THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

The Board of Trustees have the responsibility to supervise and maintain all property belonging to our church.

The trustees together have several legal and administrative functions.They are to:

*oversee, maintain, and supervise all local property;

*report annually to the charge conference on the state of the church’s property, equipment, investments, and resources;

*receive and administer all gifts made to the congregation; make certain that all trust funds of the congregation are invested, properly;

*ensure that the articles of incorporation of the congregation are kept up to date, if applicable;

*be responsible, in conjunction with the pastor, for all use of the church buildings and grounds;

*maintain adequate insurance coverage on all church property and develop appropriate risk management policies;

*submit to the committee on finance the annual budget requests for insurance, property maintenance and improvement, and new property purchases;

*be accountable to the charge conference and to the church council.

Much of the work of the trustees is governed by specific requirements of The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church.