Everything in Moderation — a parliamentary floor console for Christian and Missionary Alliance business sessions. This is a demonstration site, not a live copy.

A floor console for the chair of a business session

Agenda, motions, and a parliamentary advisor — grounded in your own governing documents and Robert’s Rules. Built for the Christian & Missionary Alliance in Canada: the national General Assembly and its district conferences.

The console

Everything the chair needs, on one screen

Below is the live console as it looked chairing a real assembly. Sample business is shown for demonstration — the working tool runs on your district’s own agenda and documents.

How it works

It advises — the chair decides

The tool keeps the moderator on neutral ground. It answers only from the documents you load, and phrases every ruling as the chair’s to make.

What it does

  • Holds the agenda and steps through it live, with one-tap back
  • Tracks motions on the floor — wording, seconds, vote required, disposition, and counts
  • Shows amendments as struck-through and underlined text, and codes resolutions automatically
  • Answers parliamentary questions from your governing documents and Robert’s Rules, with citations
  • Gives scoped access to a small support team on the floor

What it is not

  • It does not rule — it phrases everything as “the chair may rule…”
  • It does not guess — it answers only from loaded documents and says so when something isn’t settled
  • It is not generic — it’s grounded in the law that governs your assembly
Grounded in your law

The authority your assembly actually answers to

For a district conference, the order of authority runs from your incorporating statute down to Robert’s Rules. The advisor cites in this order.

1

Your incorporating statute

Federal, or the province/territory your district is incorporated under — the highest legal authority.

2

C&MA national governing documents

Your district is a subordinate body; its bylaws cannot override national polity.

3

Your district constitution & bylaws

Your own standing rules — they supersede Robert’s Rules, and yield to the two layers above.

R

Robert’s Rules of Order (12th ed.)

The parliamentary fallback for anything the documents above don’t settle. Loaded for every district.

One thing only the moderator can confirm

The statute that governs your conference is the one your district is incorporated under — not simply a province you happen to operate in. Several of our districts span more than one province or territory. The tool must be pointed at your incorporating jurisdiction so it never cites law that doesn’t bind your assembly.

Set it up

Run your own copy

The code is open and free. Each district stands up its own deployment on its own accounts — a weekend’s work for someone comfortable with web apps. Start with the repository and its README.

Ongoing cost is the deploying district’s own — modest, mostly free or low-tier services adequate for an occasional conference. Each district runs and funds its own copy.
Helpful tips

Before you go live

01

Confirm your jurisdiction first

Settle which statute incorporates your district before anything else — everything downstream depends on it.

02

Gather documents early

Have your constitution, bylaws, standing rules, and the relevant statute ready as files to upload.

03

Load the agenda ahead of time

Build and reorder the agenda in planning mode days before, then switch to live on the day.

04

Do a dry run

Enter a few sample motions, ask the advisor a question, confirm it cites your documents, then reset.

05

Add a second set of hands

Invite a trusted clerk to the support team so motion entry doesn’t fall solely to the chair.

06

The chair still rules

Treat the advisor as counsel at your elbow — fast, cited, neutral — not as the decision.