The difference between a "Standing Committee" and an "Operational Committee".

[Guest twstoddard@pasadena.edu]

What is the difference between a "Standing Committee" and an "Operations Committee"?

What is the definition of and the rubric to assess a "Standing Committee"?

What is the definition of and the rubric to assess an "Operations Committee"?

[Gary Novosielski]

RONR does not address "operations committees".  In RONR there are two types of committees, Standing and Special (or Select).

A standing committee is one that continues in existence and usually is assigned a particular class of business, and may have multiple items under consideration.

A special committee is one that is created to deal with one particular question.  When it rises and reports its recommendations to the parent body, it ceases to exist.

[Guest Puzzling]

49 minutes ago, Gary Novosielski said:

RONR does not address "operations committees".  In RONR there are two types of committees, Standing and Special (or Select).

A standing committee is one that continues in existence and usually is assigned a particular class of business, and may have multiple items under consideration.

A special committee is one that is created to deal with one particular question.  When it rises and reports its recommendations to the parent body, it ceases to exist.

There is also another way to categorize committees in RONR 50:18

- a committee to implement an order of the assembly 

- a committee for deliberation.

Also there is the (quasi) "committee of the whole"

 

 

[Richard Brown]

5 hours ago, Guest Puzzling said:

There is also another way to categorize committees in RONR 50:18

- a committee to implement an order of the assembly 

- a committee for deliberation.

Not really. That section of RONR, 50:18, is specifically  about how to populate the two types of committees, standing committees and special committees.

[Richard Brown]

9 hours ago, Guest Puzzling said:

Also there is the (quasi) "committee of the whole"

A committee of the whole and Quasi committee of the whole and to consider informally are not really committees in the way that RONR defines committees. They are instead methods of enabling the full assembly to consider a matter with less formality than could be done under the regular rules. They are not true Committees. 

From section 52:1: “The committee of the whole and its two alternate forms, the quasi committee of the whole (or consideration as if in committee of the whole) and informal consideration, are devices that enable the full assembly to give detailed consideration to a matter under conditions of freedom somewhat like those of a committee.” 

Edited April 20, 2021 at 06:12 PM by Richard Brown
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