Committee co-chairmen

[Guest Kathy]

In order to fill some of our chairmen positions we have co-chairs.  Do they have just one vote even if they both attend the committee meetings and how do they count in a quorum?

[Gary Novosielski]

According to RONR, you cannot have co-chairs, so there are no answers to your questions in its pages.  

 

Unless your bylaws have explicit rules authorizing co-chairs (and therefore presumably rules on voting and quorum as well) you only think you have co-chairs, but actually do not.  Check your bylaws.

[Edgar Guest]

 . . . how do they count in a quorum?

 

Assuming they're both members, they count as two members.

[Edgar Guest]

Do they have just one vote . . . ?

 

Two members have two votes.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

In order to fill some of our chairmen positions we have co-chairs. 

Do they have just one vote even if they both attend the committee meetings

and how do they count in a quorum?

Votes are not allocated to OFFICES.

The right to vote is allocated to PEOPLE.

 

So, regardless of the number of hats a person wears (e.g., President, Vice President, Treasurer, and/or Secretary), whoever holds all these offices, when it is vote time, the number of chairmanships held, or the number of offices held, becomes meaningless, as the vote is cast by the member who is empowered to vote -- by whatever means that right got allocated to that person.