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OTTAWA- CAUETON
DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
TO: Chair and Members of the DATE: 31 March 2004
Chairs' Committee
Re Revision to Board By -laws - Reconsideration
Trustee Laws has given notice that he will move as follows at the 31 March 2004
Chairs' Committee meeting:
Whereas Kerr & King (Third Edition), Regulatory Motions (p. 205) states:
"It has also been permissible in times past for members to give notice for reconsideration
of a motion to take place at a later meeting. This practice is open to abuse, because one
or two members could thus suspend or freeze an action that had been properly approved
by a majority. To avoid such a hiatus, it is now the practice to reconsider a decision only
at the same meeting or conference at which the original vote was taken. "
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
A. THAT a second sentence be added to Part b) of Article 6.1 of the OCDSB "Rules
of Order for Board and Committee Meetings" which shall read as follows:
"Such notice must include the rationale(s) for moving the motion to
reconsider. "
B. THAT a new Part c) be added to Article 6.1 of the OCDSB "Rules of Order for
Board and Committee Meetings" which shall read as follows:
"and will be immediately ruled "out of order" by the Chair, if the
rationale(s) fail to provide "new information " or fail to prove that the
original decision on the substantive motion was "made in haste ". "
C. THAT a second sentence be added to the first paragraph of Article 6.2 of the
OCDSB "Rules of Order for Board and Committee Meetings" which shall read
as follows:
"However, staff work towards implementation of an adopted motion will
not be suspended by the motion to reconsider. "
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D. THAT a new sentence be inserted prior to the existing sentence of Article 6.7 of
the OCDSB "Rules of Order for Board and Committee Meetings" which shall
read as follows:
"A motion to reconsider which is not dealt with at the board meeting
immediately following the notice of its introduction will be considered to
have been defeated. "
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oan Melancon,
Assistant Secretary of the Board
Lorne M. Rachlis,
Director of Education/Secretary of the Board
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