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Records of the proceedings and directly supervised programs of the entities under the management of the Executive Council. Records include proceedings, minutes, reports, documents, governance records, and some administrative records. With the consolidation of executive powers under the primate after 1973, staff offices typically associated with the National/Executive Council were placed under the authority of the Presiding Bishop acting as mission program or administrative entities. These staff offices exist as a separate categories of mission program or in their administrative capacity with the DFMS.

Generally includes the business and operational records of the treasurer or chief financial office, the controller, and other unit directors responsible for the administration of financial assets and reporting responsibilities, for control and reporting of gifts, and other asset-related duties assigned by General Convention or Executive Council.

Permanent records of financial accounting and status. The records include accounts payable and receivable (including donations and gifts), standard financial statements, ledgers, charts of account, financial reports and analysis, proposed and final budgets, and distribution of cash funds for awarded grants.

Permanent records of DFMS fiduciary accountability for invested funds in all endowments, trusts, and custodial accounts; including records of the investment oversight committees, trust fund registers, DFMS donor trust files, fiduciary trust investment files, records of agreements and reports from investment service providers, and annual statements on investment returns.

Records of DFMS real and personal property and similar assets under management, including legal obligations in governmental filings, tax filings, response to civil inquiries, and litigation that may fall to this area of management.

Records and official papers of the legislative sessions in joint gathering, including the legislative and special committee records (minutes, documents and other papers, including sanctioned audio, video, and electronic recordings of the proceedings.

Records of official canonical standing committees and commissions, boards, joint house committees, task groups, and similar authorized ad hoc bodies acting in the interim and at the direction of the General Convention; may include records either generated directly by the interim body or collected as part of the central files of the Secretariat. The category does not include the separate category of Executive Council, which also acts as the board of directors for the DFMS and may act in the place of (rather at the direction of) the General Convention.

Official Papers of the President's office, the Secretary of the House, committees of the House (e.g. the State of the Church), publications and communications generated by and within the House not pertaining directly to the triennial session.

Pastoral letters, communication to the Church, records of the Secretary of the House including rolls, registers and Interim Meeting records, and House committee records. (Does not include Presiding Bishop's administrative records on the House's operation, or records pertaining directly to the triennial session.)

Canonical deposits and other records of the Church's disciplinary process, including mostly appellate court record for the trial of a bishop and provincial trials of presbyters on appeal; some trial records from the diocesan courts. Also records of Accords and Orders.

Archives of the nine provinces of General Convention including journals of the synod, minutes of the synod, executive committees, and ad hoc committees, program and project files, reports and publications.