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Handbook page 126
Source: LCMS Handbook 2023, page 126.
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(a) It is vested with the supervision of the business, financial, property, personnel, and legal affairs of the Synod assigned to that synodwide corporate entity.
(b) It shall develop policies governing its operations.
(c) It shall have an independent audit.
(d) It shall provide for insurance and fidelity bonding.
(e) It shall use common policies with other synodwide corporate entities whenever possible.
(f) It shall establish and monitor long - and short -range plans and operating and capital budgets to carry out such plans in accord with the objectives of the Synod and its convention resolutions.
(g) It shall reply to inquiries and suggestions from the Synod ’s Board of Directors relative to its operations and activities. If the governing board and the Synod ’s Board of Directors do not reach an accord on such suggestions, the matter may be brought by the Synod ’s Board of Directors to the Synod in convention for a decision.
(h) It shall be accountable to the Synod in convention for the discharge of its assigned duties and shall submit a report relative thereto for inclusion in the Convention Workbook.
(i) It shall be accountable to the President of the Synod for doctrinal faithfulness.
(j) It shall respond to any questions asked by the President of the Synod as he carries out his constitutional duties.
3.6.1.7 The governing instruments of a synodwide corporate entity shall be in
conformity with the Synod ’s Constitution, Bylaws, and applicable resolutions of the Synod in convention.
(a) Before becoming effective, such governing instruments, and any amendments thereto, shall be reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors of the Synod and the Commission on Constitutional Matters.
(b) A negative decision by either of these two bodies may be appealed to the Synod in convention, which retains the right on its own initiative to require amendments to such governing instruments.
(c) A copy of the current governing instruments of each synodwide corporate entity shall be filed with the Secretary of the Synod.
(d) A copy of its current governing instrument shall be made available by a synodwide corporate entity to any member of the Synod upon request.
3.6.1.8 Each synodwide corporate entity shall provide in its governing
instruments
(a) a provision that every member of the governing board shall be a member of a congregation that is a member of the Synod;
(b) a provision that it is a component part of the Synod, is subject to the Constitution, Bylaws, and resolutions of the Synod, and its governing instruments are subordinate to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Synod;
(c) a provision that any amendments to a provision of its governing instruments which relate to its objects and purposes, the designating
