Guest BB Cobb Posted June 26, 2015 at 06:46 PM Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 at 06:46 PM As clerk for our church governing body, it will be useful and helpful to have a list of general guidelines for what types of business or actions require a motion. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Harrison Posted June 26, 2015 at 07:05 PM Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 at 07:05 PM A motion is a formal proposal that the assembly take a certain action (RONR p. 58). So generally speaking if a member wants the assembly to do something he needs to make a motion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jerry-Mac Johnston Posted June 29, 2015 at 06:30 PM Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 at 06:30 PM is any member allowed to make a motion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted June 29, 2015 at 06:35 PM Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 at 06:35 PM Yes, baring any restrictions in your bylaws. Mr. BB: go to your Internet browser RIGHT NOW, and order a copy of RONRIB:"Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief", Updated Second Edition (Da Capo Press, Perseus Books Group, 2011). It is a splendid summary of all the rules you will really need in all but the most exceptional situations. And only $7.50! You can read it in an evening. Get both RONRIB and RONR (scroll down) at this link. Or in your local bookstore. Read it right away and you, and your church body (share it with them, or get them copies, too) will be well on your way to doing things right, from the git-go. (We don't get any commission for recommendations, either.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Mervosh Posted June 29, 2015 at 06:47 PM Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 at 06:47 PM Mr. BB: go to your Internet browser RIGHT NOW, and order a copy of RONRIB:"Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief", Updated Second Edition (Da Capo Press, Perseus Books Group, 2011). It is a splendid summary of all the rules you will really need in all but the most exceptional situations. And only $7.50! You can read it in an evening. Get both RONRIB and RONR (scroll down) at this link. Or in your local bookstore. Read it right away and you, and your church body (share it with them, or get them copies, too) will be well on your way to doing things right, from the git-go. (We don't get any commission for recommendations, either.) Dr. Stackpole's excellent and urgent suggestion brings back memories of RONRIB's #1 non-commission salesperson, Gary c Tesser: "If you buy it in a bookstore, read it on the spot, stepping politely aside from the check-out counter so the other customers can buy their copies of it. That's why you always see crowds of parli-nerds piled up at the front of bookstores; but there's great turnover, because you all can pretty much read your copies -- the first time -- in an hour or so unless you're college graduates in which case you're hopeless, spending the first hour standing at the front of the bookstore just deciding whether you're in plenary session or not. If instead you have ordered it on-line, you feckless indolent late-20th-century layabout slugs you, you will perforce have to bestir yourselves out of your La-Z-Boy armchairs and trek all the way to the front door to accept the package; don't forget to tip the delivery person liberally, after all he or she has done all the work, and you probably don't even have the courtesy to offer to let him or her read your copy when you're done with it -- remember, that's just in an hour or so unless you have suffered an intellectual impairment (a bachelor's degree). If he or she won't take money, offer them a Pepsi -- no sane person or FedEx employee can resist that. The scholars of ergonomics are not in agreement about whether at that point you should just rip open the package and stand there at the open door for the hour or so reading your new RONR - IB, or if you should (or are allowed) to close the door and take a chair. In any even, those are your two choices, unless you suddenly smell smoke and shrieking firefighters pour into the place and toss you and everybody else out a window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Judy Manning Posted June 29, 2015 at 07:33 PM Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 at 07:33 PM Is the member who makes a motion required to vote "in favor" that that motion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Guest Posted June 29, 2015 at 07:50 PM Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 at 07:50 PM Is the member who makes a motion required to vote "in favor" that that motion? No (but the maker of a motion can't speak against it in debate). For future reference, please post your new question as a new topic. This forum works best that way. Click here for more information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted June 29, 2015 at 07:51 PM Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 at 07:51 PM Is the member who makes a motion required to vote "in favor" that that motion? No. The arguments in debate might have changed his mind. Or led him to abstain. But he is prohibited from speaking against the motion he offered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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