TROY – The City Council on Thursday night tabled a resolution to declare the Hudson River community a Sanctuary City in order to fine tune the language of the measure, city officials said just before the start of the meeting.

About 40 city residents spoke on the resolution which was approved Tuesday by a 2-1 vote by the council’s Public Safety Committee. The Sanctuary City resolution was introduced by Councilman David Bissember, a Democrat, and was supported by the Democratic majority.

The resolution went to the full City Council despite opposition by the Republican council members and the Troy Police Benevolent Association, which represents the police force’s officers, detectives and sergeants.

The Democrats had planned to amend the language of the resolution, but it was later thought that more time was required for this.

Mayor Patrick Madden and council members met before the meeting and agreed to table the measure for additional study. It’s anticipated that there will be a review to see how other police departments dealt with the issue.

The Sanctuary City resolution moved quickly forward in just a few weeks. The police department’s leadership had expressed concerns privately about it.

On Thursday Officer Nick Laviano, the PBA president, spoke fervently against the resolution.

Most of the speakers supported Troy becoming a Sanctuary City. Many of them also spoke Tuesday night at the committee hearing.

The resolution directs that police and other employees will not ask about the "immigration status of individuals being provided local government services, except where the receipt of such services or benefits are contingent upon one's immigration or citizenship."

The Sanctuary City movement in Troy gained momentum with the May 29 arrest of Dalila Yeend, 35, by city police after she rolled through a stop sign. The officers arrested her for not having a valid driver’s license.

A judge released Yeend, who was born in Australia and immigrated to the United States from New Zealand when she was 17, on her own recognizance. Police, however, detained her because of an outstanding arrest warrant until ICE agents took her into custody. The mother of two American-born children said Thursday that legal action against her has been dropped by ICE and she has applied for a green card.