are: A Charge should anticipate minimum salary supplement for no longer than a five-year period; A Charge must pay Apportionments in full; A Charge must provide for the clergyperson’s housing, utilities, health insurance, pension (CRSP) and a travel/professional/continuing education budget.
Special Grants
Requests for Special Grants for salary supplement support may be submitted through the District Superintendent on the Minimum Salary Supplement Request Form. Special Grants may be approved for emergencies which the District Superintendent deems appropriate.
Council on Finance and Administration Policies and Procedures
I. General Policies & Procedures
A. All conference funds should be properly designated and remitted on forms provided by the conference treasurer. Remittances should be sent monthly to: MISSOURI ANNUAL CONFERENCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 3601 AMRON COURT COLUMBIA, MO 65202
Rev. Kendall A. Waller will serve as Director of Financial and Administrative Ministries, which includes serving as Conference Treasurer and Statistician.
B. Te fiscal year for the United Methodist Church is the calendar year. In order to coincide, the fiscal year for the Missouri Annual Conference shall be designated to be the calendar year and the conference books are to close with the end of business on the thirty-first day of December.
C. All conference boards, teams, committees and task forces shall submit financial requests to the Conference Council on Finance and Administration (CF&A), through the related office or center director. Requests shall include: (a) a missional narrative of how funds are to be used; (b) fruit that has been generated by the ministry; (c) how the ministry lives out the conference mission; and (d) explanation of how accumulated balances will be used.
D. Te conference budget is apportioned to the churches based on a percentage which is referred to as a decimal. For 2011, the decimal for each local church will be based on a single expenditure-based factor: three years’ average of the expenses reported in Columns 53 thru 62 less column 61A (Pre-school, Nursery School, Aſter School and Mothers’ Day Out programs) of Statistical Table II as published in the respective years of the Conference Journals – 2007, 2008, and 2009. No church’s apportionments shall increase or decrease more than 30%. Te Council on Finance and Administration will continue reviewing the decimal formula each year.
F-28 2010 Missouri Conference Journal
Rules & Policies
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