The Cayuga County Legislature voted to table multiple personnel items — including agenda items listed as HH6 and HH7 — until the November legislative meeting so members can review the county's tentative budget.

A motion to take HH6 off the table prompted a roll-call vote. The clerk recorded two "no" votes and nine "yes" votes: Legislator Ben Vitale voted no; Tom Winslow voted yes; Bob Tray voted yes; Eileen McNabb Coleman voted no; Hans Petcher voted yes; Mark Strong voted yes; Heidi Nightingale voted yes; Elaine Daley voted yes; Amy Sargent voted yes; Bridal Waldrow voted yes; and Jonathan Hanna voted yes. The motion to take HH6 off the table passed on that roll-call.

The matter of HH6 and HH7 was then raised again as a bundled motion. That bundled motion to take both HH6 and HH7 off the table was defeated after members voted; the clerk reported only a small minority in favor.

Several legislators discussed why the positions had been tabled previously. One legislator said the social services positions "were disregarded in a way that our sheriff's department is heightened," and called the pattern "hypocritical," noting six-and-a-half years of experience on the body. Another legislator said the positions had been tabled at an earlier meeting until the tentative budget could be reviewed and said, "That isn't going to happen until Monday," referring to the tentative budget's expected release date.

After that discussion, a legislator moved — and another seconded — to table a group of items including HH6, HH7, GO4, PW1, PW2 and PW5 until the November legislative meeting to allow review of the tentative budget and additional ways and means meetings. The chair called the vote and recorded the motion as carried.

No statutes or county codes were cited during the recorded discussion. The transcript does not specify exact salary or personnel counts for HH6 or HH7, nor does it give a precise vote tally for the final motion to table the bundle; the roll-call recorded earlier applies only to the motion to take HH6 off the table.

The items will be reconsidered at the November legislative meeting after the Legislature has additional budget information.