Executive Board is deciding admission fee fora committee without going to the General board for discussion

[Guest Sally Jean]

I am a member of a committee and on the  board of trustees of a museum. Our committee decided on prices for admission to a function which we are organizing and manning.
The executive committee of the organization has super ceded our decision on prices, and furthermore has indicated that the executive board will now intervene on any committee to change prices if they desire..
I thought that the executive board was a" board within a board", and decisions like this should be made at the general board level..
 

[Edgar Guest]

An executive committee is, indeed, described in RONR as "a board within a board". And, just as the board is often authorized to act on behalf of the general membership (with the notable exception, in most cases, of amending the bylaws) between meetings of the general membership, the executive committee is often authorized to act on behalf of the board between meetings of the board.

 

You'll have to look to your own bylaws to see if your executive committee exceeded its authority.

[Guest Guest]

Our General Board of Trustees meets once a month..The next meeting is In early June. Ample time would be had to bring the issue of what to charge at an event to a vote at that meeting instead of arbitrarily making this decision at the Exec. Board meeting. It seems that this Executive Committee is overstepping its bounds on many issues.

Another thing they have done recently is to not bring to a vote new members to replace those who have resigned, and instead "They" decided to wait until January at the annual meeting. The board of trustees is supposed to make this decision as to whether a new member might finish out a resigned members term...according to by-laws..

[Thomas Ralph]

Sounds like the board/exco are getting ideas above their station

[jstackpo]

 It seems that this Executive Committee is overstepping its bounds on many issues.

 

This may well be true, but "it seem that..." has to be backed up by the rules in your bylaws.  So check them carefully.   Reference material about the "power" of the ExecComm (by whatever name) starts on p. 576.