Trustee Policies

The Policies on the Right are written and maintained by   Building Use Agreement
The Board of Trustees at First United Methodist Church of  Burleson   Disability Concerns
They are underwritten by the Charge Conference   Energy Management
of the First United Methodist Church where the    Fitness Equipment
Board of Trustees receives it's authority   Gen. Building Use Policy
Policies are drafted according to the Book of Discipline for the    Inventory policy
guidelines of property use and care.    Kitchen, Caterer
  Security Policy
  Key Policy
What is the Board of Trustees, and what do they do?   Van Policy
  Wedding Policy
For Policy Guidelines, see below   Media Policy
  Garage Policy

  Trustee Job Descriptions

   

 

 

 

First United Methodist Church of Burleson

Board of Trustees

General Policy Outline

 

I. Purpose

 

This document will serve as a guideline for all Board of Trustee Policies written for the First United Methodist of Burleson, Texas. All policies will have a purpose paragraph that will generally outline the purpose of the document and / or the reason for the need of said document.

 

II. Authority

 

This document is authorized by the Board of Trustees and any variations or exceptions to this policy must first be approved by the Board of Trustees and when appropriate, by the Church Council (sometimes known as the Administrative board).

 

III. Policy Life

 

Include a statement here indicating if a particular policy has a specific time period to exist or if the policy is expected to remain in force until updated, terminated or replaced by action of the authorizing committee.

 

III. Policy Statement

 

This paragraph and subsequent paragraphs will provide the policy statement.

 

IV. Miscellaneous Information

 

        A.                   Numbering System

 

All policy Statements should have a date created or date last revised in the left hand bottom corner of each page. In addition, each page should be numbered as “page x of x pages in the bottom right hand corner of each page.

 

B.                 Location of Policies

 

All Policies (unless an exception is specifically spelled out in a policy) are to be kept in the Trustee Library. No policy is to be removed from the premises. Copies of a given policy may be made with approval of the building superintendent or a Trustee.

 

C.                 Policy Security / Variances

 

Any Church / staff member may have access to any policy. Any requested changes to a given policy are to be submitted to the committee, which authorized the Policy.

Any member of the Trustees, any Pastor of the church and the building superintendent can approve any requested one-time variance to a given policy.