Responsibilites of committees

[Guest Sylvia]

Does Robert Rules Of Order address committees and a requirement that they take minutes of meetings that they have? Should a committee head or Chair submit meeting minutes and list attendees? The organizations by laws nor standing rules address the issue.

[Hieu H. Huynh]

RONR does not require committees to take minutes.

[Richard Brown]

On 7/3/2018 at 6:16 PM, Guest Sylvia said:

Does Robert Rules Of Order address committees and a requirement that they take minutes of meetings that they have? Should a committee head or Chair submit meeting minutes and list attendees? The organizations by laws nor standing rules address the issue.

Agreeing with Mr. Huynh, this is what RONR says on page 500:  "COMMITTEE PROCEDURE. In small committees, the chairman usually acts as secretary, but in large ones and many standing committees, a secretary may be chosen to keep a brief memorandum in the nature of minutes for the use of the committee.

[Gary Novosielski]

On 7/3/2018 at 7:16 PM, Guest Sylvia said:

Does Robert Rules Of Order address committees and a requirement that they take minutes of meetings that they have? Should a committee head or Chair submit meeting minutes and list attendees? The organizations by laws nor standing rules address the issue.

For the most part, No.

Some committees keep minutes, or notes in the nature of minutes, but there is no requirement to do so, and if done no requirement to submit them to anyone else.

Communication between a committee and its parent body is accomplished via the committee's Report, approved by a majority of its members.