Payne Springs Council discusses voter fraud
Athens Daily Review - Athens,TX,USA
Noble’s insistence on everyone following Roberts Rules of Order has led to more orderly meetings in recent weeks, but old feuds die hard in Payne Springs. ...

High bid policy’s such a low blow
Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA
Those words related to Roberts’ Rules of Order, and to what the council could and could not do, and what state law did and did not say. ...

Want more people involved in town government?
York County Coast Star - Kennebunk,ME,USA
It's also evident that a town meeting, operating under the Roberts Rules of Order, can get tangled up with amendments to amendments of amendments that can ...

Commissioners choose Searcy to lead them for next year
Columbus Local News - Columbus,OH,USA
While Balombin noted that the discussion didn't follow Robert's Rules of Order, Gawronski took the opportunity to express his appreciation for the ...

Dupree back on superintendent list in Monroe
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
In making the request, called a "matter of personal privilege" according to Robert's Rules of Order, McFarland, the board parliamentarian, precluded the ...

OUTRAGE OVER AAC ''WHITE DEMOCRATS'' REMARK, WEEK OF JULY 10-16, 2008
Wilmington Journal - Wilmington,NC,USA
... and misinterpretations, of the group’s bylaws - which even Chairman Meek called “ambiguous at best” - and standard Roberts Rules of Order, ...

County bike trail is making progress
Tasley Eastern Shore News - Tasley,VA,USA
The procedure, she said, followed board policy and Robert's Rules of Order, the long-established protocol for meetings.

Power Struggle In Dunbar
WCHS - charleston,WV,USA
Board man called for Robert's Rules of order so she could call for an emergency meeting to deal with pay increases Wolfe approved for the city's department ...

[ELD] Triennial Episcopal Youth Event builds relationships for ...
Worldwide Faith News (press release) - New York,NY,USA
I welcome that change, to the extent that it gives greater voice to bishops who do not speak Robert's Rules of Order as a second language or who are shy. ...

Your Vents: Monday, July 14, 2008
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
I assure you Ms. Rector that knowing Roberts Rules of Order will do little good with your new colleagues. * In Kanawha County when garbage has not been ...

GP Councilors Discuss City Committee Structures
KAJO - Grants Pass,OR,USA
Fellow Councilor Jeff Hyde said the committees should be formalized, with official chairpersons, and that they should follow Robert's Rules of Order when ...

Feud turns into heated race for supervisor in Thetford Township ...
The Flint Journal - MLive.com - Flint,MI,USA
"Meetings should run according to Robert's Rules of Order. I have experience with that through the Eagles. I would immediately appoint a parliamentarian and ...

Altemus' travels are for the good of the county
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
These meetings provide training and education for board members in running effective meetings, "Roberts Rules of Order," Virginia's Freedom of Information ...

Right way to run a meeting
Washington Observer Reporter - Washington,PA,USA
Supervisors Chairman Donald Winkler, in keeping with Robert's Rules of Order, asks for a first and then a second on each motion before opening the agenda ...

Council approves new sign ordinance draft
Villager - Houston,TX,USA
“Roberts Rules of Order require an objection at the time of the vote and no one objected.” When asked why he did not object to the vote at last month’s ...

YOUR OPINION: Selectman should own his own responsibility
The Patriot Ledger - Quincy,MA,USA
Per the guidelines that many municipal meetings work by, Roberts Rules of Order, if a member has a direct interest in a motion under consideration not ...

Erie County's 16 villages should merge with their towns, says ...
Buffalo News - NY, United States
Witnessing those local meetings, formal affairs that follow Robert's Rules of order, is akin to traveling back to the age of horse-drawn carriages, ...

Jackson County politics: grade school with more lawsuits
Pitch Weekly - Kansas City,MO,USA
I wanted to tell him that Robert's Rules of Order was a manual, not a guide to life. Stringfield also ran with the sort of folks who pay their own money to ...

County Commission wants more time to review draft Protocol Manual
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno,NV,USA
Hunewill also said when she was elected almost 10 years ago when she talked about Roberts Rules of Order use in meetings, she was told the board didn't ...

Utica board should change its pattern
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
What’s needed: Board follows Roberts Rules of Order and members act with more decorum. Raise an issue, discuss it for a short period of time, and then vote. ...

Barr: 'No choice' but to close Funkstown bridge
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA
Barr's abstention was allowed under Robert's Rules of Order, which note that a chairman is "entitled" to vote but not required to do so. ...

NMB citizens expect better from council
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
You should blame the mayor for also not knowing or wishing to ignore Robert's Rules of Order. For the last three years, Mayor Raymond Marin has totally ...

We Are Not Properly Following Robert's Rules Of Order
The Onion (satire) - New York,NY,USA
I speak, of course, of Robert's Rules Of Order, the definitive handbook of parliamentary procedure, which has guided deliberative bodies worldwide since ...

Transit candidate on a roll?
BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
How will he learn Roberts Rules of Order?!)! What Reilly has is an issue — mass transit — that he thinks he can ride all the way to City Hall (unlike, ...

Open Letter to Lawrence Lessig & Joe Trippi
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
... along with Robert's Rules of Order, and document them carrying out of the convention clause of Article V--to capture hours of tape, which could then be ...

Falmouth selectman chided for restricting his voting on board
Cape Cod Times - Hyannis,MA,USA
Mustafa also defended his position by saying he is simply adhering to Robert's Rules of Order, which state the chair does not have to vote in every ...

Bloomington High team competes in leadership championships
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA
By JUAN SAUCEDO Six students from Bloomington High School spent time after school last year learning Robert's Rules of Order, the parliamentary procedure ...

Citizen presses taxation issues
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
Township resident Ernie Manoleas, who is running for trustee, moved that the township adopt Robert's Rules of Order to govern meetings in order to foster ...

E-mail offers a glimpse of council tension
SunJournal.com (subscription) - Lewiston,ME,USA
Often, Lewiston's numerous e-mail debates eschew Roberts Rules of Order in favor of the flame war format. In one exchange, over why money for a Kennedy Park ...

Orange's Campaign Finance Fight Survives Rule Flap
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
So Morrison warned that any motion to pass election rules in Orange might violate Robert's Rules of Order, a standard procedure for running meetings. ...

Feelings run high in city clerk case
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
When the aldermen forget to follow Robert's Rules of Order, it's usually Johnson who corrects them. "No one works harder than Carol Johnson," said Mary ...

5 Red Cross board members ousted
Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick,MD,USA
Another member then presented a motion to adopt Roberts' Rules of Order as the governing rules of the meeting, as opposed to the meeting procedures ...

POA to stop overseeding
Weekly Vista - Bella Vista,AR,USA
At last week's meeting, the directors used a somewhat obscure section of Robert's Rules of Order that enabled them to bring the issue back to the table and ...

Bluffdale residents may spout off
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
If adopted, Bluffdale's rules would be a variation on the commonly accepted Robert's Rules of Order, which are used by most cities as a guideline to ...

City council vote didn’t follow the rules
Grand Island Independent - Grand Island,NE,USA
... control contract at the Tuesday night Grand Island City Council meeting did not follow the parliamentary procedures outlined in Robert's Rules of Order. ...

Mayor Joy to council "It doesn't have to be this hard."
Lovely County Citizen - Eureka Springs,AR,USA
After outlining the procedure and explaining how such a case would move through circuit court, he concluded by pointing out that Roberts Rules of Order ...

Entertainment monolith
Metro Spirit - Augusta,GA,USA
... State University for its first “training session” to go over the basics of public administration, Roberts Rules of Order and just plain “getting along.”

City council denies animal control contract to veterinarian
Grand Island Independent - Grand Island,NE,USA
However, Councilmembers Joyce Haase and Bob Meyer abstained, which under Roberts Rules of Order, count toward the majority, said City Clerk RaNae Edwards. ...

NV Ron Paul Supporters Move Forward With Unsanctioned Convention
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
They contend that if a quorum shows up on June 28 any business conducted there will be recognized under the political guidebook Robert's Rule of Order. ...

Community calendar
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Old Pueblo Parlimentarians — Tucson City Council Ward 6 office, 3202 E. First St. Roberts Rules of Order and other related subjects on how to conduct ...Mayoral Listening

Outmaneuvered: Mayor Atchley used the system to get his way ...
Mountain Press - Sevierville,TN,USA
Gibbs even suggested that what the mayor did violated the terms of Roberts Rules of Order, a claim of dubious merit. Loveday said, "Seems to me the reason ...

Short town meeting raises controversy
Bethel Beacon - CT, USA
She has been to many town meetings and is familiar with Robert's Rules of Order, which the town uses. However, she understood why some people were upset at ...

Overseeding, geese focus of meeting
Benton County Daily Record - Bentonville,AR,USA
Thursday night, board members used a somewhat obscure section of Robert's Rules of Order that enabled them to bring the issue back to the table and ...

Public can't participate unless BOE has a set meeting policy
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA
In addition, this School Board has refused to commit to learning Robert's Rules of Order, the standard method of conducting governmental meetings. ...

Public flocks to GHSD meeting
Strathmore Standard - Alberta, Canada
Enraged he told GHSD Chair Karen Harries that she should re-read Roberts Rules about how a meeting should be conducted and stormed out in frustration. ...

Award-winning 4-H member displays skills on parliamentary law
Coalinga Record - Hanford,CA,USA
DeSilva confirmed that by citing Robert's Rules of Order of 1876. Another interesting factoid about the use of the gavel by DeSilva: One tap signals ...

No way to serve city
Detroit Free Press - United States
... proceedings against the mayor nullified because it lacked the two-thirds majority required under the procedural handbook, Robert's Rules of Order. ...

IN OUR OPINION -- MAYOR KILPATRICK SCANDAL No way to serve city
Detroit Free Press - United States
... proceedings against the mayor nullified because it lacked the two-thirds majority required under the procedural handbook, Robert's Rules of Order. ...

Quick Bethel town meeting draws criticism
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
"I feel I followed 'Robert's Rules of Order' to the best of my ability and the motion to move the question is a non-debateable motion," Straiton said. ...

Robert Rules
Lovely County Citizen - Eureka Springs,AR,USA
However, Robert's Rules "Provides common rules and procedures for deliberation and debate in order to place the whole membership on the same footing and ...

Lawyer sues to block Detroit council's removal of Mayor Kilpatrick
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
Sedler has cited Robert's Rules of Order, which cite the need for a super-majority for removal. But those rules, while the gold standard for deliberative ...

Detroit Files Suit To Stop Council's Forfeiture Plans
WDIV - Detroit,MI,USA
The suit claims a super majority vote of 6 to 3 is needed to approve his expulsion, according to Roberts Rules of Order and the city charter. ...

Sevierville aldermen question vote on airport land
Mountain Press - Sevierville,TN,USA
"That doesn't seem equitable or right or in keeping with the Roberts Rules of Order," Gibbs said. "I am absolutely shocked that item was pulled because we ...

City to attack vote on ouster
Detroit Free Press - United States
Sedler cited Robert's Rules of Order -- the guide to parliamentary procedure that many governmental bodies use to establish protocols -- to argue that a ...

Proceedings lack legal legitimacy, effectively annul '05 mayor vote
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
Council Rule 10.14 says Robert's Rules of Order govern the procedures of council, and Robert's Rule 44 says a two-thirds vote is required to adopt any ...

Kilpatrick attorneys to sue to halt plan to kick mayor out of office
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
At a press conference today called by the Mayor's Office, Sedler accused the council of violating Robert's Rules of Order -- the gold-standard for running ...

Feud inside union hurts Chicago teachers
Socialist Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
... the budget vote resulted in a call for division, a provision of Roberts Rules of Order that calls for the house to literally be divided into two sides. ...

Karen Heller: Civic combat in Montco
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Pretty Boy Bruce held up a fresh copy of Robert's Rules of Order to question whether seconding the motion was necessary in a panel of three. ...

State GOP meets in Cruces
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA
... said Waters, who said Bernalillo County's convention followed Robert's Rules of Order instead of the rule of the gavel. to us, instead of throwing out a ...

LIVE from Spokane: George Fearing speaks
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Redmond,WA,USA
A young woman just suggested a workshop on Robert's Rules of Order before the actual convention so more delegates can understand parliamentary procedure.

Trachtenberg lets loose in new book about his tenure
GW Hatchet (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
"The problems arise when (faculty) gather as a group, clutching their copies of 'Robert's Rules of Order,' pledged to oppose any perceived threat to the ...

'Proud Of Her Work On The Manhattan Project'
Hartford Courant - United States
She was familiar with every nuance of Roberts' Rules of Order, ran meetings punctiliously, and expected others to do so also. "She was sharp, engaging, ...

Arts & Events Datebook
San Diego Metropolitan - san diego,ca,USA
... Association of Parliamentarians holds monthly meetings to study Robert's Rules of Order and to promote the efficient conduct of organizational meetings. ...

Committees Are Not Where Bad Ideas Go to Die
State Journal - Charleston,WV,USA
According to "Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised" (RONR), a motion or idea can be referred to a committee by a mere majority vote. ...

Morton taps retiree for city's new clerk
Evanston Review - Evanston,IL,USA
He comes to the office well versed in Robert's Rules of Order, having served as the parliamentarian for his college fraternity. Greene holds a bachelor of ...

Supervisors approve ethanol requests
South Hill Enterprise - South Hill,VA,USA
Barbour clarified that the supervisors use modified Roberts Rules (rules of conduct for meetings). The supervisors then voted via a role call. ...

Democracy for Thy, but not for Thee
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
The rules are fine if they are followed and enforced. It may very well be that the Paulistas need to brush up on their Roberts Rules of Order the next time ...

Encore sale delayed by lack of quorum
Dowagiac Daily News - MI, USA
... action of these three will have to come back at the next meeting (July 14) and be ratified rather than approved," according to Robert's Rules of Order. ...

Montague mayor apologizes for outburst
The Guardian - Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island,Canada
Peter Doucette said here Monday night, citing Roberts Rules of Order (used by most municipal councils). “You failed to maintain your impartiality and ...

Local 54's McDevitt picked to head Atlantic City Dems
Press of Atlantic City - Atlantic City,NJ,USA
McDevitt promoted himself as a leader who knows how to organize and run meetings and is well-versed in Robert's Rules of Order. ...

Future unclear for state GOP convention, national delegates
PolitickerNV - Carson City,NV,USA
A quorum, they believe, will consist of a majority of the 1347 delegates who attended in April, an argument they base on Robert's Rules of Order. ...

Meet Madam Mayor
Sonoma Index-Tribune - Sonoma,CA,USA
You could also argue that the male mayors preceding her were less concerned with appearance and protocol and Roberts Rules of Order, and that they let ...

Report from the Texas Democratic Party Convention
The Moderate Voice - USA
I also came to appreciate the awesome value of Roberts Rules of Order in managing group dynamics. At almost every moment the meetings could disintegrate and ...

The History Around Us: You folks doing all rightie?
Marshall News Messenger - Marshall,TX,USA
There were no meetings, no Robert's Rules of Order, and no initiation. The purpose of the club was simply the privilege of having BJ as our leader. ...

RTM Holds Off Vote on Sunny Lane Discontinuance
Westport-News - Westport,CT,USA
After Tuesday's meeting, RTM Moderator Hadley Rose said Robert's Rules of Order allow a motion to adjourn to "supercede" any other motion and may be called ...

Backlash Continues Against Ron Paul Movement
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
Using Roberts Rules of Order as their shield, the Ron Paul forces introduce motions from the floor and demand counted votes when voice votes don't ...

Dress code for S-burg schools likely to pass
Pocono Record - Stroudsburg,PA,USA
... which meant that the narrow vote did not garner enough support according to Robert's Rules of Order, which govern how such meetings are run. ...

Losantville firefighters resign
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA
Last month the town board enacted Roberts Rules of Order, and Schaffer said this was the first meeting where those meeting procedures were to be followed. ...

Climate Action Committee elects Kolff as chairman
Port Townsend Leader - Port Townsend,WA,USA
The group is supposed to operate under Robert's Rules of Order and also is to make decisions by consensus. Joanna Loehr, who also worked with Kolff on the ...

Losantville fire volunteers resign
Winchester News Gazette - Winchester,IN,USA
The uproar ensued after the Losantville Town Board adopted last month its version of Roberts Rules of Order for public meetings. Monday's meeting was the ...

Local ‘Step Up To Leadership’ program begins June 19 at First ...
Mexico Ledger - Mexico,MO,USA
... participation with non-profit and for-profit boards, public speaking, the organizational Robert's Rules of Order methodology, budget reviews, ...

Firefighters resign in Losantville
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
Both sides admitted recent town board meetings have been lively, and last month Schaffer said the board voted to begin following Roberts Rules of Order. ...

Business Calendar
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Be at ease with Robert's Rules. 8 to 10:30 am, 2314 W. University Av., suite 28, St. Paul. $35. Call 651-647-1216. Sponsor: MAP for Nonprofits. ...

Edmonds' South County Senior Center tries to determine the future ...
Seattle Times - United States
... herself for the task by purchasing a copy of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Robert's Rules of Order" and enrolling in a class on human psychology. ...

Losantville's fire chief, volunteers resign
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
Last month the town board enacted Roberts Rules of Orders, and Schaffer said this was the first meeting where those meeting procedures were to be followed. ...

Battle at Spokane II
Nolan Chart LLC - Warrenton,VA,USA
... ejected from the Convention Center. f) The chairman who ran the proceedings from the podium constantly conferred with a Robert's Rules of Order guru. ...

Revised smoking ordinance stands