Easy upload system

I'm creating a new website for my small town. There's a feature I'd really like, and I was wondering if there was already some module that might help me accomplish it, or one that's similar enough that I -- an experienced programmer, but a novice with Drupal -- might be able to modify to suit.

The town government has numerous boards and commissions, each of which has monthly meetings, which in turn leads to a great number of minutes and agendas. Right now they are filtering through a small number of volunteers who post them to the current site. I would really like to make the new site more self-service, granting permission to the chairpeople and/or secretaries of each committee. few of whom are web-savvy --- the ability to easily upload their documents. I would like some sort of interface where they simply choose which board the document belongs to and what date the meeting is for and upload the document. Then that document should be shown attached to the page for the relevant committee. Or even simpler for the users would be an email-attachment-to-post facility, but I'm not quite sure how I'd pass the remaining data such as the committee name and meeting date.

Is there anything around at all like this? I don't really even know what to search for in the modules.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

-- Scott