Committees, Commissions, and Boards: Standing Committee

The Standing Committee acts as a council of advice for the Bishop and also functions as a check and balance. Their advice and consent is needed for various appointments made by the Bishop and for the expenditure of certain trust funds.

They must approve all candidates for ordination to the diaconate and priesthood, and they vote on behalf of our Diocese in the process for approving the election of all bishops of the Episcopal Church. Their consent is needed before any church can sell or mortgage property. If any priest or deacon is charged with an offense, the Committee acts like a grand jury in deciding whether the case should be brought to trial.

Lay members of the Standing Committee must be communicants of a parish in union with the Convention. Clergy must be canonically resident in the diocese.

The Committee meets monthly, usually during the day.

Minutes
Below are the minutes from 2012 and 2011.

Archives
If you'd like to read Standing Committee minutes from prior years, choose the year that interests you:

2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004

Materials regarding real estate, a Standing Commitee concern:

• Real Estate Memorandum from the Standing Committee regarding procedures for consent regarding real estate
  
• Real Estate Memorandum from the Standing Committee regarding the leasing of parish properties by nursery schools and outside organizations

Minutes (The most recent are first)

2012

Summary of the meeting of the Standing Committee on March 3, 2012

• Welcomed the newly elected members (Class of 2016): The Rev. Andrea Rose-Marie Hayden. Ms. Cheryl Browne was not present.
• The Rev. C. John Thompson-Quartey was elected President and Ms. Deborah Kirk was elected Secretary of the Standing Committee for the coming year. 
• The Rev. Sunil Chandy will coordinate the real estate business for the Standing Committee for the coming year.

Respectfully submitted,
Ms. Deborah Kirk, Secretary

Summary of the meeting of the Standing Committee on February 16, 2012

• Consented to a grant of assistance for Deacon Krautter from the Aged and Inform Clergy Fund as agreed to in the e-mail vote. 
• Consented to the Election of a Bishop Suffragan for the Diocese of Texas.
• Recommended Theodore A. Foley and Sally B. Maurer for ordination to the Vocational Diaconate.
• Recommended Clive O. Sang for ordination to the Vocational Diaconate awaiting the final vestry recommendation.
• Recommended Melinda Hall for ordination to the Transitional Diaconate.
• Recommended Peter Helman for ordination to the Transitional Diaconate awaiting the receipt of the seminary recommendation.
• Financial Aid Awards for the 2012 Spring semester were approved as presented. 

Respectfully submitted,
Deborah Kirk, Secretary

Summary of the meeting of the Standing Committee on January 19, 2012

• Endorsed re-appointment of Canon John Wood Goldsack, Esq. as Chancellor for a one-year term.
• The clerical members of the Standing Committee unanimously concurred with the action taken in the matter of the Rev. John L. Langston, Dcn.
• Affirmed the action taken via e-mail to consent to the Letter of Agreement with the Very Rev. Ronald Clingenpeel as Consultant for the Episcopal Election Committee.
• Affirmed the action taken via e-mail to consent to the appointment of Cecilia Alvarez to the position of Canon for Transition Ministry and Clergy Development.
• Affirmed the action taken via e-mail to consent to the appointment of Ms. Deborah Schmidt as the Chair of the Episcopal Election Committee. 
• Consented to the Election of Ogé Beauvoir as Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of Haiti.
• Consented to the Election of Andrew M.L. Dietsche as Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of New York.
• Consented to the Election of Gregory Orrin Brewer as Bishop Diocesan of the Diocese of Central Florida
• Recommended Henry P. Bristol II, Janet Daniels, and Carlton W. Dunn, Jr. for ordination to the Vocational Diaconate.

Respectfully submitted,
Deborah Kirk, Secretary

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