Remarks by Cliff A. Ponte
217 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 9
“So a motion to reject would be appropriate. Made. Made by Councilor Raposo. Seconded by Councilor Cagnuol. Discussion on the rejection? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? You guys have it. Thank you, Madam Clerk.”
“Motion to accept the item in place on file has been made by Councilor Raposo, seconded by Councilor Cannula. I'm just going to speak on this very briefly as a letter for you all. The reason I drafted the letter and added it to the agenda tonight is because many colleagues, and I know Councilor Pereira and Councilor Camara both spoke on having a policy in place so that everybody was on the same page when it comes to utilizing outside council. I made this letter to you all with a copy of the already approved policy that was had when we had KP Law here. I want the council to have the ability to…”
“Motion to accept the item in place on file has been made and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it.”
“Second. Motion to pass the item through second reading and enrollment as amended. Motion to reconsider. Motion to reconsider would be first. Is there a motion? Motion to reconsider has been made by Councilor Kadim. Seconded by who? Councilor Camara, that would be appropriate. A motion to reconsider has been made and seconded. Hearing no further discussions, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it.”
“Yeah, that's why I was thinking about that. Yeah, no problem. Motion to reconsider. Let's do this again correctly. Motion to reconsider has been made by Councilor Hadim, seconded by Councilor Vice President Deon. Hearing no further discussion, are all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it.”
“Motion to pass the item through second reading and enrollment as amended has been made by Councilor Raposo, seconded by Councilor Pereira. Discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it.”
“Three minute recess. Our city council meeting is now back in session, Madam Clerk.”
“Motion to pass the item to be ordained as amended. Second. Has been made by Councilor Raposo, seconded by Councilor Pereira. Discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it.”
“Motion to adjourn has been made by Councilor Raposo, seconded by Councilor Hart. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Good night, thank you.”
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“Thank you. Councilman C4, Council Vice President Dionne.”
“Counselor in C2, your point of clarification.”
“If I may interject for a moment, we are in citizen's input right now.”
“Go ahead, say what you want to say. No, no, I just wanted to urge the council, are we going to waive the rules? We should introduce the item. If the mayor is here to stay for this, I think it would be important. He's here, councilors have to ask questions, so can we introduce the item? Mayor, would you be able to stay here and answer questions that the councilors have, because a number of them have questions? Or are we going to waive the rules of citizen's input? What's the will?”
“All right, we'll ask you to stay if you can for the deliberations.”
“But I'm here for the duration. If I may, I'm going to give you the floor back.”
“Thank you. I'm going to acknowledge you first, Councillor. Thank you. By the way, for the record, citizens input, there's no other individuals assigned to speak. Next item on our agenda, Madam Clerk.”
“Motion to address the appropriation order line by line has been made by council vice president to hear is seconded by Council of Peckham discussion members of the administration please come to the table I'd like to acknowledge our council vice president seat for first. Anna, please introduce yourself for the record, please.”
“Thank you. Councilman Seafork, Council Vice President Deon.”
“Sure. There's a number of councils who have to speak.”
“Thank you. Councilor in seat one, Councilor Kadeem. Thank you.”
“This new appropriation order that's before us for the first time?”
“Council of Peckham's point question. I think it was directly asked, is there a structural deficit in this municipal budget for the one time money?”
“I hear your point of order, but Councilor in seat 3 is speaking.”
“I hear you. I'm going to allow the conversation to continue because a legal opinion was put on our desks and the Council has the ability to speak to it because it may or may not have a vote as a result of it. So I'm going to allow the question. Council in seat 3, you have the floor.”