Vestry Actions - January 15 and 28, 2004

At its regular January meeting, the vestry:

• Discussed and approved the 2004 operating budget, including $60,000 in fund transfers to balance the budget, as recommended by the Finance Committee

• Met with Lisa Fischbeck and Joan Siefert Rose of the Episcopal Church of the Advocate, learning that the congregation has recently doubled in size and receiving a report on the anticipated budget for ECOTA for the next few years

• Authorized up to $10,000 for a six-month pilot evangelism program in print and audio media, this project to be funded from Undesignated Bequests and Gifts

• Received an initial report on stewardship of time in the parish

• Accepted the Inter-Faith Council proposal to provide temporary housing for the homeless during IFC renovations.

At a called meeting on January 28 the vestry:

• Approved the rector's call of David Frazelle to the position of Associate for Parish Ministry, effective December 1, 2004

• Adopted the 2004 clergy housing allowances

• Accepted the 2004 budget as adjusted by decreasing various salary line items by a total of $1728 and by decreasing the transfer of funds in that amount from Undesignated Bequests and Gifts

• Set Sunday, February 22, as the date of the annual meeting of the parish.