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) Abbr. Ad council.