Process of order leading to Motion and amending Motion

[Guest guest]

If  a BoD makes a motion, when is there discussion of the subject by the board at an open meeting? Was it to have happened before the motion? Is there time post motion and pre vote? 

 

Also if ,for example, another BoD wants to change the order of prior motion from sequence of events 1, 2  & 3 to say 1, 3, 2 &4, how is that best accomplished?

[Transpower]

RONR (11th ed.), p. 386, ll. 6-8 requires that there be a motion on the floor before there can be discussion.

[Edgar Guest]

In the usual sequence, a member makes a motion, another member seconds it (not required at meetings of "small" boards), the motion is debated, perhaps the motion is amended, then it's put to a vote (either as originally stated or as amended).

[Gary Novosielski]

I'm not sure what you mean when you say that the board makes a motion.   A single member, not "the board,"  makes a motion at a board meeting.

 

Or are you talking about a different situation?

[Edgar Guest]

I'm not sure what you mean when you say that the board makes a motion.

 

Well, that's not exactly what was said:

 

If  a BoD makes a motion . . . 

 

I took that to mean, when a (board of) director makes a motion . . .

[Guest guest]

Yes, when I  stated BoD, it is a Director. Thanks for the information.