Powers Of A Committee

[glennk]

Can anyone point me in the direction of some advice on what powers a committee of a small sports club may have. In this instance the committee is elected by the clubs membership but there is no constitution in place. Friction has arisen over some of the committees decisions from the membership and now the committee are questioning their own powers.

 

How can we find out what a committee can and cant do in respect to running of small sports clubs ?

 

Help..............

[John E Ashford]

The best thing for any committee to do, is resign.

[glennk]

Thanks John

[Lid]

I suspect a committee has no powers unless there is a written constitution.

[greg long]

call an emergency general meeting and create a constitution.....oh and elec\t a new committee.

[Jim Roper]

Design a camel. A horse designed by a committee!

[kleinboet]

I agree with Greg Long. Hold either an Annual General Meeting (if you have never held one before)

or an Extraordinary Ad Hoc general meeting to adopt a constitution. The committee, although resigning, can be re-elected by a majority of members if they want.

Look on the web for constitutions, and adapt them to suit your club.

[Chris Goddard]

That's the one Glen!! You actually need to adopt the constitution if you don't have one.

[RobStubbs]

As others have said you need a full constitution. Failing that, look back to the original minutes at the formation meeting / first agm, and see if anything was agreed. It's normal for a committee to propose things which the membership votes on at AGM's, but committees can also act autonomously if so empowered.

 

Rob.