RESCINDING A MOTION ON A NOTICE OF MEETING

[Guest Derek]

Hello,

 

Our AGM Notice of meeting has already been issued and received by our Members.

 

There is an item on the agenda regarding ammendments to a by law.

 

Can the item on the Notice of Meeting be rescinded before the meeting even begins?

 

or do we have to follow the notice of meeting as it stands and make a motion to "Postpone Indefinitely"? when we get to that item on the agenda?

[Dan Honemann]

Hello,

 

Our AGM Notice of meeting has already been issued and received by our Members.

 

There is an item on the agenda regarding ammendments to a by law.

 

Can the item on the Notice of Meeting be rescinded before the meeting even begins?

 

or do we have to follow the notice of meeting as it stands and make a motion to "Postpone Indefinitely"? when we get to that item on the agenda?

 

You don't have an agenda until one is adopted at your meeting, and in any event, simply giving notice of intent to make a motion is not the same thing as actually making one. 

[jstackpo]

None of the above. 

 

Two possibilities:

 

1) Amend the agenda, prior to its adoption, to remove the bylaw amendment motion.

 

2)  Don't even make the bylaw amendment motion in the meeting.

 

Neither of these will guarantee that the bylaw amendment motion does NOT come up.  P. 307.

[Richard Brown]

Agreeing with the other responses, you can still move to postpone the bylaw amendment indefinitely if it does come up.

[Gary Novosielski]

Agreeing with the other responses, you can still move to postpone the bylaw amendment indefinitely if it does come up.

 

Or you can simply vote against it if it does come up.

[Richard Brown]

Hello,

 

Our AGM Notice of meeting has already been issued and received by our Members.

 

There is an item on the agenda regarding ammendments to a by law.

 

Can the item on the Notice of Meeting be rescinded before the meeting even begins?

 

or do we have to follow the notice of meeting as it stands and make a motion to "Postpone Indefinitely"? when we get to that item on the agenda?

It is possible that the "notice of meeting" and agenda item do not satisfy the previous notice requirements for a bylaw amendment contained in your bylaws and RONR.   Whether the requirements were met depends on the precise wording of your bylaws regarding bylaw amendments and whether the notice sent to the members satisfies that requirement.  Sometimes, the actual wording of the proposed amendment must be given to the members.  In other cases, just the general purport of the proposed amendment will  suffice.  See RONR pages 121-122, among other pages.