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Resolution Number: 2015-C001
Title: Set Rates for Diocesan Funding of the Church Budget
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 78th General Convention direct the Executive Council to prepare and the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance to present a budget to the 79th General Convention in which Diocesan Commitments for funding the budget are set at a rate no higher than 15% beginning with the next triennium (2019-2021); and be it further

Resolved, That the member dioceses of this Church commit to paying the full asking, with the expectation that the minimum commitment from each diocese of this Church shall reach the asked level during the 2019-2021 triennium.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Salt Lake City, 2015 (New York: General Convention, 2015), p. 381.