What does this mean?

(source: Episcopal Church Web site | CCABs | Agencies/Boards | United Thank Offering Board)

Wonder what this means? 

1. The 9/9/13 screen shot shows the United Thank Offering board listed under CCAB (Committees, Commissions, Agencies, and Boards) instead as a board autonomous and interdependent, reporting to Executive Council.

The CCAB Handbook

Annotated Table of Contents

The CCAB System (Page 1)

• Role of CCABs in the generation of policy, and the topics discussed by CCABs
• CCABs do not participate in the production of resources or in the carrying out of policy.
• Types of CCABs, along with the source and scope of their authority.

Members and Officers (Page 3)

·        Appointment of new members at the beginning of the triennium. Convenor named to organize the first meeting and conduct an election of Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary. Each officer has specific duties.

·        Expectation of members. Members must attend all meetings; unexcused absence from two meetings can result in members removal [Canon I.1.2(b)]. Consultants can only be hired under special circumstances.

CCAB Operations (Page 5)

• Chair’s duty to prepare an agenda for each meeting. Agenda will be circulated to the members and to the General Convention Office for posting.
• Chair and Secretary responsible for maintaining records and meeting minutes in collaboration with the Archives. Documents need to be preserved, including minutes, correspondence, E-mails, substantive drafts, and information disseminated at or between meetings.
• CCABs will file a triennial report which include General Convention resolutions. Reports will be compiled into a document commonly known as the Blue Book, which is produced before each General Convention. Blue Book reports must be submitted on time and prepared according to specific guidelines.

No UTO president or finance officer?

Vacant board members positions will be filled how?

Does this mean the UTO “board” will no longer participate in developing the design of the Blue Boxes, Face-to-Face training, or Granting Criteria and granting procedure?

2. The past-President is listed as “Chair” instead of “President”. Under CCAB there are no Presidents only Chairs.

So does that mean that past-President & UTO board is already identified as being under CCAB’s of General Convention instead of Executive Council?

3. The Executive Council member is listed as a member. The United Thank Offering by-laws identify the Executive Council member as a member of the board (as recommended in INC-055). The official notice received from the General Convention Office identified the member as a liaison.

Clarification is needed and has not been completed.

So what is the role of the liaison and the Executive Council as they relate to the UTO board?

Is it still and will  UTO continue to be a board?

The 9/12/13 screenshot

1. The four members resigned are removed from the list.
2. The UTO President’s office listed as “chair” in the 9/09/13 screen shot is now listed as a “Convener”. 

So does this mean the Vice President that would be the President, per current by laws, of UTO upon the resignation of the past-President really isn’t President or even “Chair”; but instead already just a “Convener”?

Is the UTO already considered as part of General Convention?

Does this mean this change is already in place as proposed by the DFMS by laws regardless of the INC-055 and the Executive Council’s approval?

3. Two new entries on the 9/12/13 “board” list are: The Most Rev. Katherine Jefferts Shori and The Rev. Gay C. Jennings. The two added are listed as “Ex Officio” with voice and vote. Per CCABs Handbook – revised 2013 (? What were the revisions since the 2012 General Convention?)  

What does this mean to the United thank Offering’s ministry of thankfulness?

1) Is the United Thank Offering Board a Board created by General Convention as defined by the requirements of the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church?

2) What process is used for this kind of decision?

3) Has this process been one in which the United Thank Offering governing board has participated??