(A) Unless the Board of Trustees provides otherwise, the rules of parliamentary procedure specified in this section shall apply to meetings of the Board of Trustees. The Chairperson shall preserve order during meetings of the Board of Trustees and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Board. When any person is called to order, he or she shall be seated until the point is decided. When the Chairperson is putting the question, no person shall leave the meeting room. Every person present, previous to speaking, shall rise from his or her seat and address the presiding officer and while speaking shall confine his or her comments to the question.
(B) When two or more persons rise at once, the Chairperson shall recognize the one who spoke first. All resolutions or motions shall be reduced to writing before being acted upon, if requested by the Village Clerk-Treasurer or any member of the Board. Every member of the Board who is present when a question is voted upon shall cast his or her vote unless excused by a majority of the members of the Board present. No motion shall be put or debated unless seconded. When seconded, it shall be stated by the Chairperson before being debatable. In all cases where a motion or resolution is entered on the minutes, the name of the member of the Board making the motion or resolution shall be entered also.
(C) After each vote, the “yeas” and “nays” shall be taken and entered in the minutes. Before the vote is actually taken, any resolution, motion or proposed ordinance may be withdrawn from consideration by the sponsor with the consent of the member of the Board seconding the resolution, motion or ordinance. When, in the consideration of an ordinance, different times or amounts are proposed, the question shall be put on the largest sum, or the longest time. A question to reconsider shall be in order when made by a member voting with the majority, but the motion to reconsider must be made before the expiration of the third regular meeting after the initial consideration of the question. When any question is under debate, no motion shall be made, entertained or seconded except the previous question, a motion to table and to adjourn. Each of those motions shall be decided without debate. Any of the rules of the Board for meetings may be suspended by a two-thirds’ vote of the members present. In all cases in which provisions are not made by these rules, Robert’s Rules of Order is the authority by which the Board shall decide all procedural disputes that may arise.