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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, July 18, 2016 Page 6 hee stated that to vote against affirmation of that record, seemed to her perplexing and inappropriate. Mayor Roe noted it was the prerogative for any individual councilmember to vote as they saw fit on any item. Councilmember Laliberte asked Councilmember Etten if he was clear on the in- tent of this resolution affirming last week's action. Councilmember Etten stated his agreement as noted by Mayor Roe; however, he admitted City Attorney Gaughan brought up new thoughts after his "nay" vote to- night. Discussion ensued as to whether to reconsider the vote; with Mayor Roe clarify- ing the motion to reconsider could occur at the meeting where action had been taken or the subsequent meeting. City Attorney Gaughan clarified that while he didn't believe it technically came into play under these circumstances, it could be viewed as setting a poor prece- dent to vote against a resolution such as this in abstract. If under circumstances where the City Council was bound by particular time constraints for which written action may occur, City Attorney Gaughan stated that would be different than this situation when voting to simply memorialize action taken at a previous meeting; and due to the absence of one Councilmember, defacto action was overturned. City Attorney Gaughan again offered his input asking that the City Council keep in mind that this resolution simply memorialized in writing actual events from a previous meeting; and was not asking individual members to confirm the sub- stance of those findings, just the existence of those findings in actuality. City At- torney Gaughan noted the purpose of having this resolution in place was as a means to make sure the written record was clear so the city could clearly uphold its 60-day requirement for written findings and thereby make the record extraor- dinarily clear in through written correspondence to the applicant of those findings; and for an abundance of caution, the past practice of the City Council has also been to further memorialize that action via a resolution. In the spirit of moving forward and in recognition of the legal counsel provided by City Attorney Gaughan, Mayor Roe sought to act so as not obstruct the pro- cess. Motion to reconsider Resolution Roe moved, McGehee seconded to reconsider the resolution memorializing find- ings for denial of the minor subdivision request at 1926 Gluek Lane. Roll Call