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DRAFT <br />SECTION 5: MOTIONS - VOTING J <br />In presiding over Council meetings, the presiding officer shall cause the business of the Council <br />to be transacted in accordance with these rules and shall determine all question of procedure <br />subject to the appeal of the majority of the Council members present. Council's procedural <br />practice shall not be based on Robert's Rules of Order. As it relates to motions, the following <br />shall apply: <br />A. A motion that does not receive a second dies; <br />B. A motion receiving a tie vote dies; <br />C. All motions receiving a second, including a motion to table and to call for the question, <br />are entitled to discussion before taking a vote. <br />D. Amendments are voted on first, then the main motion as amended if the amendment <br />receives an affirmative vote; <br />E. A motion to reconsider shall be in order at a subsequent meeting and by a member <br />voting on the prevailing side. Any member shall be entitled to change a vote to be on <br />the prevailing side provided it is done prior to the next ensuing item of business taken <br />up by the Council. A motion to reconsider having been defeated shall not be renewed <br />by any member of the Council; <br />F. For a motion to prevail, it must receive an affirmative vote of a majority of those voting <br />except: <br />1) In the case of a passage of an ordinance, grant or revocation of a franchise or <br />license, and any resolution for the payment of money, it must receive the <br />affirmative vote of at least a majority of the whole membership of the Council (4 <br />vote minimum —Section 3.3 of the Charter); <br />2) In the case of an emergency ordinance made effective upon becoming valid, it <br />must receive the affirmative vote of at least a majority plus one of the whole <br />Council (5 vote minimum —Section 3.4 of the Charter); <br />3) In the case of a budget amendment ordinance when there is a proposed <br />decrease within any portion of the total appropriation provided for in any one <br />fund or a re -appropriation of the same fund for another purpose, it must receive <br />the affirmative vote of at least a majority plus one of the whole Council (5 vote <br />minimum — RCW 35.33.121(5)). <br />3 <br />V <br />