Budget and Finance Team /
Board of Trustees
The Budget & Finance Team carries out aspects of the Presbytery's financial processes by
- Preparing and proposing an annual budget to support the Presbytery’s mission, ministry, and administrative operations
- Proposing to the Presbytery a range of instruments and strategies to fund the operating budget
- Engaging financial professionals to conduct a full financial review of all financial books and records every year, with professional external audit at least every three years
- Presenting a financial report at each business meeting of the Presbytery
- Consulting and coordinating with the Staff Support Team concerning salary issues impacting the Presbytery budget
- Serving as the Presbytery’s Board of Trustees
- Collectively Trustees bear corporate responsibility for maintaining fiduciary trust, the legal duty to act solely in another party's interests. The Trustees act as a body to look after the financial and legal affairs of the Presbytery and its corporation with an obligation to act in a way that responsibly stewards the long-term interest of the larger church.
- The work of the Trustees involves attending to the affairs of the Presbytery corporation, oversight of special donations, financial accounts and restricted funds in accord with the Presbytery Financial Policy and managing the real property of the Presbytery and its constituent churches as necessary.
This Team is comprised of seven (7) members, four ministers and three elders or four elders and three ministers, elected to 3-year terms of service by the Presbytery upon nomination of the Committee on Representation.
Team Members / Trustees
Moderator and President of Trustees
Ruling Elder John Richardson
First Presbyterian Church of Charleston
jsrichardson@mediacombb.net
Vice-Moderator and Vice-President of Trustees
Teaching Elder Jean Wollenberg
First Presbyterian Church of Decatur
twopastors@hotmail.com
Ruling Elder Jim Anderson
First Presbyterian Church of Danville
jimlinda112996@yahoo.com
Ruling Elder John Swick
First Presbyterian Church of Mattoon
jksjs64@yahoo.com
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Corporate Secretary
Ruling Elder Dr. Rebecca Blair
Lead Presbyter for Transformation and Stated Clerk
statedclerk@gmail.com