Our community council had elections yesterday evening.
The nominating committee presented a slate of nominees and requested that the candidates prepare a written bio along with a statement of what they could bring to the community to be presented at an additional meeting. The future meeting date for the presentation was scheduled and confirmed by vote of those present. All candidates with the exception of one gave their presentations as requested on the scheduled meeting date.
Yesterday evening, all of the nominees were asked to present again before the election with the stipulation of a 2 minute time limit. These presentations were given after the meeting had already been in process for at least 30 minutes. While the second nominee was speaking there was a very noisy and chaotic interruption caused by late arriving attendees. The speaker paused momentarily as they could not be heard over the noise and there was not a microphone being used. However, the presiding officer did not toll the clock, would not allow the speaker to finish the presentation and actually gaveled them into silence two sentences before the each of the speech (i.e. the culminating point).
In my opinion, the presiding officer was acting in a rude, improper and unfair manner which shows disrespect towards the speaker.
However, my questions is - Does Robert's Rules of Order address this type of situation?
