The following applies to both committees and working groups.

Purpose: To lead the committee through the business of completing the tasks required in order to meet the mandate and objectives of the Committee.

Success Criteria:

• Committee builds a sense of teamwork
• Committee completes tasks assigned
• Committee presents reports to Executive and/or Council as required
• Council completes work on set priorities and action plans supported by work of the committee

Responsibilities:

• Makes arrangements for meeting and notifies members of date, time and place of meeting.
• Prepares agenda for meeting
• Calls meeting to order
• Delegates responsibilities to committee members
• Uses the committee’s mandate and objectives to guide work of committee
• Involves all members in the decision making
• Reports work of committee to Executive and/or Council as required
• Keeps a written file of work of committee

Time Commitment / Target Dates:

• Time for making arrangements for committee to meet
• Time for committee to discuss business and make recommendations
• Time for committee to report to Executive and/or Council as required
• Time to conduct activity/event if part of the committee role
• Time to draft proposed resolutions (motions) for inclusion in written reports
• Time to produce written reports as required and using the needed templates
• Time to report accomplishments to Executive and/or Council by target dates