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MR. TRULSON: Mr. Legaspi , with regards to <br /> Number 3 on Page 3, regarding Section 3-8 Rules and Journal ; <br /> Voting and Quorum. <br /> I would like your reasons for this change. <br /> What are your reasons for this change? <br /> MR. LEGASPI : All right, Mr. Trulson. <br /> Actually, in the last couple of years while serving as the <br /> County Clerk, we have had many resolutions and ordinances, <br /> either first reading or second reading, which by Charter <br /> requires a roll call vote on each measure. This becomes a <br /> tiresome, monotonous and unnecessary task as far as the <br /> legislative processes is concerned. By Charter this means <br /> that we have to take a roll call vote meaning I 'm calling <br /> out the roll per resolution per reading for each bill and <br /> we may have anywhere from thirty to forty propositions like <br /> that in a sitting. It becomes a very monotonous and mean- <br /> ingless task or procedure. <br /> So, what I 'm suggesting is that we change <br /> the Charter to permit• an "aye" or "no" vote. I mean a voice <br /> vote. However, if a member of the Council wishes aroll call <br /> vote, any one member could so request and he could not be <br /> denied a roll call vote on that. But this would eliminate, <br /> I think, the unnecessary roll callIvote on every issue. <br /> MR. TRULSON: Would you not then have to put <br /> in that stipulation that a__rol_call can -be demanded by. . . . <br /> MR. LEGASPI : It is stated there on the <br /> underlining language. This is new language I propose: "in <br /> which the ayes and noes shall be entered as required by this <br /> charter or at any other time upon the demand of any member". <br /> That is the language that would take care of that. <br /> There are other methods of voting and this is <br /> in our Rules of Procedure, like again a technique used in <br /> other cities on , say, a condolence resolution. Rather than <br /> going through a procedure of a roll call which might be kind <br /> of a funny thing to vote upon, a condolence byca roll call . <br /> Maybe a standing vote of one minute of silence would be more <br /> appropriate for a condolence resolution as opposed to a roll <br /> call vote. And you are not going to say "no" to a roll call <br /> on a condolence. <br /> MR. TRULSON: So then it is your opinion that <br /> this is merely a timesaving device that would have no effect <br /> upon voting. <br /> MR. LEGASPI : That is correct. As I said , the <br /> safeguard here is that upon demand of any one member of the <br /> Council , he could demand a roll call vote at any time or on <br /> any issue. <br /> MR. TRULSON: Thank you. <br /> -3- <br />