Oral presentation vs text

[Tomm]

At today's Board meeting, a Board member read and presented a motion to the Board, however, her oral presentation of the motion had a little intentional variance in the wording of the motion than that, that was printed in the Agenda.  Another Board member questioned whether the difference warranted an amendment to the motion because the text was different than the motion that was orally presented. The Chairman said that the motion need not be amended because the motion was not actually presented to the Board until it was presented in the form of a motion by the Board member. Basically saying the text in the Agenda was not the official motion so it doesn't really count yet.

Was that the correct response or should have the written motion as worded in the Agenda been amended because the Board members were already aware of the motion as printed in the Agenda?

[Atul Kapur]

The chair was correct. If there was any confusion, the chair could have requested that the motion as actually presented be put in writing.

And any member had the right to have the motion read again (as presented), and could have made a note of the changes.

This answer may be different if there was a requirement for previous notice of the motion to have been given, but that depends on the exact differences between the two motions.