The recent Courier article announced that slides from the congregational meeting could be viewed on our website.  Here they are: 

RECENT COURIER ARTICLE: 

To the DCC Community: The Financial Support Ministry would like to provide you an important update upon the conclusion of our formal stewardship and budget season.  

First, we want to thank everyone for their support and pledges.  In a difficult year, we saw that those who pledged increased their pledges on average 8%. For this we are blessed and grateful.  In addition, 2009 ended very well...our net income cleared us of a cumulative deficit, so we ended the year in the black. 

The first six months of 2010, we have been in transition changing the timing of our fiscal year.  Our plan for this first 6 months of 2010 included the expectation that giving would remain at least at the same  level during these interim months as 2009 and budgeted for a slight increase.  That steady giving did not materialize and we are currently projecting a $30,000 deficit. During the past few weeks as our budget situation was shared with the congregation, many have responded with extra giving.  Thank you to those who made an extra contribution in June. 

During the past few weeks, Session has spent a great deal of time in careful discernment and adopted a balanced budget for 2010-2011 on June 22nd. This budget was presented to the members of DCC at the congregational meeting on Sunday, June 27th.  Copies of the budget are available at the church office.    

Reaching a balanced budget required Session to reduce the original ministry budgets by $98,000.  Specifically, the Minister of Finance and Session tightened the overall budget by $33,000, ministries across the board cut $31,000, and personnel cut a total of  $34,000.   Stored funds will be used in a couple of ways to help balance the budget.  First, $20,000 in stored funds which are designated for facilities improvements will be used to complete the Christian Education wing improvements.  In addition, unrestricted stored funds will be used to fund the $30,000 deficit from the first 6 months of 2010.  Session intends that this use of unrestricted stored funds ($30,000) will be replenished in the 2011-2012 fiscal year.   To more deeply examine ongoing ways to align our church budget with the missional vision of DCC,  Session will be appointing a mission study task force next month.  The task force will aim to culminate its process and report to Session in Spring 2011. 

If you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to call Maria Rodriguez, Minister of Finance and Facilities, at (530) 753-2894 x 102 or Lewis Becker, Co-Chair of Financial Support Ministry, at (916) 985-3275 (evenings).  Thank you!

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