This is excellent Shaun! As a retired Professional Registered Parliamentarian it does my heart good to see this explained with such clarity. I LOVE your grandfather's old book comics! Another great reference is "Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief." Thank you. Lynda Baer, PRP-R
Here's hoping that someone on the Spotsy School Board starts contacting other members individually and saying "you know what? our meetings could go a lot smoother and more reasonably if we just got over our disagreements and started observing just a little bit of decorum..."
Once you get into it, Robert's Rules is very organized and stately. It does a great deal to raise the level of debate and discourse, and even better still, respects each and every person's voice and opinion in a way that makes things work better -- and can even focus the body on the public good rather than public disputes. Wild ideas, I know!!
I believe Dawn Shelley has raised the issue both collectively and individually more times than I have fingers and toes, both with the group and individually. To coin a phrase, "Hello, wall."
This is excellent Shaun! As a retired Professional Registered Parliamentarian it does my heart good to see this explained with such clarity. I LOVE your grandfather's old book comics! Another great reference is "Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief." Thank you. Lynda Baer, PRP-R
High praise indeed! Thank you!
Our school board needs an intensive study of the Rules.
I believe that Lisa Gillespie of Spotsy School Board fame attended a class on Robert’s Rules. It didn’t take.
Here's hoping that someone on the Spotsy School Board starts contacting other members individually and saying "you know what? our meetings could go a lot smoother and more reasonably if we just got over our disagreements and started observing just a little bit of decorum..."
Once you get into it, Robert's Rules is very organized and stately. It does a great deal to raise the level of debate and discourse, and even better still, respects each and every person's voice and opinion in a way that makes things work better -- and can even focus the body on the public good rather than public disputes. Wild ideas, I know!!
I believe Dawn Shelley has raised the issue both collectively and individually more times than I have fingers and toes, both with the group and individually. To coin a phrase, "Hello, wall."
Thank you, Shaun. I just wish our school board had the opportunity to follow the Rules.
Someone can always bring it up as a point of personal privilege. Maybe this will make a good handout?