Committee Overview
CCAT has six committees, each working closely with the Board:
The Board organizes its work through Committees, and the effectiveness and efficiency of the Board is a direct reflection of the effectiveness and efficiency of its Committees.
Committee Roles
- Work as a unit of the Board.
- Define, document and strive to achieve expectations.
- The Board approves a Terms of Reference statement for each Committee.
Responsibilities
- The Board's Committees are responsible for implementing the mandate and/or assignments that they receive from the Board.
- Although a brief description of the Committee may appear in the By-laws, each Committee should have its own Terms of Reference statement.
- The Terms of Reference statement is approved by the Board of Directors and issued to the Committee Chairperson by the Chairperson of the Board.
- The Terms of Reference statement establishes the volunteer-to-volunteer accountability between the Board and Committee structures.
Functions
A Committee carries out its responsibilities through three functions:
- Policy Planning.
- Reviews and evaluates current policies related to the Committee area.
- Identifies problems with and recommends changes to existing policies.
- Reviews issues and prepares policy or resolution statements for the Board.
- Prepares new policy initiatives.
- Operational Planning.
- Reviews the work of the Committee from previous years.
- Reviews Committee goal and objective statements for the current year.
- Develops strategies and action plans for Committee work.
- Prepares Committee budgets, if appropriate.
- Monitors the on-going work of the Committee.
- Researches new problems or needs.
- Recommends new directions to meet the needs identified in the research.
- Terms of Reference Planning.
- Reviews the Terms of Reference for direction and understanding.
- Evaluates the Committee's work.
- Recommends revisions to the Terms of Reference.
- Drafts objectives for the incoming Committee.
- Prepares a final report for the Board's review and presents the report at the Annual General Meeting.