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053  {2917}                                         April 25, 1996

General Conference '96

General Conference declines
to move its mission agency

     DENVER (UMNS) -- The 1996 United Methodist General Conference
has declined a call to move the headquarters of the denomination's
Board of Global Ministries by a specific date in the near future.

     The 1992 General Conference had narrowly approved a move from
the board's current New York location and authorized a task force
to make a recommendation for a new site.

     But that recommendation -- to relocate to Reston, Va., at an
estimated total cost of about $72 million -- was rejected
unanimously by the 1996 General Conference's legislative committee
on general and judicial administration.

     Instead, the committee offered majority and minority reports,
which delegates considered April 25.

     The majority report, which passed with one amendment by a
vote of 584 to 354, recommended a delay in mandating a move from
New York until General Conference 2000 "so that any restructuring
of the general boards and agencies can be incorporated into the
site relocation decision and a more economical site can be
determined ... "

     As amended by the Rev. Ernest Lyght of Westfield, N.J., the
majority report declared that the standing joint committee of the
denomination's General Council on Ministries (GCOM) and General
Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA) should continue its
assigned duties of reviewing the suitability of all locations of
the denomination's boards and agencies.

     The adopted majority report did not require the development
of an alternate site proposal for the Board of Global Ministries.

     The minority report, which failed by a vote of 400 to 558,
would have required that recommendations of at least two
alternative headquarters sites be presented in 2000. The same
standing joint committee would have made those recommendations.

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Calendar No. 1996                                   -- Linda Bloom
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