We held our December meeting on 12/13.
This was the first meeting since Jay Martin passed away. He will be sorely missed. He was tireless in his efforts to keep the financial operations of Trinity operating smoothly.
The month-end statement was generated by Linda McGuire, who has been very supportive.
At November month-end General Fund giving is $322.4k, while expenses have been $328.6k, giving a $7.1k balance (The GF started the year at $13.3k). The Capital Fund has a balance of $35k.
In preparation for the year-end, the FC agreed to retain $10k as a 2012 stating balance in the GR, as has been past practice. The Christmas Offering and any GF surplus will be used to pay in-arrears Apportionments which will total $23.5k before end-of-year payments.
The 2012 Budget will be assembled from input due in 12/16, and will be presented to the Church Council in January. Thanks to Charlie Yund for driving this process.
The 2012 Stewardship results to date are 92 pledges received to date (13 of which were from givers who didn’t pledge in 2011). They total $210.9k to the GF and $16.6k to the CF. Forty-five givers who pledged in 2011 have yet to respond. In 2011 they pledged $93k. Results to date are encouraging, but we must complete the process to see how much we can afford to spend in 2012. This decision will be made in January.
2012 Pledge envelopes will be available for pick-up at the 12/18 Church Services. Those which are not taken will be mailed.
A schedule of counters, posters and treasurers will be issued in January.
The FC recommends to the Church Council that it accept a proposal from the SPRC to provide unemployment insurance only to those who aren’t covered elsewhere. These include the Office Manager, Office Staff, the Financial Secretary and the Bookkeeper.
After some discussion a mechanism to make sure that Contemporary Service giving is transported to the counters was tabled. It will be addressed in January.
Chris Hipp – Chair Finance Committee
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