On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 12:58 -0800, Mike Rodenbaugh wrote:
It is not proper for you to introduce this as amendments to my motion.
I do believe that it is a valid action to submit amendments to a motion. If those amendments are not accepted as friendly, then that amendment would need to be voted on before the motion itself. We have had occasions, though not many, in the past where we followed this procedure. And while we do not follow formal rules of order (e.g. Roberts) in that we allow any friendly amendments at all, we do follow with respect to voting on amendments before motions and requiring a majority vote to pass an amendment. In this amendment, though, I am not quite clear on how it transforms the original amendment, It would seem that one needs to say things like: - Add after the nth whereas the following ... - add after the mth resolved the following ... - add the following words after xxyyzz in paragrpaph 3: word word word. in order to have a well formed amendment we could vote on. Finally, with regard to bringing something up for a vote again, we have no rules against doing so that I know of. Obviously, it does not make sense to do so unless one thinks they will have a changed outcome. I do not know if people have a reason to believe there will be a changed outcome and reach a 2/3 vote, but I can only assume they think so. a.