Submit a Resolution
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Who May Submit a Resolution to the AGM?
Throughout the year, the following can put forward resolutions for the upcoming AGM:
Standing Committees
- FPSE Standing Committees may recommend resolutions for the AGM to Presidents’ Council. Such recommendations must be received by PC no later than the March PC meeting. PC may refer a recommendation back to the SC or approve it to become a resolution at the AGM.
- Any SC recommendation for an AGM resolution, received after the conclusion of the March PC meeting will be deemed to be late by the RSC.
Presidents’ Council
- All action resolutions made by FPSE Presidents’ Council, during the year, shall appear in the AGM program, in order to provide an opportunity for the AGM to confirm actions taken by Presidents’ Council between AGMs.
- PC can recommend resolutions at any time.
Individual Member Organizations
- Individual member organizations can put forward a local resolution to the AGM at any time.
- Local resolutions, received before the conclusion of the March PC meeting, may be reviewed by PC and may be recommended by PC to the AGM.
- Local resolutions received by the March PC deadline but not reviewed or recommended by PC, will proceed to the AGM as local resolutions.
- Local resolutions received after the conclusion of the March PC meeting will be deemed to be late.
Individuals
- Individual persons cannot advance a resolution on their own.
- Resolutions made by individuals must be:
- Moved and seconded by member organizations
- Endorsed by the Presidents of the moving and seconding member organizations
- Individual resolutions which meet the conditions above become a resolution from the member organization that moved the motion.
- Up through to the March PC meeting, an individual’s resolution will either be referred back to the member organization that moved the resolution or recommended by PC for inclusion at the AGM.
- Any resolution submitted under this section, after the conclusion of the March PC meeting, will be deemed to be late by the RSC.
Timeline
Timelines for submitting resolutions to the AGM:
Before the AGM
Resolutions may be, and are, submitted throughout the year. To be included in, or considered for, a particular year’s AGM, the following cut-off dates apply:
AGM motions submitted by Locals with financial implications to the operating budget of more than $100,000 must be submitted at least 10 business days prior to PC’s March meeting. PC will make a recommendation to the AGM on each motion of more than $100,000.
Resolutions coming from member organizations are due by the conclusion of the March PC meeting. Member organizations’ resolutions that miss this deadline will be considered to be late.
Special resolutions are due the sixth Friday before the start of the AGM. Special resolutions that miss this deadline, will have to be considered at the following general meeting.
During the AGM
The RSC will accept late resolutions, for consideration up until 13:30 local time each day for possible inclusion in the next day’s proceedings.
For all resolutions received from the floor, AGM Rules of Order #1 applies: “All resolutions moved at AGM must be endorsed by the mover’s and seconder’s local presidents prior to submission to the Resolutions Committee and allow for distribution at least one hour before debate.”
Rules of Order
The Annual General Meeting follows structured rules to ensure fair and efficient debate. Resolutions must be endorsed and submitted in advance, with clear procedures for speaking, time limits, and handling amendments from the floor.
- All resolutions moved at an Annual General Meeting must be endorsed by the mover’s and seconder’s Local Presidents prior to submission to the Resolutions Committee and allow for distribution at least one hour before debate.
- The author of the resolution will be first to speak to the resolution once it is read from the Convention Chair or Resolutions Committee member.
- The author of the resolution announced will speak to the resolution at Pro Microphone 1 on the Convention floor.
- The time limit to speak to a resolution will be three (3) minutes. There will be a timer that counts down the three-minute time on the screen on the convention floor and the microphone will be silent when a delegate’s time is up.
- The Chair will take a speaker from the Con microphone, should there be a speaker, after the resolution’s author has spoken. If there is no one at the Con microphone, the Chair will ask if anyone else wishes to speak and then call the question.
- Amendments from the floor of convention will be directed back for review/redraft.