Our non profit organization is currently revising bylaws. When my term began in December, one of the first things I did was call on the committees to actually start meeting and reporting to the board. One of the committees, the Board Development Committee, wants to change their name to Governance Committee. Along with this, which I objected to due to the similarity to Executive Committee, they also want to change the bylaws to get rid of the nominating committee and have the Governance Committee present the slate of officers and nominate new members for the board. This committee is not elected, but was appointed by members volunteering for the various boards. Is this a practice among other boards? Does this sound right to anyone? I suspect there is more behind this move than meets the eye. I am not familiar enough with Robert's Rules to find this answer for myself. I admit I am a neophyte when it comes to RR.
