ADVISORY COUNCIL

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1. the income of the org and its delivery is the primary business of an Advisory Council. When it has accomplished its business in this it may then consider the limitation of expenditures. The Advisory Council planning is expressed in an executive directive drawn up for executive council approval. This usually covers the coming week but may also take up longer range planning. Advisory Council collects up all divisional FP submissions, sees to it that those things necessary to execute its planning have been FPed for, sees that at least 15% of the allocation is allotted to promotion and that there are adequate promo items to utilize this 15% without waste. This is the extent of Advisory Council in financial planning. The divisional FP submissions and the completed checklist with Advisory Council proposals and all work papers are then forwarded to executive council for approval. (HCO PL 23 Jun 75)

2. does income and delivery planning. (HCO PL 23 Jun 75)

3. the Advisory Council of an organization shall be composed of the heads of divisions and various representatives, duly elected, of field auditors, students, preclears and public bodies and representatives of subordinate organizations and a representative of the senior organization or, in case of the highest Advisory Council, a representative of the senior officer of Scn and the Board. Executive secretaries may not be members of the Advisory Council. All representatives of an Advisory Council must be elected to it by a majority vote of the Advisory Council and the appointment confirmed by the two executive secretaries, on submission of the results of election by the Secretary of the Advisory Council. Exception: heads of divisions are automatically appointed to the Advisory Council. The Advisory Council purpose is: to advise the executive secretaries or executive council as to required directives and policies and to implement directives and policy for approval and to examine statistics and conditions and implement remedies or intensification for approval and to originate and recommend for approval promotion ideas. (HCO PL 21 Dec 66 1)

4. Advisory Councils are senior to Advisory Committees. An Adcouncil runs the whole org, an Adcomm runs only one of its divisions. Advisory Councils are advisory to the Board of Directors or the Executive Director or the Guardian and have no other powers. They cannot open or close bank accounts or change corporate status. They are appointed by a senior Adcouncil or the Executive Director or the Guardian. An Adcouncil consists of the two executive secretaries of an organization and the Executive Director. (HCO PL 13 Mar 66)

5. it is composed of the HCO Executive Secretary and the Organization Executive Secretary and is understood to include LRH. Receiving all Adcomm statistics, the Advisory Council determines the states of conditions of the organization, each division or separate departments, and publishes the states assigned as from the Office of LRH. The Advisory Council does all minor planning and adjustments necessary as an executive admin letter, local. Should large changes be envisioned, the change must be authorized by LRH also and is issued as a SEC ED from Saint Hill. (HCO PL 12 Aug 65)

6. at WW, the prime concern of the Advisory Council is the competence of executive secretaries of other organizations in keeping their divisions going well. In Area Orgs the concern of the Advisory Council is the competence of divisional secretaries, in keeping their divisions going well. All actions are taken only on statistics. (HCO PL 21 Jan 66)

7. handles the gross divisional statistics, looking for steep ups (to assign affluence) or steep downs (to assign emergency). (HCO PL 30 Sept 65)

8. we will call the Advisory Council the AdCouncil, never AdCoun, to avoid any errors in confusing it with Adcomm. (HCO PL 30 Sept 65)

9. is composed of bureaux deputies who head internal bureaux functions on Flag, formerly division heads. (ED 1 Flag)

10. that body of executives in immediate charge of an organization subject to supervision by a further governing authority. (HCO PL 1 Nov 66 II)

11. purpose: to advise the executives of the organization as to needed changes and policies. To act as a meeting ground for department heads. To assemble and report the statistics of finance and action to the Executive Director. To advance ideas for promotion and improvement. (HCO PL 27 Nov 59)