Leadership board: Past financial directors / past assistant financial directors

To help chapters more easily complete year-end tasks at the beginning of the next year, outgoing financial directors and assistant financial directors will have access to the Chapter Leadership Administration Menu until March 1 of the following year (e.g., outgoing 2008 financial directors will have access to the system until March 1, 2009).

This allows the outgoing financial directors and assistant financial directors to more easily:

• Complete year-end work related to the audit and the Chapter Summary Report, which needs to be submitted by the end of February.
• Train new financial directors and assistant financial directors.

All other outgoing chapter leaders lose access to the online system on Dec. 31.

How it works

• A Past Financial Director position and Past Assistant Financial Director position appears on the Administration pages that list the chapter leadership board.
  
  
• Between March 1 and Dec. 31, these positions will be listed as VACANT.

Note: When chapters add next year's elected chapter leaders and advisors to the system before year-end, they are not able to add anyone to the Past Financial Director or Past Assistant Financial Director positions. This will automatically be done on Jan. 1 (see next bullet point).

• On Jan. 1, any outgoing financial director or assistant financial director (those who are leaving the board) will automatically be placed in the Past Financial Director or Past Assistant Financial Director position on the Administration pages. This allows them access to the Administration Menu. Chapters do not need to enter anything.
  
  
• On March 1, the outgoing financial directors and assistant financial directors will automatically be removed from the Past Financial Director and Past Assistant Financial Director positions on the Administration pages. Chapters do not need to remove the names from these positions.
  
  After March 1, these two positions will show as VACANT. The outgoing directors no longer will have access to the Administration pages — no exceptions can be made.

Following is additional information to answer questions you may have:

• Only outgoing financial directors and assistant financial directors can serve in the Past Financial Director and Past Assistant Financial Director positions. For example, an outgoing communications director cannot be added to one of those positions.
  
  
• If a financial director or assistant financial director is continuing in that role for the next year, the Past Financial Director and/or Past Assistant Financial Director position will continue to be listed as VACANT between Jan. 1 and March 1.
  
  
• If a financial director or assistant financial director continues on the chapter leadership board for the next year, but in a different elected position (e.g., President), that person will still have access to the system in 2008, and the Past Financial Director or Past Assistant Financial Director will continue to be listed as VACANT between Jan. 1 and March 1.
  
  
• If a chapter manually removes an outgoing financial director or assistant financial director from the system before Dec. 31, the person will not automatically be placed in the Past Financial Director or Past Assistant Financial Director position on Jan. 1.
  
  
• Chapters and Lutheran Community Services (LCS) staff will not be able to manually add a person to the Past Financial Director or Past Assistant Financial Director positions.
  
  
• If a chapter accidentally removes a person from the Past Financial Director or Past Assistant Financial Director position after Jan. 1, the chapter can contact the Fraternal Service Center (see below) to have the person added back on the system.
  
  
• The Jan. 1 to March 1 time period for Past Financial Directors and Past Assistant Financial Directors does not count as serving another term. For example, if an outgoing financial director served three years (2007 to 2009), he/she will be eligible to be elected to the chapter leadership board again for 2011. The two months in 2010 does not count as a fourth term.

Questions?
If you have questions, please contact the Fraternal Service Center at fraternal@thrivent.com or 800-236-3736.

Additional Topics
Chapter elections – reporting results
Leadership board: eligibility and specifics
Leadership board: outgoing leadership transition
Leadership board: roles and expectations
Leadership board: term limits

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