@giri said:
1. how does one move a valid amendment to something that was a motion on last ECM meeting?
You can’t. The meeting has been and gone. An amendment to a motion needs to be made when the issue is being discussed. All you can do now is ask someone on the Executive Committee to move a new motion at the next meeting or to challenge the previous meeting’s minutes as a true record (unlikely to succeed).
2. how do I get the amendment to this ECM motion on the agenda of the imminent AGM.
This would be a new motion to rescind the previous decision at the EC meeting and must be given to the secretary in writing before the agenda of the AGM is sent out.
3. if the motion is already on the agenda for the imminent AGM, how do I move a valid amendment to it? (not sure if it will be on the agenda of the AGM – i haven’t received the agenda yet).
You can move an amendment at the general meeting provided it doesn’t substantially alter the nature of the motion. For instance, if there was a motion to ban barbecues, you could move an amendment to make it only a ban on solid fuel or gas barbecues but not electric ones. This would be allowed because owners will have had a chance to consider the whole issue. However, you could not move an amendment to also ban, say, portable air conditioners as owners haven’t had a chance to consider that before the meeting.
There is no need to move a motion to reject a motion that’s on the agenda since rejection is also an option in any vote. Your problem then is getting enough votes against the motion which means stirring up your fellow owners BEFORE the meeting. Your chairman will probably come to the meeting with a raft of proxies and you need to have enough owners already in your camp if you want to overturn any motion that’s on the agenda.