LCMP_Lodge_Administration

lodge is opened on the Entered Apprentice degree to include all masons, but only Master Masons in good standing are able to vote or hold office. The master sets the agenda for each meeting, which helps keep a meeting on time and well run, by following the order of business outlined in the CMC: • Read minutes for the previous stated meeting and any special meetings that took place since the last stated meeting. • Hear reports by applicant investigating committees. • Ballot on applications that have been read and investigated. • Receive any new applications. • Recommended: Treasurer report on bank balances • Recommended: Coaches report to the lodge on the advancement of their candidates. • Hear miscellaneous and unfinished business, ex. reporting about lodge activities and voting whether to approve payment of bills. • Lodges can also confer degrees on a stated meeting night.

A best practice of many lodges is to encourage attendance at meetings, to ask brethren to send regrets if they are not

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