Board of Aldermen 09-14-2021 Page 11
Line 28 for Your Voice Your Choice. | think that's a wonderful program, but that was already appropriated in one of the
Mayor's approved re-appropriations.
Line 23 for cell phones. My concern is we do budget $135,000 for cell phones for the city staff and | question whether
$7,000 could be put to better use. All requests for cellphone budgets were approved in our budget process and so | like to
consider putting that toward something else.
Line 9 - disc golf for $30,000. Disc golf was well it was discontinued in our discussion of it earlier this year.
Line 126 and 127 earmark $3 million for CERF. My question is just that CERF is scheduled for $1.9 million in cash and
the rest has been scheduled for budget. So | wondered, the total is $2.5 million, | believe so | wondered about the
additional $500,000 there.
| wanted to just point out a couple of things. So for that reason, | would like to move that those items be separated and
that we vote separately for them. That would be 1, 2, 3, 4 lines for a total of $162,000.
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN LU TO SEPARATE THE QUESTION BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette 2
Nay: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Clemons, Alderman Tencza, Alderman Schmidt,
Alderman Cleaver, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 10
MOTION FAILED
MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-21-162 BY ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
Alderwoman Lu
| just had a couple of other comments | wanted to make. It's been said that we've already taken the money from these
people. So you know, we need to find something to do with it. | just wanted to, you know, | talk to a lot of my Ward
residents and a lot of them find that well their point that they seem to be trying to make to me is that you already took it
from us but you could give it back. | understand we need to keep our contingency, and our surplus, and keep our books in
good shape but | don't think that resonates very well with the residents when they hear us justifying these re-appropriations
by we already took the money from them.
| just want to point out there remains an appropriation of the Mayor’s $755,000 for a roof replacement at 84 Court Street
that has been nearly completed and paid for last week. The Mayor's approved likes to operating expenses end up being
$450,000 in redundant funding for city expenses. What | mean by that is that the budget was made. In most cases, what
was asked for was budgeted but at this point, we're going to give them that all over again in the amount of $450,000. So
different expenses like cell phones, conferences, you know any different expense is now instead of keeping to the budget
that we said we're giving more operating expenses.
Finally $53,000 is going to a Shady Lane courts. The Shady Lane courts have been completed. Barriers for $60,000. My
understanding is we bought the barriers. The Elm Street Middle School study is duplicated. The Mayor approved $50,000
and we are approving 75. Thank you. That's all | wanted to point out.
President Wilshire
Any further discussion?
Alderman Clemons
Thank you very much President Wilshire. | just wanted to say that | appreciate the fact that we could definitely let this
money lapse into the general fund the millions of dollars or we could put it towards tax relief. However, my view of this is
