Approval of Agenda

[Guest Joyce Miller]

My question is does the agenda need approval following the Call to Order?

[Josh Martin]

My question is does the agenda need approval following the Call to Order?

 

If the assembly is to use an agenda, it must be approved.

 

Many assemblies, however, will do just fine with the standard order of business in RONR.

[Edgar Guest]

My question is does the agenda need approval . . . ?

 

See FAQ #14.

[Guest Vanessa Morgan]

If you use a standard order of business from your organization's handbook which is similar to RONR, does that need to be approved at each meeting?

[Guest Nancy N.]

If you use a standard order of business from your organization's handbook which is similar to RONR, does that need to be approved at each meeting?

 

O Vanessa, your question entails so many daffy "if's".  So let me say that if your organization formally establishes, in its bylaws, that RONR is its parliamentary authority, then no, the order of business does not have to be regularly approved (or adopted, I'm not sure by now which is which, it's bloody almost nine in the morning!) at every meeting:  its order of business is already established, because the organization's formally established parliamentary authority, RONR, has intrinsically prescribed it.

 

But here, lookit:  I don't know, unless you tell me, which you haven't, whether "your organization's handbook" means its adopted parliamentary authority; and it makes a difference whether it is or not.  And it makes a difference, especially if the handbook is adopted as your parliamentary authority, about what its similarities to, and differences from, are.

 

I hope that has helped. So you need to provide more specific information to get some more, and more informed, information. I have now listened to Beethoven's "Choral Fantasy" four times while writing this (as what might customarily be thought of as "background music" -- but MiGh-d, who are we kidding, this is Beethoven, and the sorely neglected and overlooked Choral Fantasy), so I have indeed given some time and thought to it.  But now you gotta help.

 

(This is the performance. Vienna, and Leonard Bernstein; I lost the name of the pianist.  Indulge me, please, Dan.

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[Josh Martin]

If you use a standard order of business from your organization's handbook which is similar to RONR, does that need to be approved at each meeting?

If your organization has adopted its own order of business, this is actually referred to as a "special order of business." Such an order of business does not need to be adopted at each meeting.