The Acts of Convention

House of Deputies

Original Text of Resolution:

(A153)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring,

1. That the Program Development Budget of the Episcopal Church for the year 1983, attached to this resolution, is adopted in the total amount of $20,883,000; and for the years 1984 and 1985, the total amount shall be determined by:

Estimated apportionment Income based on the Formula stated in Paragraph 1.1 and

Estimated Other Income, using each prior year's experience as a guide.

The apportionment to dioceses for the year 1983 shall be $17,404,000 and for the years 1984 and 1985 shall be arrived at by applying the fixed percentage against the then known Net Disposable Budget Income (NDBI) as stated in Paragraph 1.1.

1.1 The quota apportioned to each diocese shall be a fixed percentage of the NDBI of that diocese, as such income is defined in Paragraph 1.2 of this resolution, rounding out the results to the next highest thousand dollars, for each year as follows:

For the 1983 Program Development Budget of the Episcopal Church at 3.97% of the 1980 NDBI.

For the 1984 Program Development Budget of the Episcopal Church at 3.84% of the 1981 NDBI.

For the 1985 Program Development Budget of the Episcopal Church at a fixed percentage not to exceed the percentage used for the previous year, such percentage to be applied to the 1982 NDBI. (Inasmuch as the 1982 NDBI will not be known until September 1983, to estimate what this will be at General Convention time is not practical).

1.2 The NDBI of the Church in a diocese shall be the sum of parish receipts for general purposes (Items 1751, 1752, 1753, 1755, and 1756 of the Parochial Report) and diocesan endowment and other income for budgetary purposes (A-2 and A04 of the Diocesan Report). The income (NDBI) reported for the year 1980 shall be the basis for the apportionment for the year 1983; that reported for 1981 for the 1984 apportionment; and that reported for 1982 for the 1985 apportionment;

2. The Executive Council, in its exercise of the authority vested in it by Title I, Canon 4, Section 6(b), shall be subject to the following restrictions:

2.1 Each year, the Executive Council, with the advice of the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget, and Finance shall adjust the Program Development Budget of the Episcopal Church to the assured income of the Council so as to carry out the budget for that year on a balanced budget basis;

2.2 Income from trust funds available for budgetary purposes shall be so applied in the year subsequent to receipt, and not in the year of receipt;

2.3 Any "lapsed balance" in an appropriation for a fiscal year may be treated as income available for budgetary purposes in the ensuing year, or for the accumulation of a reserve for emergencies, and shall be used for no other purposes;

2.4 Un-designated legacies received during the triennium shall be set aside in the General Endowment Fund, of which only the income shall be used for the general purposes of Society;

2.5 The Executive Council shall be responsible for officer and employee personnel policies, and for supervising the expenditure of funds implementing such policies;

2.6 If in any year the total anticipated income for the support of the Program Development budget of the Episcopal Church will be less than the amount required to support the budget in that year, including those Appropriations for the Joint Committees, Commissions, Boards, and Agencies of the General Convention, they shall share in any decrease necessary to maintain a balanced budget.

Title II

The General Convention Expense Budget

2. The detailed budget for the Expenses of the General Convention and its Committees, Commissions, Boards and Agencies for the period of January 1, 1983 through December 31, 1985 is adopted in the total Amount of

$3,794,541

2.1 The funding of the expense budget shall be provided by an assessment made pursuant to Title I, Canon 1, Section 8. The Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance shall divide the total to be raised by assessment into annual amounts for 1983, 1984, and 1985. Each year the Treasurer of the General Convention shall compute the assessment for each Diocese on the basis of its Net Disposable Budget Income. The assessment shall be a uniform rate of (.002571) for each year; however in the third year of the triennium such rate maybe increased by no more than 5% by action of the Executive Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget, and Finance. This rate shall be applied to the Net Disposable Budget Income of every Diocese to determine its assessment for each year. The Net Disposable Budget Income used shall be the same as that used for the apportionment of quotas to support the General Church for the same year. The Treasurer of the General Convention shall notify every Diocese of the amount of its annual assessment concurrently with the transmission of the Diocesan quota by the Executive Council.

2.2 The fiscal year for the purposes of the expenses of General Convention shall be the calendar year. The unexpended balance of any budget item remaining at the end of each year shall lapse unless it is made available for expenditure in the ensuing year by action of the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget, and Finance. Such lapsed Balance may be reallocated after consultation with the Committees, Commissions, Boards and Agencies through a challenge process.

2.3 All payments to be made under this budget shall be authorized by the Treasurer of General Convention only after the submission to him of documented vouchers or other accounting documents acceptable to the Treasurer.

2.4 The Treasurer of the General Convention is hereby authorized and directed to develop and administer a system for the control of the obligation and expenditure of the appropriations made in this budget of the General Convention. This system shall be designed in consultation with the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget, and Finance, and shall be subject to the Committee's approval. The system shall be so designed and administered that funds are expended only for purposes authorized.

2.5 Obligations and expenditures in excess of the amounts appropriated shall not be incurred without prior express approval of the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget, and Finance.

2.6 The General Board of Examining Chaplains is hereby authorized to assess a fee for the general ordination examination. All fees received by the Board shall be applied to the expenses of examination, in addition to the amount appropriated by this budget. A candidate for Holy Orders, eligible for examination and so certified by the Diocesan Bishop, shall not be disqualified for examination because the fee has not been paid.

Proposed Committee Amendment:

[Committee's Report: Newsprint The Bottom Line]

Page 1, item 2.6:

Insert the word "appropriations" in the third line between words "including those" and the words "for the joint committees"

Page 3, line 21, column 1:

1983 amount should be $15,000

Page 3, between lines 39 and 40:

Delete words "to military"

Page 4, between lines 63 and 64:

Insert title "National Mission in Church and Society"

Page 7, between lines 252 and 253:

Delete words "V.I.M., deferred giving"

Page 8, before line 266:

Delete words "V.I.M., deferred giving"

Page 13, under "Definition":

Change word "Convention" to "Church"

Mrs. Lueta Bailey, Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee, announced corrections of the Committee's Report (Newsprint: The Bottom Line.) [See above.]

The Joint Standing Commission on Programs, Budget and Finance moved the adoption of the Program Development Budget, Resolution A-153A, as amended by the Committee.

A Deputy requested the following correction:

Proposed Amendment:

That the Diocese of the Virgin Islands, listed as "Extra-Provincial" on page 18 of the Budget, be listed in Province II.

The Committee accepted the correction.

Deputy Weymouth, of Maine, moved to amend:

Proposed Amendment:

Amend page 1, section 2.6:

Add the words "approved by the General Convention" in line 3, following the words "support the budget."

The Committee agreed to the amendment.

Deputy Christie, of Newark, moved to amend:

Proposed Amendment:

Amend page 1, section 1.1:

Delete "at 3.84%" and insert: "at the percentage required of the 1981 NDBI to produce the income necessary to fund the Jubilee Ministry at $2,000,000."

Motion lost

Deputy Moody, of Pennsylvania, moved to amend:

Proposed Amendment:

Amend page 1, section 1.1:

Delete "at 3.84%" and inserting: "at 3.97%."

Motion lost

A motion was made to extend the time by 5 minutes to discuss further the matter before the House.

Motion carried

Deputy Wade, of West Virginia, moved to amend:

Proposed Amendment:

Amend page 1, section 2:

Add "2.7 The Executive Council shall give special consideration to expenditure of Jubilee Ministry funds in dioceses where missionary apportionments for the preceding year have been paid in full."

Debate followed.

Deputy Machen, of Maryland, called for the previous question.

Motion carried

Amendment failed

Education for Mission and Ministry

Deputy McConnell, of Olympia, moved to amend:

Proposed Amendment:

Amend page 2 as follows:

Whereas, on page 2 on the Proposed 1983 Program Development Budget, under "Income Projection," the apportionment from U.S. dioceses is shown as $16,649,000; and whereas under footnote (a) on page 2 the Assigned Apportionment is shown as $17,404,000, a differential of $755,000, therefore be it

Resolved, That the apportionment from U.S. Dioceses be correctly shown as $17,404,000 and the differential of $755,000 be allocated to line item 113, Jubilee Ministries.

Debate followed.

Deputy Seeks, of San Joaquin, moved the previous question.

Motion carried

Amendment failed

Deputy Hutchinson, of Dallas, moved to amend:

Proposed Amendment:

Amend page 3, line 22 as follows:

That the General Convention direct the Executive Council to allot the greatest amount of funding to the Triennial in 1983, rather than in decreasing amounts in the succeeding years.

Motion lost

Amendment failed

National Mission on Church and Society

Deputy Spicer, of Easton, moved to amend.

Proposed Amendment:

Strike line 124 (page 5) and allocate $ 15,000 to Hunger and $30,000 to Public Issues.

Debate followed.

Deputy Bartlett, of Kentucky, moved the previous question.

Motion carried

Amendment failed

Deputy Hardison, of Rio Grande, moved to amend.

Proposed Amendment:

Increase the Jubilee Ministry funding, line 113, by $100,000 and decrease Peace Ministries funding, line 122, by $100,000.

Debate followed.

Deputy Bartlett, of Kentucky, moved the main question.

Motion carried

Amendment failed

The following sections of the Budget were adopted without changes:

World Mission in Church and Society

Communications

Stewardship

Finance

The General Convention Expense Budget

Deputy Royce, of Long Island, moved to amend:

Proposed Amendment:

Amend page 13, line 83 as follows:

$70,000, an increase of $21,800. The increase to come from assessment.

Debate followed.

Deputy Gerdau, of Missouri, moved the previous question.

Motion carried

Amendment failed

There being no further discussion, the vote was taken on Resolution A-153A, Title I, the Program Development Budget.

Resolution unanimously adopted

The President commended Mrs. Lueta Bailey, Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget, and Finance for her outstanding leadership.

The vote was taken on Resolution A-153A, Title II, the General Convention Expense Budget.

Resolution unanimously adopted

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #107)