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

Session 8 - Debate and Voting - March 26

Responses from your Ticket Outs from Session 10!

What are you curious about?

• What type of motion is the motion to take a plurality vote? When is it in order to make this motion?
• How my meetings could run more efficiently by using the strict rules of order.
• If people follow the rules that the are supposed to, the meeting will be run more efficiently automatcially. This is because Parliamentary Procedure is meant to accomplish the four principles and make the meeting run smoother. 
• Election proceedings
• We'l learn about this next class, Session 11!
• What does Sandusky Blitz taste like?
• It's a "banana flavored ice cream, with chocolate covered caramel and peanut pieces."
• Rules about reading minutes, quotations, reports, etc.
• You cannot just assume that you can read from other documents in your speech. However, you can make a request to do so as in pg. 298-299.
• Majority members present
• This means that if you need "more than half" it has to be more than half of those that are there. So blanks and abstentions can affect to vote. 
• Do we write on our exams or turn the correction in on a separate sheet of paper?
• On the exams is alright. 
• Leadership positions within an organization
• Next week...Session 11!
• If I debated twice for a total of 2 minutes, I can't debate more using my remaining time, correct?
• Correct-You forfeit the right to the rest of those speeches. pg. 388 l. 12-20
• Proper use of abstention
• No one can be forced to vote. If they don't want to during a voice, rising vote, or ballot vote, they just have to not participate. During a roll call vote, just say present. pg. 407 l. 12-19
• Meeting attendance via video chat
• More information can be found here about this addition. pg. 97-99
• In the absence of a vice president, who steps up when the chair steps down in order to debate?
• The chair can appoint another qualified member in this case. They cannot have spoken on the motion, not wish to speak. pg. 395 l. 7-13'

What did you learn?

• Proxy votes are only allowed by bylaws and laws. 
• The effects of abstentions on voting outcomes.
• The chair is allowed to vote when creating/breaking ties or two-thirds votes or during secret ballots. 
• Rules about yielding times
• The  maker of a motion cannot debate against their own motion.
• Plurality votes
• When a plurality vote can be used
• The chair can step down to participate in debate although it could make them look like they can't be impartial to the members. 
• Rights of chair to vote
• Various types of voting
• Better debate skills
• There are several types of votes including voice, ballot, rising 
• Proxy voting 
• Practice on debate
• Four types of votes
• Methods of voting 
• Voting based on members present means that if you're present and abstain, you're essentially voting in the negative. 
• Discretion sometimes plays a major role in decisions of the chair
• The chair can participate in debate by stepping down temporarily while the vice president takes the chair. 
• Abstentions are recorded only when having a roll call vote

What do you want to learn more about?

• More practice at chairing
• We'll definitely practice more!
• Elections
• pg. 438-446
• Times each vote types are used 
• A majority vote is most commonly used, including for handling normal business, Two-thirds is used whenever someone's rights as a member will be compromised. Unanimous consent is helpful for when no one objects to the business. pg. 400-406
• Absentee voting
• Check out pg. 423-429
• How do you choose by-laws for your group?
• 2 weeks...Session 12

Session 1 - Anatomy of an Organization - January 15th

Responses to your Tickets Out from Session 1!

What are you curious about?

• Whatever is being taught next week!
•  See the Syllabus!
• Anything/everything Parli Pro
• It will be great!
• What’s involved in running our own sessions
• You will chair a mock meeting in class! It will be fun and you will have a support network
•  Standard set of most common motions every member of an organization should know
•  See the Syllabus! We will be teaching 24 motions: 7 Subsidiary, 8 Incidental, 5 Privileged, 3 MTBBABA and Main motions
•  Bylaws
•   Yay for April 9^th!
•   How to word a specific motion
• Next Week!
• Do all meetings use Parli Pro? What if not all members know standard procedures?
•   It depends on the organization. 
  Educating your fellow members is key (we’ll address this in our 2^nd class)
• Rights of an organization
•    Laid out in the Special Rules Documents discussed
• Other events to help with Parli Pro
•  Just jump in and participate :)
• Special rules of order
•   See p. 15-17 in RONR
• Silence is consent – I’ve been in meetings where non-votes are considered no votes for personnel issues
• Depends on Bylaws and Special Rules of the organization
•  The legal importance of Parli Pro
•   You must follow what you governing documents say
• Deliberative Assembly
• See p. 1-2 in RONR
•  Optimal ways to run a meeting
•  We will learn by practice!

What did you learn?

1. Special orders
2. Unfinished vs. old business
3. Types of rules
4. Types of Assemblies/Meetings
5. Members’ rights
6.  Standard order of business (RRRSUN)
7. Purpose and deeper understanding of Parli Pro
8. 4 principles of Parlia Pro
1.  The majority rules
2. Protect Rights of Minority
3. Extend Courtesy to Everyone
4. One Item at a Time
9. Meetings must start on time, have a plan, and use a standard order of business
10. Definition of quorum

What do you want to learn more about?

•  Special orders/Rules
• See pp. 364-365, 369, 270 in RONR
• Why are different sections of a convention called sessions? It seems that they are all just multiple meetings of the same session
• See p. 625-630 in RONR
• Standing rules
• See p. 18 in RONR
• What does each motion do and when do you use them?
• We will learn in the upcoming session!
• How to teach Parli Pro easily and quickly to a large group of people?
• Will try to role model ideas.
• Everything there is to know about Parli Pro
• That’s a lot! ;)
• Standard order of business and how to apply it to real meetings
• You apply by simply setting up your agendas that way; See p. 353 in RONR
•  Bylaws – how do you go about creating and making your Bylaws?
• We will cover on April 9^th, but you could read ahead on p. 565–583  in RONR
• Powers of the Chair
• See p. 448-450 in RONR
• More about procedures and motions
• Keep coming to class!
•  2/3rds vote vs. majority vote
• We will talk more on March 26^th
• What votes required 2/3rds and how do I determine this quickly?
• See upcoming class sessions
• What are common quorum numbers?
• Just depends on organization, Read more on Quorum here;
• How is a township meeting run?
• Visit one :)
• What kind of motions can be made?
• See upcoming classes
• Elections
• Session 10 on April 2^nd!