Personally, the one bit of Roberts Rules I feel needs adjusting for WSFS is to reduce the scope of Object To Consideration. Only allow OTC on other procedural motions, or items raised at the meeting. If it's on the agenda, it gets discussed. Minimum 5 minutes. After that, people can move "Next business" if they want, as a 2/3rds or 3/4ths procedural motion.
As a quid pro quo for this, I'm prepared to increase the number of "assentors" needed to get something on the agenda from 2 (proposer & seconder) to something higher, probably between 10 and 50.
Basically, it just feels wrong that something can be on the published agenda, pre-discussed (probably with much misunderstanding) on all the fannish e-lists, and then the proposer doesn't even get a chance to make their case, due to a pre-emptive OTC "nuclear strike."
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Date: 2013-09-04 07:58 pm (UTC)Only allow OTC on other procedural motions, or items raised at the meeting.
If it's on the agenda, it gets discussed. Minimum 5 minutes.
After that, people can move "Next business" if they want, as a 2/3rds or 3/4ths procedural motion.
As a quid pro quo for this, I'm prepared to increase the number of "assentors" needed to get something on the agenda from 2 (proposer & seconder) to something higher, probably between 10 and 50.
Basically, it just feels wrong that something can be on the published agenda, pre-discussed (probably with much misunderstanding) on all the fannish e-lists, and then the proposer doesn't even get a chance to make their case, due to a pre-emptive OTC "nuclear strike."