It will be a “challenging” year for staff at the General Synod office in Toronto.
More budget cuts will be needed to achieve a balanced budget for 2011 and eliminate deficits by 2012, said Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
“There’s another cut to come and it will be bigger,” Archbishop Hiltz told a meeting of the House of Bishops held Jan. 7 to 9. “We’ll look at a smaller staff.” He said that decisions will be guided by priorities that will be set out at the upcoming General Synod this June.
Doing more with a small staff is already a reality at the provincial headquarters for ACNA, with accounting staff answering the phones, etc. However, rather than looking at staff cuts to come, they are projecting hiring of additional staff as income sources are firming up.