Docket 0000

City Council Discusses Changes to Rules About Committee Assignments and Speaking Order.

The City's own summary of the docket.

yeas 8, nays 4 (Baker, Flaherty, Flynn, Murphy)

Motion on the floor Councilor Lara moved to Amend City Council Rule #4. Councilor Arroyo Second the Motion. Rule #4 Amended Version: Text added: and assignment of matters to committee The presiding officer may speak to points of order in preference to other members, and shall decide all questions of order, and assignment of matters to committee, subject to an appeal from the decision of the chair, but no appeal shall be considered unless properly seconded. No other business except a motion to adjourn or to lie on the table shall be in order until the question on appeal has been decided. The question shall be put as follows: "Shall the decision of the chair stand as the judgment of the council? A vote to appeal shall require a majority of those present and be taken by roll call. On motion of Councilor Lara, the Motion was passed; yeas 8, nays 4 (Baker, Flaherty, Flynn, Murphy)