Committee on Ministry
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/official390
- Date
- 1983 March
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Very Rev. J.R.H. Fowler
- Seconder
- Rt. Rev. C.J. Lawrence
- Prologue
- Dean Fowler reported that the Committee on Ministry has forwarded two Canons to the Handbook Task Force:
- 1) Canon X - The Society of Professional Lay Ministers
- 2) Canon XII - Continuing Education Plan
- Canon X is being edited and will be presented to General Synod. Canon XII needed revising as it was orginally written in 1967. It too is being worked on.
- Mr. Hodgkinson, Administrator of the Plan, explained the reasons for the change in the Canon and presented three proposals.
- Text of motion
- That the National Executive Council approve Proposal I and the Administration Unit be empowered to use it for a trial period of two years. CARRIED
- Notes
- Proposal I reads:
- `To establish a "bonus for use" system.
- In this system, a member requesting the use of his or her accumulated benefits would automatically be entitled to a bonus benefit which would be a percentage of the amount credited to the member. For example, let us say that the computed bonus figure for 1993 would be 33 1/3%. A member with $600 accumulated upon applying to use his or her benefits would automatically be entitled to draw up to an additional $200 (ie. 1/3 of $600) bonus. The use of a portion of accumulated credit would work on a percentage basis. For example, the same member using $300 of a $600 credit would draw $200 from his or her credit and $100 from the bonus system, leaving $400 credit for future use (plus of course, a further bonus). This proposal could be financed (using 1982 figures) from income from investments and would not affect the existing surplus. For example, in 1982 the Plan after paying special grants and administrative costs made $47,000 from investment income. In 1982 it paid out some $91,000 in member benefits. A 33 1/3% bonus system would have used up only $30,000 of the surplus income leaving $17,000 to be added to the accumulated surplus.'
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod. Constitution. Canon XII
- Continuing education - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Employees - Education (Continuing education)
- Anglican Church of Canada - Clergy - Education (Continuing education)