Dottie

This has been revealing in that I have been a judge advocate for this club for 3 months and was looking for some sense in the rules to make reasonable decisions..I am a retired hospital CEO, have run numerous board meetings and committee meetings, and have never run into such a morass just to move on from a dicey situation..I was not looking for a rule to suspend something "no matter what"...I wanted to help frankly (a group of men) move on from the majority decision to go non-smoking on the 31st of December . There' s one member of our group (that has a tenth of the sophistication that any of you have), but constantly calls points of order, monopolizes the meeting with reading from the book , and quotes the book when none other of us know if it's being misused or not..sigh..this really has been helpful and thank you. I can use many of your responses and trust me Daniel, I have given a lot thought about it.

Well george that's kind of what I thought after trying to wade through this book. I am very new at this and find myself not liking Robert very much..thanks to his wisdom, you either always have a way out or no way out!

Any number is fine..no magic intended..just want to move on

So it has been passed that we go non-smoking on December 31st. We think smokers (who lost 55 to 15) will bring it up again this month to go non-smoking just during mealtime. This has been on the agenda in various forms since August . The chair is asking me how we move forward since the 2/3 majority has decided to go non-smoking on the 31st. Thus my question can a member move that we set the conversation aside for some period of time?

We have moved and chosen a date to go non-smoking in our club. This has gone back and forth from attempting to rescind it, to finally amending it and choosing the date. In order for this to not be brought up at every meeting here out, is it appropriate to move that it not be brought up again for two years?