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Novice parliamentarian here - we had a situation when ending a meeting recently. We were debating a main motion, and the chair was keeping a list of people who wanted to speak, following the usual rules there (speak once unless everyone has spoken, etc). We came to end of our scheduled meeting time, with several people still on the list. So I think I understand what would have happened if one of those speakers had either moved to adjourn, or moved that other privileged motion whose name I cannot recall ("stick to the agenda"?). However, none of these people did that, and in fact a few more wanted to be added to the list to discuss the same motion. The Chair thought the meeting should be over, but they followed the "recognize the order of speakers" rule, and the speakers didn't adjourn. So, what should happened? I gave the advice "keep giving members the floor until one of them moves to adjourn", but it's also possible the chair could have used their discretion and when we were over time, simply given the floor to someone who they knew wanted to adjourn the meeting (say, they announced it between speakers or something). I guess the chair could have inserted themselves into the speaker order, to obtain the floor and move to adjourn - is that possible? Any and all advice welcome, thanks!

We are a member organization of 50 and are poise to elect a new president. Presently, only one person is on the ballot. She is included in the slate from our nominating committee. At our monthly meeting in March, our president announced the slate and called for nominations from the floor. When no one responded, she closed the nominations from the floor. There was no motion or vote to do so from the body. It seems that members may want to re-open nominations from the floor before the election due to take place at our April meeting. Since there was only a decree by the chair that the nominations be closed with no vote by the body, how can we proceed to re-open nominations?