SALT LAKE CITY (UT)
The Salt Lake Tribune
BY MIKE GORRELL | THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
PUBLISHED AUGUST 16, 2013
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The furor over a proposed pay cut for the priests serving the Salt Lake Valley’s Greek Orthodox community is intensifying.
A report prepared for the parish council by its audit committee said the priests at Holy Trinity and Prophet Elias churches took money out of accounts intended for the needy and used it “in ways that are questionable and appear to be inappropriate.”
The audit was delivered July 15 to the parish council, two weeks before the council cut its three priests’ pay by 40 percent, saving $125,000 annually and helping balance its revenue-barren annual budget.
Greek Orthodox parishioners received a summary of the audit in an email distributed Monday from the Parish Council, the day before the council announced a special assembly will be held Aug. 25 at Prophet Elias church in Holladay to discuss priestly pay — and other short- and long-term solutions to parish financial problems.
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