"new business". Optional headings Organizations may have the following optional headings in their order of business: Opening ceremonies - Items may include invocation, singing of the national anthem, reciting of the pledge of allegiance, reading of the mission of the organization, recognition of dignitaries, etc. Roll call (taking of attendance) Review and adoption of the agenda Consent calendar - tool used by deliberative assemblies with a heavy workload to consider a series of items in bulk with a single vote Good of the order, General Good and Welfare, or Open Forum - for other issues to allow a participant to raise another point for discussion Announcements - may include review of key points, discussion of assignments, communications plan for what to tell others not in the meeting, and confirmation of the next meeting, if any Program (such as an educational talk, film, or guest speaker) An agenda may list any of the above items. Call for the orders of the day A call for the orders of the day, in parliamentary procedure, is a motion to require a deliberative assembly to conform to its agenda or order of business. In Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR), the "call" may be made by one member, and does not require a second. The chair must then proceed to the scheduled item of business, unless the assembly decides otherwise by a two-thirds vote. The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure does not have this motion and instead suggests that a member can request that the body take up the scheduled item of business, or make a more formal point of order. In historical writing, the expression "order of the day", as in "abolition meetings became the order of the day", refers to an activity that was widespread, replacing other activities, at a particular moment in history. See also Minutes References Parliamentary procedure Meetings Latin gerundives in English