There are several closed sessions planned for Thursday’s GAMC meeting schedule, including a one-hour session for elected members only

The anticipation of staff cuts is hanging over this week’s meeting of the General Assembly Mission Council (GAMC) being held in Louisville (KY), but officials are holding off those discussion until a series of closed meetings scheduled for Thursday is complete.

The GAMC Executive Committee met Wednesday at the Presbyterian Foundation office in Jeffersonville, Indiana (just across the river from Louisville), where it voted on recommendations to this summer’s GA and discussed the topics that other GAMC committees will tackle this week.

GMAC Executive Director Linda Valentine briefly spoke about implications of the cuts, but is asking staff to hold off on discussing them until Thursday’s closed sessions.

The Executive Committee met behind closed doors on Tuesday and began initial talks about the cuts.

“We’ve talked among staff about committee meetings and whether staff will be sharing at committee meetings any of the staffing changes we talked about in our closed session yesterday,” Valentine told the Executive Committee. “We don’t want to do that. … You will hear some strategy pieces perhaps in terms of the presentation, but would ask that we wait until the full plenary closed session at which those things that have staffing and the budget implications are going to be discussed.”