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UNAPPROVED Page 2 August 24, 1998 Mounds View City Council order if the evident intent is to kill or avoid dealing with a measure. If a time for resuming consideration is specified in making the motion, it can be admitted only as a motion to Postpone (14), in which case it is debatable (see also pp. 213-215). Standard Descriptive Characteristics The subsidiary motion to Lay on the Table: 1. Takes precedence over all subsidiary motions, and over any incidental motions that are pending when it is made. It yields to all privileged motions, and to motions that are incidental to itself 2. Can be applied to main motions, with any other subsidiary motions that may be pending; can be thus applied to orders of the day(14, 40) or questions of privilege (19)while they are actually pending as main motions, and such an application is independent of, and does not carry to the table, any other matter that they may have Interrupted; can be separately applied to debatable appeals that do not adhere(p. 115)to the main question(or to nonadhering points of order referred by the chair to the judgement of the assembly which are debatable when so referred), and this application has no effect on the status of any other questions that may be pending; can be applied to adhering appeals-Whether debatable or undebatable-only by laying the main question on the table, in which case the appeal and all other adhering motions to the table also; can be applied to an immediately pending motion to Reconsider (36), whenever Lay on the table would be applicable if the motion to be reconsidered were ..." McCarty stated: "The motion to table cannot be used or wielded as a club to close off a debate on the rest of the members." "That's why the motion died, it never had a second, I never called for a second." Stigney stated: "The motion was made to table in conjunction with the Hays Study, so a definite time period was stated." McCarty stated: "It should have been a motion to postpone." The Mayor suggested that Mr. Stigney educate himself on Robert's Rules of order. Stigney stated he was fully aware of the meaning of the words "postpone" and "table." "In the past when I made a postponement motion, it has always been meant to table." The Mayor stated he disagreed and requested that Mr. Stigney move on with his corrections to the minutes. Stigney restated his correction to the minutes as follows: "I made a motion and it was not recognized by the Chair."