Process for selecting executive committee officers for new board

[Guest Kol]

How do you select your executive committee. This is a new board.

[Edgar Guest]

How do you select your executive committee?

 

What do your bylaws say about your executive committee?

[Rev Ed]

If this is a new organization, then the organization can decide and then have it placed into the By-laws.  If the organization is already up and running, then follow the By-laws.  Depending on the size of the Board, the organization could appoint all the officers (i.e. the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, etc.) to the Executive Committee and not the directors.  Or the President and the Secretary can be automatically on the Executive Committee, and other members by election of the Board.  Or the Board can elect all the Executive Committee members.

[Richard Brown]

How do you select your executive committee. This is a new board.

Is this an existing organization with bylaws?  If so, the bylaws should specify whether you can have an executive committee and how its members are selected.  If the bylaws don't authorize an executive committee, you cannot have one.

 

If you are just now forming this organization and are in the process of drafting the bylaws, then you can provide for their selection and duties pretty much any way you want to.  

 

Can you be a little more specific about what the situation is?

[Transpower]

Yes, your bylaws should contain the specifics.  In my experience, usually the president, the vice president, the secretary, and the treasurer constitute the executive committee, if there is one.