# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_March 5 1982_S8
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One significant change introduced in Resolution 2-08A has a bearing on the issue at hand. Resolution 208A now provided that only approximately one-half of the membership of each of the three program
boards (Parish Services, Youth, Evangelism) would be elected in 1981 and that incumbents whose terms
did not expire in 1981 would be carried over from the previous Board of Parish Education and from the
previous Board for Evangelism and Board for Youth Ministry until 1983 to complete their unexpired
terms. The conclusion is inescapable that with the retention of the Youth and the Evangelism Boards and
their removal from the Board for Parish Services, and with the provision that incumbents of all three
boards were to serve out their unexpired terms, all three boards were now looked upon as continuing
boards with modified names and programs.
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In view of the legislative history summarized above and on the basis of the final wording adopted by the
convention in Resolution 2-08A (Proceedings, pages 138--139) as distinguished from the original
wording of Resolution 2-08, the Commission on Constitutional Matters holds that the Board for Parish
Services is not a new board but the board formerly known as the Board of Parish Education with a new
name and with added responsibilities; as such it does not have the right to establish and fill a new position
of Executive Secretary of the Board for Parish Services.
The Commission also holds that the Implementation Committee exhibited the correct understanding in
taking the action quoted above from its minutes.
COMMISSION ON CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS
Herbert Mueller, Secretary
March 5, 1982

Minutes of the Meeting of the Commission on Constitutional Matters - June 4, 1982
36. The opening prayer was given by John Klotz. The following were present: Kermit Brashear II, Carl
Eberhard, John Klotz, Herbert Mueller, and Gene Schnelz. The Minutes of the previous meeting were
approved as submitted.
37. Limited Tenure Question (Ag. 1587): Because of his responsibilities in the nominating process, the
Secretary had submitted various classifications of elected board and commission members, together with
the terms which they had served, asking whether the persons in these categories were eligible to be renominated. The 1981 convention had specifically delegated to the CCM in Res. 2-03A and in Res. 2-08A
the responsibility to make the necessary determinations. The Commission came to the following
conclusions (names of boards are summarized in each heading):
1. Board of Directors

Terms
1975-79
1979-83

On the basis of Resolution 2-03A and on the general basis that elective positions should
be filled when possible by election rather than by appointment, the Commission holds
that these individuals may be re-nominated; however, since Resolution 2-03A restricts
the members of the Board of Directors to serving no more than twelve consecutive years,