Some funny points from Parliamentary Procedure

• there's no such thing as a friendly amendment (once the motion is on the floor, it belongs to the assembly)
• tabling requires a majority, but the table is cleared at the end of the meeting 
• a vote may be rescinded if the action has not gone into affect
• the agenda is the property of the committee (not the clerk, the chair, or the superintendent)
• if it "reasonably could not be anticipated" it may be added from the floor
• any ruling of the chair may be overruled by a majority vote
• a point of order is a "point of parliamentary inquiry"
• parliamentary procedure is not a book called Robert's Rules of Order (there are other options)
• the chair may participate and the chair may vote; it is traditional for the chair to yield the gavel when he wishes to speak
• any member of the School Committee may convene the meeting and the first action of a meeting (in the absence of the Chair and Vice Chair) should be to elect a temporary chair
• know the order of precedence of motions
• passage of a motion to adjourn does not end the meeting; when the chair declares the meeting adjourned, the meeting is over
• the chair needs to keep the order of the meeting (including during public comment)
• draft minutes are public as soon as the meeting ends; executive session minutes are public as soon as the reason for it being in executive session is over
• main motion, subsidiary motion, privileged motion, incidental motion

Rules of remote participation in meetings will be released Monday.