@Drake Savory the bylaws only speak to one member being on the committee and that is a specific officer position we have called Host.
Perhaps the wording of the action desired by some of the committee was incorrect. The bylaws actually does list two separate committees with somewhat similar duties but upon close reading the duties are distinct (with a couple lines of overlap). The issue comes in more so with Officer roles as the bylaws stipulate that the Host is the chairman of both committees. So in effect, it’s operating as one committee - even though the bylaws does not direct the committee to operate as such.
The desire of the Host and some others is to have the Host solely responsible for one committee (Hospitality) and create a separate chairperson role for the second committee (Social).
I went back to some minutes from creation of the bylaws and it appears the intent was for it to act as one committee only to lessen the burden/responsibilities. Because the organization was small, there was hesitance to create too many chairperson roles when there weren’t a lot of people to fill them. So every officer was given responsibility for a committee. This was the only officer that was given responsibility for 2.
Rather than a motion to separate the functions, the committee should have proposed a Bylaws change to remove the Host as the chairperson for the Social Committee and establish a Chairperson role.
