Making motions

[Guest Cher]

In our meeting we had a kid who was a member at the time make a motion. The topic had been discused, the motion was made, seconded and voted on (passsed). This kid is no longer a member of the club. Does the topic need to be brought back up or does it really matter because he was a member at the time?

[Josh Martin]

Does the topic need to be brought back up or does it really matter because he was a member at the time?

The fact that the individual is no longer a member has no bearing on the motion's validity. Since everyone leaves a society eventually, it would be problematic if this wasn't true.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

In our meeting we had a kid who was a member at the time make a motion.

The topic had been discussed, the motion was made, seconded and voted on (passed).

This kid is no longer a member of the club.

"Kid"?

Like in "Billy the Kid"?

What has his age, or his sheep ethnicity, got to do with the parliamentary situation?

Q. Does the topic need to be brought back up, or does it really matter because he was a member at the time?

Whatever is adopted, remains adopted (until rescinded, until amended, until it becomes meaningless due to the change of circumstances or due to the passage of time).

The status of the original mover is moot.

If Billy the Kid is now "pushin' up daisies", then, nonetheless, all the motions Billy the Kid moved could well be still in force, in that organization in which Billy the Kid had been an active member.

Example:

All those resolutions your organization passed in 1861 regarding Pony Express riders remain enforceable, if they were not rescinded (even though the passage of time has made their exercise, or obedience, impossible).

Put another way:

You don't re-pass, or re-vote on, all the rules moved by (now) dead people.

"Dead men tell no tales move no motions."

--Bluebeard the Pirate