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Chair defers agenda to special meeting after quorum not met and adjourns session
Summary
The presiding officer said the meeting lacked a quorum and the body carried a motion to defer the request to a special or the next meeting; the assembly then moved to adjourn. No date for the special meeting was specified.
The presiding officer called the meeting to order at 6:09 p.m. and said a quorum was required to approve the request before the body. The officer stated: "As just for the record, we would like quorum tonight to, to make any decision approving, the request before us." The officer then sought a motion to defer consideration to a special meeting or to the next meeting because the body could not approve items without a quorum.
A motion to defer was recorded as made by "mister McCaig" (the transcript spells the name inconsistently as "McCraig" and "McCaig") and seconded by "Ms. Samuel." The presiding officer called for opposition and, after a voice response, said, "I presume no. It passes." With business deferred, a subsequent motion to adjourn (also attributed to mister McCaig in the record) was seconded and the presiding officer declared, "We're adjourned." The transcript includes no date or scheduling details for a special meeting and does not specify the quorum count that was lacking.
