Conduct of Meeting

[Telephonics]

The Board of Diredctor's of my condominium are loath to respond to questions or suggestions from unit owners. This is true for written as well as oral presentastuions at Board Meetings. Robert's Rules do provide the Board with power to limit each speakes floor time and the assembly accepts that limitation. However the Board has chosen to announce that even though the procdure to "cede" ones alloted time to another speaker" is widely resorted to in our Congress our Board announced they will not permit this priviledge to unit owners at a formal meeting of the noard. The Noard has appointed a Parliamentarian who sits at the head table during Board meetings but remains mute on this question. Can you advise??

[hmtcastle]

The Board of Diredctor's of my condominium are loath to respond to questions or suggestions from unit owners. This is true for written as well as oral presentastuions at Board Meetings. Robert's Rules do provide the Board with power to limit each speakes floor time and the assembly accepts that limitation. However the Board has chosen to announce that even though the procdure to "cede" ones alloted time to another speaker" is widely resorted to in our Congress our Board announced they will not permit this priviledge to unit owners at a formal meeting of the noard. The Noard has appointed a Parliamentarian who sits at the head table during Board meetings but remains mute on this question. Can you advise??

Nothing you describe is improper as far as RONR is concerned. If you want a more responsive and transparent board, you can elect different members and/or amend your bylaws to require what you want.

Note, by the way, that RONR does not permit the "ceding" of time from one speaker to another, regardless of what is done in Congress.