Agenda Volume 3 - Methodist Conference

57. The Fruitful Field Project
causing undue complexity, unclear
understandings of responsibility and
accountability, or unproductive levels
of bureaucracy.
Implementation
255 The Committee recommends a
transitional as well as a long-term
role for the new governance structure.
The governance structure has
the potential to be a mechanism
which can oversee in some detail
much of the wider transitional
work which will be required to
establish the Discipleship and
Ministries Learning Network, to
codify its structures, policies and
procedures, to configure its financial
resources, and to implement with
care the recommendations made
in section J. For this reason, the
Committee recommends that the
Methodist Council should oversee
the establishment of the governance
structure during 2012/2013
and make a report to the 2013
Conference.
256 The Committee therefore further
recommends that the governance
structure should, at the earliest
opportunity at which the Methodist
Council judges it to be appropriate,
become the governing body for
the following centres, institutions
and colleges: Cliff College, the Guy
Chester Centre (the North Bank
Estate), the Methodist Diaconal Order
Centre, MIC and the Southlands
Methodist Trust. The Committee also
recommends that the governance
structure should, if the Methodist
Council judges it to be necessary or
desirable, adopt the Council’s existing
responsibilities for the following
institutions, colleges and centres:
Hartley Victoria College, the York
Institute for Community Theology
and the Wesley Study Centre. The
Committee also recommends that
the governance structure should, at
the earliest opportunity, consult with
the trustees of Wesley House about
the future of the Trust, assisting the
trustees with their responsibilities
during a period of transition as
necessary or appropriate.
257 The Committee also recommends
that, following further detailed
negotiations with the governors
of the Queen’s Foundation and
relevant parties within the Church
of England, an appropriate scheme
for the governance structure to
share robustly and consistently in
the holistic oversight of the Queen’s
Foundation should be prepared and
implemented.
258 The Committee will, at the earliest
opportunity, consult with the chairs
of the Methodist Training Forums of
the Regional Training Networks (see
paragraph 68 above) and will seek to
present a joint paper from the chairs
and the Committee for consideration
by the Methodist Council’s “larger
than Circuit” working party about the
Forums’ role as spaces for regional
conferring.
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