Ad-hoc committee

[Guest Steve D]

Can a Ad-hoc committee chair appoint another ad-hoc chair to do research/report on a particular sub issue of the ad-hoc committee without going back to the main body for nominations and vote of approval ?

[Guest Nancy N.]

If I knew, I would charge more.

[jstackpo]

Yes: A committee can form a sub-committee which will, or should, report back to the parent committee when the sub-committee has done its task. p. 497.

So now you can charge more.

[Guest Nancy N.]

LOL. But the committee chair can do it, as Guest Steve D asks? (I'd bet generally no.) And the rest of it, like nominations, is just chaff?

7!!.

[jstackpo]

Good point -- I suppose it is up to the committee to decide, by adopting an appropriate motion. But I thought that Steve D's main question was whether the committee had to go get "main body" approval. That answer was "No".

[David A Foulkes]

I'm not entirely convinced yet that this committee is going to form a sub-committee. It almost reads as if the ad-hoc committee chair wants to appoint a co-chair ("another ad-hoc chair") to do a little research for him.

[JohnR]

Why does a member have to be made chairman in order to do research? I fail to see the connection.

[jstackpo]

Two aspects to John R.'s question: a sub-committee of a committee has to be made up of members of the parent committee.

A chairman is appropriate to at least call the sub-committee together -- who else? -- and perhaps hand out research assignments. Depends on what the sub-committee is called upon to do, of course.