Parliamentarian Joshua Lee Observation after the Annual Meeting
Aloha, First of all, I want to thank you all for the privilege and responsibility of serving as parliamentarian for the OBN meeting despite my inexperience. I also would like to ask for forgiveness to the extent my shortcomings hindered in any way the desired business conducted. I would like to offer a bit of clarification to some of the more complex issues with recommendations for moving forward. In general, I think the OBN meetings would benefit from more instruction to the body about rules of order given that it appears many are unfamiliar. This would be particularly helpful for anyone helping facilitate given the following issues (numbers reference relevant sections in the current edition of Robert's Rules). Motions coming from a board or duly appointed committee require no second (4:11). Given that they were printed and part of the agenda, and a motion was made to accept the agenda, the motions were already on the floor for discussion. The representative speak...