Building
Relationships with People in Christ
June 8, 2020- 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, Paul Luce, Bill Melewski, Sandy
Moore, Don Pine, Linda Schumacher, and Don Young. Pastor Elizabeth was also
present.
Members absent: Barry Holmes
This
meeting was held via Zoom.
Sandy
Moore opened our meeting with scripture and prayer
1. Financial Secretary Report - Nothing to
report
2. May Minutes were approved
3. Treasurer's Report (see May 2020 reports
in Drop Box) - Paul reviewed the May reports with the committee. Contributions continue to be lower than anticipated
but the overall financial picture is still all right. Outgoing payments included $500 to Presbytery
toward what we owe for per capita.
4. Status of Pledges, Per Capita, and Endowment
contributions following articles in May Newsletter – Through May, we have
received 32% of anticipated Pledge amounts. Ideally, we would have received 45% of our
anticipated pledges by now. We have
received Per Capita for 33 folks (math doesn’t come out exactly right
because several rounded the amount up). No
contributions have been received for the Endowment Fund this year.
5. Joy Scholarship – Applications have been
received from Owen Lockwood, Celeste Cummins, and Brennan Lee. Don Pine moved that each applicant be
awarded $500.00. Motion carried.
6. Cement repair to steps to Grace’s office and
Pastor Elizabeth’s stoop – the final cost is not known, yet, but it appears
it will be less than originally thought thanks to Gary Oberlander’s efforts.
7. Website expenses – Many, if not all, of the
current services we are paying for in order to have our current web site are
part of our current Shelby Next package.
Bill Melewski states that he will be investigating which services are
duplicated in Shelby and since there is no reason to be paying for two services
and our current web site is outdated, the current web site service will at some point be discontinued and a new
web site built via Shelby Next. Once he
knows which services we will still need in addition to Shelby, he will let the
Finance Committee know and we will authorize that those expenses be paid via
the BRPC credit card. (rather than Bill paying for them which we are grateful
to him for doing in the past). Bill will
be coordinating with Pastor Elizabeth on what content will be on the new web site
and will be asking for help from others in this daunting task.
8. 2021
Stewardship Campaign –Paul Luce’s church has given him permission to share
their ideas for implementing the theme they are going to use of “Reassess,
Recalculate, and Rebuild”. He will share
those ideas with us when he is in Raytown for our August meeting. We will then be free to assess and decide
whether we want to use their ideas. It
was the consensus of those present that in the meantime, we will get Pastor
Elizabeth’s thoughts on our stewardship campaign plan to see if she has
specific ideas/desires as to how that is done.
And, Linda S. has a file that she wanted to look at to see if there are
any viable ideas in it. So, this will be
a main topic at our August meeting.
9.
ZOOM expense – Pastor
Elizabeth has been charging her personal credit card for the cost for this
service we are using for online Coffee Fellowship, Session, and other Committee
Meetings Don Young moved that we
reimburse Pastor Elizabeth for the amount Pastor Elizabeth has already spent
for this and that future cost of $15.99 a month be charged to the BRPC VISA
card. Motion carried. Paul instructed that this expense be paid from
Account #54013.
10. Sam’s credit card – Paul Vance is no longer physically able to
purchase supplies for BRPC at Sam’s so his card needs to be cancelled. When he is feeling up to it, Gary will take
Paul to Sam’s to cancel his card. No
action will be taken at this time to issue a Sam’s card to another BRPC member.
Next meeting will be 1:00 PM on August
10, 2020. Location TBD.
(No meeting in July)
Opening devotional/prayer will be given by Bill Melewski.
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Respectfully Submitted,
Linda Schumacher
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