[QUOTE= How did they get nominated for the chair? Do they just do it without it coming up in a meeting?
PresidentJim[/QUOTE]
We never had a formal nomination - you just volunteered and if the president didn't want to chair it then she would allow the member to do it. But this year I am the president and we added to the by-laws that the president will assign the chairs.
Also, we added that you are only suppose to chair a position for 2 yrs. if someone else wants to do it. But nothing about how many positions you can hold. So I was just wondering if anyone else had it in their by-laws. This year will be a challenge to get new people involved and not to hurt anyone feelings.
You might start by asking those 3 members which event is their least favorite, you want to get some other people involved, what would they suggest a new person take over? Or, can they take on a co-chair to train, so that when these 3 leave, there's someone with some experience.
Normally an event is discussed at a PTO meeting and the President should request someone to chair it and to form a committee. Personally I like giving the person who ran it the previous year the first opportunity to take on the event, as they may feel some sort of ownership and/or pride for the event.
I will agree though that all of these things being chaired by the 3 members seems a bit much. How did they get nominated for the chair? Do they just do it without it coming up in a meeting?
For a couple of my group's events there were others who were interested in being highly involved (chairing), so I made the event a co-chair one, which seems to work out.
I noticed that with our PTA 3 people run most of the committees - each of them have 3 chair positions not including volunteering in other areas plus they are all on the executive committee (i.e. Pres., etc...). Looks something like this...Ice Cream Social, Yearbook, Roller Skating or Box Tops, School Picnic, T-shirt Sale or Teacher Appreciation, Book Fair, major volunteer.
How do we break this up so that we can diversify with more people with out hurting feelings.
Does everyone have something in their by-laws about how many committees/events you can Chair?
