B. Other Committees:

Other committees may be established on an ad hoc basis by action of the Council. The continuance of a committee may be terminated by affirmative vote of the membership of the Council or by report of the completion of their task.

Rules of Order

Proposals for Council action, whether originating with a committee or an individual member, shall be distributed with the agenda of the meeting at least three days in advance. No substantive motion shall be debated or put to a vote until the motion shall have been submitted to the secretary in writing (determination of substantive issues to be made by the President of the College or chair of the Council after consultation, as appropriate, with the Presidents of the Faculty, the Student Government Association and the Staff Congress).

Proceedings shall be conducted in accord with the traditional parliamentary procedure (Robert’s Rules of Order), except that any Council member, by requesting such action, may have the decision on a matter of policy postponed from one regular meeting to the next, there to be acted upon.

Any action of the Council shall be placed on the agenda for review and reconsideration at the Council's next meeting whenever this is requested by the President of the College. This request is to be made within two weeks of the publication of the minutes of the meeting in which that action was taken. The grounds for such review and reconsideration shall be communicated in writing to members of the Council prior to or at the next regular meeting. If following this review and reconsideration, the issue should not be resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the President and a majority vote of the members of the Council present (a quorum still being maintained), the President may, and shall if so directed by a majority vote of the membership of the Council, forward, to the next regularly scheduled Board of Trustees meeting, the Council action and vote and shall report back to the Council the Board’s response. That report shall be made at the next regularly scheduled Council meeting following the Board’s action. (If following this review and reconsideration the issue should not be resolved, by a vote of the majority of the membership of the Council, the issue shall be referred to the Board of Trustees for review and ultimate determination.)