Budgets for Youth Activities divided "equitably"

Could you help clarify the new changes that budgets for youth activities must be divided "equitably" between the number of boys and girls? Are they referring to the quarterly budget allowance or the annual budget that we budget for each organization? I see in the quarterly budget allowance that there is an "amount per attendee" for each YM and YW and already see that it is equal between both organizations.

Or are they referring to the annual budget that we budget for example $300 for YM and $300 for YW whereas in the past this wasn't always budgeted equally? Have others allotted a set annual amount per youth? For example, if we say each youth will be allotted $50/year and there are 10 YM we should budget $500 and for 5 YW we should budget $250? Or another example is if we allocate $100 for each YM and YW camping activity, does that mean we allocate less for the YW if there are less members?

The budget allowance is based on the numbers reported in the quarterly report. That's not the issue as the amount received by the ward is based on factual information and is "gender blind". All the money received goes to the ward's budget where it get's divided up into the various categories.

At question is how much is the ward budget for each group. It's described to some extent (two sentences) in the Official Communication Library, which I think is limited to those with access to Handbook 1. Yes, the budget should take into consideration the number of members. While not stated explicitly, it seems to favor "number of members" and not "attendance".

I'd imagine the biggest area of impact is going to be the annual camp/grand activity.

Amount should be equal per youth. Our Ward is doing $40 per youth.

brown67 wrote:Amount should be equal per youth. Our Ward is doing $40 per youth.

So if you have 10 YM and 6 YW you would budget annually $400 for YM and $240 annually for YW? It’s hard to define youths if you are counting active/inactive or just total youths in the attendance roll. Is this correct how you are doing it for your annual organization budget allocations?

Your ward receives a certain amount of budget funds each quarter, depending on the number of active YM and YW in the previous quarterly report. Perhaps you should use the amounts shown on your last four budget allocations?

Please note that the stake withholds a certain percentage of each budget allocation.