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The proposed four-year budget for The United Methodist Church represents the largest funding reduction in the denomination’s history. Read more about the proposed budget here.
The Great Plains Annual Conference approved a 2021 budget via written ballot in the fall of 2020. The conference conducted listening sessions via Zoom on five evenings in September to provide a venue for people to learn about the budget process and to ask questions. The Connecting Council approved a recommendation for approving the budget as proposed originally, but with a 2% cost-of-living pay increase for conference staff. Some staff members received small increases in 2020. District superintendents and directors did not. The process to approve the budget included: The proposed budget and process information went out to voting members of the annual conference Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Following that release, voting members of annual conference had until Oct. 23 to submit proposed amendments. Any amendments were addressed in a first round of balloting. If no amendments were received, members of the annual conference were to receive a ballot asking whether they would approve or not approve of the budget. Pursuant to the rules of the annual conference, approval of the budget by ballot requires a two-thirds affirmative majority of the total votes cast.