I see standing rules as rules that can be adopted by a majority vote from your executive committee. They can not interfere with your bylaws. So for instance: Resolved, That at no expenditure will be reimbursed without proper receipt.
About a budgeted item, for the financial protection of the organization as well as the executive committee, there should be checks and balances. According to our bylaws, each commissioner and committee chairperson shall present a PLAN OF WORK to the executive committee for approval. NO committee work shall be undertaken without the consent of the executive committee.
Does anyone adopt Standing Rules to go along with your By-Laws?
We have our By-laws but there seems to be some misunderstanding about exacts.
Do you require receipts on all expenditures before you can reimburse funds?
On a budgeted item such as a fundraiser, say they are budgeted $2000 for the expenses of the event. Are they allowed to just go spend that 2000 dollars any way they want or do they need to get prior Board approval first?
There are alot of instances like this that ave come up and I was just wondering how others handle Standing rules
