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final passage. There was a motion to indefinitely postpone, then there’s a motion to table which takes
privilege over the motion to indefinitely postpone and it is perfectly in order and it’s not debatable.
Alderman O’Brien
Roll call on tabling yes.
President Wilshire
Will the Clerk please call the roll?
Yea: Alderman Lopez, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Jette,
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman Tencza, Alderman Schmidt 6
Nay: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Dowd,
Alderman Klee, Alderman Caron, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Wilshire 7
MOTION FAILED
Attorney Bolton
Now you are back to indefinite postponement. Roll call on that? That is debatable, so the motion
before us is for indefinite postponement.
Alderman Dowd
| am going to support this because nothing is going to happen between now and the end of the year
and maybe the State will do something; I’d like to see what action the State takes. If we put something
on the ballot, that will happen in November, we couldn’t take action probably until January anyway.
So | will vote to indefinitely postpone and hopefully given the circumstances that happens if it does
end up on the ballot, we will see what the public thinks and take action accordingly. If it is
overwhelming that they want us to pass something and the State hasn’t done anything, then | think it’s
incumbent upon this Board to pass something. If it says “no” then it dies.
Alderwoman Kelly
Just point of clarification if we indefinitely postpone it, it won’t be on the ballot.
President Wilshire
Right.
Alderman Lopez
We can put anything on the ballot that we want though so we could ask for example “Do you believe
sales of tobacco products should be restricted to people 21 and older’.
Alderman Dowd
Response from Attorney Bolton on that? If we vote to indefinitely postpone does it kill any chance of
being on the ballot.
