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Posts Tagged ‘continuing breach’

Minor mistakes in Robert’s Rules don’t invalidate action

By Ann Macfarlane | December 18, 2020

A recent news report described how a school board, realizing that no one had seconded the motion they approved, went back at the next meeting and voted on it again. This was a waste of time. Download PDF The purpose of “seconding the motion” is to be sure that at least two people on a…

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