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Finance Council

Saint George Financial Council

 

Finance Council meets quarterly, or on an as-needed basis, to advise the pastor on accounting, investing and financial matters.

 

Please contact Krista Kremer or Dave DeMarco through the parish office with any questions.

Appointments to this council are made by the pastor.

 

More information about Finance Councils...

The norms for Parish Finance Council in the Diocese of Erie were first set forth in a Decree issued by Bishop Michael Murphy on August 2, 1985. Following consultation with the Presbyteral Council and Diocesan Finance Council, Bishop Donald Trautman has approved the following revised norms which are to become diocesan policy, effective January 1, 2001 and thereby supersede that earlier Decree as well as any other norms which are not in compliance with these norms.

Each parish of the Diocese of Erie is to have a Finance Council as required by Canon 537.

 

Canon 537
 

“Each parish is to have a Finance Council which is regulated by universal law as well as by norms issued by the Diocesan Bishop; in this council the Christian faithful, selected according to the same norms, aid the pastor in the administration of the parish goods with due regard for the prescription of Canon 532.”

 

The Finance Council is a consultative body whose primary task is to assist the pastor in the administration of the temporal goods of the parish.  This often takes the form of recommendations to the pastor concerning financial plans, controls, policies, and other appropriate guidance on business matters.  In making such recommendations, the Council is to be guided by gospel values as well as by sound business practices.  Since the resources of the parish are provided by the contributions of parishioners and others, it is also expected that the Finance Council assist the pastor in being accountable and responsible to the people.

The Finance Council, however, does not substitute for the pastor as the chief administrator and legal representative of the goods of the parish.

 
Canon 532

 

“The pastor represents the parish in all juridic affairs in accord with the norm of law; he is to see to it that the goods of the parish are administered in accord with the norms of Canons 1281-1288.”