SOLVED- ELABORATED-CMCA Meetings Questions for 2022

SOLVED- ELABORATED-CMCA Meetings Questions for 2022 SOLVED- ELABORATED-CMCA Meetings Questions for 2022CMCA Meetings Questions for 2022 Section 1: Meetings Table a motion - |Ans| Incomplete items on the agenda should be rescheduled for another meeting. Robert's Rules of Order - |Ans| Provides common rules and procedures for deliberation and debate in order to place the whole membership on the same footing and speaking the same language Timed agenda - |Ans| Limits the amount of time focused on specific areas, so as to move the meeting along at a more thorough and prompt pace Second a motion - |Ans| Once the motion has been proposed, consideration by the assembly occurs only if another member of the body immediately concurs with the motion Amend a motion - |Ans| A motion is used to modify another motion. Takes three basic forms: inserting or adding words, striking out words, striking out and inserting or substituting a paragraph for another Ballot - |Ans| Device used to record choices made by voters Quorum - |Ans| is the number of members required to be present to transact business legally Proxy - |Ans| Function or power of a person authorized to act or vote in place of another resident who could not be present Plurality - |Ans| Awards the election to the candidate with the most votes, regardless of whether or not they received the majority established in the association's by-laws Committee report - |Ans| Reports should highlight matters to be decided and recommendations by the committee. Supporting research should be included in the reports. Committees need to clearly state the actions they are asking the board. Debate - |Ans| During an elections, a formal discussion involving opposing candidates vying for the same position. Executive session - |Ans| When a board must hold a discussion or make decisions of a sensitive nature. Financial report - |Ans| report on the community's fiscal condition Prof.Exams Parliamentary procedure - |Ans| The body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations. Minutes - |Ans| Meeting document the decisions made during the meeting. This provides a permanent public record of positions and actions taken by the board. Majority - |Ans| Over 50% of the votes needed to win an election. The majority vote can come from those owners who tend the meeting, in person, or by proxy, to decide all matters except special issues. Motion - |Ans| A formal proposal stating that the association took a certain action. Notice of meeting - |Ans| An official announcement that a meeting will take place, which should be sent in writing to board members at least a week before a meeting. Management report - |Ans| Report on the association's current management and administrative activities. Absentation - |Ans| When a participant in a vote either does not go to vote or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote, but does not cast ballot. May be used to indicate the voting individual's ambivalence or mild disapproval. They do not count in tallying the vote and attend the meeting to constitute a quorum. Action item list - |Ans| a documented event, task, activity, or action that needs to take place. Usually documented in the meeting minutes and are recorded in the task list of the group. At the next meeting the action item list is reviewed by the group and at the meeting the facilitator will check the status of these items. Agenda - |Ans| a list of meeting activities in the order in which they are to be taken up, beginning with the call to order and ending with the adjournment. Section 2: Governance and Legal Issues - |Ans| Planned community - |Ans| the most common type of community association, where an owner owns his or her lot and/or living unit and the community owns any common areas, such as tennis courts and roads for the use and benefit of the lot owners Fiduciary duty - |Ans| requires director to act in the best interests and for the benefit of the corporation, this the community as a whole. This has two components: the members are required to avoid conflicts of interest and acting out of self-interest, and the members are also required to act as reasonable people in managing the association's affairs. Alternative dispute resolution - |Ans| Mediation, arbitration and other ways of resolving conflicts with the help of a specially trained neutral third party without the need for a formal trial or hearing. Prof.Exams Hierarchy of authority - |Ans| Rules and architectural guidelines may not contradict or be in conflict with the legal sources that take precedence over them. Although rules and architectural guidelines are lower in authority for community associations, they may clarify and expand a community's governing documents-but may not conflict with the other governing documents. Management ethics - |Ans| the specific choices to be made by an individual in his or her relationships with others. The assumptions is that the special expertise held by the members of the profession holds them to a high standard of trust by others. Appeal - |Ans| a request for a review of a case by the higher authority- if permitted by the governing documents or statute. Hearing notice - |Ans| a written notice to an alleged violator that a hearing will be held to consider his or her alleged violator public#Applications and Forms #CMCA #Exam #Prep #CMCA #Examination #You #Passed. #Standards of #Professional #Conduct #MaintainingtheCMCA #CMCA #Retired #State #Specific #Requirements #Community #Association #Managers #International #Certification #board Governance, #Legal, and #Ethical #Conduct #Budgets, #Reserves, #Investments #Assessments #Contracting #FinancialControls #RiskManagement #Insurance #Property Maintenance # Meetings # Human Resources