Must a voter be present at a majority of adjourned sessions

[Guest Peter Berlyn]

A municipal council has such a significant matter to determine that it decides to hold  one meeting to consider community submissions and decide the matter spread over  three days breaking on adjournment each of the first two nights and voting at the end of the third...

 

Not all Councillors attend each day (but enough to maintain a quorum). Some only attend on the last day just for the vote.....and so miss  all or most of the  submissions. Can they vote for the motion in the absence of knowledge of the community representations?

 

 

 

 

[Chris Harrison]

Nothing in RONR prevents it.

[Gary Novosielski]

A municipal council has such a significant matter to determine that it decides to hold  one meeting to consider community submissions and decide the matter spread over  three days breaking on adjournment each of the first two nights and voting at the end of the third...

 

Not all Councillors attend each day (but enough to maintain a quorum). Some only attend on the last day just for the vote.....and so miss  all or most of the  submissions. Can they vote for the motion in the absence of knowledge of the community representations?

 

Yes.  They may also vote against it in the absence of knowledge.