Charles Hartman

Many thanks for the help. (I managed to head the question off through judicious pre-meeting warnings…)

That makes sense and puts the question into clear perspective. The remaining question would be whether an individual member can request that the assembly enforce this principle. What form would this take? Thank you very much.

I'm the faculty parliamentarian at a small liberal-arts college. Most often our committees give their reports orally. (Our custom, despite RONR, is to summarize these in the minutes.) I have a query from a faculty member about getting a committee to submit its report in writing. The topic concerns compensation; the inquirer wants access to numbers that the compensation committee has not made public. There might or might not be privacy issues; the inquirer sees it as an issue of transparency. My question is simply whether there is any standard motion that the inquirer could make to force the committee to report in writing. I'm guessing not—but the fact that I can't find a thing in RONR is proof of nothing! Thanks for any help. Charles Hartman