Guest Michael Duffy Posted August 13, 2011 at 08:13 PM Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 at 08:13 PM In July, the membership approved a motion to spend $2500 on a smoking room. Since then many members of our organization have expressed their concern about this expenditure. I would like to amend the approved motion. Is that permissible under RROO? Amending an approved motion?Mike Duffy, SecretaryGrayling, MI Eagles #3465 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Harrison Posted August 13, 2011 at 08:19 PM Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 at 08:19 PM In July, the membership approved a motion to spend $2500 on a smoking room. Since then many members of our organization have expressed their concern about this expenditure. I would like to amend the approved motion. Is that permissible under RROO? Amending an approved motion?Mike Duffy, SecretaryGrayling, MI Eagles #3465Yes as long as the $2500 hasn't already been spent. See RONR pp. 293-299 for details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Elsman Posted August 13, 2011 at 08:22 PM Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 at 08:22 PM In July, the membership approved a motion to spend $2500 on a smoking room. Since then many members of our organization have expressed their concern about this expenditure. I would like to amend the approved motion. Is that permissible under RROO? Amending an approved motion?Mike Duffy, SecretaryGrayling, MI Eagles #3465Yes, the motion you are looking for is Rescind or Amend Something Previously Adopted. Be sure to check the special vote requirements for the motion. See RONR (10th ed.), §35, pp. 293ff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tctheatc Posted August 13, 2011 at 08:27 PM Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 at 08:27 PM In July, the membership approved a motion to spend $2500 on a smoking room. Since then many members of our organization have expressed their concern about this expenditure. I would like to amend the approved motion. Is that permissible under RROO? Amending an approved motion?Mike Duffy, SecretaryGrayling, MI Eagles #3465Yes as long as the $2500 hasn't already been spent. See RONR pp. 293-299 for details.Would the money already being spent necessarily preclude a motion to amend something previously adopted? Could not the membership (after the money's been spent) amend the motion to have the room which 2500$ has been spent on be designated a sitting area rather than a smoking room? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted August 13, 2011 at 08:35 PM Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 at 08:35 PM Sure, sort of.But such a change doesn't sound to me (but I haven't read the original motion, of course) as though you were "amending" - making changes to the words of - the original motion. Sounds more like a new motion to "re-purpose" the room in question. Nothing wrong with offering such a motion, it is just not (I'm guessing here) an "amendment", but is a new main motion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tctheatc Posted August 13, 2011 at 11:11 PM Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 at 11:11 PM I move to amend by striking out "smoking" and inserting "sitting" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Elsman Posted August 13, 2011 at 11:27 PM Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 at 11:27 PM I move to amend by striking out "smoking" and inserting "sitting" If you intend this to be a motion to Amend Something Previously Adopted, why are you forming it like a subsidiary motion to Amend? Why not just form it like any other main motion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tctheatc Posted August 14, 2011 at 10:45 AM Report Share Posted August 14, 2011 at 10:45 AM You're right, Rob, it would/should be such. I was just answering JD's assertion that my idea was not really an amending of the original plan. I didn't intend to imply I would submit a motion to amend something previously adopted in that exact form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted August 14, 2011 at 11:18 AM Report Share Posted August 14, 2011 at 11:18 AM Wonder if Mike is any relation to Margaret? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted August 17, 2011 at 02:00 AM Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 at 02:00 AM Would the money already being spent necessarily preclude a motion to amend something previously adopted? Could not the membership (after the money's been spent) amend the motion to have the room which 2500$ has been spent on be designated a sitting area rather than a smoking room?I think it depends. Again, the general principle is that the motion to Amend Something Previously Adopted is not in order if the motion has already been fully carried out. If say, the money's been spent but the room itself is not yet completed, a motion for ASPA to change it to a sitting room might be in order. Presumably, if such a motion was adopted, the ashtrays the society had purchased for the room will not be placed in it*. On the other hand, if the room is fully completed and has already been used for its intended purpose, changing it to a sitting room seems more like a new main motion than a motion to amend something previously adopted.* Or fewer ashtrays, anyway. They would not necessarily have to be eliminated, as sitting and smoking are not mutually exclusive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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