Illinois Great Rivers Conference 2025 Journal-Yearbook
b) Conflict of Interest: Committee members have a fiduciary duty to exercise good faith in all transactions involving the Conference. A rule of honest and fair dealing shall apply to transactions between Committee mem- bers and the Conference. They shall not knowingly use their positions or knowledge gained therefrom to materially or financially benefit, so that a conflict of interest may arise between the Conference’s interest and that of any committee member. In connection with any actual or possible con- flict of interest, a committee member must disclose at the earliest possible time the existence of the financial interest and be given the opportunity to disclose all material facts to the chair and members of committee consid- ering the proposed transaction or arrangement. c) Tenure of Committee Members: Members of Annual Conference and district committees shall be elected or appointed to four-year terms and shall not be elected or appointed to the same office for more than two consecutive terms. These tenure limitations may be waived during the nomination and election or appointment process in rare cases where they would otherwise conflict with inclusivity or expertise requirements. Terms of office on committees shall begin and end with the adjournment of the annual conference session each year. For the purposes of determin- ing tenure limitations, the term of office of persons elected or appointed to committees after the adjournment of the annual conference session but before the end of that calendar year shall be regarded as having begun with the end of that session; persons elected or appointed after the start of the calendar year but before the next annual conference session shall be regarded as starting their terms at the adjournment of the next session d) Leadership of Committees: In order to provide for clear connections between the Annual Conference and its committees, and except where otherwise provided by The Book of Discipline, IGRC Bylaws, or an Annual Conference approved policy statement, all committee chairs, presidents, or other lead presiding officers (hereafter, “chairs”) will be nominated by the Committee on Nominations and elected by Annual Conference. Other officer positions shall be filled by committees from within their membership, in accordance with any applicable Disciplinary or Annual Conference requirements. e) Resignations from Committees: Persons wishing to resign from a com- mittee office shall notify the chair or acting chair of their committee, or in the absence of a chair or acting chair, the chair or acting chair of the Committee on Nominations. Any committee may enact procedures for automatic resignation of members after a defined number of unexcused absences from committee meetings or activities, provided that every reasonable attempt has first been made by that committee to establish communication with the member; such resignations must be jointly ap- proved on a case-by-case basis by that committee and the Committee on Nominations. f) Interim Nominations: When a vacancy exists in a committee office for which the Committee on Nominations is responsible, the Commit- tee on Nominations may submit to the Connectional Table an interim nomination for that office. Upon approval by the Connectional Table, the individual nominated shall immediately take office. The individual shall serve until the adjournment of the following annual conference session or, if further nominated by the Committee on Nominations and elected
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