# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S300 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 11 Empowering Board of Directors to Borrow Needed Funds RESOLUTION 23 B, COMMITTEE 11 WHEREAS, It may not be possible to meet all of the approved capital-investment needs through budget receipts without causing cutbacks and retrenchment in other phases of the Synod’s work; and , Wuereas, In line with the resolutions adopted by this con- vention, the Fiscal Conferences meeting during the next triennium (1959—62) will be called upon to give favorable consideration to further necessary and vital building programs, major remodeling projects, and site acquisitions in connection with the Synod’s colleges and seminaries, and also other capital investment mission projects; therefore be it Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Synod be and hereby is authorized to borrow the necessary funds in the name of the Synod, provided the Board of Directors has first determined the amounts and the conditions under which such funds shall be borrowed for capital-investment purposes, site acquisitions, and building-improvement projects already authorized and additional projects that may be authorized by this convention and for which funds will be appropriated by the Fiscal Conferences during the 1959—62 triennium; and be it further Resolved, That if and when required, the Board of Directors and the responsible officers of the Synod be and hereby are empowered to do all things necessary to effect such borrowings, including the pledging of real and other property belonging to the Synod, in order to secure loans to obtain the necessary funds and to make adequate provision for the proper repayment of such borrowed funds. Action: This resolution was adopted. Circuit Cabinets RESOLUTION 24, COMMITTEE 11 Recommendation V of Memorial 804, page 628, Reports and Memorials Wuereas, Our honorable Counselors are officers of District and the Synod, charged with the responsibility of promoting in, and channeling to, their respective congregations in their circuits the co-ordinated and complete program of the Synod and District; and SA URAL RBG HS A BRNO SINT IN OREN NET ofte com gra the bee: the of I con whx leac cati Rec Rey dar urg the sha asic ow. 195 tio: pre