Hi everyone,
Things in our org are fairly gray (in my opinion). Recently when a motion was brought up from the floor (during "Other Business"), members of the group said we had to adhere to a policy that says, "Additional items to the agenda may be submitted by members to the Director in advance of the time set for the agenda meeting, and added at the discretion of the Agenda Committee, or by a two thirds vote of the members." So before we could debate the motion, we had to vote on whether we even wanted to be talking about the motion by two thirds of our members, because it was being treated as a new agenda item. Is this normal? Can't motions come from the floor when ever? I know the org doesn't want a trillion motions flying around the room from a thousand members at all times, but it doesn't seem very nimble to treat a motion like a new agenda item. Thanks!