The Rules Committee chair, Danny Peck, presented the Rules Committee work, which can be found on pages 13-30 in the Conference Workbook. A number of the revisions involved correcting grammatical errors. Further, certain date references were removed as there may be General Conference, Jurisdictional Conference, and Annual Conference meetings outside of the typical scheduling cycles. In addition to the above revisions and changes, the body approved a change that the “bar of the annual conference shall be the floor of the Greenville Convention Center, except those spaces designated for guests and visitors within the marked partitions. Guests, annual conference staff, and Convention Center staff necessary for the work of the annual conference shall have access to the bar as do conference members.”
While the Rules Committee suggested the body not entertain resolutions this year in an effort to promote unity, that recommendation was not accepted by the body. Resolutions were to be submitted to the Conference Secretary by Thursday at 5 pm. Lastly, the NC Conference will no longer offer printing of the Conference Journal. The ability of a third party to produce copies of the Conference Journal was accepted.