Committee reports & do requests for expenditures require motion and vote

[Guest Sam Herb]

Am I correct that committee reports are just accepted without motion and vote? If during a committee report a specific request is made to allow the committee to spend money from a fund which is not within the committee's control is there a need for a motion, second and vote?

[Richard Brown]

You are correct that committee reports are made (or received) with no motion or vote to "accept" them.  Someone makes the report and that's it.  The presiding officer thanks him for the report and moves on to the next item of business.  If it was a written report, it should be placed on file.

 

If the committee has a desire to take action on something (for a motion for authority to spend money, for example), then, at the conclusion of giving the report, the reporting officer, who is usually the committee chairman, moves, on behalf of the committee, for the adoption of the following  motion:  That the clubhouse committee be granted authority to spend up to $100 for paint and supplies for painting the clubhouse.   Since the motion (or  recommendation for the motion) is made at the recommendation of a committee, which usually has more than one member, no second is needed to a motion made on behalf of a committee.