conflict of interest

[Guest Phil Ross]

If an organization has a board president, who also chairs a comittee, is that a conflict of interest. More specifically, that comittee spent funds that were above budget and did not have it approved in a quorum setting. It was done in executive committee.

[JohnR]

According to RONR, it's only the Nominating Committee that the president should not serve on. Otherwise, "conflict of interest" is up to your organization to decide. It's also up to the parent assembly what action, if any, should be taken if the committee exceeded its authority.

[Trina]

RONR has little to say about conflict of interest. Certainly there is no rule against the president also chairing a committee.

Now, as far as the committee spending funds without having approval 'in a quorum setting' -- what does that mean? How was the approval given? By what body?

And what does the executive committee (a 'board within a board', which must be specified and defined in the bylaws in order to exist at all) have to do with it? Even if the executive committee has authority to approve the over-budget spending, it could not do so without quorum (meaning, quorum at a meeting of the executive committee).

[Guest Edgar]

It was done in executive committee.

Do you, perhaps, mean to suggest it was done while the board was meeting "in executive session"?

[Rev Ed]

The President should not be on the Nominating Committee - other then that the President can be on any Committee, and be Chairman of any Committees. Some organizations will make the President an ex-officio member of all Committees except the Nominating Committee.