Our fundraising chair is our 2nd VP. She does not sign the contracts. As president, that's my job because ultimately I'm the one thats held responsible should anything go wrong.

Our fundraising committee weeds through all the stuff before bringing a few fundraisers to the table to discuss. But again only I sign the contracts. If a contract needs two signatures then it's mine and the Principals.

We do not have "fundraising chairpersons" per se, they are appointed by the Co Presidents as per the bylaws. Usually, if someone wants to "chair:a particular fundraiser, they let it be known to the board members or Co President(s) and since it is usually difficult to find people to be "chairs" they are appointed. The board and the chairs decide on the major points and decisions and then the chairperson usually handles all the details of running the event/fundraiser.

We also only "typically" do a fall fundraiser and spring fundraiser. Bookfairs (which do bring in money but do not get billed as a fundraiser) are a seperate entity. So we do not need a "fundraiser chair".

All chair positions are open up for signup at the end of April, May and a sign up sheet goes around to see who is interested in chairing what. They they are assigned.

Technically no they do not. The board is suppose to make the approvals.

We have empowered the committees to make 90% of the decisions. BUT we've been involved throughout the process so when a decision is made, it's not a shock to anyone and in a way, it was a group decision.

Our bylaws don't get into it. When we wrote them we had no idea what we were really doing, so we looked at others and went from there. It was something we just didn't anticipate. It's nice to know there are still innocents out there, isn't it?

Sure we could remove her--and don't think it hasn't been discussed. But you know how that goes, and since her term is up this June our thinking is to avoid the drama if we can. This is our last fundraising event--the only other things we have are Market Day (which basically runs itself) and we're selling personalized bricks. I work with that chair, and she's dependable.

To be truthful we're wondering why we thought of having a fundraising chair in the first place. We take any suggestions from the membership, look into them and then present them for a vote. We're thinking of changing the position to "Fundraising Coordinator/Advisor" or maybe removing it altogether since we really don't need it. This wouldn't have been such a big deal if the woman we'd chosen: a) hadn't taken on so much (and yes, we did mention this to her, though I think when we finally get a hold of her we're just going to have to be blunt and tell her while she THINKS she can handle it, we're seeing she can't and give examples), b) was more dependable about communicating and c) wasn't so stubborn about her opinions and accepting that there is a higher authority than her. In other words, if she wasn't such a PIA!

Our chairpeople do not get voted into their positions. People volunteer to chair events and we okay them and hand them whatever information they need to run the event. Our bylaws do not govern chairpeople so they have no protection within our bylaws to hold them to the event.

If someone were ever out of control or going against our wishes we would simply remove them from chairing the event. Also a chairperson could not sign a contract without our consent.

The big question here is what do your bylaws say in regards to chairpersons? Can you remove her from chairing the event/fundraiser?

Our bylaws say 2 signatures on all contracts and that includes fundraisers and it suggests that they be the president and treasurer for obvious reasons. Just speaking as a member, I would never consider binding us to a contract unless I had first presented it for approval. As far as a fundraiser chair is concerned, unless you told them to do whatever they wanted, it would seem that you want them to do the research and then report back before getting into anything.