The 213th Annual Council - Diocese of Virginia

Amendments
C-1 Composition of the Council
Adopted on second reading and is now effective.
This proposal was adopted as C-4 on first reading at the 212 th Annual Council. It must be
adopted on two successive meetings of the Annual Council.
Amend Article III, Section 1 as follows:
(e) The Lay members of the Standing Committee, the Lay members of the Executive Board,
the Chancellor, the Presidents of the Regions, the President of the Episcopal Church
Women of the Diocese, five lay persons, not over 21 years of age at the time of election,
to be elected on or before May 1 as Youth Delegates by five of the Regional Councils
designated on an annual rotating basis by the Standing Committee, and two lay
persons, not over 25 years of age at the time of election and participants in an Episcopal
higher education ministry in the Diocese, to be elected by the Standing Committee on
or before May 1 as Collegiate Delegates shall be members of Council ex officio.
C-2 Composition of the Council
Referred to a special committee to be appointed by the bishop.
This proposal is submitted for first reading. In order to be effective, amendments to the
Constitution must succeed at two successive meetings of the Annual Council.
Amend Article III Section 1 (d) as follows:
(d) There shall be only one Lay Delegate from each church, to be chosen by its Vestry. But
from every church having more than three hundred confirmed communicants in good
standing reported to the Diocesan authorities in the last annual report, there shall be
an additional Lay Delegate for each three hundred confirmed communicants in good
standing, or major fraction thereof, above the first three hundred. But from every
church having at least one priest or deacon serving as an assistant, by whatever title,
whose employment has been approved by the Bishop, being either canonically resident
or duly licensed in the Diocese and being compensated for at least two-thirds time
in accordance to the Diocesan minimum compensation guidelines, there shall be an
additional Lay Delegate for each said assistant position in the parish that has been filled
for at least eight of the twelve months prior to Council. The Council, with advice of the
President, may rescind the credential of any parish’s Lay Delegate whose corresponding
assistant position is vacant for the six months prior to Council. The Council, with the
advice of the President, may grant full Lay Delegate credentials to any parishs Lay
Alternate when a prior vacant assistant position or a new assistant position is created
and becomes and remains occupied for the six months prior to Council.
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