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Posts Tagged ‘rescind’

After rescinding the motion, what next?

By Ann Macfarlane | September 10, 2021

Dear Dinosaur:  In your September newsletter, you said that anybody could move to rescind a motion, regardless of how they voted originally. After a motion is rescinded, can a new…

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Can director take back his vote?

By Ann Macfarlane | July 8, 2021

Dear Dinosaur: Our board voted to eject a member from our social club. The next week, one of the directors changed his mind and said he wanted to take back…

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Reconsider, Rescind, or Amend previous decision

By Ann Macfarlane | March 11, 2020

  Some years ago, I had a dramatic exposure to the motion “to Reconsider.” At a 2-day meeting of our professional society board, one member (I’ll call him “Alex”) proposed…

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