# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S240
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 239
a building there, and, as a result at any given time, to have
a variety of conditions of unbalance in terms of the desirable or
optimum capacity of an institution to fulfill its functions — through
the provision of adequate facilities for worship, for teaching and
learning, for student living, for recreation and sports, for insti-
tutional administration, plant operation and maintenance, and for
instructional service-staff housing.

Ill. To increase plant capacity for essential functions.

The assignment or determination for any of Synod’s campuses
of a greater goal of significantly increased enrollment inescapably
imposes the further obligation to provide adequate facilities for
the essential functions which the institution is expected to fulfill.

IV. To provide for additional functions.

Not all functions presently served on Synod’s campuses, or
held desirable for future development, are indispensable to the
achievement of the primary goal assigned by Synod to its schools.
The attached tabulation includes a listing indicative of the judg-
ment of the Board for Higher Education as to the essential degree
of the function which an individual project purports to serve.

The Board, furthermore, was under obligation to study another
basis of classification, with a view to recommending possible
preferred methods and times of financing the projects as presented
by the colleges and seminaries. i

Plan A

In view of the unmistakable general sentiment expressed at
the 1955 St.Paul Conference in favor of the inclusion of capital
investment funds in Synod’s annual budget, it was clear that the
Board’s recommendations regarding capital investment funds for
the next triennium should seek to implement this new policy
(Plan A).

The first recommendation of the Board is based on the assump-
tion that Synod will confirm the decisions reached at St. Paul in
1955 and that, at least for the next triennium, Synod proposes
to include all capital investment funds as an integral part in the
annual synodical budget. The further assumption is necessary
that, if this policy is to have any possibility of success, it must
provide for systematic and gradual increases in the amounts avail-
able if the needs of Synod for increased capacity and the welfare
of the existing plants is to be assured. In terms of the established
minimum needs in this area, it is assumed to be feasible to expect
a capital investment inclusion in the Board for Higher Education’s
section, by action of the fiscal conferences of the next three years,
of $2,000,000 in fiscal 1957, of $2,250,000 in fiscal 1958, of $2,500,000

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