[Businessmtg] Point of Order

[Jerry H.]

All,

Point of Order

ASP, in it's methodology for declaring a consensus, has used the entire Business Meeting body to determine whether a minimum of 2/3rds of the body is in agreement on issues. The Chair has stated that we have a consensus on the current issue on the table based on a consensus of only those who chose to speak on the topic. 

If ASP is to accept the notion that 2/3rds of only those who chose to speak in the KBDM phase is the bar for determining that a consensus is formed, as the Chair has announced, then it follows we also accept this same consensus standard in all circumstances - 2/3rds of only those who spoke or voted. Applying this standard to BM votes on  recent motions, the votes on the motions to discontinue the archiving of members' topic shares and the motion to rescind a prior passed motion to continue sending beginners' packets to our new members actually passed not failed as currently listed. In both those cases BM members who did not vote were the determining factor in the calculations of the results; a clear consensus of those who did vote was that they should have passed.

This new notion that only BM members who speak are used in determining whether or not a consensus exists in the BM is a new and unaddressed practice. As such I request that the Chair announce whether a minimum of 2/3rds of the entire registered Business Meeting membership exists which would then form a consensus of this body, not just of those who spoke.

Jerry
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