QUINCY, Mass. — The Quincy City Council on Monday adopted a resolution asking state lawmakers to reconsider a home-rule petition that would allow a long-term golf course lease without public bidding, after a heated exchange in which Councilor DeBona called the measure "propaganda" and Council President Mahoney threatened to ask him to leave.

The resolution, sponsored by Councilor Ryan, calls for the council to send copies to the city's state delegation and legislative leadership. It was adopted on a roll-call vote at the Nov. 9 meeting, with the result announced as "eight members."

The home-rule petition was approved by the previous council on an 8-0 vote, councilors said. Supporters of the new resolution said the petition would let the city skip competitive bidding on a new lease for the golf course land and would put authority over the lease in the mayor's hands.

Councilor Riley told the council that 30 years remain on the current lease and that the new deal would add 50 years. "There is no sense of urgency for this body, for this city, for these taxpayers," she said. She compared the arrangement with a golf course lease in Falmouth that was put out to bid, and said there is "clear evidence here that putting this out to bid will very likely result in a more competitive process" and more revenue for Quincy. She credited state Sen. Keenan with "holding the line on this."

Councilor McKee said the new 50-year lease would begin after the current one ends, so "it's really 80 versus 100" years, and said, "to say, well, we want to go forward for an extra long lease without putting it out to bid, again, just makes no sense to me."

DeBona, who served on the previous council, defended its work, saying it negotiated the lease down from 99 years to 50 and secured traffic, ball field and trail improvements. "I won't be supporting this," he said. "This is propaganda again, propaganda."

Colleagues objected. "I find the term propaganda to be rather offensive," Riley said. "Somebody took the time to bring this forward because of a legitimate concern, and to call it propaganda is just insulting."

Councilor Yuan said it was the second time DeBona had called a colleague's proposal "propaganda" and urged councilors to be respectful of one another's proposals. As Yuan spoke, DeBona interjected, objecting that Yuan had strayed off topic.

"She's got the floor, and you don't," Mahoney told him, adding, "you need to stop speaking out of term, or I'll ask you to leave."

After Yuan finished, Mahoney said she was "gonna take order back in this chamber" and told DeBona, "you throw arrows across the field too." "I understand that you're sensitive about your votes," she said, adding that "the games have changed."

Earlier in the evening, the council's ordinance committee voted 8-1, with DeBona opposed, to send a proposed ordinance regulating surveillance technology to the full council with a positive recommendation, after a public hearing on the measure.