# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1017
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242 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES
ACTION
ded, and Synod resolved:

; ‘Resolution 33
Wuereas, The responsibilities to Prescribe admisgj

Committee 1 recommen

with the Purpose and Capacity of the indi id i
of the theological Seminaries,” wa

¢ Revision of Handbook Sections 6.07, 6.37 d, and 2.79 j

: Board of Directors, This relationship Parallels
covering maintenance, remodeling, and repair of ¢
inary peownnte Pair of college and. sem-

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 243

stailed review of all plans and specifications for building
(and resolved to accept the analyses and recommendations
eservice as its own. To incorporate the present procedure
e'6fficial Handbook and to specify the line of administrative
sibility so that the colleges and Seminaries are responsible
Board for Higher Education while this Board is, in turn,
ible to the Board of Directors in these matters, your Board
mends that Section 2.79j (on construction) be revised
it is an exact parallel to the present Section 2.79m (on
ance) so that it reads as follows: “The Board of Directors
have final responsibility for the construction and location of
new buildings and for major remodeling. In the area of higher
education, however, it shall discharge its responsibility through
thé; procedures provided in Sections 6.07j and 637d”; and your
~. Recommends, further, that the word “duties” be changed to
functions, in the introductory paragraph of 6.07; and your Board

Recommends, further, that the content of the present Para-
graph i be made the last paragraph of this section, regardless of
how many paragraphs are included in the regulation; and your
Board

Recommends, further, that Paragraph j of the present regu-
lation be reworded so that it reads: “be responsible to the Board
of Directors for all matters relating to planning, locating, and
constructing educational facilities as well as for the general super-
vision of maintenance and repair of Synod’s educational Properties
and for the discharge by the Board of Control of their responsibility
in constructing or maintaining the physical Property of their
institution, except that the Board of Directors is directly responsible
for all legal aspects of such operation”; and your Board

Recommends, finally, that Section 637d be modified by
adding the words, at the end of the present paragraph, “according
to the procedure prescribed in Sections 2.79j and 6.07 j.”

ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 6 Synod resolved:

Resolution 11

Wuereas, Section 2.79 j, Synod’s Handbook, now reads: “The
Board of Directors shall pass on all plans submitted by boards of
Synod for new buildings and remodeling of old buildings. It shall
approve the location of any building erected on property belonging
to Synod,” your Committee recommends that Section 2.79} be
teworded so that it reads: “The Board of Directors shall have
final Tesponsibility for the construction and location of new build-