Yes Shari Handley shari@armada.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [BOARD-L] call the question : Jim, : : Did you not see that the others still wished to keep discussion going - ie : Holly, in the note you answered to? Also Pam asked for more time shortly : thereafter. : : Do you not respect fellow Board members wishes to do so? : : However, be that as it may since you have Called the Question and Virginia : has given it a second - : : Board members: : : Please vote Yes, No, or Abstain - to the Call the Question request. : : This vote is only to determine whether or not discussion shall continue : regarding Motion 00-8, it is NOT a vote on Motion 00-8. : : Voting YES means that you wish discussion to cease on the Motion in question : Voting NO means that you wish discussion to continue on the Motion in question : Voting Abstain means that you don't care either way : : 2/3 of members voting after the quorum is reached required for the Call the : Question to pass. : : Tim : : : At 06:33 AM 4/11/00 -0400, you wrote: : >Did our esteemed NC ask for a second? I again call the question and ask : for a : >second myself. : > : >Jim : > : >Tim Stowell wrote: : > : >> At 11:03 AM 4/9/00 -0400, you wrote: : >> >I call the question... : >> >Jim : >> > : >> >Holly Timm wrote: : >> > : >> >> At 06:40 AM 4/9/00 -0500, Ginger wrote: : >> >> >Tim, : >> >> >May I ask why there has been no call to vote for a : >> >> >vote on Motion 00-8? The customary 48 hr discussion : >> >> >period ended some time ago. : >> >> : >> >> I don't know how others feel but the volume of email being received and : >> >> needing to be read and digested and some replied to is to me part of the : >> >> discussion. I am no where near ready to vote and frankly, I am less : >> >> concerned about the opinions of my fellow board members at this point : than : >> >> I am about determining (and at times deciphering) the thoughts, feelings : >> >> and questions of my constituency, all of them, not just those who are : >> >> bombarding the lists and the board members. : >> >> : >> >> Holly : >> > : >> : >> Jim your call dies for lack of a second. : >> : >> Section 16, Page 199 : >> EQUAL APPLICATION OF RULES TO COLLOQUIAL FORMS SUCH AS "CALL FOR THE : >> QUESTION." A motion such as "I call for (or"call") the question" or "I : >> move we vote now" is simply a motion for the Previous Question made in : >> nonstandard form and it is subject to all of the rules in this : >> section. Care should be taken that failure to understand this fact does : >> not lead to violation of members' rights of debate. : >> : >> Sometimes the mere making of a motion for the Previous Question or "call : >> for the question" may motivate unanimous consent to ending debate. Before : >> or after such a motion has been seconded, the chair may ask if there is any : >> objection to closing debate. If member(s) object or try to get the floor, : >> he should ask if there is a second to the motion or call; or, if it has : >> already been seconded, he must immediately take a vote on whether to order : >> the Previous Question. But regardless of the wording of a motion or "call" : >> seeking to close debate, it always requires a second and a two-thirds vote, : >> taken separately from and before the vote(s) on the motions(s) to which it : >> is applied, to shut off debate against the will of even one member who : >> wishes to speak and has not exhausted his right to debate (see pp. 42; : >> 382-384). : >> : >> Page 42 states "A member who has spoken twice on a particular question on : >> the same day has exhausted his right to debate that question for that day". : >> : >> Tim : > : > :