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Posts Tagged ‘city clerk’

Who may raise a point of order at council meetings?

By Ann Macfarlane | April 17, 2015 | 2

Over the years of working with parliamentary procedure I’ve found that there is a lot of confusion about the motion “point of order.” In essence, when a person says “point…

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