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- Each February, your pastoral charge submits statistical forms to the National Office, based on statistics of the previous calendar year.
- Section #5 on these forms is the financial information about your local church. Please fill these out accurately!
- the amounts entered in Section 5, Qns. B3, B4, B5a, B5b, B6a, B6b, B7, are the amounts "spent on the operation of the pastoral charge, incl. salaries."
- this total ends up on "Line 40" of the Yearbook, usually published in September of the same year.
- please note that the Yearbook dated "2001" refers to amounts
expended in year 2000.
- also note that this amount should not include capital
expenditures
- Presbytery then sets its budget for the subsequent year - voted on
by your delegate to presbytery, usually at the October meeting.
- please note that this means that (for example) the "Line 40" amount
in the 2001 Yearbook
- is the amount spent on the operation of the pastoral charge in 2000
- forms the basis of the Presbytery budget for 2002.
- The treasurer then assesses allocations to the Pastoral Charges
based on this budget.
- Each individual Pastoral Charge is assessed a relative portion of
this budget as an "allocation to Presbytery" in proportion to it's "Line
40" when compared with the other pastoral charges.
- Sometimes a "two-year-" or "three-year-averaging" of Line 40
expenditures is used to prevent large increases in any particular
Pastoral Charge.
Is this clear as mud? If you have any questions about Presbytery
budgeting, please send e-mail to Jim
Massey or call. |
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