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Council Minutes of 12/7/1999 That is not the way it was conducted at the last committee meeting. Roll call continued: McKay-Mr. McKay said he seconded the motion but did not agree with Mr. O'Grady because Mrs. Kasler had been recognized by the chair, had the floor and was attempting to explain herself. Therefore, his vote is yes. Roll call continued: Miller, yes; Nashar, yes; Limpert, yes; Kasler, yes; Gareau, yes, with comment that he agreed with Mr. McKay that Mrs. Kasler had the floor to explain herself, and Mr. O'Grady was not recognized and continued to speak anyway. The motion passed with six affirmative votes and one negative vote. The decision of the chair was upheld) Mrs. Kasler continued by saying the reason that a second committee meeting was held on this subject was actually two-fold. One is that, she believes, the opinion of some of Council in wanting to further discuss it was misrepresented by Mr. O'Grady. It is not that they would not accept a compromise but, as she has said so many times in so many different ways, simply taking the donation out of the contract still does not address a flawed negotiation between the city administration and Coca-Cola-a negotiation that included public funds being diverted to a privately funded project. A second reason why another committee meeting was held was because of the fact that, at the Finance Committee meeting, Mr. Miller asked a question of Mr. Jenkins and Mr. O'Grady directed Mr. Jenkins not to respond. Council has the right to ask questions. They attend committee meetings to be educated. Another committee meeting was held this evening where in fact they were educated. Mrs. Kasler moved to suspend the rule requiring three readings on Ordinance 99-151 as amended. The motion was seconded by Mr. Gareau. Roll call: Kasler, yes; Gareau, yes; Limpert, yes; McKay, yes; Miller, yes; Nashar, yes; O'Grady, yes, with comment that he will vote to suspend the rule and will vote to support it as it goes forward. He wishes to state his disappointment that we have gone this far and lost this much to include endangering this contract. The vote to suspend the rule requiring three readings passed unanimously. Mrs. Kasler moved for adoption of Ordinance 99-151. The motion was seconded by Mr. Gareau and unanimously passed. However, Mr. O'Grady noted that President Saringer forgot to ask for audience comments as the legislation was being passed under suspension of the rule. President Saringer apologized for the omission and asked if anyone in the audience wished to speak. Mr. Limpert asked whether the vote would be null and void. Law Director Gareau suggested that the motion and second for adoption be withdrawn, the audience be allowed to speak and the vote taken again. Mrs. Kasler withdrew her motion to adopt, and Mr. Gareau withdrew his second. President Saringer invited the audience to address Council if they so wished. Mayor Musial asked if he could address Councilman Gareau's comments at this point in time. President Saringer said she preferred that the vote on this legislation be taken first. A member of the audience came forward to speak: ;~~. Donna Rote, 27660 Edgepark Boulevard, said she hasn't been involved with the Coca- Cola project and hasn't heard too much about it besides what she heard at the Recreation Committee held earlier this evening. She said, if she owned Coca-Cola and was going into a contract and wanted to give a donation, she would want the opportunity to dictate where that donation was going so that it would best benefit and give recognition to the company. She is surprised that there has been an indication that it was an underhanded deal, and personally feels strongly that for Coca-Cola to put a stipulation on a donation is not uncommon. Mrs. Rote said she could see Coca-Cola walking away from the deal 15