# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1965_S305
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LUTHERAN COUNCIL IN THE U.S.A. 305

upon nomination by the standing committee for the
division.

Item 2. Other staff members shall be elected by the
Executive Committee of the council upon nomination
by the standing committee for the division concerned,
or in other instances upon nomination by the general
secretary.

Item 3. The term of office, not to exceed four years
for each staff member, except the general secretary,
shall be determined by the Executive Committee at the
time of his election or re-election.

Item 4, The tenure of the general secretary shall
cease on December 31 of the year in which he attains
the age of 68 years. The tenure of each other staff
member shall cease on December 31 of the year in
which he attains the age of 65 years; his continuance
in the office after that date may be permitted by the
Executive Committee upon recommendation by the gen-
eral secretary at the request of the standing committee
of the division concerned, if any, on a year by year basis
until December 31 of the year in which he attains the
age of 68 years.

Item 5. All staff members and all other employees
shall be subject to the personnel practices approved by
the Executive Committee and administered under the
supervision of the Committee on Administration and
Finance.

SECTION XIV
Financial Matters

Item 1. The members of the Committee on Adminis-
tration and Finance shall be appointed annually by the
president upon nomination by the presidents of the par-
ticipating bodies in such number as to provide appropri-
ate representation. The general secretary and the treas-
urer of the council and others as may be designated from
time to time by the Executive Committee shall serve
as consultants to the committee.

Item 2. The council shall provide a blanket fidelity
bond in amounts specified by the Committee on Admin-
istration and Finance covering the officers and all em-
ployees who handle funds or securities on behalf of the
council, the premium therefor to be paid by the council.

Item 3. The fiscal year and the budget year of the
council shall be the calendar year.

Item 4, The action of the council adopting an annual
budget constitutes authorization to incur financial obli-
gations up to the specified amount. If it appears during
the course of a year that budgeted income is not likely

’ to be realized, the Executive Committee shall examine

the council’s several programs with a view to making
necessary adjustments and reductions. Any borrowing
for current operations shall be effected in the name
of the Lutheran Council in the U. S. A. by action at
a meeting of the council or at the discretion of the Exec-
utive Committee.

Item 5. After the council has approved the budget
for a division, its standing committee shall be authorized
to utilize the funds committed to it in ways which it

deems to be most advantageous for the furtherance of
its work, provided that amounts transferred by the
standing committee from one major budget section to
another, with the concurrence of the general secretary,
shall not exceed 20% of the section from which the
transfer is made. In exceptional cases, the standing
committee may transfer funds in excess of this limit
only after consultation with and approval by the Com-
mittee on Administration and Finance. All revisions
shall be made within the total amount approved by the
council for the division.

Item 6. Each participating body shall be expected
to contribute its full proportionate share of general
administration and service costs of the council and of
the Division of Theological Studies in the same propor-
tion as the number of its baptized members in the
United States bears to the total number of such mem-
bers in all the participating bodies.

Item 7. Each participating body which cooperates in
a division, department or office shall be expected to con-
tribute its proportionate share of the operating costs of
such unit, in the same proportion as the number of its
baptized members in the United States bears to the total
number of such members in all the bodies cooperating
therein.

Item 8. Each body cooperating in a project spon-
sored by a division, department or office shall be ex-
pected to contribute its proportionate share, computed
as specified in item 6 of this section, of the administra-
tive cost of the division, department or office attributable
to the project, and the bodies cooperating in the project
shall be responsible for meeting the total cost involved.

Item 9. The activities of each commission shall be
financed in such manner as shall be determined by the
council.

Item 10. At each annual meeting, the council shall
approve a budget of anticipated receipts and expendi-
tures for the council and all its units and its projects
for the next succeeding year, a budget proposal for the
following year and a budget projection for a third year.
The adopted budget, the budget proposal, and the
budget projection shall specify the amounts to be re-
quested from each participating body which amounts
shall not be exceeded as the projected budget becomes
the proposed budget and the proposed budget becomes
the budget, except as and to the degree that (a) one
or more participating bodies increase the number of
divisions, departments and offices in which they cooper-
ate, or (b) approved projects are expanded by appropri-
ate action, or (c) new work is undertaken. .

Item 11. Normally, the total amount requested from
the participating bodies for the financial support of the
council, and its divisions, departments and offices in
a specified year shall not exceed by more than 5% the
total amount requested from the participating bodies
in the preceding year, except as and to the degree that
(a) one or more participating bodies increase the num-
ber of divisions, departments and offices in which they