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Today's Business, Issue 1. p. 152. Original floor committee resolution.
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Official Resolution Source Text
Resolution: 9-05
Canonical number: 9-05
Committee: Structure and Administration
Source: Today's Business, Issue 1
Printed pages: p. 152
PDF pages: 152
Version: original, current-published-proposal
Source reference: Issue 1, p. 152
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- To Amend Bylaw 3.6.4.3 to Increase the Number of Lutheran Church Extension Fund
- Directors Elected by the Synod in Convention from Three to Four
- RESOLUTION 9-05
- Overture 9-15 (CW, 474–75)
- Rationale
- During a review of Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF)’s articles and bylaws, the Commission on Constitutional
- Matters stated the following in Opinion 24-3024, dated March 15–16, 2024:
- Synod Bylaw 3.6.1.3 (a) provides that a minimum of one-third of the voting members of the governing board
- of a synodwide corporate entity [including LCEF] shall be elected by the Synod in convention. Thus, with
- three voting members elected by the convention, LCEF’s board may contain no more than six appointed
- voting members; it presently has eight.
- In order to comply with the opinion, LCEF must either: (i) reduce the number of directors elected by LCEF’s members
- from eight to six, (ii) increase the number of directors elected by the Synod in convention from three to four, or (iii)
- implement some other combination that complies with the mathematical conclusion of the opinion. The LCEF Board of
- Directors has resolved that it is in the best interest of the good governance of LCEF, balancing the need for sufficient
- voices with that to avoid having too many voices, to increase the number of directors elected by the Synod in convention
- from three to four. To implement this change, it will be necessary to revise Synod Bylaw 3.6.4.3 (1), a bylaw that only
- applies to LCEF.
- Therefore be it
- Resolved, That Bylaw 3.6.4.3 (1) be amended as follows:
- PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING
- The Lutheran Church Extension Fund—Missouri Synod
- …
- 3.6.4.3 The board of directors for the Lutheran Church Extension Fund—Missouri Synod shall consist of such
- number of directors as are specified in the bylaws of The Lutheran Church Extension Fund—Missouri Synod.
- All voting members of the board of directors of the Lutheran Church Extension Fund—Missouri Synod shall
- serve a maximum of four three-year terms.
- 1. FourThree directors shall be elected by the Synod in convention and shall include one ordained or
- commissioned minister and twothree laypersons.
- …
