Order of Business

Every organization with recurring meetings develops traditions and structure about the order and flow of a meeting which are relevant to the people and topic of the organization. The meeting body is permitted to adopt its own Order of Business which acts as a template from which meeting agendas are derived.

For meeting bodies which have not adopted their own Order of Business, these procedures provide the following list as a starting point.

• Convening the meeting
• Adoption of the Agenda
• Minutes (omit when online meeting rules are used)
• Treasurer’s Report
• Unfinished Business (listed)
• Committee Reports (listed)
• New Business (listed)
• Announcements (listed)
• Program/guest speaker (for mass meetings - may be moved earlier in agenda so speaker does not have to attend the entire meeting)
• Adjournment