Announcement Forum - Motion to Implement
From:
Tim Erickson
Date:
2007 May 22 15:50 UTC
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Dave:
Thanks for the reminder. You just explained this to me at the last
meeting, where it made sense - but, then in the context of the online
vote, I got confused again.
We're all still learning.
Anyway, if my count is correct, the following folks voted for the
motion:
Charlie Swope
Mike Fratto
Tim Erickson
Rosa Maria de la Cueva Peterson
Bob Spaulding
Dave Hutcheson
Gary Thomspson
Votes against:
No one
Did not vote:
Grace Kelly
Motion passes on a vote of 8 - 0
Thanks,
Tim Erickson
On May 19, 2007, at 9:20 AM, <email obscured> wrote:
> 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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