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Today's Business, Issue 1. p. 154. Original floor committee resolution.
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Official Resolution Source Text
Resolution: 9-07
Canonical number: 9-07
Committee: Structure and Administration
Source: Today's Business, Issue 1
Printed pages: p. 154
PDF pages: 154
Version: original, current-published-proposal
Source reference: Issue 1, p. 154
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- To Amend Bylaw 3.6.4.3 to Clarify That No More Than Two
- Lutheran Church Extension Fund Directors Can Be from the Same District
- RESOLUTION 9-07
- Overture 9-47 (CW, 490)
- Rationale
- The Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF) Bylaws in Section 1, Article II, contain a sentence that reads, “No more
- than two elected Directors can be from the same district of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.” (The elected directors
- in the language of the LCEF Bylaws include all the voting directors on the board, both those elected by the Synod
- convention and those appointed by the LCEF Board of Directors.) The Commission on Constitutional Matters (CCM), in
- Opinion 26-3076, dated March 5, 2026, has stated that the aforesaid limitation does not apply to the LCEF directors elected
- by the Synod in convention since the limitation does not appear in the Synod’s Bylaws. The CCM also suggested that,
- “The convention can be asked to add the language to the Synod Bylaws, perhaps to Bylaw 3.6.4.3, and if it does so, the
- provision would be operative from the time of adoption.”
- In order, therefore, to clarify that the requirement that no more than two voting LCEF directors can be from the same
- district also pertains to the LCEF voting directors elected by the Synod in convention, a sentence similar to that in the
- LCEF Bylaws is proposed to be added to Synod Bylaw 3.6.4.3. This would avoid the possibility that the LCEF directors
- elected by the Synod convention, when added to the directors appointed by the LCEF membership, could exceed the
- limitation. Since LCEF amended its Bylaws in 2025 to remove geographical restrictions regarding the election of its
- directors, the proposed change would prevent overrepresentation on the LCEF Board of Directors by any one district.
- Therefore be it
- Resolved, That Bylaw 3.6.4.3 be amended as follows:
- PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING
- 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. Three directors shall be elected by the Synod in convention and shall include one ordained or
- commissioned minister and two laypersons.
- 2. The remaining voting directors shall be chosenappointed by the members.
- 3. The representative designated by the Board of Directors of the Synod shall also be a nonvoting
- member of the board.
- No more than two voting directors shall be from the same district, provided that the current term of a director
- shall not be affected if the director moves from one district to another during the term.
