# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_November 1 2 2012_S2
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

3.8.3.2 The Board for International Mission shall be comprised of eleven members:
1. Five laypersons and five individual members of the Synod (one of each from each
region of the Synod) elected in the same manner as are all other regional elections
(Bylaws 3.12.1 and 3.12.2.5)
2. The President of the Synod or his representative
In 2016, the individual members of the Synod elected from the Great Plains and
East/Southeast regions and the laypersons elected from the West/Southwest, Central, and
Great Lakes regions shall be elected for three-year terms.
And be it further
Resolved, In order to create a staggering of terms for the members of the Commission on
Handbook following the 2016 convention by appointing two of the members to three-year terms, that
Bylaw 3.9.4.1 be amended as follows:
PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING
3.9.4.1 The Commission on Handbook shall consist of eight members, five voting and three
nonvoting. Of the five appointed members, three shall be individual members of the Synod
and two shall be attorneys. In 2016, one of the individual members and one of the attorneys
shall be appointed for three-year terms. The remaining individual members and attorney shall
be appointed for six-year terms:
1. The Secretary and the Chief Administrative Officer of the Synod and a voting member of
the Commission on Constitutional Matters shall serve as advisory members.
2. The five voting members (whose terms shall be for six years renewable once) shall be
appointed in the following manner….
And be it further
Resolved, That the terms of those board and commission members elected or appointed to threeyear terms not be counted as full terms in this case, allowing those who will have served one six-year
and one three-year term to be eligible for an additional six-year term at the time of the 2019
convention; and be it finally
Resolved, That in order to accommodate these changes, Bylaw 3.2.4.2 (b) also be amended to
read:
PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING
3.2.4.2 All members of all boards and commissions of the Synod shall be ineligible for reelection or
reappointment to the same board or commission after serving a total of two successive sixyear elected terms or three successive appointed or elected three-year terms, unless otherwise
provided in the Bylaws.
(a) Such persons may become eligible again for election or appointment to the same office,
board, or commission after an interval of three or more years.
(b) One-half or moreMore than one-half of a term shall be regarded as a full term under
limited tenure rules.
(c) Any member of a board or commission who is ineligible for reelection or reappointment
may be elected or appointed to another position.

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