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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1973, Sheet 456

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REFERRED RESOLUTIONS 423

retaries, and assistant executive secretaries of the
synodical boards and commissions. Its services may
be called on in the selection of District executive
secretaries and all appointed staff personnel above
clerical rank in the Synod and in the Districts.

c. Duties:

1, 2,3 (no change)

4. certify, after having examined the qualifica-
tions of all nominees in the light of the specifica-
tions of the position, at least three nominees as
candidates to the appointing authority. It shall se-
cure the approval of the President for each nom-
inee. The appointing authority may then select one
of the nominees or call for a new slate of nominees.

5. (To be shifted from its present location in the
Handbook and be added to 2.101b, Personnel De-
partment, as a new paragraph 3, transferring the
present paragraph 3 to become the 4th, etc. Pro-
posed wording: “3. Provide the Synodical Service
Commission with technical assistance.”)

d. (No change.)

To Update Bylaws on Retirement Policies
RESOLUTION 4-46
Overture 12-12 (CW, pp. 471—472)

Wuereas, The 1965 convention in Detroit established a
statement on retirement policies for salaried non-elected
personnel of the Synod which carefully provided that no
retroactive application be made to potentially affected in-
dividual senior career servants of the Synod; and

Wuereas, This section has become progressively obsolete;
therefore be it

Resolved, That the obsolete Bylaw 2.105 be amended to
read as follows:

2.105 Retirement Policies

a. The following retirement policies shall apply
to salaried nonelective personnel of the Synod:

1, Each such person may retire at age 65, but
he shall be retired on the first day of the month
following the month in which his 10th birthday
occurs.

». Annual extension of appointment of salaried
nonelective personnel beyond age 65 shall be con-
ditioned upon a request in writing three (3) months
prior to his 65th birthday by the individual con-
cerned, a favorable medical evaluation. and ap-
proval by the respective board or commission.

3. The implementation of this policy and its ad-
ministration shall be the responsibility of the syn-
odical Director of Personnel.

b. Districts are urged to pattern their retire-
ment policies and practices after those of the Synod.

To Study Further Certain Questions
RESOLUTION 4-47

Report 4-09, II, III; Overtures 4-51, 4-78 (CW, pp. 215 to 219,
226—227, 235)

Wuereas, A new Committee on Organization has been
authorized in Resolution 5-09 (TB, p. 137); and

Wuereas, The reports and overtures studied by the
Committee on Synodical Administration indicate areas re-
quiring further study; therefore be it

Resolved, That the following additional items be as-
signed to the new Committee on Organization for study:
1. Convention publications.

2. Functions and procedures of the Fiscal Review Com-
mission.

3. Synod’s internal public relations.
4. Role of the Council of Administrators.

5. Possibility of combining the Commission on Social
Concerns with the Board of Social Ministry and World
Relief.

6. Role and function of the Council of Presidents:

and be it also

Resolved, That the new Committee on Organization re-

port to the next synodical convention.

To Decline to Permit Restriction of District
Clergy Offices to Parish Pastors
RESOLUTION 5-25

Overture 5-36 (CW, p. 261)

Wuereas, In the interest of uniformity of procedure
within the Synod, Districts should not be permitted to estab-
lish differing procedures of election; and

Wuereas, The results requested can be obtained through
discriminatory nominations and elections; therefore be it

Resolved, That Overture 5-36 be declined.

To Study Organization and Constitution
and Bylaws of the Synod
RESOLUTION 5-30
Overtures 5-62—5-64 (CW, pp. 268—269)

Wuereas, Study required to deal meaningfully and intel-
ligently with concerns outlined in the “whereas” and “re-
solve” elements of Overtures 5-62, 5-63, and 5-64 call for
an investment of time and resources not readily available to
this convention; and

Wuereas, The Committee on Organization has begun and
suggests the continuation of a study on the organization of
the Svnod; and

Wuereas, That study indicates that basically the struc-
ture of the Synod is sound, though it suggests further and
continuing study to accomplish and assure efficiency of ad-
ministration; and

Whereas, The committee’s recommendation for further
study can be expanded to include a review of the Constitu-
tion and Bylaws of the Synod; therefore be it

Resolved, That the convention add to the recommenda-
tion for further study by the Committee_on Organization.
heretofore authorized to be appointed by Resolution 5-09 of
this convention, a review of the Constitution and Bylaws of
the Synod.

To Decline to Define Conflict of Interest
RESOLUTION 5-43
Overture 5-86 (CW, pp. 274—275)
Wuereas, This overture predicates its decision on Bylaws

2.12 and 3.37 in the Handbook: and

Wuereas, The overture misconstrues the intent and con-
cept of stated Bylaws 2.12 and 3.37; and

Wuereas, The concerns of Overture 5-86 have been satis-
fied by Resolution 5-23 (TB. p. 244) of this convention,
therefore be it

Resolved, That Overture 5-86 be declined.

To Decline to Revise Procedures
for Electing Delegates
RESOLUTION 5-44
Overtures 5-13, 5-15 (CW, pp. 255—256)

Wuereas, Article V of the Synod's Constitution gives
membership in the Synod to “congregations, ministers of the
Gospel, and teachers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
who confess and accept the confessional basis of Article II”;
and

Wuereas, All organized congregations that have joined
the Synod hold voting membership; and