Illinois Great Rivers Conference 2025 Journal-Yearbook
c) Allocation of the balance of equalization members needed shall include: i. Ten (10) additional members-at-large from each district determined by the superintendent in consultation with district leadership. The district members-at-large shall include lay Wesley Foundation Directors. Special consideration should be given to lay persons who are district officers of United Methodist Women or United Women in Faith , United Methodist Men, and United Methodist Youth. Consideration shall also be given to lay representatives of any annual conference agencies and institutions within the district. ii. Additional members, who are assigned to the larger local churches (one each), in order of decreasing size, who have paid 100% of their annual conference apportionments in the previous year. d) Lay members of the annual conference elected for the purpose of lay/ clergy equalization shall serve to the end of the quadrennium as long as the congregation continues to pay 100% of their apportionments. e) The annual conference secretary will determine if any local churches have failed to pay 100% of their apportionments in the prior year and adjust the equalization members so that all of them represent local churches that have paid 100% of their prior year apportionments. 6. Expenses shall be paid in the following manner: a) Each charge shall reimburse appropriate expenses of lay and clergy members from that charge as identified in sections 4 (a) and 4 (c)(ii) b) The annual conference sessions committee shall annually consider the reimbursement of expenses for equalization members as identified in section 4(c)(i) above and propose the appropriate budget for the same. D. Legislative Duties 1. An early matter of business for the convened Annual Conference session shall be to take action on the proposed agenda from the Annual Conference Committee on Sessions for the business of the annual conference session. 2. The proposed agenda shall be published each year in the Pre-Conference materials and Conference website. 3. To expedite voting, the Conference Secretary in consultation with the Bishop and Sessions Committee may create a Consent Calendar of resolutions, reports, or other matters before the session that may be voted on in one action without debate or amendment. This Consent Calendar shall be available to all members at least 30 days prior to the Annual Conference session through Pre-Conference materials and the Conference website. Any item may be removed from the Con- sent Calendar by action of the Annual Conference by a ¼ vote of those present and voting at Annual Conference. 4. Motions from the floor of annual conference that have implications for the proposed budget, once approved by vote of the annual conference, shall be considered as referrals to CCFA, whose comment to the annual conference shall be required prior to the final vote on the budget. 5. Any group or individual presenting an item for action by the Annual Conference that has implications for pensions and health benefits, either on a continuing basis or a one-time basis, shall submit the material two weeks prior to the normal deadline for submission to the Pre-Conference materials and Conference website. The Annual Conference Secretary shall forward the item to the Conference Board of Pensions (CBOP), which will review the resolution at a scheduled meeting and will submit a statement of impact to
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