2016 Wesleyan Discipline:District Board of Administration Duties Relating to District Officers, Committees and Auxiliaries

Duties Relating to District Officers, Committees and Auxiliaries

(12) To have the general oversight of all district officials (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1255), district departmental officers (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1275), boards, leadership teams, committees, employees, auxiliary organizations of the district; to approve their plans and to coordinate their work; and to see that the work is administered according to The Discipline and the directives of the district conference. (Cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1265-1272; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1285-1292; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1337:8; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1384; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1410.)

(13) To divide the district into zones and determine the boundaries thereof, which shall be the same for all district organizations.

(14) To incorporate the district, when so authorized by the district conference (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1180:21), as provided for in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4100-4150; to serve as the board of directors of such corporation; and to have power on its own resolution to acquire, purchase, manage, sell, exchange, mortgage, deed in trust, pledge, rent, lease, and convey any property, real, personal or mixed, as may be necessary or convenient for the purpose of the corporation, and to exercise its corporate powers in accord with the provisions of The Discipline (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4100-4150; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4500-4630; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4660; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4680; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4800-4880).

(15) To carry out, whenever the district is not incorporated, such duties, and to exercise such authority over district property and other legal affairs as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4500-4630 and 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4800-4880.

(16) To provide for the preservation and security of all district records and archives, directing the district superintendent (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1310:13; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4760), the district secretary (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1332:6-7), the secretary of the district board of ministerial development (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1387), and any others, concerning the care of the records placed in their custody.

(17) Space reserved.

(18) To adopt an annual budget of income and expense for the district; to set the salaries, allowances, and related matters for the district officials (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1303:2) and district departmental officers; to promote the raising of district funds in keeping with the plans of the district conference (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1180:16); to direct the district treasurer in the handling and disbursement of such funds (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1337:3); and to have the district treasurer bonded and to set the amount of such bond, the expense for which shall be paid by the district.

(19) To employ an auditor when so authorized by the district conference and to assign the duties (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1340); to direct an audit of the records and funds in the custody of the district treasurer, the district treasurers of the auxiliary organizations or any other treasurers of the district, whenever such is deemed necessary (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1337:7).

(21) To serve as or to establish a separate district board of evangelism and church growth as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1413-1423, taking a special interest in and responsibility for developing, supervising, and promoting an aggressive program of district evangelism and church growth, and to cooperate in such endeavor with the General Superintendent and the Executive Director of Church Multiplication and Discipleship.

(22) To serve as or to establish a separate district spiritual formation leadership team as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1440-1443; to elect a chair and such members as may be decided upon (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1443); to approve its plans and to assign such duties as desired (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1452; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1455:9).

(23) To elect or employ, when so authorized by the district conference (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1180:37), a district director of spiritual formation (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1460) and to assign duties to such a director (1463:1–9).

(24) Space reserved

(25) To approve the time and place of the district conventions of women’s ministry and Wesleyan Youth, to recommend to the district conference the enlargement of the membership of the women’s ministry convention, to approve the nominations for the district director of women’s ministry and the district president of WY or to make other nominations as desired and to ratify the election of the other district officers, and to approve the plans of the district conventions and the executive committees of women’s ministry and WY.

(26) To elect four ordained ministers and three lay members as members of the district board of review, and to elect two ordained ministers and two lay members to serve as alternates and to fill vacancies as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:5218.

(27) To request a ruling on a point of church law or an interpretation of The Discipline from the General Superintendent and to appeal the same to the Board of Review (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:2064; cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:5445:2); and to request assistance from the General Board or its Executive Board, through the General Superintendent, when deemed necessary.

(28) To remove for cause or whenever the best interests of the Church and the district so require:

(a) Any of its own members, with the exception of the district superintendent (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1307), by a two-thirds majority vote of all members, and to fill such vacancies for the unexpired term (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1206; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1265; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1272).

(b) Any departmental officer (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1275), member of a board, leadership team, committee or other agency of the district or the district officers of an auxiliary organization, by a majority vote and to fill such vacancies for the unexpired term (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1292).