Making of a motion

[Guest Boris Bedenov]

Can the president of the executive committee or any committee make a motion to be acted upon by other board members?

[Kim Goldsworthy]

Can the president of the executive committee or any committee make a motion to be acted upon by other board members?

Unclear.

Who is meeting?

(a.) the executive committee?

(b.) the board?

You cannot make a motion at all unless you are a member of the body which is meeting.

[Guest Boris Bedenov]

The Executive Committee of an educational association union. This is not a board of eduction or the general membership meeting of a union.

[hmtcastle]

Can the president of the executive committee or any committee make a motion to be acted upon by other board members?

The presiding officer of a small board (one with not more than about a dozen members present), or of a committee, is free to fully participate.

But your question is unclear as to whether there are two (or more) bodies at work: an executive committee, some other committee, and a board?

[Guest Boris Bedenov]

This is a single body at work with 104 association members and 10 executive committee members.

[hmtcastle]

This is a single body at work with 104 association members and 10 executive committee members.

The presiding officer (president? chair?) of your 10-member executive committee is free to fully participate (i.e. make motions, debate, vote) at meetings of the executive committee. Per FAQ #1, he should not do so when presiding at meetings of the association.

[Robert B Fish]

This is a single body at work with 104 association members and 10 executive committee members.

In any size meeting the chairman, if he/she is a member of the group that's meeting, has all the rights of membership: attend, make motions, speak in debate, and vote. However, in meetings of more than about a dozen the chairman maintains the appearance of impartiality by not making motions, not speaking in debate and not voting unless his vote would affect the outcome.

Since your executive committee is a group of 10 members, they probably observe the less formal procedures in which the chairman participates along with the other members. There RONR would say he should feel free to make motions, unless the group has decided to observe the more formal rules of larger meetings.

-Bob

[Guest Boris Bedenov]

Thank you for all of your help.