Guest Fran Posted September 17, 2020 at 07:33 PM Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 at 07:33 PM What motions are in order to amend an agenda. Specifically, can someone offer a motion or amendment to commit or recommit and item of business that is listed on a agenda or can someone offer a motion or amendment postpone definitely or indefinitely an item on an agenda. For example, a motion is made to approve the agenda. A person is recognized and that person offers an amendment to recommit an agenda item and approve the remainder of the docket. - is that in order. What other motions might be in order. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted September 17, 2020 at 07:41 PM Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 at 07:41 PM (edited) No the motion to approve the agenda does not get into the merits of motions or suggest subsidiary motions that might be offered when they become pending. Those would not be germane to the question, which is: which items should be on the agenda and which should not. Motions to (re)commit an agenda item, amend it, postpone it, etc., are only in order when the question actually becomes pending, not when the agenda is being considered. Edited September 17, 2020 at 07:42 PM by Gary Novosielski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted September 17, 2020 at 08:04 PM Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 at 08:04 PM (edited) 39 minutes ago, Guest Fran said: What motions are in order to amend an agenda. Generally, it would seem to me that motions to amend an agenda would be as follows: To add an item to the agenda To remove an item from the agenda To rearrange items on the agenda To add, remove, or change a specific time for an item on the agenda 39 minutes ago, Guest Fran said: Specifically, can someone offer a motion or amendment to commit or recommit and item of business that is listed on a agenda or can someone offer a motion or amendment postpone definitely or indefinitely an item on an agenda. No, none of these are in order. For one thing, all of these things are specific motions (the motions to Commit, to Postpone to a Certain Time, and to Postpone Indefinitely), not motions to Amend. More importantly, when the agenda is pending for approval, the business before the assembly is the agenda itself, which is a list of the items expected to come before the assembly, the order those items shall be considered in, and possibly also specific times at which certain items shall be considered. The items listed on the agenda are not before the assembly and cannot be acted upon. Members will need to wait until the particular item they wish to act on is pending in order to move to commit or postpone that item. 39 minutes ago, Guest Fran said: For example, a motion is made to approve the agenda. A person is recognized and that person offers an amendment to recommit an agenda item and approve the remainder of the docket. - is that in order. No. These questions are so unusual for an agenda, however, that I wonder if you are actually asking about a consent agenda, which is a completely different thing, and these questions would then make a lot more sense. In such a case, you should refer to the special rules of order your assembly has adopted regarding the use of consent agendas. Alternately, perhaps the member who made these motions was thinking of a consent agenda. Edited September 17, 2020 at 08:12 PM by Josh Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Elsman Posted September 17, 2020 at 08:19 PM Report Share Posted September 17, 2020 at 08:19 PM If the assembly meets as often as quarterly, the standard order of business or a special order of business previously adopted by the assembly is customarily used in lieu of adopting an agenda at each meeting. RONR (12th ed.) 41:60. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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