Committee Planning Report

 

Type of report being submitted:  Committee Planning Report

 

Date:  10-12-2006

 

Committee Name:  Governance Committee

 

Supervising Board Member:  Amanda J. Roberts

 

Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs:  Alice Daugherty, adaugher@lsu.edu

 

 

Committee members: 

Gina Costello, gcoste1@lsu.edu

Jennifer Varney, jvarney@blc.org

Michelle Campbell,michelle.campbell@gmail.com

Rebecca Bailey, rebecca.bailey@case.edu

 

Committee Charge: 

The Governance Committee conducts periodic reviews of the NMRT Constitution and Bylaws, drafts amendments and revisions proposed by the Executive Board or the membership of NMRT, and distributes up-to-date revisions as necessary.

 

2006 - 2007 Project Description / Goals: 

The Governance Committee will prepare any Constitution or Bylaw changes as necessary, a parliamentarian will be provided at board meetings, a packet of governance orientation materials will be developed for new board members (some materials need only be updated).

 

Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products): 

 

Create Orientation materials for new NMRT board members including:

An updated motion-handling document

Commonly used phrases in parliamentarian procedure

A brief summative document of Governance Procedures

 

 

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)

a. 0

Amount which you have spent so far this year

b. 0

Your estimated additional expenses this year

c. 0

Total of amount spent and additional "estimated" expenses for this year (b+c)

d. 0

Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses from above (a-d)

e. 0

 

f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year (either money or in-kind gifts), list here: 

 

NA

 

g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list, what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations Committee?)

 

NA

 

h. Vendor support received: (From the above list, what if any, has been received?)

 

NA

 

Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the categories below, please include approximate date service needed)

a. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form creation, web database, web database, scripting, etc): 

 

NA

 

b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description)

 

NA

c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.): 

 

NA

 

Report submitted by:  Alice Daugherty

 

Email address:  adaugher@lsu.edu