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The County Committee Chair (“Chair”) shall be the general executive officer of the Committee. The duties of the Chair are as follows:

• To preside at all County Committee meetings;

• To ensure that any reports required by state and federal law are filed within the specified time;

• To ensure the maintenance of a list of the names and postal mailing addresses of the members of all town committees making up the Democratic Party in the County, including officers, and to pass this list to the successor in office, who shall preserve this list and add to or subtract names as needed to keep the list current. The Chair shall make it available for examination or copying (paper or electronic) by any town, county, and/or state committee member upon request.  The Chair may, in addition to the list required by this provision, make available such further contact data regarding members of county and town committees of the Democratic Party of Vermont as the Chair, in consultation with the Executive Committee, shall deem appropriate;

• To give timely notice to all Democratic town chairs of the dates of the biennial re-organizational meetings and of their statutory and other requirements;

• To perform such other duties as are imposed by law (See Title 17 Vermont Statutes Annotated, Chapter 45).

The Vice Chair shall be vested with all the powers and shall perform all the duties of the Chair in the absence or disability of the Chair. The Vice Chair shall perform such other duties as the Chair, with input from the County Committee, may from time to time assign.

The Secretary shall be the official recording officer of the County Committee and shall ensure that a complete and accurate record of the Committee meetings is kept and filed with the County Chairperson.

The minutes shall be available for examination or copying by any member of the County Committee upon request five working days following the date of any meeting, and shall be sent by electronic mail to all Committee members and alternates along with the notice of the next Committee meeting.

For those County Committee members who inform the Chair that they lack access to email, the Secretary will prepare hard copies of the minutes to accompany the meeting notice to be mailed by letter bearing a postmark at least 7 days before the meeting.

The Secretary shall perform such other duties as the County Committee may from time to time assign.

The Treasurer shall be the chief financial officer of the County Committee and shall be responsible for the custody and supervision of all its funds; cause all debts and obligations of the County Committee to be paid; provide the County Committee with an annual statement of the financial position of the Committee; provide the County Committee a quarterly financial report; and serve as chair of the Fundraising Subcommittee.

An Assistant Treasurer shall be elected to assist the Treasurer in the performance of his or her duties, and serve as interim Treasurer if the Treasurer is unable to perform the duties of the office. 

Each committee elects a number of delegates and alternates to the Vermont Democratic Party State Committee. These representatives have speaking and voting rights at statewide meetings and conventions. They give reports of these activities at County Committee meetings. From the Vermont Democratic Party bylaws:

The State Committee is composed of the elected State Committee officers, the National Committeeman and Committeewoman, and from each county the County Chair and two State Committee members elected from the County Committee. No more than two of the three members from each county shall be of the same gender.

Each county shall also elect First, Second and Third Alternates to replace absent State Committee members from their county at State Committee meetings. Alternates need not be gender-specific.