Vestry Actions -- December 18, 2003

At its December meeting, the vestry:

· Approved the recommendation of the Rector to call Tammy Lee to the position of Associate for Campus Ministry beginning February 1, 2004

· Received a report from the Johnson Intern Program and authorized the program to develop the documents necessary to form a North Carolina not-for-profit corporation, which could then lead to 501(c)(3) status, and that it report back to the vestry with recommendations for articles of incorporation and by-laws to address the issues of purpose, governance, and structure of the organization

· Encouraged the Social Ministry Committee to explore the IFC request that the parish house homeless men overnight for a period of two weeks this spring during renovations to the IFC shelter

· Authorized the expenditure of up to $8500 from the Cobb Fund to reprogram the sound system in the church

· Learned that Larry Logan (Chair), Clare Baum, Jim Crow, Terry Eason, Bert Liverance, Betsy Pringle, Phil Rees, Kevin Trapani, and Sandy Gerow have been named to the Chapel Committee, which will oversee the organ project and other enhancements to the chapel

· Allocated an additional $6483.62 from the 2003 budget to be divided in equal amounts for seminary support to Virginia Theological Seminary, The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, University of the South, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary

· Authorized creation of the Mills-Tolbert Memorial Fund in the amount of $334,122, with 50% (as designated by the Mills bequest) to the Outreach Endowment and 50% to the Stoudemire Chapel Fund

· Designated the available outreach tithe of $26,308 from Undesignated Gifts and Bequests in the amounts of $20,000 to the IFC HomeStart Program, $5308 to the Grape Arbor Project of St. Paul AME, and $1000 to El Centro Latino

· Designated up to $5000 from the Memorials Fund for the curb access project along Franklin Street .