This is the person who takes notes during a board meeting and then reports a summary of the meeting to the membership.
What is the Board Secretary?
This is the first thing a President says when he/she begins a meeting.
What is "The meeting is called to order"?
The 1st edition of Robert's Rules was published in this year.
What is 1876.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
These are the first two words that one would use to start a motion.
What is "I move"?
This is the number of votes required to close debate on a motion.
What is 2/3?
This motion is often mistakenly used to kill a motion.
What is Lay on the Table?
This professional provides legal guidance to the board.
Who is the Board Attorney?
These are the words one would say immediately after another member has made a motion.
What is "I second that motion"?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This action introduces business for the group to act on.
This is what a member has if he/she is recognized by the president (given permission to speak).
What is the floor?
This is the sentence that a member would say if he/she wanted to end the business portion of the meeting.
What is "I move the meeting be adjourned"?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This is the number of main motions that can be considered at a time during a board meeting.
These are two sentences a president would say immediately after a member has seconded a motion to appoint Hall and Buckley as legal counsel for the 2018-2019 school year.
What is "It has been moved and seconded to appoint Hall and Buckley as legal counsel for the 2018-2019 school year. Is there any discussion"?
This is the motion a member might make to block debate on a subject.
What is Objection to Consideration of the Question?
This is the motion a member might make if he/she thought the vote shouldn't be taken on the motion until the next meeting.
Motion to postpone definitely.
Brigadier General
What was Henry Robert’s military rank?
Cannot be used in New Jersey to record the board’s official vote on a motion.
What is Secret Ballot?
This is the only time a motion to reconsider can be made for an action that has already been voted on.
What is At the same meeting in which the original action was taken?
This statute requires the opportunity for "Public Comment".
What is Open Public Meetings Act?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
A motion to separate two unrelated ideas within a main motion.
What is Division of a Question?
Requires that all complaints be referred to the CSA.
What is Tenet J of the School Ethics Act?
(Code of Ethics)