ARTICLE V / Other Committees
§5.1 Standing and Special Committees. The President, subject to the approval of the Executive Committee, shall appoint standing Committees, the members of which shall serve for one year, or until their successors are appointed and qualified.
The President, subject to the approval of the Executive Committee or the Board of Directors, shall appoint such other Committees as he deems advisable.
The President shall be an ex-officio member of all Committees.
§5.2 Finance Committee. There shall be a Finance Committee, the members of which shall take office on November 1 of each year. The members shall be the President, President-elect and Treasurer for the ensuing calendar year; the Chief Executive Officer; six REALTOR members of the Association, who shall serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two such members to be appointed by the ensuing year’s Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Directors; and, one Member Board Executive Officer, who shall serve for a two-year term, with such Executive Officer being appointed by the ensuing year’s President, with the approval of the Board of Directors. The immediate past Treasurer shall serve as Chairman of the Finance Committee. Vacancies on the committee because of the death, resignation or removal of a member shall be filled by the officer who made the original appointment to the vacated term, or in the event that a vacancy occurs in the position held by an Executive Officers, such vacancy shall be filled by the current President subject to Board of Director approval.
§5.3 Scholarship Selection Group. There shall be a Scholarship Selection Group appointed by the President. It shall be the duty of the Scholarship Selection Group, in conjunction with a Scholarship Committee from the Ohio State University, to interview applicants and/or review applications for Ohio REALTORS awards, and to make such awards to deserving applicants.
It shall be the duty of the members of the Scholarship Selection Group appointed by the President to investigate ways and means of raising funds for scholarship awards, and of broadening the scope of the scholarship program throughout the State of Ohio.
§5.4 Strategic Planning Committee. A Strategic Planning Committee shall be appointed yearly by the President, with the approval of the Executive Committee, consisting of a minimum of 12 members and not more than 25 members and a Chairman. The members of the Committee shall be appointed for staggered three-year terms. The Chairman is appointed on an annual basis by the President, with the approval of the Board of Directors. The Committee’s purpose shall be to review the officially-approved strategic plan of the Association, recommending changes and procedures for implementation of the plan, through the Executive Committee to the Directors. The committee shall also strive to identify emerging issues and challenges affecting the real estate industry. It shall propose appropriate amendments to the Strategic Plan in response to such issues and challenges and recommend ways to communicate them to the members.
§5.5 Professional Standards Forum. The Professional Standards Forum, whose chair and vice chair shall be appointed annually by the President, shall provide programming and information to those who administer or participate as a volunteer in enforcement of the Code of Ethics and Arbitration and Mediation services. In the event that a local Board cannot impanel an impartial tribunal and refers an ethics or arbitration matter to the Association, the Association may delegate to a local Board or a regional enforcement facility, the authority to hear the case on behalf of the Association. If no local Board or regional enforcement facility accepts such delegation, the matter shall be administered by the Professional Standards Forum pursuant to Article XIV of these Code of Regulations.
§5.6 Committee Meetings. In the discretion of the committee chair, committee meetings may be conducted through the use of authorized communications equipment as defined in §2.7. For purposes of establishing a quorum, participation by a committee member through the use of authorized communications equipment constitutes the presence in person of that member at the meeting.