The Acts of Convention

Resolved, That the General Church Program Budget, and That the General Convention Expense Budget, both for Triennium 1980-1982, be approved and adopted as follows:

Title I

1. Resolved: That the budget for the General Church Program for the year 1980 as attached to this resolution (pages 4-14) is adopted in the total amount of $15,848,185; and be it further

Resolved: That for the years 1981 and 1982 the total amount of the budget 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 1980 shall be $14,360,000 and for the years 1981 and 1982 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 percentage of the Net Disposable Budget Income of that Diocese, as such income is defined in Paragraph 1.2 of this resolution for each year as follows:

In 1980 each Diocese percentage rate shall be increased by thirty-one one hundredths of one percent (.0031) of the 1979 rate rounding out the results to the next highest thousand dollars, provided that the resulting percent does not exceed. 044 or fall below. 0371%.

In 1981 at a fixed percentage of. 043 of the 1978 NDBI.

In 1982 at a fixed percentage of no more than. 040 of the 1979 NDBI.

1.2 The Net Disposable Budget Income 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 A-4 of the Diocesan Report). The Income (NDBI) reported for the year 1977 shall be the basis for the apportionment for the year 1980; that reported for 1978 for the 1981 apportionment; and that reported for 1979 for the 1982 apportionment; and be it further

2. Resolved: That 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 General Church Program Budget to the assured income of the Council so as to carry out the Program for that year on a balanced budget basis;

2.2 Income for 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 Undesignated 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 the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of The Protestant Episcopal Church in U.S.A.

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 General Church Program will be less than the amount required to support the Program approved by the General Convention, appropriations included in the Program for that year for the Joint Committees, Commissions, Boards and Agencies of the General Convention shall share in any decreases necessary to maintain a balanced budget.

Title II

2. The detailed budget for the Expenses of General Convention and its Committees, Commissions, Boards and Agencies for the period January 1, 1980 through December 31, 1982, is adopted in the total amount of

2.1 The funding of this expense budget shall be provided by an assessment made pursuant to Title 1, 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 1980, 1981, and 1982. 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 at a uniform rate of (.002571) for each year. 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 to compute Diocesan assessments in each year shall be the same as that used for the apportionment of quotas to support the General Church Program for the same year. The Treasurer of 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 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 the purposes authorized.

2.5 Obligations and expenditures in excess of the amounts appropriated shall not be incurred without the 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. The amount of such fee, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($ 100) per candidate, shall be fixed from year to year by the Board. 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.