Committee structure

[Guest Guest Bailey]

The board set up a committee to review a contract. The president appointed a chair. The chair has appointed members to the committee that the president and board didn't approve. Does the president have the right to remove the committee members from the committee? Our bylaws simply state that the president with approval from the board may appoint special committees, sub-committee and task forces. It make no other representation on special committee structure.

[Gary Novosielski]

The power to "appoint" a committee means the power to name the members and the chair of the committee.

So it looks like the president should not have merely named the chair, but also named the members.

The chair had no obvious authority to name the members in the first place, unless some other rule that you haven't told us about would allow it. But in general the right to appoint carries with it the right to remove (unless there are fixed terms involved). So if that right belongs to the president, he can do so.

If he had followed the rule to begin with, the question would not have come up.

It's also a little vague how the board gets to express its approval (or, presumably, disapproval) of the appointees.

[Rev Ed]

I would assume that the power to appoint also means the power to remove. But yes, the President should have named the entire membership of the Committee with the "approval" of the Board of course.