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We are holding a special congregational meeting. The meeting will consider a recommendation from the council. I wanted to know if the gathered members can change the proposed recommendation at the meeting or can they only vote acceptance or rejection of the recommendation. 

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The change should be within the scope of the purpose of the called special meeting.  RONR (11th ed.), p. 93, ll. 18:  "When a main motion related to business specified in the call of a special meeting is pending, it is as fully open to germane amendments as if it had been moved at a regular meeting."

 

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4 minutes ago, Transpower said:

The change should be within the scope of the purpose of the called special meeting.

This is a rather confusing response. 

If a proposed amendment to a motion to adopt the recommendation from the council is germane, it must necessarily be "within the scope of the purpose of the called special meeting", as you put it.

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I think it is important to determine weather the church bylaws limit the authority of the congregation to accept or reject a recommendation from the council  as presented and without the authority to amend it. That would be a bylaws interpretation question. I imagine the congregation has the authority to amend it, but the answer to  that question depends on the bylaws.

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