Glebe Administration Board and the Diocesan Mission

23. Mr Garry Allen asked -

1. Who is the Glebe Administration Board accountable to?
2. How is it accountable?
3. What does the Glebe Administration Board see as its purpose/vision/mission statement and how does its purpose/vision/ mission statement align with that of the diocesan mission?

To which the President replied –

I am advised the answers are as follows –

1. The Glebe Administration Board is accountable to the Standing Committee.
2. Clause 9 of the Glebe Administration Board ordinance requires the Board to “report to the Standing Committee from time to time” and to “table at each meeting of the Standing Committee a copy of the minutes of all meetings of the Board held since the last meeting of Standing Committee”. In practice the Chief Executive Officer of Sydney Diocesan Secretariat reports monthly in writing to Standing Committee.
   
   The Glebe Administration Board’s accounts are published in the Standing Committee’s report to Synod each year. The 2004 report and accounts appear at page 207 of the Annual Report of the Standing Committee 2005.
3. The purpose of the Board is to act as trustee of property vested in it in such a way as to -
   1. preserve the real value of that property; and
   2. provide a reasonable income therefrom.
      Every second year (2005 is one such year) the Board fully reassesses its operations and updates its Business Plan for the next five years. The Board assesses what, if any, new or varied needs have arisen in the Diocese and then determines how it can meet those needs. In this way the Board expresses its response to the mission of the Diocese, in the context of its charter. When launched, the Diocesan Mission strongly confirmed the appropriateness of the Board’s primary focus on protection of the assets, growth in net assets and growth in income.