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Do any clubs have/or have had an Executive Committee that
acts for the club between meetings? If so, how did it work?
Experience? Good / Not Good? Please explain.
Our Executive Committee consists of current officers. We have amended our bylaws to allow actions between meetings if a quorum of current members concurs. We purposely didn't define which types of actions would support telephone/email actions. We have used it three times (in 10 years) - to cancel a buy order when a member died and we had a large payout due his estate; and twice to sell a stock when a major SEC investigation was announced.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Candice N. McKnight-Bell via bivio.com <user*24530200001@bivio.com> wrote:
Do any clubs have/or have had an Executive Committee that
acts for the club between meetings? If so, how did it work?
Experience? Good / Not Good? Please explain.

Hi Candice,

I do not belong to any clubs that use an executive committee. In general, it is extremely rare (probably only 2 or 3 times in the last 17 years) that we find something that needs to be dealt with between meetings. If we do, we use our bivio club email list to discuss it.

In a similar vein of thinking about club management structures and roles, I ran across this website yesterday which describes a different view of how roles could be assigned in an investment group:

http://equitysim.com/Tutorial

Note that even in this structure there are no members who are not actively involved in selecting securities for the portfolio.

Laurie Frederiksen
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Candice N. McKnight-Bell via bivio.com <user*24530200001@bivio.com> wrote:
Do any clubs have/or have had an Executive Committee that
acts for the club between meetings? If so, how did it work?
Experience? Good / Not Good? Please explain.


Our club does have something similar to an Executive
Committee. We call it the Operating Committee. In addition
to our regular monthly meeting, we have an Operating
Committee meeting once a month. All officers are required
members of the committee but any other club members are
welcome to attend. The purpose of the Operating Committee is
twofold - 1) pre-screen stock candidates for presentation at
the regular club meeting - to make sure adequate research
has been completed. All stock candidates to be discussed at
the regular meeting must be pre-screened. 2) working meeting
to discuss and formulate changes to our Partnership
Agreement or By-Laws when necessary. This ensures that any
changes are well formulated before presentation to the club
membership. Pre-screening is the primary activity of the
committee.

If actual club decisions need to be made between regular
club meetings rare), we usually use e-mail discusson to
arrive at a decision.

The Operating Committee works well for us and enables our
regular meetings to be streamlined and effective.

Our club currently has 15 members

Len Delmolino
Treasurer, Oak Point Investment Club
Middleboro, MA