Article IV: Special Committees - Appointments & Special Responsibilities

Section 1: Program Committees (1) Upon sponsorship and production of organization wide North American conventions of the Alliance, a special program committee shall be established and empowered to select performers, lecturers, and other participants for the various presentations, and shall determine the schedule of events for such conventions. (2) A Program Committee will consist of at least three but not more than five individuals. Committee members shall be active members of the Alliance, appointed by the President, and confirmed by simple majority approval of the Executive Committee. Executive officers of the Alliance are not restricted from serving as Program Committee members. The President shall appoint a chairman for this committee from among its members. (3) The Program Committee chairman shall be responsible for coordinating all correspondences of the committee, and shall turn over all materials and copies of correspondences to the Secretary, upon completion of the committee’s duties, for permanent storage in the organization’s files. (4) The Program Committee shall plan the disbursement of funding, if any, appropriated by two-thirds majority agreement of the Executive Committee of the Alliance to support the event being organized. The Program Committee chairman shall submit a final budget of appropriate funds to the President a minimum of four weeks prior to the initial need for those funds, and the President shall be responsible for submitting the budget to the Executive Committee for its suggested revision. In no case shall the appropriated funding of the North American conventions exceed twenty percent (20%) of the available funds of the Alliance. Other Ad Hoc Committees: The President may formulate and appoint personnel to ad hoc committees, as he deems necessary, in consolation with the Executive Committee, to expedite specific tasks under special circumstances. The formulations of ad hoc committees and individuals appointed to them by the President must be approved by a majority vote of the Executive Committee.