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A common misunderstanding about defeated motions

By Ann Macfarlane / July 10, 2020 / Comments Off on A common misunderstanding about defeated motions

  The History City News in Missouri published an account of a commission meeting that got Robert’s Rules of Order wrong: Under Roberts Rules of Order, Commissioner Henry Dean could not offer a motion during the County Commission meeting yesterday to mandate the wearing of face masks in the county since it failed last week.…

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Renewing defeated motion at future meeting – “renewal”

By Ann Macfarlane / December 20, 2019 / Comments Off on Renewing defeated motion at future meeting – “renewal”

Updated July 11, 2023 Robert’s Rules of Order is quite strict about dealing with something once in a meeting and moving on. If a motion has been defeated, the only way to bring the same motion up again during that meeting is to move to reconsider the motion. You have to have voted with the…

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