Missouri Conference · Standing Rules 2025Adopted
Conference Budget Growth Cap (Standing Rule ¶301.20)
A structural brake on apportionment creep, built into the standing rules rather than re-fought each budget year: the conference budget may not grow faster than its churches' own spending. A model another conference could adopt to answer the perennial 'apportionments always rising' complaint.
Resolution language
For each budget year the Finance and Administration Council will present a budget to the Annual Conference that reflects this limitation: The three year average of the change in the Conference budget will not be greater than the three-year average of the increase in local church expenditures used to calculate apportionments.
ProvenanceConfirmed
Missouri AC 2025 Journal — Standing Rules ¶301.20