ORDER-2015-94 : Amending Rules of Order of the Board of Aldermen by adding Rule 32A - Resolutions as set forth herein.

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▶ 15:22 John N. Tramontozzi: offered and seconded all in favor any opposing not great thank you so that order is now uh move forward we now have the second order on the agenda is order 2015-94 amending rules of order of the board of aldermen by adding rule 32a resolutions as set forth here in what is the will of the committee on on this particular order uh president khan uh yeah i i'll make a motion to

▶ 15:49 Speaker 3: recommend this order for passage second the motion yeah thank you and if i could have the floor

▶ 16:01 Speaker 3: briefly for discussion um you guys all know that there's never a year that goes by where i don't feel some compulsion to try to change tweak or do what i think makes the rules of the board of all the better um next year i'll try not to do it but i've never been able to successfully do it yet This order would require that when an order to give a group or an individual a resolution or a citation is filed that the text of the resolution accompany the order and that if the text of the resolution is not with the order, then the order cannot be placed on the agenda. I would suggest this does two things and it serves two purposes. It's certainly more efficient for us to have the full text of an order when it's filed and comes on our agenda. Also, I think in the interest of compliance with public meeting law and openness and making sure that the public is aware of what we're doing, this might seem like a small matter, but if we file an order and we're giving someone a written resolution, then the public should to be able to see it from the beginning. This is not a big deal, it's a small deal. I think it's worth doing and I would ask that you support it.

▶ 17:25 Speaker 8: Very good, any further discussion?

▶ 17:28 Gail Infurna: Alderman Ferland. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'm not a voting member of this committee, but as one of the makers of the order along with Alderman Conn and I appreciate him also getting on in the order. And once again, to make the meetings more efficient, I would like to make an amendment to say, and the honoree confirmed their presence, or actually confirmed their attendance at the time the resolution is introduced. So that we're just not seeing that repeated over and over and over, and once again, in the spirit of being efficient, and the honoree confirmed their attendance at the time the resolution is introduced.

▶ 18:14 Gail Infurna: And once again, I'm not a voting member, so I hope someone maybe could confirm that amendment.

▶ 18:23 John N. Tramontozzi: All right, so there is a suggestion by Alderman Inferna to add that language to the order. If there is a voting member of the committee who wishes to adopt that, I'll entertain a motion. Obviously, you can address that again at the full board uh when it comes up for uh for hearing at that time alderman wright thank you mr chairman um

▶ 18:52 Francis X. Wright Jr.: i would be willing to um put forth alderman inferna's proposed amendment um with my own amendment thereof which would be um after the word honoree i would put in parentheses

▶ 19:16 Francis X. Wright Jr.: an s in case it's plural honorees comma if any comma because if we don't have if we're proposing a resolution say honoring the veterans or honoring there may be nobody to come forward so rather than have any ambiguity i just want to allow for some clarity in that aspect of it but But other than that, I would support and propose Alderman Inferna's resolution as amended by me, further amended by me.

▶ 19:46 John N. Tramontozzi: Second. Okay. Any further discussion? Do we have, Madam Clerk, did we get all that down? Or could we read that for the full, for the committee's edification?

▶ 19:58 Speaker 10: Yes.

▶ 20:05 Speaker 10: um it would be amended so that it also states in the honorees comma if any comma confirm their attendance at the time the resolution is introduced okay so we have a motion by alderman right to

▶ 20:18 John N. Tramontozzi: amend the order uh as stated second that um motion is seconded by alderman forbes any further

▶ 20:35 John N. Tramontozzi: discussion on the amendment all in favor aye any opposed okay so now we have uh do we have a motion

▶ 20:45 John N. Tramontozzi: uh regarding the order as amended motion to recommend so moved all the right moves the order as amended for moves for passage a recommendation on me and it's seconded by alderman bird any further discussion seeing none all in favor aye aye any opposed okay so that order as amended is uh recommended to the full board for passage