Is Vote Required to "Call for the Question"?

[Waffleboy]

Two Questions, Please:

1 - If a board member "Calls for the Question" and wants the vote taken immediately, is a vote required to approve the vote being taken immediately?

2 - If a motion was tabled at a previous meeting, what is the proper way to reintroduce the tabled motion?

Thank you so much!!!

[George Mervosh]

1 - See FAQ#11

2 - If the previous meeting was held within a quarterly time interval a motion to take from the table, adopted by majority vote without debate will do it. If the previous meeting was held longer than a quarterly time interval ago, the motion can simply be made again by anyone.

[David A Foulkes]

If the previous meeting was held longer than a quarterly time interval ago, the motion can simply be made again by anyone.

Which is to say, in a manner of speaking, the motion is no longer on the table at all. After that quarterly time interval has passed, the tabled motion "dies" and thus is no more. *Poof* it's gone. So, simply making the same motion again at the next meeting will bring it before the assembly (again) as if a new motion.

It might also bear noting for Maine728's information that the requirement here would be that the motion was tabled at THE previous meeting. So, if meetings are held monthly, and this motion was tabled at the January meeting but not taken up at the February meeting, it can not be taken up at the March meeting even though it is within a quarterly time interval (Jan - Mar), since the motion has already died last month. If the motion is not taken from the table during the meeting at which it is laid there, it must be taken up at the next regular meeting (including an adjournment thereof) or it passes on to its great reward - Renewal!