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Find out about the duties of the office and follow links to additional information to help you be more effective.
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Congratulations on being elected to lead your association. This is where you can find support and assistance to make your term in office a successful one. |
President |
The president makes sure meetings are run effectively and that the job gets done. |
Secretary |
The secretary records what happens and keeps track of the records and correspondence of the association. |
Treasurer |
The treasurer maintains the books and oversees the association finances. |
Vice-president |
Vice presidents prepare to fill in as president and conduct their committees and other assigned duties. |
Director |
Directors or Trustees set the direction for the association and oversee its operation as defined in the association bylaws. |
Rules of parliamentary law are constructed to carefully balance the rights of persons or subgroups with an association's total membership. There is due regard for the rights:
of the majority,
of the minority, especially a strong minority greater than one third,
of individual members,
of absentees, and
all of these together.
"Fundamentally, under the rules of parliamentary law, a deliberative body is a free agent - free to do what it wants to do with the greatest measure of protection to itself and of consideration for the rights of its members.
The application of parliamentary law is the best method yet devised to enable assemblies of any size, with due regard for every member's opinion, to arrive at the general will of the maximum number of questions of varying complexity in a minimum time and under all kinds of internal climate ranging from total harmony to hardened or impassioned division of opinion"
Robert, Henry M. 1990 (9th) edition. The Scott Foresman Robert's Rules of order newly revised.
The Introduction describes the history of organizing group decision making and the development of Robert's Rules.
Chapter I provides an review of getting folks together to make a unified decision.
The duties of officers are discussed in Chapter XV.
Robert's Rules is much more than a tedious treatise of the picayune points about points of order. It contains much information about what is needed to organize and operate an association. Every association leader should use Robert's Rules as a first text for understanding the issues of association leadership and how they can be solved.
Overton, George W. ed, 1993. Guidebook for directors of nonprofit corporations. Prepared by the legal guidebook for directors subcommittee, nonprofit corporations committee, section of business law, American Bar Association.
"Primarily designed for the lay reader, the Guidebook provides a description of general legal principles as they apply to nonprofit corporations and procedures for both the individual director and the corporation which he or she serves."
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