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Raymond Paskauskas

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About Raymond Paskauskas

  • Birthday June 6

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  • Location:
    Charleston, South Carolina
  • Interests
    Ballroom dancing, bicycling

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  1. Thank you, Mr. Richard Brown. It has been a humbling experience to become acquainted with Robert's Rules of Order and apply it in the real world. I have read an old edition dating back to 1893, and I ordered the new brief edition promoted on this web site. Thank you again. If I could only upload the entire Zoom video recording that fateful afternoon, it might be edifying to others watching it. However, I would have to worry about matters of privacy and someone alleging a wrong done.
  2. In retrospect, the board should have given our club member the reasons right away why she was not ratified to fill a vacant position. I had believed that our board could exercise a "privilege" to privately discuss and decide who to ratify for a board vacancy. One board officer and many club members felt that she deserved to know the reasons why she was not ratified. Finally I agreed to speak with her over the telephone and provide those reasons. She rejected those reasons and still requested to address the board at an upcoming open board meeting. Too late to realize that it would result in a lengthy disparagement in front of other assembled club members. It at least helped validate publicly that she was pedantic, argumentative, and would prove disruptive to the working harmony of our board.
  3. 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?
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