Dilatory and Improper Motions

At a recent Special Board meeting a Board member motioned to "Authorize the President of the HOA to sign the lease
of the Community Center with the developer" and added that his motion stands as is. This motion denied the other
Board members to amend. Is this motion dilatory or improper, in anyones opinion?

Thanks

I bow to Peter's great response. I also agreed what was posted is not the entire story.

Peter, does "Intent " have a hand in this game. If the motion is made in such
a manner to restrict of prevent the participation of debate, wouldn't that motion be out of order? Also could a point or order be called?

If this instance boils down at some point and some decision is made based on the interpretation of the original motion, how binding is it, given the circumstances of holding an HOA meeting. Wouldn't all these procedures have to be contained in the HOA documents? We use RRO as a guideline and I hope it never gets to the point that a decision by the Board hinges on some esoteric parliamentary specific.

I am also not sure that this kind of authority can be bestowed on the President without membership approval.

Apparently someone is objecting, whoever made the motion anticipated an objection to the motion, had chapter and verse ready top tr and insure the motion could not be discussed. Do I read all this wrong?

Perhaps what he meant was that he didn't want any amendments to the motion to be added. He really does not have that authority to do that.

If someone thought that the motion was "out of order" because of lack of information or that the motion was dilatory (harmful) there could have been a request for the president to decide whether to even accept the motion for consideration. Sounds like your president thought the issue should be brought to a vote.

Considering that there were questions about the motion's content, then those who even had an inkling of doubt should have voted No.

But, Dan, you can motion at the next meeting to amend that motion.