calling on the government to negotiate peacefully at Wounded Knee, requesting that the statement go both to the President and Vice President.
B. Suggested telegrams from members to governors, representatives, senators, to the same end.
VI. LAY MINISTRIES
A. Directed that one staff member assigned to education, evangelism and lay ministries be a woman with specific responsibility to the special committee attentive to concerns of women.
B. Approved guidelines for a Program Group on Lay Ministries that directs:
1. That it have more lay persons from the Executive Council than persons in orders.
2. Formation of a special committee attentive to the needs of women.
3. Cooperative work between future Program Groups on Education, Evangelism and Lay Ministries.
C. Received a report on proposed programs for 1974.
VII. COMMUNICATION
A. Adopted a resolution urging use of the professional services of the Seabury Press by church agencies.
VIII. EDUCATION
A. Appropriated $20,000 to write and edit findings of Project Test Pattern.
IX. PUBLIC ISSUES AND ACTION
A. Tabled then referred to the Program Group on Public Issues and Action and the Advisory Council of the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces resolutions on amnesty.
B. Adopted a resolution urging hearings and action by Congress on the "National Catastrophic Disaster Insurance Act of 1973."
C. Adopted a resolution urging legislation to prohibit strip mining where reclamation will not be effectively accomplished.
D. Adopted a resolution urging members of the Church to support efforts to eliminate corruption in public life.
X RELATIONS TO JURISDICTIONS - U.S.
A. Approved use of a new parochial report form.
B. Heard:
1. That people using cars for Church work will be able to obtain reduced rate insurance from Colonial Penn Insurance.
2. That national discounts in accommodation may soon be available through the offices of the Manager of the General Convention.
3. Opposition of the Hispanic Commission to the Radino Bill to deal with the issue of illegal aliens.
XI. RELATIONS TO JURISDICTIONS - OVERSEAS
A. Established companion diocese relations between:
1. California, Nevada and Nassau and the Bahamas.
2. Erie and Ecuador.
3. Arizona and Damaraland (extended).
B. Affirmed agreements regarding future funding for the Nippon Sei Ko Kai and the Igreja Episcopal do Brasil.
C. Adopted guidelines for the United Thank Offering Committee as recommended by the Committee.
D. Appropriated funds from the Estate of Esther H. Woodward to:
1. The Hombolo Leprosy Centre at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - $11,500.
2. The leprosy program of the Diocese of Liberia - $11,300.
3. Leprosy work in the Diocese of Malawi - $46,000.
E. Designated the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief as objective of the Church School Missionary Offering for 1974.
F. Appropriated $60,000 to the Diocese of Liberia to assist in covering the deficit of Cuttington College.
G. Requested the Program Group on Relations to Jurisdictions - Overseas to define the appropriate relationship between the Executive Council and the Overseas Review Committee or the proposed Joint Committee on Overseas Work.
H. Requested joint consideration by the Program Groups on Relations to Jurisdictions - U.S. and Jurisdictions - Overseas of active involvement of churchmen in the missionary work of the Church.
XII. EMPOWERMENT
A. Established a Staff Section on Grants to Racial and Ethnic Minorities to combine work of the GCSP, the NCIW, the NCAH and proposed new work with black churchmen.
XIII. FINANCE
A. Received the Treasurer's Report which noted that the court has ordered refund of $126,425.55 paid on city ad valorem tax under protest and referred the final decision on tax exemption to a referee.
B. Received the Price Waterhouse audit.
C. Extended eligibility for housing loans to all staff.
D. Appropriated $19,000 from undesignated faith offerings to the office of the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces.
E. Received the report of the Trust Funds Committee filed by title.
XIV. MISCELLANEOUS
A. Approved appointment by the President of a committee to advise him in formulating and implementing orderly change to the administration of a new Presiding Bishop.
B. Heard a report from the President of the Seabury Press.
C. Saw SEEDS OF RENEWAL, a film about the General Convention Youth Program.
D. Directed the Secretary to send letters -
1. Greeting the Rt. Rev. Harold Jones and wishing him speedy recovery.
2. Expressing sorrow to the families of the Rt. Rev. Albert Stuart and the Rt. Rev. William Scarlett, enclosing copies of remarks by the Presiding Bishop.