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voted against it going to vote for it now because the amendments are in response to his objections. So
sending it back to the Committee, | think, is just going to result in it coming back here with recommendation
for final approval.
So | don’t see that there is anything to be gained by sending it back to the Committee other than delaying it.
So | am against sending it back to the Committee, the amendments have already been vetted and | think
we ought to reject this motion and allow Alderman Clemons to make this motion to amend then vote on it.
Vice President O’Brien
| cannot entertain that motion because the motion to refer is the high priority and that is what is to be
discussed in this discussion.
Alderman Klee
Two issues, one issue is I’m going to probably ask Attorney Bolton, but and maybe | jumped the gun,
maybe | should have asked for the referral after the amendment had been put forward if we want to play
that game of going that way. But in respect to Alderman Jette, the truth is that other Resolutions that have
gone through Personnel including the one to bypass a special election has gone back and forth to the
Personnel Committee and it has been talked about in that way. But again that’s another issue, but we do
have a precedence, especially with Committee and | sat there and heard that talked about. Now you had
not voted on that, it was amendments and so on. But the comment that had been made was that they
would be vetted out by the Committee. And | think there are a lot of changes to this amendment and | hate
to talk before something, so perhaps | jumped the gun. Should | withdraw my motion and let the
amendment come forward and then do it, because that’s what | am going to do.
Attorney Bolton
That’s up to you, you have the right to do that.
Alderman Klee
Would it be more appropriate that’s what | am asking, as far as Parliamentary Inquiry and all that is
concerned. | would prefer to just to have it sent back but if the sticking point is that the amendment isn’t
heard, in any case, | think it should go back. | think the amendments that have been sent to us by e-mail
that have been talked about and so on, | think it should be vetted fully. Whether it gets voted 3 to 1; there’s
a lot of changes, there’s a lot of changes in that particular one and | think they should be discussed by that
Committee.
Vice President O’Brien
| am going to take the liberty to ask the question of Corporate Counsel. It seems that the good Aldermen
would like to have it referred back to Committee so that the motion that she currently has introduced would
exactly do that, refer it back to Committee, correct? Where it can receive additional anendments?
Attorney Bolton
Yes that’s certainly would appropriate for the Committee to discuss, possible additional amendments.
Alderman Klee
That’s what I’d like please.
