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