Building Relationships
with People in Christ
December 10, 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 –- 2019 Budget, Super Bowl Sandwich Sales (see 4
below)
Items for information only – see
below
Members present: Sandy Moore, Bill Melewski, Don Pine, Linda
Schumacher, Don Young, & Ed Ingram and Paul Luce (via speaker phone)
Also present: Pastor Ron
Members absent: Barry Holmes
Pastor Ron opened with a prayer.
Bill volunteered to provide devotional/prayer for our next meeting.
1. Financial Secretary Report
o
An article detailing information about offering
envelopes for 2019, plan for special offering envelopes, and deadline for
contributions to be credited in 2018 appeared in the December newsletter. A shorter reminder will appear in weekly
email and bulletin for the next two weeks.
o Linda
will print and mail 2018 statements and prepare packets of special offering
envelopes in January.
o
And in January, she will research the new Shelby
program with the goal of presenting options and cost information to the Finance
Committee in February.
2. Treasurer's Report (see November 2018
reports in Drop Box)
o
Paul reviewed the November financial reports
with the committee. Since November ACH
of $3810.00 did not get posted until December, it is not reflected in November
as it should have been.
o
There was additional discussion of items to be
considered in preparing the 2019 budget.
Paul will send a revised budget based on the figures recommended by the
Finance Committee at this meeting
3. 2019 Budget – (see proposal in Session drop
box)
o
Discussion was held on the revised draft
provided by Paul Luce which currently would require a planned transfer of $28,052.52
to balance the budget
o
The committee discussed some possible areas that
could be reduced.
§
Those
present agreed that the Property Committee will be asked to split out the
projected cost of snow removal from the projected cost of cleaning the church.
§
The
Finance Committee recommends that the Property Committee finalize terms with
Mike Schumacher for him to take over the job of cleaning the church and to
notify the current cleaning company that we will no longer be using their
services
§
The Finance
Committee recommends that 54701-Choir Music and 54709-Guest Musicians be
reduced to $0. These expenses can be
taken from 28704-Choir Discretionary Fund, 28314-M Starcke Memorial Fund, or
28335-T Wright Memorial Fund
§
The
Finance Committee also recommends that the 54713-Pulpit Supply be reduced to
$750.00.
o
And, we reiterated that we regretfully cannot consider
giving any salary increases in 2019. We
will ask Paul to remove the percentage increase amounts from the next revision
of the 2019 budget.
4. Fund raising requests
o Super
bowl sandwich sales request received from CE – proceeds to go to 28206-Youth
Activities – orders to be taken from 1/13-1/30, 2019 on Sundays in the parlor –
pick up to be on Sunday, February 3, 2019.
Don P moved recommend approval of this request to the session – Bill
seconded – motion carried
Next meeting 6:30 p.m. on January 14, 2019
Don
Young ended our meeting with a prayer.
Respectfully submitted, Linda Schumacher
