Week 2 in Review!

If you are reading this, congratulations! You made it to week two of the Fall 2018 #AgEdParli course! If you are reading this and have not seen the "Welcome to #AgEdParli!" or "Wednesday Words of the Week!" blogs, I would strongly encourage you to hop on over and take a look at those blogs to get some prior knowledge! If you have gotten this far and have no idea what Parliamentary Procedure is, you're about to learn, so buckle up! 

This week, we covered some incredibly important topics, including the fundamental rules and basic characteristics of parliamentary procedure. We also discussed the hierarchy of rules, the difference between meeting and session, quorum, and the order of business. 

To begin, there are 4 fundamental rules of parliamentary procedure. 

Numero Uno: Focus on one item at a time.

Nummer Zwei: Extend courtesy to everyone.

Numé Trois: Observe that the majority rules.

Number Four: Respect the minority.

These rules are important to ensure that meetings run efficiently and respectfully.

Next are the 10 basic characteristics!

~A Quorum Must Be Present to Conduct Business

~Rights of the Organization > Rights of Individual Members

~Once a Motion is Decided, it, or one Like it May Not Be Brought Up at the Same Meeting

~Debatable Motions Must Receive Full Debate

~Majority (rocks and) Rules

~Personal Remarks are Always Out of Order

~One Question, One Speaker at a Time

~All Members and Their Rights are Equal

~Silence=Consent

~2/3 Vote Rule

Hierarchy of Rules:

Federal, State, Local Statute

Corporate Charter or Articles of Incorporation

Parent Organization Charter or Bylaws

Bylaws or Constitution

Special Rules of Order

Rules of Order

Standing Rules

Job Descriptions

Policy Manual

Custom (Unwritten Procedure)                                                                                                                                      

Weekly Wisdom:  

A Session Always Consists of Meetings

But

Every Meeting is not Part of a Session

*Can someone comment below what the 7 types of meetings are? 

Order of Business: 

Reading and Approval of Minutes
Reports of Officers and Standing Committees

Reports of Special Committees

Special Orders

Unfinished Business

New Business

Thank you for reading! Tune in next week, and bring your scuba gear because we are deep diving into bylaws! 

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!