Responsibilities: The Board of Governors delegates to the Executive Committee responsibility and authority to make decisions on behalf of the Board during the period falling between the Board's in-person annual meetings. The Executive Committee is responsible for:

• reviewing and approving emergent research funding recommendations made by the Director (Co-Director) on behalf of a standing committee or of Principal Investigators;

• approving emergent requests for the purchase of data in collaboration with the Metropolis Centres;

• determining the need for and appointing ad hoc committees as recommended by the Director (Co-Director);

• approving regular and emergent applications by university-based researchers for affiliation with the Centre;

• approving emergent requests for the appointment or replacement of Domain Leaders and/or members of standing committees;

• acting on other matters that are not listed in 5.6.2.

The Executive Committee shall not act on the following issues which remain with the Board:

• high level strategic, budgetary and stewardship policy issues;

• issues which the Executive Committee considers to be of major strategic significance or long term impact on the Centre;

• issues on which, in the opinion of the Committee Chair, there has been a strong division of opinion within the Committee;

• issues involving an alteration in the provisions of the Internal Agreement. 

Membership: The Executive Committee membership will include the Chair of the Board of Governors, the Centre Director (Co-Director), plus at least three persons elected by the Board from amongst its voting members. If the Chair of the Board of Governors declines the invitation to serve on the Executive Committee, a substitute will be elected by the Board.

Term: Executive committee members are elected for a two-year term, with provision for re-election.

Chair: The Executive Committee is chaired by the Chair of the Board of Governors. If the Board elects a substitute for its Chair to serve on the Executive Committee, then the Executive Committee will elect its own Chair. In the temporary absence of the Chair, the Director (Co-Director) will chair the Executive Committee.

Quorum: A quorum shall be not less than one-half of the voting members who may not appoint substitutes.

Prairie Centre Executive Committee 2010-2011 Membership