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Page 3 September 14, 1998 Mounds View City Council to halt consideration of a question immediately without debate. Such action violates the rights of the minority, and individual members, if it is for other than the one stated in the first sentence of this section. In ordinary assemblies, the motion to Lay on the Table is out of order i, f the evident intent is to kill or avoid dealing with a measure." And your intent was quite clear, you made it so. MR. STIGNEY: No, I disagree with that statement. MAYOR McCARTY: I'm sorry, I have the floor -- MR. STIGNEY: Well, I just want you to know that I disagree with that statement. MAYOR McCARTY: -- I'll protect your right to the floor. I'll protect your right to the floor, and I'll expect you to respect mine. "If a time for resuming consideration is specified in making a motion. it can be admitted only as a motion to postpone." Now, had you made a motion to postpone, you would have had a whole different ball game, but • you didn't. You made a motion to table in an obvious effort to try and hold the tabling motion over the heads of the majority on this Council. And I ruled you out of order at least three times; you kept insisting. And you can go back and review the tape. MR. STIGNEY: I don't need to review it. MAYOR McCARTY: Okay. MR. STIGNEY: I know precisely what it is. You ruled me out of order three times and I was trying to call to your attention that I had a motion on the floor and recognized, I believe -- MAYOR McCARTY: Your motion was to table, incorrectly, per the section of Roberts Rules that I just cited for the fourth time -- MR. STIGNEY: Let's go back to that. MAYOR McCARTY: -- I called you out of order. MR. STIGNEY: Let's go back to that. You did not rule me out of order -- MAYOR McCARTY: (striking of gavel) Mr. Stigney, I'm ruling you out of order one more time. Let's get back to the Agenda.