2. Board Committees D.2.01 - Committee Structure:
The Board may, from time to time, as it deems necessary, create committees to facilitate the efficient operation of the Board. A committee that includes one or more Board members is subject to the Texas Open Meetings Act when it meets to discuss public business or policy.
A committee that includes less than a quorum of Board members is not subject to the Open Meetings Act if it serves a purely advisory function, with no power to supervise or control public business. However, should the committee actually function as something more than a merely advisory body with the result that it in fact supervises or controls public business or policy, it must comply with the Open Meetings Act to avoid depriving the public of access to the Board’s actual decision-making process.
D.2.02 - Special or Ad Hoc Committees:
The Board or the Board chair may create special or ad hoc committees to handle special assignments. If the Board does not appoint members to such committees, the chair of the Board shall do so. Such committees shall terminate upon completion of their assignments, or such committees may be terminated by vote of the Board.
D.2.03 - Standing Committees:
The Board shall have one standing committee: Audit.
The Board chair shall appoint three members to the committee.
Standing committee appointments are for two (2) years, and coincide with the biennial reorganization of the Board.
Duties of the Audit Committee are as follows:
a. Recommend to the Board the appointment of an external auditing firm
b. Review the annual external audit and develop recommendations as appropriate to the Board
c. Review internal audit plan and develop recommendations as appropriate to the Board
d. Review internal audit reports and make reports and recommendations as appropriate to the Board.
LSCS Policy Manual Section adopted by the Board of Trustees on August 7, 2008