Greg has drafted a proposal and sent it on to the Executive Committee. Part of the proposal is that the President shall appoint the Audit Committee, who will receive the audit from the CPA and make recommendations to the Executive Committee. The Executive Director will assist the CPA in any way to have access to the books and records of the organization. The proposal also includes a clause that the members of the Audit Committee are not acting in a professional capacity, so they have no professional liability. There was considerable discussion of the section about committees.
People are very confused about the structures of the committees.
The bylaws should be worded so that the committees are more permanent, and so each new president does not change the committee structure without broad support from the committee members. The committee agreed that stability was important, but recognized that describing committee structure and duties in the bylaws would produce inflexibility. The compromise seemed to be to allow the President broad discretion to propose changes in committees, subject to approval by the Executive Committee. Jane and Rachel pointed out that this seems to be what the bylaws contemplated. The president with the advice of the Executive Committee shall appoint may make recommendations to the Executive Committee in regard to the establishment of standing committees and such other committees as the Executive Committee deems necessary to accomplish the association mission.