Guest paul lusher Posted January 4, 2011 at 08:28 AM Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 at 08:28 AM Our committee brought several recommendations to the board meeting. Does each recommendation have the force of a motion or must each recommendation need to be brought as a "motion"? If a motion is not actually mentioned, is it assumed that the recommendation is a motion? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Goldsworthy Posted January 4, 2011 at 08:57 AM Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 at 08:57 AM Our committee brought several recommendations to the board meeting. Q. Does each recommendation have the force of a motion or must each recommendation need to be brought as a "motion"?Q. If a motion is not actually mentioned, is it assumed that the recommendation is a motion? There is a difference between:1. reading a committee report out loud, and mentioning the recommendations.2. making a motion, i.e., turning the text of the recommendations into an adoptable motion.The presenter of the committee report is supposed to close his oral reading or oral summary by making the appropriate motion(s).If he fails to do so, then you are kind of in limbo -- somebody thinks that something should be done, but nobody believes in the recommendation strong enough to stand up and put them forth as genuine, sincere ideas on behalf of the organization.It is theoretically possible that a committee report contain a recommendation or two, and yet no one is present who wants to go on record as supporting that "bad" idea by making the motion so, else risk adoption of a crappy, wrong-headed idea. -- Timing might be wrong. Personnel might not be in place. Money might be tight.(Example: Spending money on X, where the club treasury is broke, comes to mind. -- That does not mean the idea is "bad", but might mean that it is impossible right now, and a foolish pursuit this year.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted January 4, 2011 at 05:11 PM Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 at 05:11 PM Our committee brought several recommendations to the board meeting. Does each recommendation have the force of a motion or must each recommendation need to be brought as a "motion"? If a motion is not actually mentioned, is it assumed that the recommendation is a motion? Thank you.Part of the job of a committee is to put its recommendations into the form of a motion if it would be appropriate to do so. Some recommendations might be to general for that, but for the most part if the recommendation is for the society to do something, or even to take a position on something, then the committee would be doing a service to the assembly by writing an appropriate and well-thought-out motion to accomplish that. The whole point of sending matters to a committee in the first place is to save the time of the assembly by doing the all the work of research and drafting motions outside the context of a meeting. Motions made as the product of a committee report do not require a second.But if the committee drops the ball and doesn't move its own recommendations, anyone else can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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