Building Relationships
with People in Christ
August 13, 2018 - Finance Committee Meeting (H)
Items to be included in Session's
consent agenda -none
Items to be voted upon or needing
discussion by Session –- none
Items for information only -see below
Members present Ed Ingram,
Bill Melewski, Sandy Moore, Don Pine, Linda Schumacher, Don Young
Also
present: Pastor Ron and Paul Luce (via
speaker phone)
Members absent: Barry Holmes
Don Young opened with a prayer.
1. Financial Secretary Report
o
After today, no deposits or postings of
contributions will be made again until August 30th because Linda
Schumacher will be on vacation
o
Linda reported that she needs to order pew
envelopes because the only ones we have are in the pews and they are becoming
depleted. So, she plans to order monthly,
weekly, and special offering envelopes for 2019 at the same time. Also, we are down to one box of weekly offering
envelopes and there is a minimum order of 25 so the cost of envelopes this year
will be more than last year. Don Pine made a motion which was approved to give
Linda the authority to call and determine the best price available for what we
need. Linda will consult with Finance Committee
Moderator, Sandy Moore, if she needs assistance in deciding what to order.
3. Treasurer's Report (see July 2018 reports
in Drop Box)
o
Paul reviewed the July financial reports with
the committee
o
Just as a reminder, we used some of Ann
Wiltfang’s Memorial Fund to pay for the expense of Pastor Pat’s farewell
events. This action was approved by the
committee via email in July.
o
Property – General Maintenance – Account #54101
– is already more than $4000 over the budgeted amount. Linda Schumacher will complete an Adjusting
Entry form transfer the $4196.78 in acct. # 28612 received from Insurance for
roof repair to help defray the deficit in acct. # 54101. Property Committee will need to either
request transfer of funds from one of their other accounts or request memorial
funds to cover the rest of this deficit and to have available funds for any
other general maintenance that may come up in the remainder of this year.
o
Committee agreed to send $2500.00 to Presbytery
to pay a portion of BRPC’s per capita to Heartland Presbytery. The Committee also discussed the need to
continue to strongly encourage everyone to pay their per capita. Sandy will put a reminder in the newsletter
incorporating some of the ideas expressed by the committee…including suggesting
that people pay the per capita for someone who is unable to do so since
realistically we know that not everyone on our rolls will and can pay their per
capita.
4. Joy Scholarship
o
Christopher Gilbert & Yvonne Atikem were awarded
$1000. each for the fall term.
6. Capitol Campaign for New Roof
o
Estimate for entire new roof is $55,000.00. With inflation, it might be $60,000.00 by
the time we get it finished
o
Temporary repairs are projected to last for 3
years so the goal would be to raise funds for new roof in that time period.
o
We will combine this campaign with the regular
stewardship campaign just like we did with the AV.
7. Stewardship Campaign
o
Stewardship Sunday will be November 4, 2018
o
We’ll discuss theme and other promotional
“activities” at next month’s meeting.
There was some preliminary discussion of tying the entire Stewardship
Theme with the need for a new roof.
7. Endowment Fund - Don Young asked for ideas to promote the Endowment Fund at the same time
as our monthly birthday celebration during worship. It was decided to have a slide on the screen
in the sanctuary on that Sunday each month reminding everyone to consider
donating to the endowment fund on their birthday. Don will ask some of the slide team to create
such a slide.
Next meeting 1:30p.m on September 7, 2018
Pastor Ron ended our
meeting with a prayer.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Schumacher