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Alderman Clemons
Yeah | was going to make the exact same point and in particular, you know, curfew having forbid there be
riots or whatever, you know, that’s the most common reason to put in a curfew. No we would be able to do
that and because it would be unrelated. We could even do a related Legislation in the future, it just couldn’t
be identical and so really the purpose of indefinite postponement, the way that | understand it and the way |
was basically for lack of better words, “taught’, the understand of that by at the time Alderman McCarthy
and Alderman Bolton was that it was the way we dispose of Legislation when we are, when we’ve debated
it because we didn’t recommend it or because we didn’t pass it. We have to do something else with it and
the thing to do with it is to, you know, if debate is exhausted on it, it is to indefinitely postpone it.
If there was a reason to bring back similar Legislation we could. The other thing is too, we have also
undone, although | wouldn’t recommend it, we’ve undone indefinite postponements in the past, as a past
practice of this Board. So nothing is ever dead, the Board can always do what it wants to do but this is
basically not, it’s not to kill or stifle or future debate or anything like that. It’s really just we need to do
something and | think the public deserves us to make a decision on this one way or the other. So that’s
why | made that motion. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Alderman Klee.
Alderman Klee
Thank you Madam President. | understand indefinite postponement and | understand that we can tweak it
and change it and do that. | am just wondering if it wouldn’t be better to just table this and | know there are
people out there that are saying, no then there’s too much chance that it could come back. But from what
Alderman Clemons has said, it sounds like it could come back anyways, it’s just a little more difficult. |
personally would prefer to see something like this kind of tabled. And | agree with Alderman Jette in
respect that we don’t, | don’t ever like tying my hands to the point where | can’t do something. And while |
am not in agreement with this particular ordinance, | can’t say that maybe down the road, it is something
that we are going to need.
And | don’t want to completely take it off the table and kill it in that respect. So | don’t know how this
particularly works, may | ask for a tabling motion. That would be non-debatable and then we would have to
vote on that and then we could go back to Alderman Clemons’ if it failed is that correct?
President Wilshire
That’s correct.
Alderman Klee
So | would prefer, | am going to ask for a tabling motion then.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN KLEE TO TABLE O-20-044 BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien
Roll Call Interrupted by questions
