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- Session called to order at 9:04 AM
- Roll Call
- 137 Voting members. Quorum is 90
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Point of order – May we have the Serenity Prayer.
- Chair: Yes.
- COMMITTEE REPORTS (CON’T)
- DOORBELL
- Joy: I notified the floor yesterday that I would be making a motion today to rescind their motion on the budget today.
- Chair: Would the H&I committee come up.
- Amy: Point of Order – The standing rules state that missing role call prevents someone from However, it does not prevent them from making motions.
- Chair: According to our parliamentary procedure, it does.
- Amy: They may only speak at the discretion of the chair. Although they do not have a vote at this session, they do remain conference delegates.
- Chair: I believe my ruling needs to be…I will allow you to speak on motions…I am disappointed that people have missed role call and I would ask that you do not vote. However, I will allow for them to make motions and speak on motions.
- Steve E: Point of Order – I would like to direct us to Standing Rule 15.
- Joy: Motion: I would like to make a motion to rescind H&I’s budget, and I voted against that
- Chair: Explains what a motion to rescind is. Since Joy gave a day’s notice about making this motion, only a simple majority is needed.
- Kevin: If this motion to rescind passes, is the original motion dead?
- Chair: Yes.
- Chair: Joy would you like to speak on this?
- Joy: I have talked to a lot of committee members in regards to their budgets, and if we can cut their budgets in half it would be beneficial.
- Discussion ensued.
- Scott S: In favor. The original motion was passed on the basis of some assumptions that were changed after the motion was passed.
- Michael R.: In favor of motion. The committee has been notified, and is in agreement of this.
- Kevin M.: Against the motion, just because we pass the budget does not mean that the monies will be spent.
- Tony: I would like to know if you’ve discussed this, and are you in favor of this?
- Jim: No.
- DOORBELL
- Call For vote. Passes
- Please prepare yourself to vote on the motion.
- Motion fails.
- 53 for and 62 against.
- Steve E.: Minority opinion – I heard a lot of talk on trusting our trusted servants last night, and I am very disappointed that this floor did not trust our Treasurer.
- Questions for H&I Committee:
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- Tony: I’d like to see a proposal for how funds will be allocated from point A to point B. I see nothing on where this money is going to go. When would we see some kind of proposal on how that money will be spent.
- Jim: As your trusted servants we will take that into consideration. We feel that we can come way under budget, with the skill of members within this Fellowship.
- Charles: I’m confused. We didn’t really get any feedback on the reasons why we shouldn’t allocate these monies from our Finance committee, etc.
- Jim: We will look at all media options available.
- Hal: Are you aware that this budget that was passed will have grave repercussions on the entire CA budget? I think our Treasurer needs to be heard from on this.
- Paulette: Have you closed the competition for bids.
- Jim: It has just begun.
- David L.: In light of the amount of money being spent and the disagreement over how it should be spent, has the committee looked at production in Canada – it could be cheaper.
- Jim: Yes.
- Roy: Over the next year could we get updates on H&I’s progress through our delegate mailings?
- Jim: Oh yea.
- Ron: Parliamentary Inquiry: Question on whether it was appropriate for the chair to allow comments during this question period.
- Chair: I’d like to thank the H&I Committee for their work.