Tim Wynn Posted July 10, 2010 at 07:49 PM Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 at 07:49 PM Vote is taken with 51 per cent sustaining the appeal"The vote is taken so that the affirmative will be in favor of sustaining the chair's decision..." - RONR(10t ed.), p. 251, l. 31-32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trina Posted July 10, 2010 at 08:29 PM Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 at 08:29 PM Thank you, David, very kind of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted July 11, 2010 at 01:16 AM Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 at 01:16 AM If the bylaw is in the nature of a rule of order, it seems to me that the chair is wrong to find that a motion to allow non-members to attend is out of order. Perhaps the motion was improperly stated by the member, but the chair should have helped the member to restate it properly.Trina, a motion which conflicts with an assembly's rules is out of order, by definition. The fact that the rules may be suspended does not change that. If a motion was in order, there would be no need to suspend any rules. So yes, the suspendablity of the bylaw is irrelevant to the chair's ruling. That wouldn't matter unless the member followed up by making a motion to Suspend the Rules (and in this case, the chair should rule that motion out of order as well). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nancy N. Posted July 11, 2010 at 04:46 AM Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 at 04:46 AM Oh well, my apologies to Jack, as I seem to have messed up [snip]Trina's messing up is typically more illuminating that anyone else's simply acing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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