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SECTION 2-12 SPECIAL COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Special committees of the Board of Trustees or of the Executive Committee may be created by these bodies to take charge of subjects specifically referred to them. Such committees shall be appointed in the manner, and shall consist of members, and shall have such powers, as may be ordered by resolution at the time of their appointment and shall cease to exist when their functions have been discharged; but no Special Committee shall exist longer than three years after the date of its appointment unless continued by affirmative action of the Board or the Executive Committee. The Chairman of any Special Committee shall submit the report of his committee in writing signed by all members agreeing thereto. A minority may submit a dissenting report in like manner.

SECTION 2-12 REFERENCE TO COMMITTEES

All matters presented to the Board of Trustees or to the Executive Committee, except matters of routine business, which come within the sphere of interest or activity of any standing committee, shall be submitted to the appropriate committee for investigation and report. Any matter affecting the government or policy of The University of North Carolina not coming within the sphere of interest or activity of any standing committee, shall be referred to a special committee or to the Executive Committee for study and report in advance of action thereon by the Board; provided, however, that the Board may proceed to consider any such matter without referring it to a committee if the majority of those present vote for immediate consideration. The recommendations of the appropriate committee shall be submitted in writing to the Board or to the Executive Committee.

SECTION 2-14. COMMUNICATIONS TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

All communications to the Board of Trustees, or to the Executive Committee from students, faculty or staff members, or others, must be in writing and must be filed with the Chancellor of the institution concerned in sufficient time to be included in the Chancellor's report to the President before any meeting of the Board or the Executive Committee. Communications not received in time to meet this requirement must be carried over to the next meeting of the Board or the Executive Committee.

SECTION 2-15. MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO BE PUBLIC RECORDS

Minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees and of the Executive Committee shall be considered public records when they have been completed by the Secretary and approved by the Board. Matters of public interest may be given to the press after each meeting by the Secretary.

SECTION 2-16 REPEALING CLAUSE

All rules, orders, regulations and resolutions heretofore enacted, or adopted by the Board of Trustees or the Executive Committee in conflict with these by-laws and other provisions of Chapters I, II, III, of this Administrative Code are hereby repealed. Any standing committee heretofore appointed or elected and not included in Section 2-11 of this code shall be and is hereby abolished.