[Drolefille]

That could work too. It's all about how the bylaws say it works to an extent. However, if handing out bids is within the recruitment chairs normal responsibilities, it would be unusual to have a vote of confidence that he could do so. If your rules require that a vote be held before the bids are handed out, that's not so much a vote of confidence as a vote to hand out bids.

Now, my thought is that if a vote of confidence was called for that situation, it would mean that either someone was challenging the Recruitment chair's fit-ness for the job, or someone was re-affirming it. There's usually only a vote of confidence when bad things have happened and you need to confirm that people are backing you (or that people don't have faith in you anymore.)

Does that make sense?