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Current published version
Today's Business, Issue 1. p. 133. Original floor committee resolution.
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Official Resolution Source Text
Resolution: 8-01
Canonical number: 8-01
Committee: Finance
Source: Today's Business, Issue 1
Printed pages: p. 133
PDF pages: 133
Version: original, current-published-proposal
Source reference: Issue 1, p. 133
Line numbers follow Today's Business, Issue 1, with numbering reset on each printed page, so delegates can compare this page with the official PDF.
Page 133
- To Encourage Transparency and Accountability in Legal Judgments and Settlements
- RESOLUTION 8-01
- Reports R1, R1.2–R1.2.2., R1.2.4–R.1.3, R5–R8, R15–R57 (CW, 1–4, 15–28, 31–37, 46–56, 95–141); Overture 8-17
- (CW, 445)
- WHEREAS, Constitution Articles VII and XI establish the Synod as a voluntary association acting on behalf of its
- member congregations and vest final human authority in the Synod in convention; and
- WHEREAS, The Bylaws of the Synod charge the Board of Directors with fiduciary responsibility for the Synod’s
- business and financial affairs (Bylaws 3.3.4.4–5) and require reporting to the Synod in convention concerning the
- administration of those affairs (Bylaw 3.3.4); and
- WHEREAS, These and other Bylaws of the Synod establish an accountability structure that depends upon the keeping
- and reporting of official records and financial information for the governance of the Synod, while permitting appropriate
- confidentiality through executive session, personal privacy, and legal privilege; and
- WHEREAS, Bylaw 1.5.4 states that:
- 1.5.4 The Synod and each of its agencies shall fully disclose their financial books and records to any member
- congregation of the Synod.
- (a) Full disclosure includes all information (including, but not limited to, information required to be
- made available under state law) recorded in any fashion, except the following:
- (1) Information that would violate the expected confidentiality of donors.
- (2) Personnel files or other information that would violate the expected confidentiality of
- employees.
- (3) Information that relates to in-process negotiations of financial matters.
- (4) Information the disclosure of which would breach a legal obligation of the Synod or its agencies
- or affect pending litigation or claims against the Synod or its agencies.
- (5) Information that is preliminary in nature or otherwise has not been finalized in its form and
- content.
- therefore be it
- Resolved, That the Synod in convention commend the process outlined in Bylaw 1.5.4; and be it further
- Resolved, That we give thanks to the Lord for His provision, for the faithful support by God’s people and good
- stewardship of His resources, and we rejoice in these things as they enable our work of the Synod’s mission.
