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In the order you asked: 1) The ballot question is fine. 2) Yes this requires a vote on the amendment to move. 3) the one vote on the FY change will do it, BUT be sure to state that all related deadline references will be changed to accommodate.

Is the "can't make motions" rule part of your bylaws?

Or... it may just be simpler to state that if any membership turns over to somebody new (even a reelection), unfinished business is gone. This could be preferable to burdening RONR with yet another "exception" rule. There are quite enough of them already, thank you. A quick search through the book turns up three hundred and ten instances of "except". That is roughly one "except" every other page.

There is no line beyond President - Vice-President specified in RONR. Any extension of the list is up to you to put in your bylaws, or, better, just elect a President pro tem to preside at the meeting.

Well, it should! So there.

Which is NOT a good thing if the tellers are members of the association -- they miss out on decisions.

Seems to be a lot of that going around....

RONR doesn't deal with "alternate" members, so the answers to both your question will be whatever you association likes as it specifies what the roll of those "alternates" should be. RONR does discuss alternate delegates to a convention, (page 601ff) so you could get some guidance from that.

Never mind that the Board member should have moved to postpone considering the report (or perhaps referring it to a style committee to fix the format), anybody can move to "take the report from the table" at the next meeting -- majority vote. If your bylaw allow them to happen, you could call a special meeting -- check page 91 for extra requirements.

Only the publisher (and the A-Team) know for sure....

The key to Atul's reply is the words "exclusive authority" The RONR gold standard is that the Assembly has all the decision powers for an organization but can delegate (via bylaws) some powers (or all for that matter) to an Executive Board or similar named subgroup. But delegation just says what the ExecBoard can do; the Assembly still retains the ability to do it too. But if the Assembly gives exclusive powers (for specific items) to the ExecBoard, then the latter can do what it pleases, and the Assembly (general membership) has no further say in the matter (until the bylaws get amended taking away the "exclusive" part). However, many corporate laws (I'm not a lawyer so go find a real one) flip this hierarchy over such that the ExecBoard has all the power originally and can delegate some to the general membership, or elsewhere. Presumably your church organization is incorporated, so I will leave it you you to find out what camp you are in (or perhaps some other variant).

Do your bylaws say how long a term the elected members serve on the job? Please quote the bylaw text exactly, no paraphrases, please.

RONR would let such a termination happen. Chapter 20 shows possible mechanisms. But we don't do "legal" here. Are you incorporated in Washington? Check the law - with, if you are wise, a lawyer's help.

I'll bet there might be an argument: The fact that the committee didn't select the sitting president was most certainly "alluded to" as having occurred in the committee by virtue of the content of the report. So it would seen a proper rhetorical question to ask "Why not?" Whether an answer goes much beyond "Well, we didn't think he/she was the best person for the job" is up to whoever responds to the question.

Debate on the qualifications of nominees is perfectly proper, in general. I'll have to leave "particular details" up to the discretion of the participants in the debates.

Yes indeed!

RONR doesn't go into rules for e-mail voting (or p-mail for that matter) other than discussing some of the critical details. Sometimes state (corporation) codes do have additional rules. So any detail rules for e-mail voting are up to the association. For some extended discussion see: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g8w31eocwqx067h/E-Meetings 2012.docx?dl=0

In case you missed it... https://xkcd.com/2225/

Sure, if the association says to do so, and how much.

There is no restriction of that nature in RONR. Did your association adopt such a rule?

Nah... he's a pussycat. Guest H: You could also contact the NAP and/or AIP they have correspondence courses https://www.parliamentarians.org/ https://aipparl.org/

The common "break-point" is 12 or so members; thus your "Executive Board" would be a "small Board" while your 70 member (!) Board of Directors would be a large (very large) Board. If the president is overstepping his/her authority it is up to the membership to raise points of order to attempt to rein him in, or try to anyway. Points of order can, and should, be raised in the meetings of whichever Board the "line-crossing" is taking place, by the members of that board.

RONR, as I'm sure you noted, doesn't deal with "three reading" procedures at all, but I am quite willing to assert that a motion that is only 1/3 dealt with (or 2/3s) would be considered as "temporally disposed of" and thus would have to be re-introduced from scratch and will need a full three readings, starting at the meeting when the newbies come on the board. A three reading process seems to be the same as introducing a motion, then postponing it to the next meeting, and then doing that a second time, thus having the motion get consideration at three subsequent meetings.

Oops, my error, I thought the phylacter was the chairman. If she is the official parliamentarian, advisor to the chair, she should not offer motions. RONR, p. 465-7.

In a small (12 members, or so, or less) committee or board, yes. In a full members meeting she can (presuming she is a member), but shouldn't, to preserve impartiality in presiding.