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take care of other business, see what the State had to do and so on. So | agree with the indefinite
postponement.
Alderman Clemons
lve had many conversations and | respect Alderman Laws and one of the points | made originally to
put this back in committee originally was because there wasn’t a lot of people here and Alderman
Laws was the one that pointed out to me that he didn’t agree with that because we have a quorum
policy for areason. So with respect to my Alderman-at-Large colleague that is not here, | would take
his word that he told me which is “we have a quorum for a reason”. So you know the other thing that |
want to mention too, not sure what you mean by what somebody meant by e-mails being sent to the
entire Board but I’ve never e-mailed the entire Board on this particular subject.
Alderman Lopez
Can | clarify as a point of personal privilege? The public has been e-mailing us letters, | assumed you
were getting them in your e-mail. But that’s another reason why these should be on public record so
that if somebody is trying to e-mail the whole Board and not everybody is receiving them or reading
them, now at least the public knows their letter was heard and it is part of the record.
President Wilshire
OK. So I’m not even sure where we are, what the motion is before us, it’s indefinite postponement, ok.
Alright.
Alderman Kelly
Can | move to table?
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO TABLE
ON THE QUESTION
President Wilshire
You can move to table it’s not debatable.
Alderman O’Brien
Parliamentary inquiry and | agree but true parliamentary inquiry, we had a vote and so the vote went
down so how can you table something that failed?
Attorney Bolton
It’s still before the Board, you don’t take action by a motion failing to pass.
Alderman O’Brien
Parliamentary inquiry again, that means that it would have to be re-brought up to the Board in order for
it to be tabled?
Attorney Bolton
No it has not been disposed of by the Board at this meeting. No motion has been successful. You
have to adopt, you have to pass a motion to dispose of a matter. You failed to adopt the motion for
