General Meeting Procedures

Many meeting procedures apply to both online meetings and those in a meeting room. A single meeting may have both online and in-person participants.

The general flow of a meeting is to operate in either the mode of considering the agenda or using consensus building discussion within each agenda item. While in the mode of considering the agenda, the "agenda requests" are analagous to motions. While considering an agenda item, the meeting moves into consensus building mode. Between agenda items, there are opportunities to revisit the agenda and return to agenda discussion mode, such as to postpone an item to a following meeting.