The South Beloit City Council on Aug. 4, 2025, voted to reconsider Ordinance 28‑48, an amendment that would add Article 12 (residential rental property regulation) to Chapter 18, and then voted to lay the ordinance over to the council’s first meeting in October so city staff can supply additional information requested by members.

The action matters because the ordinance would impose new rules affecting rental property owners and tenants; council members said they wanted fuller information before taking a final vote.

A council member moved to reconsider the ordinance so city staff could present supplementary materials and background. The motion carried. During the item the mover said the vote likely would not change but that staff should have an opportunity to provide more details; council later voted to lay the ordinance over to the first meeting in October. City staff told the council they will bring more information under the ordinance as drafted and that if the council prefers a substantially different approach staff can prepare new language, but the staff recommended keeping the ordinance on the table for targeted amendments rather than discarding it and starting over.

The council’s layover was a scheduling action; no new ordinance text was adopted at the meeting. Staff and the city attorney explained that keeping the ordinance active is a parliamentary method that saves legal drafting time compared with scrapping and reintroducing an entirely new ordinance. The council asked staff to bring clarifying documentation and to summarize expected operational impacts if the ordinance is implemented.

Next steps: staff will return in October with the requested supplemental materials and cost/impact analysis; the council may then amend, adopt or reject the ordinance.