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==Duty Committee Member==

At many conventions, on the day, there is a rota between several of the senior [[ConCom|committee]] members who are the final recourse if anything goes wrong.

This role is identified as the ''Duty Committee Member'' or ''DCM''.

If a problem can't be handled by whoever is local to the problem, or by the area head (e.g. a problem at Registration should first go to any kind of Registration help/info desk, then to the Registration Shift Manager, then possibly to the head of Registration then [[Ops]] and finally if it still can't be sorted out...) it is escalated to the ''DCM''

The DCM is expected to know what the [[budget]] is, how much money can be spent on a problem, and has the [[Delegation of Authority|authority]] to spend what is needed to solve the problem, and is also expected to make large [[policy]] decisions on behalf of the committee and convention as necessary. The DCM can exclude a person from the convention, can agree that the convention will pay a hotel bill or any other financial expenditure beyond the amount [[Ops]] is allowed to spend etc.

The DCM is usually identified in some special way to make them more visible (a special badge, waistcoat, baseball hat, or in one case, a piece of fruit. At the UK [[Eastercon]] Eastcon'90 the [[Pocket Program]] was meant to say that the DCM would be wearing an orange badge ... but due to a typo, the word "badge" was left out, and so for the rest of the convention, the DCM wore a piece of fruit (it was silly, but it worked!))

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