A late amendment changed the motion I was ready to support. Can I ask for time to read it?
Politics"It's only three words," the chair said, tapping the handwritten addition. Those words were "and future increases."
Our civic association was about to vote on asking the council to review a particular charge. The amendment would also endorse future increases if they met a stated condition. I had come prepared to support a review, not agree in advance to increases I hadn't considered.
Several people wanted the meeting finished. The proposer said the condition was a useful compromise. I couldn't tell from a hurried reading how it connected to the rest of the sentence.
I don't want to delay a voluntary group's meeting just because I arrived with a fixed preference. I also don't want to raise my hand for wording I haven't understood. How should I ask the chair to read the final motion and explain the change, without assuming I have a particular procedural right under rules I haven't checked?
