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General information, guidelines for convention business
BSC Communications
November 02, 2011
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General information, guidelines for convention business

General information, guidelines for convention business
BSC Communications
November 02, 2011
Emergency Assistance
Emergency or first aid assistance is available. See an usher.
Exhibit Hall & Registration
Monday 2 p.m. Open
Tuesday 8 a.m. Open
Exhibits remains open until 30 minutes after the last session.

Portrait Opportunity

Pastors and their wives are invited to take advantage of a free portrait opportunity offered through LifeWay Directories and Olan Mills. Pastors will receive a free 8×10 portrait and a directory of North Carolina Baptist churches mailed directly to their home. The portrait studio will be located adjacent to the registration area and will be open Monday, 2-9 p.m. and Tuesday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.

Prayer Room

Don’t miss the model Prayer Room in the Exhibit Hall. Throughout the Convention, people will be praying. If you have a request, complete the form in the back of your program book. Give it to an usher or drop it by Riverdale.
Photography
This is a public meeting, and you are giving implied consent to have your image recorded and posted by being here.
Cell Phones Off/Lost and Found
Please turn off the ringer on your cell phone, smart phone and/or pager. Find your misplaced items at the information booth in the Exhibit Hall.
Business introduction
In order to conduct the business of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSC) certain rules have been established with the BSC governing documents. The introduction and deliberation of business follows Robert’s Rules of Order. To facilitate the consideration of business items, messengers are asked to abide by the guidelines outlined. It is the desire of the Convention’s officers to ensure that messengers have the opportunity to bring items for consideration, raise questions, and enter into discussion related to business brought before the Convention. Any messenger wishing to clarify the appropriateness of a motion, the appropriate time for the presentation of a motion, or the wording of a motion is encouraged to speak to a parliamentarian or a Convention officer.
Resolutions
A resolution has traditionally been defined as an expression of opinions or concern, as compared to a motion, which calls for action. A resolution is not used to direct any entity of the BSC to specific action.
The BSC Bylaws provide that all resolutions are to be submitted to the Committee on Resolutions in writing no later than Sept. 10 prior to the annual meeting in which the proposed resolution is to be considered. If a resolution has not been previously submitted to the Committee on Resolutions, then the Convention may consider a resolution only upon a vote by two-thirds of the messengers to suspend the rules. It is suggested that any messenger desiring to present a resolution from the floor contact a parliamentarian or a Convention officer regarding the appropriate procedure.
Making a Motion
A motion calls for a specific action by the BSC. A motion normally begins with, “I move that.”
Write the motion legibly. If the motion is spontaneous and you do not have time to write it before presenting it to the Convention at a designated microphone, write the motion as you stated it, before leaving the microphone area. Avoid any language in your motion that could be construed as mandating an action by a BSC entity. These are typically ruled out of order for legal reasons. Instead, word such motions as requests to the entity.
Go to a floor microphone at a time when motions are being considered.

Notify the microphone monitor of your desire to make a motion.

When recognized by the presiding officer, state your name, the name and location of your church, and read your motion. DO NOT argue the merits of your motion. If your motion receives a second, you will be given the first opportunity to speak on behalf of your motion, after which discussion by others will follow, alternating between opponents and supporters to provide a balance of differing perspectives. When you finish speaking, please bring your written motion to the platform.
Point of Order
The purpose of a Point of Order is to call the attention of the chair to a violation of the Convention’s rules. A Point of Order should be raised only when a member has good reason to believe that the chair has failed to notice and correct a breach of the rules that prevents the proper transaction of business. Because a Point of Order interrupts pending business, it should not be raised merely to point out minor irregularities, or as a guise for debating an issue, as a method of obstructing business, or harassing the chair.
Improper Points of Order will be ruled out of order.
Microphone System
To assist messengers wishing to bring items to the floor of the Convention for consideration, as well as the debate of all appropriately presented business, a microphone system is employed during the Convention’s business sessions. When messengers approach the microphones they will be asked by the monitor to declare their intent: introducing a motion, speaking for/against a motion already under consideration, or other parliamentary procedures.
A computerized sequencing system is employed to register messengers and provide the presiding officer information regarding the nature of a comment. Messengers will not be recognized by the chair unless they are properly registered at a microphone.
The presiding officer uses the information from the computerized system to guide him as he moderates the debate striving to alternate between messengers wishing to speak for and those wishing to speak against an issue.
In the event that deliberation of a motion must be interrupted to address a fixed order of business, the computerized sequencing system will retain the order in which messengers have registered to speak to that motion in order that debate may resume once the fixed order of business has been completed.
Nominations
The Committee on Nominations published its full report in the Biblical Recorder in at least one issue at least four (4) weeks prior to the annual meeting and on the Convention’s website at least 35 days in advance of the annual meeting. The report includes the name, church, home town, association, occupation, and sex of each nominee as well as the name of the agency, institution or board to which they are being nominated to serve. The name of any person to be nominated from the floor of the Convention and the name or the nominee intended to be displaced appeared on the Convention’s website and may also be available on the Biblical Recorder’s website beginning at least fourteen (14) days in advance of the meeting. In addition, biographical material relating to any person proposed to be nominated from the floor of the Convention shall be given to the institution or agency involved and to the Committee on Nominations at least one (1) week prior to the meeting.