Meeting Procedures 13

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Meeting Procedures 13

An exercise to study Meeting Procedures by James Lochrie

What must be put on the agenda?
1. Business required by the documents of authority.
2. Requests from officers.
3. Requests from committee chairs.
4. Items carried forward from previous meetings.
What must be put on the agenda?
1. All business postponed from previous meetings
2. Requests from members
3. Requests from staff members
4. Requests from non-members
Who has the authority to set the timing of items on the agenda?
1. The chair
2. The secretary
3. The parliamentarian
4. The sergeant at arms
The presiding officer has _____ when dealing with scheduling during a meeting.
1. some discretion
2. no discretion
3. very little discretion
4. absolute discretion
The time of an event can be altered by a _____.
1. two-thirds vote
2. majority vote
3. minority vote of one-third
4. majority of the entire membership vote
An agenda can generally be amended by a _____.
1. majority vote
2. two-thirds vote
3. majority of the entire membership vote
4. minority of one-third vote
An agenda can also be amended by _____.
1. general consent
2. the chair
3. the secretary
4. the parliamentarian
How detailed should an agenda be?
1. Only enough to aid members in preparing.
2. Very detailed so that everything is laid out.
3. With little detail so that all new things can be considered.
4. Detailedness is not important for an agenda.
What is a Consent Agenda?
1. Items that everybody agrees should be passed or that nobody really opposes.
2. Items that all agree should be on the agenda.
3. Items that most people agree with so that no vote is every necessary.
4. Items that the chair agreed to put on the agenda before the meeting came to order.
Who develops the consent agenda before the meeting is called to order?
1. The chair
2. The executive committee
3. The general membership
4. The parliamentarian
Why is a consent agenda used?
1. It is an efficient way of taking care of non-controversial items.
2. It makes the chair look good.
3. It is one of the rights of the majority.
4. It prevents a minority from running the organization
When asking about items on the consent agenda, the chair asks about _____.
1. each individual item
2. all the items together
3. all the items in a group or class
4. The chair does not ask about them.
The proper way to take an item off the consent agenda is _____.
1. to say "Hold" when the item is reached.
2. to object to all the items being on the agenda.
3. to raise a point of order
4. Nothing may be removed from the consent agenda
To adopt a consent agenda takes _____.
1. a majority vote
2. a two-thirds vote
3. a unanimous vote
4. a majority of the entire membership
What is a motion?
1. A formal proposal by a member that the assembly take a particular action.
2. An idea that might be considered.
3. A ruling by the presiding officer as to what policy is.
4. None of the other answers are correct.
What is a motion related to the business of the organization?
1. A substantive motion.
2. A procedural motion.
3. A resolution.
4. A subsidiary motion
What is a motion that largely deals with procedural aspects of a meeting?
1. A procedural motion.
2. A substantive motion.
3. A resolution.
4. A subsidiary motion.
What is the lowest ranking motion?
1. A main motion
2. A subsidiary motion
3. A privileged motion
4. An incidental motion
What is a main motion formally presented?
1. A resolution
2. A subsidiary motion
3. A privileged motion
4. An incidental motion
What is a motion that modifies a main motion?
1. A subsidiary motion
2. A procedural motion
3. A privileged motion
4. An incidental motion

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