Post in Announcement Forum - Motion to Implement

2007 May 19 14:25 UTC

I think we have discussed this before, and the motion is a straightforward,
sensible approach, so I will vote for it.   But let me insist once  more that
the only way that the rules of order for passing a motion  really make sense
is to observe the following sequence:
     - one member makes a motion
     - another member seconds it
     - having been seconded, the motion is open to  discussion, which may in
some cases last for quite a while, until brought to  some sort of termination
     - the membership votes on the motion

Implications:
     -  to second a motion is only to agree that  it should be discussed.  It
is not illogical to, and one is free to,  second a motion and then vote
against it.
     -  to move directly from seconding a motion  to voting on it is in
effect to deny any other member the opportunity to ask a  question about it or
express an opinion about it.

I think the above should be true of electronic meetings as well as of
meeting rooms.

I vote yes

Dave Hutcheson
651 210 6114

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