Excepting items on the agenda with out a vote

[Guest Terry]

Can items on the agenda be excepted as read without voting on the items if there is no questions about the items. Example of these items would be minutes, financial statements, apointment of officers or members to committees.

[hmtcastle]

Can items on the agenda be excepted as read without voting on the items if there is no questions about the items. Example of these items would be minutes, financial statements, apointment of officers or members to committees.

A motion could be adopted by unanimous consent (i.e. without objection), but if a member objects, then voting is the way to make a collective decision.

The approval of minutes, by the way, is not put to a vote, and financial statements are simply filed, so no vote there either. And if one person (e.g. the president) has the authority to make appointments, then no vote there either.

So I suppose it depends.

[And, by the way, the word is "accepted", not "excepted".]

[Tim Wynn]

Can items on the agenda be excepted as read without voting on the items if there is no questions about the items. Example of these items would be minutes, financial statements, apointment of officers or members to committees.

See RONR(10th ed.), p. 51-53.

[Tim Wynn]

Can items on the agenda be excepted as read without voting on the items if there is no questions about the items. Example of these items would be minutes, financial statements, apointment of officers or members to committees.

As an additional point that may prove important, I believe you're looking for the word "accept" meaning adopt or agree, not "except" meaning exclude.