at 4:28 into the part 11 video, D4 Commissioner Jim Bradshaw makes a motion to suspend the rules to allow the City Planner to respond to the Mayor's attack. The Mayor declares that this will take a...
at 4:28 into the part 11 video, D4 Commissioner Jim Bradshaw makes a motion to suspend the rules to allow the City Planner to respond to the Mayor's attack. The Mayor declares that this will take a 4/5th vote. The vote is 3-1 to suspend the rules with the Mayor abstaining. She announces that the motion to suspend the rules had failed.
She was wrong.
First, it takes a 2/3rd vote to suspend the rules according to Robert's Rules of Order, not 4/5th. Second, only those casting votes (excluding abstentions) are used to calculate the fraction. The Mayor's ruling was wrong and the will of a 2/3rd majority was obstructed. The City Planner should have been allowed to speak.
Pay particular attention to City Attorney Paula Flowers, as she leaps into action to correct the Mayor's erroneous ruling.
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