Voted 7-1, with Alcala dissenting, to defer action for four weeks on a proposal to authorize the city manager to enter into an option contract with Topeka Ice Inc. that would give it the right until Dec. 31, 2011, to buy the property at the northeast corner of S.E. 8th and Madison provided Topeka Ice obtains financing to build an ice skating facility there. Harmon, a lawyer, suggested the matter be deferred to give the city time to make a change to the contract he is suggesting.