MR. PARLIAMENTARIAN

James H. Stewart
Professional Registered Parliamentarian,

TREASURERS REPORT

It is not necessary, or in fact even proper, to approve a monthly treasures report.

The monthly treasurers report is simple a statement of current circumstances, and no action is necessary or proper. As with any report that does not recommend a specific action, no approval or other action by the assembly is necessary. In the case of the treasurers report there is a further reason that it should not be approved, the members of the assembly have not looked at the account books and cannot verify the accuracy of the report. Therefore they cannot approve it. The only financial report that is approved is a yearly auditors report.

When it is time for the treasurers report, the chair ask the treasurer to give the report, the treasurer gives the report and the treasurer, or more properly the chair, asks if there are any questions. After the questions have been answered, the chair thanks the treasurer and proceeds to the next order of business.