That National Executive Council adopt the 1995 Apportionment Budget as presented.
The mover and seconder agreed to include the amount within the motion and the amended motion now reads:
That National Executive Council adopt the 1995 Apportionment Budget as presented, totalling $8,193,040. CARRIED #18-11-94
Notes
A Note on the 1995 Apportionment Spending Ceiling
NEC has now approved the 1995 Apportionment Spending Ceiling of $8,193,040 as noted on document #007-20-94-11. Some might be puzzled by the fact that this figure does not correspond with the figure shown on the Administration and Finance Committee report (#006-06-94-11). That report shows total Apportionment spending at $8,664,710; or $471,670 greater. It is possible to reconcile these two figures. The Apportionment spending estimates proposed by Program Committee include the Apportionment grant to the Anglican Journal, but not the Journal's total spending. The Administration and Finance Committee document properly includes all General Synod revenue and expenditure, including the total revenue and expenditure of the Journal.
Specifically, the Program Committee document (#007) includes the 1995 grant to the Journal of $462,430. The Administration and Finance Committee document (#006) includes the Journal's total budgeted spending of $934,100. The difference, again, is $471,670.
Article reports on the discussion at the fall meeting of the Council of General Synod about funding for the Letting Down the Nets initiative, the closing of the book store and the mandate for the Anglican Journal.
Editorial thanks donors for their support of the Anglican Journal and the national church. So much is accomplished with the church's $10 million budget. Church committees meet in religious retreat centres to save church funds.
Letter to the editor wondering if the Journal should have a policy to not accept advertising from organizations like World Vision which compete with PWRDF for funds.
"In her address to the November [2022] meeting of the Council of General Synod (CoGS), Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, urged Anglicans to be gentle with one another as they face a time marked by challenges including the stress and exhaustion of keeping the church going through an ongoing pandemic and growing financial insecurity in some dioceses" (p. 1)
Speaking about "the resignation of former national Indigenous Anglican archbishop Mark Macdonald after admitting sexual misconduct — an event she said had caused much shock and sorrow, especially in the Indigenous church. 'We long for our leaders to live into the purity and righteousness of the gospel. And when in their humanity that is not always possible, it can be a great source of despair,' she said (p. 7).
"Nicholls said, it’s important not to forget that the pandemic is still ongoing, requiring both compassion for those who continue to be vulnerable to infection and for those affected by its financial and emotional stress. In particular, she said, she had been hearing a pattern of “profound exhaustion” among the bishops and clergy in many dioceses" (p. 7).
"Offering her own advice on where to find ... hope, Nicholls encouraged CoGS attendees to compare the church’s recent difficulties to the struggles of God’s people in biblical history, keeping in mind the big picture, even if solutions seem slow in coming" (p. 7). "In some places, important work has already begun, she said — for example in dioceses’ implementation of the five transformational aspirations, statements designed to guide the development of the changing church which its strategic planning group debuted at March’s [2022] CoGS meeting" (p. 7).
"There has also been progress, she said, in the creation of new policies to cement the boundaries between the roles of senior management and editorial staff in the 'Anglican Journal' — part of an effort to prevent the recurrence of incidents like the leak of information about survivors meant to be anonymous in an 'Epiphanies' article on sexual misconduct" (p. 7).
In addition church leaders have begun the process of retooling the church’s processes for handling complaints harassment or sexual misconduct by clergy. "Mandy Marshall, director for gender justice at the Anglican Communion office toured Canada ... and delivered several seminars on power and identity and trauma-informed care and response, including one on Nov. 11 [2022] to CoGS itself" (p. 7).
Archbishop Nicholls "said she attended the installation of Archbishop Anthony Poggo as the new secretary general of the Anglican Communion, after which he accepted her invitation to join the Anglican Church of Canada for General Synod next summer [2023]" (p. 7).