Appeal Won

[Tim Wynn]

Vote is taken with 51 per cent sustaining the appeal

"The vote is taken so that the affirmative will be in favor of sustaining the chair's decision..." - RONR(10t ed.), p. 251, l. 31-32

[Trina]

Thank you, David, very kind of you.

[Josh Martin]

If the bylaw is in the nature of a rule of order, it seems to me that the chair is wrong to find that a motion to allow non-members to attend is out of order. Perhaps the motion was improperly stated by the member, but the chair should have helped the member to restate it properly.

Trina, a motion which conflicts with an assembly's rules is out of order, by definition. The fact that the rules may be suspended does not change that. If a motion was in order, there would be no need to suspend any rules. So yes, the suspendablity of the bylaw is irrelevant to the chair's ruling. That wouldn't matter unless the member followed up by making a motion to Suspend the Rules (and in this case, the chair should rule that motion out of order as well).

[Guest nancy N.]

Oh well, my apologies to Jack, as I seem to have messed up

[snip]

Trina's messing up is typically more illuminating that anyone else's simply acing it.