[I]In MA, all the "directors" of the organization have to be listed on a form filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. I think 25-30 is way too many, especially if you try to have a meeting with that many. Actually, we'd be very happy to get that many at our general meetings ... maybe you have a much larger school there in Texas?[/I]

We had this in place for an elementary school of 400-500 and a middle school of 900. For the middle school, there much fewer positions/committees so the Board wasn't as large.

But in both cases, the Board had the power - it made all the day to day decisions, especially regarding expenditures. We had only two general meeetings a year, one to approve the budget in the fall and one to elect officers in the Spring. So in our case, we wouldn't have felt comfortable with 4-5 people running the show completely to represent the opinions of 500.

In your case, you probably have financial issues voted on at a general meeting and the Board refers and recommends rather than having all the operational power.

As far as listing all the names on forms - we had that issue here as well, but the various governing bodies tended to have advice as to a subset to list rather than the whole set since none are compensated.

As long as your model works for you - that's what counts. Good luck.