SptbgLawyer

Following every General Election year, our Council is required, by their Rules, to adopt Rules of Procedure.  There is no notice requirement since it is laid out in the Rules and majority vote is all that is necessary to both pass the Rules as a whole or to make any changes while the Rules are in effect.  With a new Chairman, some changes to the longstanding Rules of Procedure are now a possibility.  The Rules of Procedure are quite lengthy, almost 20 pages in total with multiple sections.  I am aware that the Chairman can proceed with adopting of the Rules of Procedure by section and if he does not choose to do so, another Member can make the motion to do so.  If the Chairman does not proceed by section and if a motion to proceed by section is not successful, my concern is that there will be numerous requests for amendments to varying sections of the Rules of Procedure and they would not necessarily all work together where a motion to divide the question would be possible.  That being said, if the Chairman and Council decide to proceed with consideration of the document as a whole, would the proper procedure then be a motion to adopt the Rules of Procedure, a second, and then during discussion one amendment at a time is brought up and voted upon (obviously these would not be primary and secondary amendments because they are all different amendments to different sections of the Rules) and then the Rules of Procedure as amended by multiple amendments be voted upon - or would each amendment be brought up and voted upon and provided it passes, there need to be a vote each time a successful amendment passes on the Rules of Procedure as a whole?  I guess the same may be true with section by section consideration, as well, if there are multiple amendments to the pending section - would it be all amendments can be made and voted upon and then the section, as amended, is adopted or would there need to be each amendment taken up separately and each time, provided it passes, the section must be adopted? 

I am sorry if I am not make a lot of sense.  I guess I am really just trying to get to whether multiple amendments which are unrelated can be brought up and voted upon without the need each time to return to the main motion to adopt the Rules. 

Thank you in advance for any guidance. 

Committee of full Council meets on same day as full Council/Council Meeting (all committees meet prior to the full Council Meeting starting on same day).  Committee takes up first reading of an ordinance but member of committee moves to postpone definitely to next Committee Meeting (which would be the next regular Council Meeting since they meet prior) and it passes Committee.  During the full Council Meeting, the Committee reports are taken and member of Committee (Chairman who reports out to full Council) advises of Committee action to postpone but then moves to reconsider the action to postpone approved by the Committee.  I believe Robert's Rules are more relaxed in timing for reconsideration for a Committee, but since the Committee adjourned earlier and what was being provided now was a Committee Report to full Council, was it proper for a motion to reconsider the Committee action to be made at that time?  (the end of the story is a point of order was raised on the reconsideration and the Chairman ruled that the reconsideration was out of order and the postponing action until the next Committee Meeting stood).