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The Finance Personnel
Committee is a session committee, and its chairman and vice-chairman
are to be members of the session. The
committee should have a minimum membership of 15 and may have
representatives from the session, board of deacons and at-large church
members.
The general
responsibilities of the committee are to oversee the financial affairs of
the church, develop the annual budget, promote stewardship, administer the
building and memorial funds, oversee the personnel policy for staff
persons and for developing and updating a long range plan.
At the beginning of the year the committee should evaluate the work
done toward goals set the previous year and set new goals.
The committee is to be
organized into subcommittees with the following responsibilities:
1. Budget
- Coordinate, with input from other committees, the
development of the annual budget.
- Conduct stewardship emphasis program with the help of
the Commitment Committee to support the financial and service
needs of the church.
- Raise the congregation’s awareness of benevolent
programs and obligations. Develop and inform the congregation of
opportunities for bequests and memorials.
- Promote stewardship of accumulated resources though
programs such as Wills Emphasis Sunday.
- Review the church’s financial statements and keep
the congregation informed of the financial status and needs of the
church.
- Conduct an annual audit of the church’s financial
records.
- Recommend to the Session persons to serve as
treasurer, associate treasurer and bookkeeper, whose duties are to
receive and disperse the church92s moneys. maintain financial records,
maintain pledges records and periodically notify members of the status
of their pledge. Bonding of the treasurer is to be at the pleasure of
the session.
2. Building Fund
- Administer the guidelines of the building fund as
established by the session.
- Oversee the expending of building fund money by the
building committee.
3. Memorial Fund
- Oversee the receipt and disbursement of memorial gifts
following the guidelines approved by the session.
- Coordinate with the church secretary the
acknowledgment of memorial gifts to both the donor and family of
person for which the memorial is given.
- Recommend to the session changes in the established
guideline as the committee thinks desirable
4. Personnel
- Oversee the administration of personnel policies as
adopted by the session for the church staff.
- Develop, and update as needed, job descriptions and
policies for salaries, vacation, leave and other benefits for the
church staff and submit to the session for approval.
- Periodically evaluate the performance of the church
staff and make recommendations to the session of any personnel changes
thought desirable.
- Coordinate with the pastor the recruitment of staff
personnel as may be required, and recommend employment of such people
to the session.
- Make recommendations to the Budget Subcommittee
changes in salaries for church staff personnel for use in preparing
the annual budget.
5. Long Range Planning
- Develop with the various committees for session
approval a Long Range Plan for the mission and ministry of the church.
- Review and update the Long Range Plan periodically.
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