# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S257
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 257

2. That the duties of the Council of Administrators shall in-
clude the following:

a. Assemble, interpret, and, after review and approval by the
Board, to distribute among the divisions and departments long-
range forecasts of synodical growth; synodical income, disburse-
ments, and fixed investments; mission opportunities; needs for
pastors, teachers, and other workers and the consequent develop-
mental requirements of synodical educational institutions; other
auxiliary and service activities; and headquarters staff require-
ments;

b. Prepare and submit to the Board of Directors long-range,
comprehensive plans of synodical work in which the principles
of balance and co-ordination will be significantly reflected in all
their important implications;

c. Prepare and submit to the Board of Directors short-range,
comprehensive, and reasonably detailed plans annually in which
the opportunities and the limitations of the Synod will be expressed
in relation to current expectations but under the guidance of the
long-range plans;

d. Develop, with the approval of the Board of Directors, the
procedures by which such plans can best be made, and develop
suitable forms of presentation which will permit such plans to be
presented concisely, intelligibly, and fairly;

e. Recommend periodically to the Board of Directors adjust-
ments or revisions of long-range plans as experience reveals the
need for such changes;

f. Prepare and submit to the Board of Directors the budgets
of the Synod;

g. Recommend to the Board of Directors such changes in ap-
proved plans as may become demonstrably necessary when fore-
casts fail to materialize or when for other reasons the approved
plans of the Synod cannot be carried out;

h. Review periodically the actual performance of all divi-
sions and departments;

i. Work out the details of any changes or adjustments in budg-
ets which the Board of Directors may require in the exercise of
its powers;

j. Encourage a uniform observance, throughout the divisions,
of sound and efficient administrative and operational procedures
and routines;

k. Invite periodically all executives of all agencies of the Synod

to plenary meetings of the Council.
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