HOLYOKE — The City Council Ordinance Committee Tuesday (April 8) will have to postpone consideration of a proposal to ban vendors from selling toys guns at outdoor events because the item wasn’t posted under the state Open Meeting Law , an official said.

“If it’s not listed at this point I cannot take it up,” Ordinance Committee Chairwoman Rebecca Lisi said.

An order to have the City Council consider adopting such an ordinance was supposed to be listed on the city website among Ordinance Committee agenda items 48 hours in advance, under the Open Meeting Law, but it isn’t listed, she said.

The proposal might be taken up at the April 29 committee meeting, she said.

Lisi proposed the order to have the City Council consider adopting an ordinance to ban mobile vendors from selling toy guns at evens like the Holyoke St. Patrick’s Parade

The plan was to have the Ordinance Committee ask the city Law Department to write a proposed ordinance and circulate the proposal to Police Chief James M. Neiswanger, the Department of Public Works, License Board and the Parks and Recreation Department for comments. The committee then would consider those comments and vote on the ordinance at a later meeting, Lisi said.

The committee meeting is at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall.

Lisi said she was prompted to file the order upon marching in the March 23 parade and seeing the number of toy guns and weapons that children along the sides were playing with.

Last year, the License Board banned mobile vendors from selling toy guns at the 2013 parade. The ban also included items of a sexual nature, stink bombs, drug paraphernalia and items bearing drug symbols, matches, lighters and any type of fireworks at the parade and the road race the day before the parade.

Raymond H. Feyre, spokesman for the St. Patrick’s Parade Committee, said then that the committee agreed such items should be banned because the parade was a family event.