CCM Workshop: Municipal Meetings: Understanding Parliamentary Procedure

Workshop:

Municipal Meetings: Understanding Parliamentary Procedure

March 11, 2010
Manchester, CT
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Registration 5:30 p.m.

DESCRIPTION

This workshop will help bring order to your public meetings.

Learn keys to successful meetings:

Legal requirements
8 Steps to Motions
Roberts Rules of Order
Managing debate
Practical steps to meeting management

Be certain all elected and appointed officials know the nuts & bolts of effective public meetings.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES Effective Meetings

Overview of legal requirements for public meetings
How to write an agenda
Role of the presiding officer
Audience of citizens
How to properly call a meeting to order
Conducting the meeting and managing the agenda
Tips for maintaining order and public decorum

Robert’s Rules of Order

The easy, logical, and practical way to run a meeting
Making motions and amendments, and how to consider actions
Rules for Debate
Definition of parliamentary terms

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Mayors/First Selectmen
Town/City Managers
Board, Commission, and Committee Members
Town Clerks
Anyone interested in Parliamentary Procedure

PRESENTERS Duncan Forsyth, Esq.; Halloran & Sage, LLP Duncan Forsyth represents both public and private sector clients in litigation matters primarily in the areas of environmental and land use, labor and employment, wrongful termination, contract and interference with contract litigation, wrongful denial of development permits. He regularly appears in state and federal trial and appellate courts as well as before numerous administrative agencies such as CHRO and FOIA.

Thomas P. O’Dea, Esq., Halloran & Sage, LLP.

Tom O’Dea has represented and counseled individuals, partnerships, corporations and municipalities in various litigation issues and has extensive trial experience in both federal and state courts. From July of 1995 through December 2004, Mr. O'Dea served as a member of the Police Officers Standards and Training Council, which is responsible for overseeing and monitoring all municipal police training and certification. WHERE Lincoln Center
494 Main Street
Manchester, CT 06040 COST per attendee CCM Member Town/City: NO CHARGE, Non-Member: $120

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DIRECTIONS

From Bradley International Airport
Take I-91 South to the I-291 exit
Take I-291 South to I-384 Eastbound
Take I-384 Eastbound to exit 3 (downtown Manchester)
Bear right off the exit ramp to Main Street
At the intersection of Routes 6 and 44 Main and Center Streets - turn left onto Center Street
Town Hall is on the right (after Center Congregational Church)
Driveway is between the Town Hall building and the Fire Station
Lincoln Center building is on the other side of the church. Drive to the back of the Town Hall parking lot and around the back of the church to the Lincoln Center (494 Main Street).
The planning department is on the second floor.

From Boston and East
I-84 West to I-384 East (exit 59)
I-384 East to exit 3 - (Manchester/Glastonbury, Route 83)
At end of exit ramp, turn right onto Main Street
Continue straight for approximately one mile to the intersection of Main and Center Streets
Take a left and the Town Hall is immediately on your right (building after white church on the corner)
Driveway is between the Town Hall building and the Fire Station
Lincoln Center building is on the other side of the church. Drive to the back of the Town Hall parking lot and around the back of the church to the Lincoln Center (494 Main Street).
The planning department is on the second floor.

From New Haven and the South
I-91 North to I-84 East to I-384 East (exit 59)
Continue on I-384 East to exit 3 (Manchester/Glastonbury, Route 83)
At end of exit ramp, turn right onto Main Street
Continue straight for approximately one mile to the intersection of Main and Center Streets
Take a left and the Town Hall is immediately on your right (building after big, white church on the corner)
Driveway is between the Town Hall building and before the Fire Station
Lincoln Center building is on the other side of the church. Drive to the back of the Town Hall parking lot and around the back of the church to the Lincoln Center (494 Main Street).
The planning department is on the second floor.

Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
900 Chapel Street, 9th Floor
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: (203) 498-3000
Fax: (203) 562-6314