Bylaws Executive Committee

[Guest LRockwood]

Our Council is in the process of revising our bylaws. We are a nonprofit organization with 20 Board members and 4 elected officers. The Board meets four times a year and the officers (plus the Chairs of standing committees) meet monthly and act on behalf of the Board. We have referred to the officer's meetings in the past as the Executive Committee and the committee is presently under the bylaws committee section as a standing committee. Some feel that the officers meeting information should be placed under the officers section. Please advise.

[Guest Nancy N.]

"... In most societies this body is called the Executive Board" unless there is to be a smaller body within it to act for the board between its meetings, in which case the full baord is usually designated the Board of Directors and the smaller body is called the Executive Committee[ (see p. 485). The Executive Committee is then established in a separate article following the one on the complete board, with similar provisions." -- RONR, 11th Ed., pl. 577.

[Guest Nancy N.]

(My apologies for typos: there should be no close-quotation mark after Executive Board, and "baord" is usually spelled the other way except maybe in Canada, where it's also more expensive.)

[Gary Novosielski]

(My apologies for typos: there should be no close-quotation mark after Executive Board, and "baord" is usually spelled the other way except maybe in Canada, where it's also more expensive.)

But they take Canadian money up there, so it works out.

[Guest Edgar]

We have referred to the officer's meetings in the past as the Executive Committee and the committee is presently under the bylaws committee section as a standing committee.

RONR refers to the executive committee as "a board within a board" (so, despite its name, it's more like a board than a committee).

[Guest LRockwood]

So if our Executive Committee is a Board within a Board, how should it be listed in the bylaws if not as a committee?

[Josh Martin]

So if our Executive Committee is a Board within a Board, how should it be listed in the bylaws if not as a committee?

 

Nancy answered that back in Post #2. It shouldn't be listed under the article on officers or the article on committees. It should have its own article.