Board of Aldermen 05-14-2019 Page 35
President Wilshire
It was defeated. Indefinite postponement would mean we can’t bring this matter up again in this term.
We could bring it up next year in January.
Alderman Jette
And if the motion for indefinite postponement fails then it could be brought up again.
Attorney Bolton
It is still before the Board, you have not disposed of it.
Alderwoman Kelly
So | would like to just follow up with Attorney Bolton. If there is anything from a counsel perspective
that you see currently that you feel uncomfortable with I’d love to hear it because | feel like we’ve
talked about it a lot. | mean what might change, what could change, why would it change from how
many times have we talked about this, 6 times?
Attorney Bolton
Well you probably wouldn’t put every word of this whole ordinance on the ballot, it’s rather long. You’d
have to propose a way to summarize it. And then are you in favor of an ordinance that would do, x, y
and z. So | think that is what needs work.
Alderwoman Kelly
Ok follow up if | may? Could we move to put it as a non-binding on the ballot pending working out the
wording?
Attorney Bolton
| think the better thing to do would be to table it and then come back and adopt what we are actually
going to put on the ballot.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you.
Alderman Lopez
In an additional effort to provide more transparency | have also asked at the Committee level and |
sent an e-mail to you and Ms. Lovering asking that e-mails that were directed to the entire Board of
Aldermen be included in the minutes of an agenda so | would like to repeat that claim during a public
meeting. | feel like people are e-mailing the entire Board of Aldermen expecting that to be read and
recognized and it doesn’t seem like everybody is recognizing that.
Alderman Klee
Yes two items, | do agree with Alderman Lopez about that Alderman Laws is not here. But even if he
were here and were to have voted it would have been a tie and a tie would kill this. The other thing
about indefinite postponement is it goes to the end of the term; technically the end of the term is the
end of this calendar year. So it only precludes it from coming back up this calendar year where we can
