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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1973, Page 389

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STEWARDSHIP AND FINANCE 389

both policy and polity concerning the solicitation of funds
by agencies; and

Wuereas, The synodical Handbook, Section 9.71, speaks
of the procedure when appeals for funds “go beyond con-
gregational bounds,” and, Section 9.73, speaks of appeals for
funds “beyond District bounds”; therefore be it

Resolved, That each agency seeking funds first approach
the respective Board of Synod with which it would be
directly involved to seek permission. fer the solicitation
rather than being permitted to make a direct appeal to
Synod’s Board of Directors or to Synod assembled in con-
vention; and be it further

Resolved, That in accordance with the synodical Hand-
book Sections 9.71 and 9.73, that each agency must receive

PRESENT WORDING
A. WORK PROGRAM AND ANNUAL BUDGET

9.01 Budgeting Procedure

a. The Council of Administrators shall prepare
and submit biennially to the Board of Directors a
challenging work program for each of the Synod’s
boards and commissions with accompanying cost
estimates.

b. The Board of Directors shall receive for re-
view plans and policies which the boards and com-
missions of the Synod intend to submit to the syn-
odical convention. Any board or commission shall
have the right to take its recommendations directly
to the synodical convention for final decision, even
if these recommendations lack the approval of the
Board of Directors, provided, however, that the
views of the Board of Directors and the reasons for
its dissent shall be reported to the convention.

ce. At the synodical convention a special floor
committee is to receive the assignment to review
and to report on the recommended synodical work
program as submitted by the Board of Directors to
the convention.

d. The biennial delegate conventions of the
Synod shall adopt a 2-year comprehensive synod-
ical work program.

e. After adoption of the svnodical work program
by the convention, the Board of Directors shall
communicate to all the synodical Districts the syn-
odical work program for each fiscal year in the
adopted 2-year work program.

f. After the commitments for each year have
been received from the congregations and have
been transmitted by the District to the synodical
Board of Directors, the Board of Directors shall
propose a tentative income and expenditures budget
for the next fiscal year for the consideration of the
Fiscal Review Commission.

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a District’s permission before solicitation within that Dis-
trict; and be it finally

Resolved, That the time table for solicitation within the
Districts be set by each respective District.

Boarp or SOCIAL MINISTRY AND WORLD RELIEF
Leslie F. Weber, Executive Secretary

12-17

To Revise Bylaws for Budget Préparatio

The Board of Directors has found Bylaws 9.01 to 9:17
unworkable with respect to budget preparation. It there-
fore proposes the following Bylaw revisions:

PROPOSED WORDING
A. WORK PROGRAM AND ANNUAL BUDGET

9.01 Work Program Procedure

a. Every board, commission, and operating de-
partment shall submit biennially to the Board of
Directors, through the Council of Administrators,
its proposed work program for the biennium with
accompanying cost estimates prepared in the for-
mat and under the timetable prescribed by the
Board of Directors. All programs shall show each
agency’s local financial support, synodical fineseral
support, any other financial support, an < .
The Council of Administrators shall review the
work program and make recommendations there-
on to the Board of Directors.

b. The Board of Directors shall review the work
programs submitted; make such fiscal adjustments
as it considers necessary; advise the respective
boards, commissions, and operating departments cf
proposed adjustments; solicit their support con-
cerning such adjustments, and then propose to the
synodical convention a consolidated work program
for the next biennium compatible with the pro-
jected income and growth of the
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c. Any board or commission which disagrees’ +, .«/,
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with the Board of Directors’ work program pro-
posals for such board or commission may take its
position to the synodical convention. The boards
and commissions shall provide to the Board of Di-
rectors for review any recommendations which
they intend to submit to the synodical convention.
The Board of Directors shall then report to the
convention its position on such recommendations.
d. At the synodical convention a special floor
committee shall review the recommended synodical
work program as submitted by the Board of Direc-
tors, together with any proposed adjustments. It
shall then report its recommendation to the con-
vention. Such recommendations shall be com-
patible with the projected, jncgme and_ growth ~of
the Synod,, tes teed Poetertig ay nee ;
biennial delegate conventions ‘of th

e. The
Synod shall adopt a 2-year comprehensive synodi-
cal work program compatible with the projected
income and growth of the Synod.’ .

/ by the convention, the Board of Directors shall
communicate to the synodical Districts the work
program for each fiscal year.

9.02 Budgeting Procedure

na a. Every board, commission, and operating de-
« partment each year shall submit to the Board of

Directors, through the Council of Adminstrators,
its proposed budget for the succeeding year. Each
budget shall be prepared in the format and under

etaday the timetable prescribed by the Board of Directors

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