Senior Member
The first year of the Come, Follow Me curriculum orders, the church sent us a certain number of the "Individuals and Families" manuals, based upon our attendance numbers in our quarterly report. Some ward members and leaders asked me to order another box of those manuals, so they could be distributed to the less-active families who rarely (or never) attended. So I did, and that box remained unopened and unused all year.davesudweeks wrote: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).drepouille wrote:Even so, why would the Primary budget pay for baptismal clothing? Is there a more appropriate budget category?
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.
Yesterday, I asked the ward council if they thought I should order new scriptures for the Resource Center (library), since our dwindling stock is looking a little ragged. Just now, I remembered that due to COVID restrictions, we are not allowed to hand out "loaners" from the library. We can hand out manuals and magazines to members, but they are not to be returned to the library for re-use. Since we had to "hide" all the hymnals due to that policy, I suppose that is also true for scriptures.
Dana Repouille, Plattsmouth, Nebraska