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100

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?

100

This is the first thing a President says when he/she begins a meeting.

What is "The meeting is called to order"?

100

The 1st edition of Robert's Rules was published in this year.

What is 1876.

100
During this time in the agenda, members continue to discuss topics they have discussed in previous meetings.
What is Old Business?
100
This is the term for the number who must vote for a main motion for it to pass.
What is Majority.
100
The rules of Parliamentary Law are constructed to protect the rights of these two groups.
What is the Majority and the Minority?
200
This is the person who takes over in the president's absence.
What is the Vice President?
200

These are the first two words that one would use to start a motion.

What is "I move"?

200

This is the number of votes required to close debate on a motion.

What is 2/3?

200
This is the item on the agenda during which the secretary calls the names of all the members to determine if each is present.
What is Roll Call.
200
This is the name of a written list of the order of business to be conducted at a meeting.
What is the Agenda?
200

This motion is often mistakenly used to kill a motion. 

What is Lay on the Table?

300

This professional provides legal guidance to the board.

Who is the Board Attorney?

300

These are the words one would say immediately after another member has made a motion.

What is "I second that motion"?

300
This is the number of board members on a 9 member board needed to pass a motion that requires 2/3 of the full membership to pass if there are 6 members present at the meeting.
What is 6?
300
This is the item on the agenda during which it is time in the meeting to discuss items never brought before the board previously.
What is New Business
300

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

This action introduces business for the group to act on.

What is a motion?
300

This is what a member has if he/she is recognized by the president (given permission to speak). 

What is the floor?

400
During a meeting, a motion to withdraw a previously made motion can be made by this person.
What is the member who made the motion?
400

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"?

400

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

This is the number of main motions that can be considered at a time during a board meeting.

What is one.
400
These are the three general ways a main motion may be amended.
What is deleting a word or phrase, adding a word or phrase, and substituting a word or phrase.
400
A motion to amend a main motion is this type of motion.
What is a subsidiary motion.
400
This is not counted as a vote.
What is an Abstention?
500
This is the person who can amend a motion.
What is a Member?
500

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 2019-2020 school year.

What is "It has been moved and seconded to appoint Hall and Buckley as legal counsel for the 2019-2020 school year.  Is there any discussion"?

500
This is the number of board members of a nine member board that have to be present to legally open a meeting.
What is five.  (The quorum)
500
This is used to end debate on a motion and call for an immediate vote.
What is "To call for Previous Question"
500

This is the motion a member might make to block debate on a subject.

What is Objection to Consideration of the Question?

500

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.

600

Brigadier General

What was Henry Robert’s military rank?

600

Cannot be used in New Jersey to record the board’s official vote on a motion.

What is Secret Ballot?

600

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?

600

Ending a meeting in progress and setting a time for another meeting is something you can do if you don't have this.

What is a quorum?

600

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

A motion to separate two unrelated ideas within a main motion.

What is Division of a Question?

600

The motion to delay the vote on a motion to approve the math curriculum in the March meeting until the May meeting.

What is to "postpone definitely".