# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S116
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116 Elementary Education

to the Board of Directors of Synod and the Fiscal Conference the
M approximate amount necessary to meet the needs.

Note. — It is understood that the main support of schools must,
as now, come from the Districts, whether they are receiving a
subsidy from Synod or not, and that aid by Synod be, as now,
special and temporary. It is further understood that Synod will
make no special subsidies, except by approval of the respective
a District. Synod’s part, as now in mission expansion, will be to aid
at Districts in special cases of school establishment or maintenance.

“Detailed Working Plan” for School Fund

The following “Detailed Working Plan,” containing rules and

he regulations to govern the Synodical School Fund, was referred to
i the committee which will have this matter in charge:
we 1, The fund shall be known as the School Fund.

ot 2. Its purpose shall be twofold:

4 a. Emergency maintenance of existing schools;
b. The establishment of schools.

we 3. Its general object shall be to aid in the maintenance and
ni expansion of our parochial-school system.

4, The fund shall be at the disposal of all Districts alike,
whether they are subsidized by Synod or not.

“ 5. The regular subsidies to Districts shall in no way be affected
. or altered by the presence of a School Fund.

oa 6. Subsidies from this fund shall be granted only upon request
or peeve of the respective District or its boards.

. The fund shall be equally accessible to the General Home
Missions Board (Secretary of Missions) for subsidies to mission-
schools and to the Board of Christian Education (Secretary of
Schools) for subsidies to schools not under the jurisdiction of
, mission boards.
wi 8. Expenditures from the fund shall remain within the budget
ws amount set aside by Synod for this purpose.

9. Subsidies in any case shall not be made for more than one
uid year at a time, the understanding being that the respective District
vf will thereafter assume responsibility.

10. It shall be permissible, however, for the recipient of the
subsidy to renew his application through the District Board from
re year to year over a period of not more than three years.
owe 11. In every case of subsidy from the School Fund the
wil recipient congregation or the respective District Board shall, from
cae the beginning, carry at least one fourth of the financial load
; involved in the subsidized project; in a possible second year of