It’s the summer, and I get bored.  Idle hands are the devil’s workshop and all that.  So I thought, what’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now?  I’ve been considering becoming a certified parliamentarian for the past few years.  Samona says I’d be good at it.  At least I think she said that.   But who knows – it could lead to some sort of side job!  Last year, I did look into how to become certified and even took a practice test, but maybe this is a good time to revisit it.

So while I was gathering up study materials, I thought back to the reasoning given by the National Board denying two potential proposals allowing for electronic NCS meetings submitted by councils for the 2020 NCS.  The rationale was based on the opinions of two parliamentarians that GSUSA hired and can be found in a National Board memo released at the same time as the Early Alert back in February.  You can read the board’s response in this previous blog post where I thought the NCS would be postponed.

I’m not sure what made the National Board do a 180 and decide it’s now possible to have the NCS virtually, but the questions it raised in its denial still have to be answered.  I still wonder about the legality of the decision, but that’s another discussion entirely.  Regardless, I would really like to know how parliamentary procedure will be pulled off in a fair and correct manner.  Continue reading