Full Legislative History
Resolution Number: 2009-A061
Title: Create and Charge a Strategic Planning Committee
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Substituted
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 76th General Convention direct the Executive Council to create a Committee of Strategic Planning to guide the Executive Council and the Church Center in their capacities as leaders of The Episcopal Church; and be it further

Resolved, That the Committee on Strategic Planning be charged with using the best appropriate planning methods available to develop a ten-year plan, updated annually, that identifies and tracks the missional, financial, societal, cultural and other challenges and opportunities facing The Episcopal Church; considers alternative paths of action; recommends a path; defines measurable indicators of success of the selected direction and a specific timeline; details resources needed and proposes how those resources will be gathered; and be it further

Resolved, That the Committee on Strategic Planning report annually to the Executive Council except in years when General Convention meets, during which year it reports to General Convention; and be it further

Resolved, That the plan receive a revision every year and a major revision every three years in anticipation of the triennial priorities and budget process that is finalized at General Convention; and be it further

Resolved, That the Committee on Strategic Planning consist of fourteen persons with voice and vote: the Presiding Officers; three bishops, three ordained priests or deacons and six lay persons all jointly appointed by the Presiding Officers, at least three and no more than six of whom will be members of Executive Council; and be it further

Resolved, That the Presiding Bishop appoint two or three senior members of Church Center staff one of whom shall be from the Mission Funding office to serve on the Committee on Strategic Planning with voice, but no vote; and be it further

Resolved, That the work of the Committee on Strategic Planning be guided and supported by an external consultant working with senior Church Center staff; and be it further

Resolved, That minutes of the meetings of the Committee on Strategic Planning be distributed to the Presiding Officers and staff of the Church Center to one level below Center Directors; and be it further

Resolved, That the Budgetary Funding Task Force continue for the next Triennium to complete their interviews and research regarding diocesan support to The Episcopal Church; and be it further

Resolved, That the Church Center Staff, Executive Council and the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance shall use the strategic plan as a tool in the preparation of the triennial draft budget of The Episcopal Church; and be it further

Resolved, That the General Convention request the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance to consider a budget allocation of $300,000 (including funding for the Budgetary Funding Task Force) for the implementation of this resolution.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Anaheim, 2009 (New York: General Convention, 2009), pp. 678-679.