Key to abbreviations: AF=Administration and Finance Committee; CIM=Congregations in Ministry; INC=International Concerns; NAC=National Concerns

AF-083A: Directs that an estimate of the impact of future revenue be included with all resolutions proposed to the Executive Council that would (i) divest currently held portfolio securities, (ii) add to the “no buy” securities list or (iii) otherwise have implications for the revenue available for the DFMS budget

AF-087: Authorizes the Episcopal Church Archives Strategy Committee to proceed on the basis of its strategic plan and deliberations to begin implementing a project to relocate the Archives, communicate the project to the wider Church, and raise funds necessary to construct an archival repository for the Church 

AF-089: Consents to the Presiding Bishop's appointment of Alpha Conteh as Controller of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society

AF-090: Consents to transfer of UTO Loan Funds to be used by Episcopal Church Building Fund (ECBF) subject to certain provisions

AF-091: Directs that a Task Force be established to study and propose a concept for a comprehensive, Internet-based, gift-giving strategy hosted on the Episcopal Church's official web site

CIM-039: Commends the need for disaster planning and asks for a feasibility study concerning the need for an Office of Disaster Planning for the Episcopal Church

CIM-041: Urges General Convention to continue Task Force to Study Employment Policies and Practices in the Episcopal Church; offer a just-workplace resolution to 2009 General Convention; asks Church Pension Group to conduct survey of lay employees; asks Office of Ministry Development to study whether pension benefits for lay employees should be made compulsory and be administered by a single provider; commends statement on Workplace Values and Church Pension Group's Guide to Human Resources Practices for Lay Employees

CIM-042: Continue the work of the Task Force on Employment Policies and Practices through this triennium

INC-049: Admits the Diocese of Venezuela to The Episcopal Church and recognizes it as a diocese in union with General Convention

INC-053: Request that A&F include $200,000 for the Centennial Endowment Fund of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP) in next triennium's draft budget and form a task force to raise funds

INC 056: Expresses alarm at a suggested change in federal policy that would lower the threshold for the President to authorize the use of nuclear weapons from “threat of imminent attack” to “‘demonstrate U.S. intent and capability to use nuclear weapons to deter adversary use of weapons of mass destruction'”

INC-057: Expresses gratitude to the Rev. Anthony Guillen for his service as an elected member of Executive Council, and offers prayers as he begins as Missioner for Latino/Hispanic Ministries

INC-058: Expresses gratitude to Dennis Sullivan and Linda Curtiss of the Church Pension Group for work in obtaining pensions and medical benefits for clergy and lay employees in Latin America and the Caribbean

NAC 034: Commends the report of the Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments on corporate engagement and positive investment and its recommendations

NAC 035: Approves shareholder resolutions regarding Environmental Justice and Genetically-Modified Organisms (including seeds, crops, food and other products)

NAC-036: Urges General Convention to declare unequivocally that the institution of slavery was and is a sin and urges the Episcopal Church to acknowledge its history and the injury which the institution of slavery and its aftermath have inflicted on society and on the Church

NAC-037: Commends Episcopal Church's response to hurricane relief and calls on Episcopalians to urge governmental policies that will support evacuees

NAC-038: Directs the Committee on Anti-Racism to collect information on complicity of the Episcopal Church in slavery, segregation and discrimination; the economic benefits derived; and how the Church can share those benefits with African American Episcopalians

CONSENT CALENDAR

AF-084: Withdraws up to $310,000 from trust funds to enable Episcopal Church of Liberia to initiate apartment construction to generate lease revenue

AF-088: Increases reimbursement for automobile mileage from $0.405 to $0.485 per IRS regulations

ECC-005: Accepts Audited Financial Statements for fiscal 2004

ECC-006: Approves Grant Thornton as independent auditor for fiscal 2005

INC-050, -051: Appointment of new missionaries and acknowledgement of returned missionaries