drepouille wrote:Even so, why would the Primary budget pay for baptismal clothing? Is there a more appropriate budget category?
Years ago, we had a curriculum budget for the annual curriculum. As the clerk, I saw lots of waste by organizations who ordered extra "just in case" and then the items sat unused for years in the Material Center. I recommended to the bishop that we eliminate the curriculum line and add that amount to the organization budgets, then let them own the cost of the items from their curriculum orders. I had to parse out the amounts from the IROP into each organization each year, but it worked well as organization leaders began ordering what they needed instead of extra (since they were now responsible for the cost from their budget).
My point is NOT to fork the thread, but just to give an example where it might be appropriate for one unit to charge things against the organization where another unit may choose to not operate that way. It is the bishop's discretion. In our ward, the baptismal clothing was covered by the Bishop's administration budget that we kept for ward supplies (stamps, paper, sacrament cups, etc), baptismal clothing, hymbooks, and so forth.
