The best part of this morning's
board training workshop was when Liz Guthridge, of Connect
Consulting Group LLC, explained how Motions to pull items from the Consent
Agenda are to be handled.
Not quite like Teresa Holmes
handled them; that's for sure. Robert's Rules of Order only
got about six minutes today. It should have gotten at least an hour, maybe 1½
hours, out of the time from 9:00AM to 12:30PM.
I wonder whether Teresa
"got" the message. At that previous board meeting she was wrong. She was completely wrong
to dictate and dominate the board meeting where she made the huge error in not
letting the Minutes get corrected.
And the trainer this morning
wasn't even correct in explaining it. Did anyone catch that?
The trainer referred to
removing an item in the Minutes. That isn't the procedure.
First you pull the Item from the Consent Agenda. After the Consent Agenda is
voted on, then the pulled Item is discussed. During that discussion, the error
in the Minutes would be discussed and corrected. And then that Item (the Minutes) would be
voted on.
Lindsay Agostini had made a
motion to remove the Item containing the Minutes from the Consent Agenda. It
may or may not have required a second; Lindsay said it didn't, and the
superintendent agreed (although I don't think he knew, for sure). And then
Teresa shut it down without discussion or vote.
Lashonda McFadden was correct
that, if the board approved the Consent Agenda without removing that Item (the
Minutes), then it would be approving the entire Consent Agenda, and the board
couldn't fix it. Today
those Minutes are wrong!
Lindsay and Lashonda were
right. Holmes and the superintendent were wrong. Isn't the Secretary supposed
to understand RONR? Why didn't McKie speak up? (Hint: she'd have to contradict
Holmes and Davis.)
Supt. Davis was wrong, when he
said there were two motions on the floor. There was a Motion, and there was a
Secondary Motion (Lindsay's).
The trainer this morning said
that any Board Member's motion to pull an item from the Consent Agenda should
be approved. Note: this approval applies to removing the Item from the Consent
Agenda, not approving the Item.
Does Teresa get to eat a little Humble Pie? Will she? Will she apologize, publicly, to Lindsay. Lashonda and the board for her error?
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