Session 11 - Organizational Leadership - April 2

Responses to your Ticket Outs from Session 11!

What are you curious about?

• Some more scenarios of punishments
• Development of bylaws and utilization of them
• That's next week! Also check out chapter 18
• Bylaws
• See chapter 18
• Best election practices
• What do you do if you are in an organization that struggles to follow its own bylaws? What can you do as an officer?
• Bring it up to the rest of the officers. Your organization should be following its bylaws! You can explain to them why it's important. 
• Is there a format for creating standing rules?
• They can be adopted by a majority vote as long as it doesn't amend or conflict with any existing rule or act of the society. RONR pg. 18 
• Is there a difference in disciplining officers, chairs, and members?
• Your bylaws may specify different rules. For example, officers can be removed from office as a punishment.  Chapter 20
• More info on officers
• Rules about your officers may be different depending on your bylaws. See also chapter 15
• What about ties in elections?
• In ballot votes where there is no majority reached (like in a tie), the chair announces "no election" and a second election is conducted. pg. 439, l. 33-34 The same situation would occur in a tied roll-call election. pg. 443 l. 19-21

What did you learn?

• How we are supposed to nominate
• If the secretary is absent, you must elect a secretary pro-tem
• Who takes minutes when the secretary is absent
• Voting
• Different types of elections
• Ballot, Viva voce, Roll call, Cumulative voting
• Write-ins taken online for nominations are still nominations by ballot
• Cumulative voting 
• Positive and negative
• Executive secretary is a paid position 
• Duties of a secretary and the presiding officer
• Robert's does lay out policies on discipline 
• What to do in the absence of officers
• When elections take effect

What do you want to learn more about?

• Need a review of motions 
• Bylaws
• Chapter 18 and next week!
• How to start bylaws
• Bylaw revisions
• Rule infractions within meetings and their consequences
• See pg. 644-649 and your bylaws
• When to abstain in an election 
• Anytime you do not want to express an opinion on the election
• Object to the consideration 
• Allows assembly to avoid discussion on a motion, Does not require a second, Not debatable, Not amendable, 2/3 vote against the consideration sustains the objection, A negative vote can be reconsidered
• pg. 267-270