unseconded motion

[Guest JeremWrighty]

A motion was made and died for lack of a second. President's opinion that Roberts Rules prevent question from being addressed for a period of one year

[Weldon Merritt]

President's opinion that Roberts Rules prevent question from being addressed for a period of one year

Ask him to show you the rule that says so. There certainly is no such rule in RONR, so unless your organization has a customized rule to that efffect, he is just wrong.

[Gary Novosielski]

A motion was made and died for lack of a second. President's opinion that Roberts Rules prevent question from being addressed for a period of one year

Well I guess he's entitled to his opinion, but this one happens to be wrong. RONR does no such thing.

Ideally, you would hope that a president would at least have read RONR before offering his opinions. Apparently yours has not.

Ask him for a page and line number.

[Josh Martin]

A motion was made and died for lack of a second. President's opinion that Roberts Rules prevent question from being addressed for a period of one year

A motion which died for lack of a second could be renewed at any later session, or even at the same session, since the question was not before the assembly. There is no waiting period for a motion which dies for lack of a second.

[David A Foulkes]

Although if not even one other person felt the motion was worthy of consideration, it does say something. Rules not withstanding and all that....

[Josh Martin]

Although if not even one other person felt the motion was worthy of consideration, it does say something. Rules not withstanding and all that....

It's often the case that a motion dies for lack of a second not because of any problem with the motion itself, but because the motion maker didn't do enough groundwork before the meeting and the other members don't like having complex motions sprung on them.

I speak from personal experience.

[Rob Elsman]

It's often the case that a motion dies for lack of a second not because of any problem with the motion itself, but because the motion maker didn't do enough groundwork before the meeting and the other members don't like having complex motions sprung on them.

I speak from personal experience.

It also sometimes happens that a change in circumstances or the disclosure of information later in the meeting will make a motion that previously died for lack of a second seem more worthy of consideration.

[Gary c Tesser]

Of course these are all wrong. The motion may be renewed after a period of time equal to the age of the president, as measured in minutes. If not a round number, rounded off to the nearest dime. Guest_JeremWrighty_. ask your president, I bet he'll jump to agree with me, as long as he gets someone else to calculate his age in minutes, and then take the square root.

(Boy, it's tough being the logomeister around here sometimes. Some of these guys think they know it all.)