Our board for a non-profit dance club invited a member to speak at an open board meeting. The board agenda permitted her to revisit our board's decision not to ratify her for a proposed appointment to a vacant board position, as defined in our local chapter's operating policy. After previous meeting minutes had been approved by the board, she was invited to address the board and members in attendance. Unfortunately, she launched into a lengthy disparagement of our current and past boards. Instead of responding to the reasons why she was not ratified to fill a vacant position, she recalled other contentious issues going back decades. As the board president I raised a motion, seconded by another board member, to request her to stop speaking. However, the motion did not pass (2 Yes, 3 No) by our board. Hence, we allowed her to continue disparaging our board. She finished her address after nearly 90 minutes! Only then could the board move on to the next order of business on our printed agenda. What do you think? Were we properly following Robert's Rules of Orders?