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motions to refer to Committee, motions to amend, motion for indefinite postponement all of those things are
in order. You don’t dispose of something when a motion to pass fails, because in the proper circumstances
you might amend it and pass it. Like table it and come back and re-work it, you might send it to Committee
and re-work it there. So you’ve got a difficult thing that is done, then there’s a motion for indefinite
postponement and it is indefinitely postponed. In many ways indefinite postponement is a euphemism for
rejecting. But it is still before and you have to do something it.
President Wilshire
Would the Clerk call the roll, the Motion is to table, would the Clerk call the roll?
Alderman Jette
Parliamentary inquiry, Madam President?
President Wilshire
Alderman Jette.
Alderman Jette
To Attorney Bolton. So what is the effect of a motion to table? If pass that, it would be tabled and it could
be taken from the table at some future meeting of the Board of Aldermen?
Attorney Bolton
Correct.
Attorney Jette
OK thank you.
Alderwoman Lu
And another question about policy?
President Wilshire
Alderman Lu.
Alderwoman Lu
Would it have to be a full Board Meeting and how would it be, what’s the process for taking something off
the table, would it just be a motion that’s voted on to take ....
Attorney Bolton
Someone would make a motion to take from the table Ordinance 20-017 and it would be voted upon. |
suppose nothing prevents Committee from discussing the concept and so forth but the actual Ordinance
could only be revived for possible passage at a Full Board Meeting.
Alderwoman Lu
Ok thank you.
