When it meets next summer, General Synod is expected to vote on a set of proposals concerning its own rules for membership and voting. On Nov. 5, CoGS voted to direct the Governance Working Group (GWG)—a body tasked to review rules around order, procedure and composition of General Synod—to draft resolutions for General Synod necessary to implement the five proposals in a report it made to CoGS in May 2021. The working group stems from a resolution (C005) passed at General Synod in 2019, moved by the Rev. But work on the resolution, the report states, was begun before General Synod that year. “Some see that issue as a failure of governance on an issue that took too long to be considered and thwarted the significant majority of the members of General Synod.