Motions

[Guest Cheryl Owen]

I made a motion to close a meeting, set another meeting the following week, & ask that a Board be reorganized.  The agenda for this original meeting had not been completed.  Is the motion allowed?

[Gary Novosielski]

With respect to setting a time to adjourn and adjourning to that time (a week later) yes.   I'm not sure what the motion that a Board be reorganized means in the context of your organization.  In any case, it sounds like a separate motion, or perhaps it was intended to be previous notice of intent to make that motion next week.

 

A motion to adjourn is in order, even if the agenda has not been completed.

[Timothy]

Yes, I believe the motion can be allowed. Assuming it received a second, because the parts of the motion are so different from each other, I would expect a call for the division of the question. The order in which the separate parts are handled could be significant.

[Bruce Lages]

I'm pretty sure that one motion to do all three of those things would not be in order. Did you actuallly offer separate motions for at least some of those things? A motion to adjourn to a future date would be in order in most cases.