# Council rejects a bid to pull the school-funding resolution back from committee for an October vote

## What happened
Councilman David Thompson moved to dissolve the council's three-member school-funding review committee and put Resolution 2026-2 — the roughly $222 million school-building request struck from this month's agenda ([School funding request, Sept. 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj9WTgXtkSw&t=4653)) — back before the full council for a first reading at October's Sunshine meeting and a vote at the October regular meeting. Council President Steve Ellis ruled the motion out of order, saying an item sent to committee stays there until the committee reports back; Thompson appealed the ruling, and after extended argument over exactly what was being voted on, the council took a roll-call vote that sustained Ellis's ruling, keeping the resolution with the committee. That committee is the same one Ellis formed on Sept. 1 to review the funding request; earlier in this meeting, another council member replaced Nancy Alsop on it.

## The outcome
The council voted by roll call to sustain President Ellis's ruling that the motion was out of order, so Resolution 2026-2 stays with the review committee rather than returning to the full council in October.

## Sources
- [School funding request, Sept. 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj9WTgXtkSw&t=4653)
- [Thompson's motion to dissolve the committee, 23:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX727b7xcQA&t=1431)
- [Chair rules the motion out of order, 24:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX727b7xcQA&t=1480)
- [Thompson appeals the ruling, 25:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX727b7xcQA&t=1503)
- [Roll-call vote sustains the ruling, 1:33:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX727b7xcQA&t=5582)
- [Committee membership changes, 35:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX727b7xcQA&t=2115)
- [Committee formed, Sept. 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj9WTgXtkSw&t=801)

*Also known as: Resolution 2026-2 · Option 6.2 · school funding review committee · West Vigo consolidation vote*