I’m trying to devise how to ask this question without sounding totally off-base.

Do you have trustee committees that are charged with oversight  for events or programs, but they do not actually participating in making the events happen (not an operating committee?)

What do they do? How do they achieve “oversight.” – just act as a review board for the final report, do they make recommendations to the larger board on the events,  do they make the decision to kill or expand programs?

We’ve got a committee that at one point had become a group of folks who simply listened to staff reports on events. Now we are all trying to hammer out a more productive purpose.

Any models out there?