nominations

[Guest Ron Andrade]

We had an agenda with 6 topics.  The first topic was the nomination of new officers.  At the end of the 6 topics and after a motion to adjourn had been made, but not agreed to, a motion was made to re-open nominations although most of the members had already left.  Is this possible although a motion had been made and passed to close nominations

[Bruce Lages]

No, it is not possible. The motion to adjourn in this case would appear to be the privileged form of the motion, which has a higher priority, and therefore supercedes, a motion to re-open nominations.

[jstackpo]

Wait a moment...  if the motion to adjourn was "not agreed to", then the meeting is continuing and reopening nominations is perfectly in order.

 

 

But...  if "most of the members left", then there most likely wasn't a quorum present, and the meeting might as well end, as there is very little else (and no "business" such as making nominations) you can do.

[Gary Novosielski]

We had an agenda with 6 topics.  The first topic was the nomination of new officers.  At the end of the 6 topics and after a motion to adjourn had been made, but not agreed to, a motion was made to re-open nominations although most of the members had already left.  Is this possible although a motion had been made and passed to close nominations

 

Yes, and although a motion to close nominations requires a 2/3 vote, a motion to reopen them requires only a majority.

 

But I agree that if "most of the members left", you'd better make sure you still have a quorum.

[Bruce Lages]

I think I interpreted the "not agreed to" remark as meaning they hadn't voted yet. If the motion was indeed "not agreed to" via a vote then John's and Gary's responses are indeed correct.