jdlessley wrote:Are you advising that fund-raiser funds in excess needed for 2012 summer camps be rolled over to fund any or all of the funding for 2013 summer camps? If so, I do not see how this is even a loose interpretation of Handbook 2, 13.6.8. More specifically note the first numbered item of paragraph one which limits the funds raised from one group fund-raiser "[t]o help pay the cost of one annual camp or similar activity as outlined in 13.2.8."
I don't want to get into a debate on this topic, which has been discussed many times. But contrary to your absolute position on this, I can certainly read Section 13.6.8 and see how it could easily be interpreted to allow funds to be carried over. It simply mentions one annual fund raising activity and one annual camp. But it doesn't directly tie a particular year's fund raising activity to that year's camp. Just because we are talking about one fund raising activity per year and one camp per year doesn't mean that they have to take place in the same year.
I can certainly see how a stake president or bishop might interpret that section the way you propose, but I don't see how he must accept only that interpretation. Thus it is a matter for the local stake president and bishops to decide.