Approving a meeting agenda

[Guest c desoto]

If there is a lack of quorum, do I have to add to the next meeting agenda to approve the previous meeting agenda? I understand with minutes I would do so, but what about the agenda?

[M.G.]

I'm not sure I'm completely following the question. In an inquorate meeting, there's only a few procedural steps the assembly can take, plus action to obtain a quorum. RONR (12th ed.) 40:7 Adopting an agenda isn't one of them. There's never a need to approve the agenda of a previous meeting. If there are items from that were intended to be taken up at the inquorate meeting, including them in the next meeting's agenda would be a reasonable step, but the assembly must adopt the agenda at that meeting. 

[Richard Brown]

I really don’t understand your question, as there is no reason to approve an agenda of a prior meeting that did not adopt an agenda or conduct any business. For your next meeting, you adopt an agenda (if you are using an adopted agenda) and probably put on that agenda items that were on the agenda (or would have been on the agenda) for the inquorate meeting, but never reached because of lack of a quorum.

There is a question whether you should be adopting an agenda at all, but that is a separate issue.

Perhaps if you ask your question in a different way, we will better understand what you are trying to ask. 

[Josh Martin]

On 10/1/2024 at 3:19 PM, Guest c desoto said:

If there is a lack of quorum, do I have to add to the next meeting agenda to approve the previous meeting agenda?

No. The previous meeting's agenda no longer has any meaningful application after the previous meeting is over.

[Gary Novosielski]

On 10/1/2024 at 4:19 PM, Guest c desoto said:

If there is a lack of quorum, do I have to add to the next meeting agenda to approve the previous meeting agenda? I understand with minutes I would do so, but what about the agenda?

Without a quorum, the question of approving the agenda was presumably never reached, so it was really never the agenda.