Board of Aldermen 10-13-2020 Page 47
Alderman Jette
Thank you, Madam President. | was surprised that this was tabled in Committee for a long time. And |
don’t know if | missed something but | don’t think there was any notice at least to people who weren’t on the
Committee, | am not aware of any notice that this was going to be taken up at the last Committee meeting.
And | did watch that meeting and it seemed to come up at the end of the meeting and | know that Alderman
Dowd has worked hard on this. | know that he talked to the Legal Department at length about this. But | am
concerned hearing Attorney Bolton say that it was changed from the last time his office really looked at it
and he’s raised some issues.
If | had known it was going to be brought up at the last Committee Meeting, | would have attended. | don’t
think it has had a full hearing. You know the Committee didn’t really talk about it much, maybe they had a
chance to review it and were satisfied with it. But | think that especially in view of Attorney Bolton’s
comments and some of the questions other Aldermen have raised. | have some questions. | would, | am in
favor of what Alderman Kelly suggested and that is to refer it back to the Committee you know, rather than
trying to amend in on the fly here. You know things don’t go well when you do things in that way. So if it’s
appropriate | would like to move to refer it back to the Committee.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN JETTE TO REFER O-20-009 BACK TO COMMITTEE BY ROLL CALL
President Wilshire
OK so we have three motions right now. We have a motion to amend with the Golden Rod Copy, a motion
to amend to delete paragraph C10 on Page 2 and a motion to re-refer. Can you help me out Attorney
Bolton?
Attorney Bolton
The motion to amend and to amend the proposed amendment, adhere to the proposition and if the motion
to refer to Committee or re-refer to Committee is in order, and basically the whole kit and kaboodle goes
together to the Committee and the Board could expect back the recommendation of the Committee on the
proposed amendment to the proposed amendment and a recommendation on the motion as it may or may
not be recommended for amendment.
President Wilshire
| don’t think you clarified for me enough. OK we are going to take up the motion to re-refer. That’s in order,
right?
Attorney Bolton
Yes.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Alderman Dowd.
Alderman Dowd
| will just say that months ago this Legislation went through Personnel. There were some issues with it. At
the next Personnel Meeting | went and spoke to some of these changes and we agreed at that meeting to
have those changes reviewed by Legal and they were reviewed and wording suggested by Attorney
Leonard. The wording that is in this amendment is from Attorney Leonard. | have no problem with taking
out C10 but | don’t think we need to refer this back to Committee to hash out what should have been
available to be hashed out at several Committee Meetings. You know everybody has the opportunity to go
