Board of Aldermen Page 19
July 12, 2016
important piece of legislation. | understand the procedural points. | wish | could answer the question as
to whether it really should be done today. | suspect August is good enough, but I’m not actually positive
of that.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Based on the response from the Mayor, | withdraw my motion and move to postpone until August. |
would just say | voted to accept and to pass R-16-043. | did that because | think it’s really important that
we in a timely manner acquire equipment that could save a life. | would hate to know we delayed
something and it put off the purchase of that equipment and then the old equipment was needed and
failed. For this piece of legislation, it appears that we can postpone it. So my motion would be to
postpone until the August meeting.
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA TO POSTPONE TO THE AUGUST MEETING
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Siegel
I’m not sure what the construction season is going to be like for this or the lead time to get this done. If it
were going to take longer than a construction season anyway then it makes sense, and | don’t get if it is
postponed as much. But it seems to me that if we allocate the money now, we can get started sooner
and we might get this done before the season is over rather than just waiting around another year.
Again, the same arguments apply. Let’s not rehash them.
Alderman Lopez
| wasn’t against the last one. | don’t understand that we have violated anything other than maybe
tradition. | don’t see any reason to wait.
Alderman Deane
It’s the coming of the new board; vote your conscience.
Division Taken
MOTION FAILED
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-16-046
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-16-046 declared duly adopted.
