Robert's Rules of Order

"Cooperation Begins With You: An orientation handbook for student housing cooperative boards of directors."

Written by Karin Evans for the North American Students of Coopration, Copyright 1981.

This document provides a guide to parliamentary procedure; what is it? how does it work? what are its advantages and disadvantages?

The following approach to facilitation and decision-making outlined in this document is a modified consensus process which came out of the June 2006 NASCO Board meeting after a good deal of discussion and experimentation with different meeting processes. The process outlined below is something of a hybrid, which attempts to combine some of the clarity and formality of Roberts Rules with the participatory and flexible nature of consensus processes.