SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 DIVIDED ROLL CALL VOTES
COMMISSIONERS
COMMITTEE REPORTS
AGENDA ITEM #10
Commissioner Beavers, seconded by Commissioner Murphy, moved to reconsider the vote by which the Report of the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Legislation, Intergovernmental & Veterans Relations was approved.
On a point of parliamentary procedure, Commissioner Suffredin made an inquiry to the Parliamentarian as to whether the motion to reconsider was properly before the Board.
The Parliamentarian stated that “the motion to reconsider is proper at the meeting where you take the action or the very next meeting.”
Commissioner Peraica, seconded by Commissioner Schneider, moved to lay the motion to reconsider on the table. Commissioner Peraica called for a Roll Call, the vote of yeas and nays being as follows:
ROLL CALL ON MOTION TO LAY THE MOTION
TO RECONSIDER ON THE TABLE
Yeas: Commissioners Claypool, Daley, Gorman, Goslin, Peraica, Schneider, Silvestri and Suffredin - 8.
Nays: Commissioners Beavers, Butler, Collins, Moreno, Murphy, Sims and Steele - 7.
Present: Commissioners Gainer and Reyes - 2.
The motion to lay the motion to reconsider on the table CARRIED.
Commissioner Beavers requested a verification of the vote.
ROLL CALL ON MOTION TO VERIFY THE MOTION TO LAY THE MOTION
TO RECONSIDER ON THE TABLE
Yeas: Commissioners Claypool, Daley, Gorman, Goslin, Peraica, Schneider, Silvestri and Suffredin - 8.
Nays: Commissioners Beavers, Butler, Collins, Moreno, Murphy, Sims and Steele - 7.
Present: Commissioners Gainer and Reyes - 2.
On a point of parliamentary procedure, Commissioner Peraica made an inquiry to the Parliamentarian as to whether a commissioner can change his or her vote during a verification of a prior vote.
The Parliamentarian stated that “on a verification you can’t change your vote, you are just verifying the prior roll call.”
The motion to lay on the table CARRIED and the Report of the Committee on Finance and the Report of the Committee on Legislation, Intergovernmental & Veterans Relations were approved and adopted.