Alternative to funding under the Appropriations and Allocations Ordinance

26. Mr Chris Main asked –

Will you outline and cause to be published in an appropriate form the means by which funding for heartfelt items such as Anglicare chaplaincy may be promoted in the Synod outside the strictures of the Appropriation and Allocations Ordinance?

To which the President replied -

I am advised that the answer is as follows -

An alternative to funding under the Synod Appropriations and Allocations Ordinance would be the imposition of a levy or assessment on parochial units. A levy is imposed by ordinance with the amount of the levy usually determined by reference to the net or assessable receipts of each parochial unit. The means by which an ordinance may be promoted to the Synod are set out in the business rules.

A further alternative would be to move a motion at the Synod encouraging parochial units to give more generously to items such as Anglicare chaplaincies.