what is the difference in a resolution and a motion?

Question

I'm new to writing minutes from board meetings and I need help with situtations when a resolution is asked for or when a motion is made.

Answer 1

A resolution is a potential answer to a problem. Supposedly after a resolution, the issue has been dealt with as the resolution is to contain goals and punishments for a particular action.
A motion is just a gesture to consider or act for a one time event. For instance. if you do something bad, jbreak your curfew, your parents might put a restriction on you. That is a motion as it does not stipulate what will happen to you the next time you do it. If they tell you that you will be restricted for something this time for a length of time and the punishments will get progreesively worse each time you do, then that is a resolution.

Answer 2

See Robert's Rules for Parlimentary Procedure. Exceprt copied:
4. Motions and Resolutions. A motion is a proposal that the assembly take certain action, or that it express itself as holding certain views. It is made by a member's obtaining the floor as already described and saying, "I move that" (which is equivalent to saying, "I propose that"), and then stating the action he proposes to have taken. Thus a member "moves" (proposes) that a resolution be adopted, or amended, or referred to a committee, or that a vote of thanks be extended, etc.; or "That it is the sense of this meeting (or assembly) that industrial training," etc. Every resolution should be in writing, and the presiding officer has a right to require any main motion, amendment, or instructions to a committee to be in writing. When a main motion is of such importance or length as to be in writing it is usually written in the form of a resolution, that is, beginning with the words, "Resolved, That," the word "Resolved" being underscored (printed in italics) and followed by a comma, and the word "That" beginning with a capital "T." If the word "Resolved" were replaced by the words "I move," the resolution would become a motion. A resolution is always a main motion. In some sections of the country the word "resolve" is frequently used instead of "resolution." In assemblies with paid employees, instructions given to employees are called "orders" instead of "resolutions," and the enacting word, "Ordered" is used instead of "Resolved"
If you are the secretary or scribe or whatever, you should study this carefully. Anyone allowed attendance at a hearing that is properly run can call for a 'Point of Order' at any time one feels the 'Rules' have been violated. This stops all business until the point is decided (by the chairman or appointed person consulting the procedures). Of course, almost no meeting is properly run anymore, I doubt that many even have or have seen Robert's Rules, so you would make a lot of calls for this in a meeting where you cannot determine whether a resolution or a motion has been made or called.

Answer 3

thanks