# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S109
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

RESOLUTIONS 109

PRESENT
XI. Controllership

Systems
Audit
Accounting
Budget

XII. Staff Services

Research and Statistics

Personnel

Purchasing and Production

Data Processing

Convention Management

Building Services and Property Management
Legal Counselor

Records Management

Transportation Department

Commission on Ministerial Health

PROPOSED
(Consolidate with X, transfer to G)

H. General Staff Services (title change)

Research and Statistics

Personnel

Purchasing and Production

Data Processing

Convention Management

Building Services and Property Management
Legal Counselor

Records Management

Transportation Department

Commission on Ministerial Health

Board of Managers/Concordia Plans (from IV)
Board of Pensions and Support (from X)
Concordia Historical Institute (from IX)

and be it further

Resolved, That the Board of Directors order Hand-
book provisions to be prepared for the boards, com-
missions, and departments either created or affected by
this action for consideration by the 1971 convention;
and be it further

Resolved, That the Board of Directors be directed
to continue to survey the administrative structure rela-
tive to consolidating the number of divisions and the
further consolidation of boards, commissions, and com-
mittees; and be it finally

Resolved, That the Board of Directors be advised
to exercise its own judgment in providing full-time
executive heads to those divisions where this action
appears to be necessary for good administration.

Action: Adopted in form given above (11).

(The committee added the word “consolidating” in the
second-last resolved.)

To Take Steps Toward More Effective
Supervision
RESOLUTION 4-28

Overture 4-11 (CW, pp. 214—215)

Wuereas, The handling of items of the type men-
tioned in this overture lies within the primary juris-
diction of the District Presidents (Handbook 3.45 and
3.47, p. 83); and

Wuereas, The District Presidents and synodical Vice-
Presidents meet in regular sessions with the President
of the Synod; therefore be it

Resolved, That the President of the Synod be asked
regularly to discuss with the Council of Presidents the
effective supervision of doctrine and practice.

Action: Adopted (13).

To Stress Counseling Function of Council
of Presidents
RESOLUTION 4-29
Overture 4-20 (CW, p. 217)

Wuereas, The President of the Synod meets in fre-
quent session with the Council of Presidents; and

Wuereas, One of the purposes of these meetings is
the mutual advising and counseling on all matters of
concern to the Synod; therefore be it

Resolved, That all the members of the Council of
Presidents be instructed to make the fullest use of the
freedom and privilege offered in these meetings and
the duty incumbent upon the members of the council to
give and receive counsel and advice in matters of doc-
trine and practice

Action: Referred to Council of Presidents for action

(16).

To Study Changes Required to Qualify
for Federal and State Aid
RESOLUTION 4-30
Overture 6-70 (CW, pp. 331—332)

Wuereas, Federal and state aid in higher education
to public and to private institutions is now a matter of
well-established policy in the United States; and

Wuereas, Our synodical schools are not receiving as
much such aid as they perhaps might; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education be
directed to study and assess this matter and submit a
report to the 1971 convention.

Action: Adopted as amended (13).
(Amendment: “the United States” for “our country.”)