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Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 10/12/2021 - P7

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Alderwoman Lu

May | follow up?

President Wilshire

Sure.

Alderwoman Lu

Thank you. Thank you Alderman O'Brien. So my understanding of the letter from Mr. Cummings is that the part
of the parking study that has to do with overnight parking has been completed. Now Desman was going to look
into many issues for parking in Nashua, including whether we have sufficient downtown parking, whether we
should change our manner of charging for parking but it was my understanding that the overnight parking part is
completed and the question is would we like to address it now that it's completed?

Alderman O’Brien

Well | would very caution you because you and | have had this direct conversation before. I'm under the
impression that this is not completely done. This is a phased in type of program that's going. Since the city's
inception of 1673 according to the city seal, there's been no overnight parking that | know of in the City of
Nashua. When we incorporated as a City of Nashua in 1853, there still was no overnight parking. So this is the
first time.

The trouble at hand is you got to look at this within certain neighborhoods. What was traditionally a two and a
half story frame building, which had two families in it with you know maybe dad had the car. Mom may not have
driven as was popular in past years. There was two cars enabled to be entered into the driveway. Now from
what | understand, motor vehicle registers more cars and we have parking spaces in the City of Nashua. So
this causes a problem. So to say that the parking issue is complete, it is not. What needs to be done is in
phases. We’re going to have to look into zoning of it, deciding which areas are going to have maybe on one
side of the street not both. There's a whole complex issues right down to what are we going to do about trash
removal? Are people/citizens going to remove their car on trash day? Are we going to have one area every
week where everybody collectively put their buckets? So there's a lot more questions that need to be
addressed before this program really comes running out.

Alderman Klee

Thank you, Madam Chair. | think I'd like to try to see if | can clarify some things. The parking study was
originally put together only to look at the downtown parking and so on. When COVID happened, they added the
overnight parking study. That portion actually has finished. There was a meeting not too long ago that they
took the downtown area and kind of added a couple streets to it for the parking study, not the overnight parking
stuff.

The overnight parking study has been done and the report that we got did in fact talk about creating zones, etc. |
believe that's the portion of the parking study that Director Cummings is asking us to move forward with.

Alderman O’Brien

That's correct.

Alderman Klee

Not the - so in my Ward, part of the parking study that won't be finished until February does include streets like

Locke because they added that to it. They added some streets that go up to Amherst Street. It was not just the
downtown parking study. They kind of added some (inaudible). In that respect for me to be able to sit down

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with my constituents and create an overnight parking for Locke Street and so on, we can still create it. We can
still work for it but we really can't ask for approval until that study is being done. As far as other Wards are
concerned or other parts of Ward 3 such as maybe Rancourt, Pennichuck, we could discuss overnight parking
because the remainder of this parking study that is due to be finished in February won't affect them. So | think
that we can look towards certain areas of being able to approve an overnight parking study.

| think the biggest impact will be on Ward 4 and part of Ward 3 that we really can't make a decision on. But |
think we can go forward with trying to come up with a plan for zoning of different neighborhoods. So | have met
with some people from French Hill when we’ve talked about the need to talk to all the neighbors and try to
create zoning. But they're also aware that we have to wait for the full parking study to be done to find out how
many spaces would truly be available but it doesn't stop us from finding out who wants it, or who needs it, and
then being able to move forward.

Rancourt - just using as an example, Pennichuck, some of those streets over there, we could create zones now
and if the Board went forward with approving some type of zoning. As far as cost is concerned, | do think that
there will be a cost to it. That would be a cost of staffing to Economic Development because they would have to
help develop all of these zones, maintain these zones, monitor the zones, and so on. That will take more
(inaudible).

So my colleague is right here in that respect so that | do believe there'll be indirect costs. Alderman Lu as well
is correct that we're talking two different studies here. This one here is for the overnight, which the downtown
parking study would not affect your Ward, although it could because you're on the edge of the downtown. So |
take that back, but perhaps not Ward 1 for Alderman Schmidt or something like that. But it would affect
Alderman Lopez as well as parts of myself. Thank you.

Alderman Clemons

Thank you very much, Madam President. I'm going to have a very different point of view. I've always been the
type to look at these situations individually. It’s the way | prefer to do it. | don't believe that we needed to study
for this. | think we should have had overnight parking in this city years ago and so my hope is that we can start
expanding this as soon as possible and getting as many streets as we can to have overnight parking. Thank
you.

Alderman Lopez

We've had an overnight parking program. It was a pilot program when | first became Alderman and was
adopted as a program. During that period, we had a process for individuals on the street asking their Aldermen
if their streets could be added to it and amending that program repeatedly. And particularly Ward 3 added a lot
of individual streets to the program. The way that it worked is somebody who is living on a street that's
identified by Fire, Police, and DPW as being wide enough and, you know, safe enough to have the parking
spaces, spaces are allowed on that street based on where they can be safely put and then the addresses in that
area are also authorized to apply for it. So you may live on a street where you can get parking permits but you
may have to park on the street next door if your street is too narrow but in a point where there aren't accessible
streets reasonably nearby, that street wouldn't necessarily be approved.

As a process when | became Alderman and as | was Alderman and through work with the Infrastructure
Committee, we explored that. We expanded it. We confirmed it in a semi-final form and then work stopped.
Like we didn't continue looking at that. We didn't look at additional options and several years past. We began
to talk about doing a study when a number of constituents signed a petition about two years ago, maybe three
now, on the back of a parking ticket because like most of Eighth Street had been ticketed and they objected to
that. When that was brought before the Infrastructure Committee, it was tabled and the argument was made
that it we needed to do a study because if you put overnight parking on one street then adjacent streets might
be affected and adjacent streets to that might be affected. It was considered part of the downtown. The
definition of downtown was expanded to include all the number streets. So we had a lot of conversation about
having a study but still several months passed before it actually took place.

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Then the study was authorized, | want to say last year and the study was presented upon recently at the
Infrastructure Committee meeting and my objections throughout the process of the parking study was that we
were doing a city wide. Do we want overnight parking? Do we not want overnight parking, which was largely a
question nobody had asked any of the outer Wards? Nobody had proposed overnight parking in those areas
and they largely objected to it because in areas that are suburban where they have enough room to pave their
driveway and they have a large enough property that it makes sense to do, that they can park in their lot in their
driveway. In the more urban areas where there isn't a lot of land available where residents typically build up or
have to, you know, have multiple people per unit, you don't just have an unlimited number of parking spaces
and driveways. So they need on-street overnight parking.

So this is a major issue for Ward 4 but it's not a major issue for other Wards necessarily. Some of the other
wards did identify during that citywide evaluation that they do want to have additional on-street overnight parking
and some of what was proposed by the study once they completed it was a new process. So instead of people
on the street just asking their Aldermen who then confirms it with DPW, Fire, and Police and then authorizes
either the spaces that are available or if there's extra capacity at least the ability to apply for an overnight
parking permit, the process that they recommended is very different where there has to be a commitment on the
neighborhood level to a number of years in advance. Like we will get permits over the next five years. There
has to be a certain percentage of neighbors in that area that are specifically interested in it and if you don't have
the percentage of people on that street, you can take the half of the street that has the higher percentage and
then move to the next one. That's where my concern is. The process that was proposed in the overnight
parking study is very convoluted and to me is counterintuitive.

When the study was presented, the company that managed it and was making the recommendations was very
frank and said that almost nobody that they've had as customers has actually adopted all of their
recommendations. | remember Alderman Jette had a particular interesting soundbite because he said well |
wish we'd have known that before we hired you. So that's my concern is, is the study is done. | do want to
move forward with overnight parking 100% because | think it's an urgent need in Ward 4 but I'm not confident in
the process that is being proposed and in the amount of time that it would take to adopt that process because
the neighborhoods who, in my mind, precipitated this and spoke most loudly in favor of it have had their motions
tabled for almost the duration of my term in the Infrastructure Committee and very likely would just get no
answer before the end of this entire two-year process. So I'm not enthusiastic about that.

I'm not averse to the idea of coming up with a good system that is a sound system that is effective for all the
people affected, but I'm not sure that that's what was presented and I'm not sure that's the direction we're going.
As it is right now, the system that | see is four wards where it is relevant you can approach your Ward Alderman
or any Alderman. They can approach the at-larges, indicate the need, and then that Alderman is responsible for
coming up with the legislation and then having the rest of the committee vet it but that's not the process that's
being proposed. That's where my concerns lie.

Alderman Klee

Thank you, Madam Chair. | do agree with Alderman Lopez in respect of that. We cannot take all the
recommendations to give someone permission for five years and we don't open it up again for five years. | kind
of found that a little bit hard to handle. But! do think that we can take the plan and we can work with it. | think
we can create something. As | said, | have been working with constituents, talking to them, getting ideas. They
liked the idea of it but | don't believe there is a one size fits all for a ward. | don't think there's a one size fits all
within my own Ward. | think we do need to create these zones. | do think we need to start doing some work. |
have been willing to work with my constituents to go door to door and literally ask them, do you have a need?
Do you have a want? It's a lot of work. I've already had a couple meetings. One | had to cancel suddenly, but |
do think, in general, it's a good idea but | do think it needs to be tweaked. | do agree with Alderman Lopez that
we can't adopt it as is but | do think it should go to the Infrastructure Committee. | think that it should be worked
out there sooner than later. The year is almost up and as Alderman Lopez has said, he's got a lot of people that
have been waiting for a long time to get a positive or negative rather than just sitting in limbo. So thank you,

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Alderman Jette

Thank you. | read Director Cummings’ communication was being a request that this conversation begin
and he’s planning on coming to the Infrastructure Committee. So | don't think we — we have nothing before us
to act on tonight. If it’s in order, | would move that we refer this to the Infrastructure Committee.
President Wilshire

That's in order. Okay.

Alderwoman Lu

Thank you.

President Wilshire

We're going to refer this to the other committee so.

Alderwoman Lu

| just wanted a clarification about these zones that Alderwoman Klee has described. Are those not the zones
where you pay a different amount of...no, that's not - it's not zones for prices per hour of parking?

Alderman Klee

| apologize for shaking my head Alderwoman Lu. No it's overnight parking zones. So in other words, for
instance, when | was looking at the French Hill area and | was looking at Locke and Whitney, and | kind of made
this very long, trying | mean, rectangle, and | said that would be too far for a mother with a baby to have to go all
the way to the end by Chandler if she lived over by Orange Street. So | said we would take that and create a
block. That would be a zone.

Alderwoman Lu
Okay | see.
Alderman Klee

So right now the way that the overnight parking works is if you get an overnight parking permit and you live on
West Hollis, you could park over on Locke Street or Whitney. What this would do is you would have a parking
permit or your zone not anywhere in the city, which is what it is now. So perhaps in my area, maybe going from
Pennichuck to Brinton that might be too big too so we might have to make smaller bites of it. But it would be
talking to those neighbors. Do you want it? As Alderman Lopez had mentioned, you may take one street and
only 25% of the people want it. So you'll look okay 25% of the people want to hear, can we create parking? No
one is guaranteed a parking space in front of their home because that would be illegal. But we could maybe
guarantee them a parking within that zone. So if 20 people want it, can we find 20 parking spaces? No, we can
only find 10, then it might be a lottery. We'd have to figure out how 20 people will get down to 10 people. Those
are all the little things that we have to work out.

Alderwoman Lu
Thank you. That's the zone. Okay. Thank you.
Alderman Klee

You're welcome.

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President Wilshire

Okay, we will move this to the Infrastructure Committee and we'll move on our agenda.

PETITIONS - None

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS - None

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

Planning and Economic Development Committee ..........0.... 0. eee treet tteeteeeeeees 09/20/2021

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the September 20, 2021 Planning and
Economic Development Committee be accepted and placed on file.

Committee on Infrastructure 00.0000... ccc cece ces eee cee eee vee terereterereverateetetererettrerserererse 09/22/2021

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the September 22, 2021 Committee on
Infrastructure be accepted and placed on file.

Budget Review Committee ...........0 0c. cece cee cee eerste ee cette ttt tee ttt titties eeeees 09/27/2021

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the September 27, 2021 Budget Review
Committee be accepted and placed on file.

CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR’S APPOINTMENTS - None

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-21-143
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Jan Schmidt

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY CHARTER RELATIVE TO THE MANNER OF

APPOINTMENTS TO THE NASHUA BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS

e Tabled at Board of Aldermen August 10" meeting

R-21-165
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Skip Cleaver
AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NASHUA TO ENTER INTO COMMUNICATIONS TOWER LEASE
AGREEMENT
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-21-165, BY ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION

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Alderman O’Brien

Thank you, Madam President. As | hope we all remember, this has dealings with the potential cell tower

that's going to look like a light stanchion that's going to be in Holman Stadium. We are very fortunate to have a
good legal team. They worked with the provider on this and with that we’re going to get some on this particular
post some new additional lighting and at a better cost. So it's a win/win for the city and this type of thing. Also
too if it increases a cell phone coverage for our constituents in that area, that's another win/win. So | urge you
all to support this. Thank you.

President Wilshire
Any discussion?
Alderman Klee

Thank you again, Madam President. | agree with Alderman O'Brien in that it is a win/win situation and having it
in Ward 3, it's a real big boon for us. So | would like to see this passed as well.

President Wilshire
Further discussion? Seeing none, would the Clerk please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws,
Alderman Cleaver, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 14

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-21-165 declared duly adopted.

R-21-170
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Thomas Lopez
RELATIVE TO THE APPROVAL OF THE IMAGINE NASHUA 2021 MASTER PLAN
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN TENCZA FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-21-170 BY ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION

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Alderman Tencza

Just briefly, Madam President. To echo what the Mayor was saying before just thank you to the committee
members, everyone who came out. We may have benefited that so many of the meetings were virtual and it
was at a time when people had time. So although it's been 20 years since the city has developed a Master
Plan, | think we can all be very happy with the outcome, with the participation, and | think this will serve as well
into the near future and hopefully we're back here in 10 years with a slight update to this plan we're putting
forth tonight. Thank you.

President Wilshire

Thank you. Alderman Lopez.

Alderman Lopez

Yeah, | want to echo what Alderman Tencza said. | guess we’re echoing each other today. | want to
underscore it as very important that we continue to update this as it goes because we let this one get out of
date very much so the plan didn't really reflect what Nashua’s needs were when the Zoning Board and the
Planning Board were trying to use it. So it's important for us to do our due diligence and make sure that |
guess our future due diligence and make sure that this stays up to date. It was a huge undertaking to update it
and make it what it is today, which is wonderful and | really appreciate all the work that went into it. But we
don't actually have a crystal ball so we can't see the future, so we need to stay nimble as a city and make sure
that we're recognizing the needs of our constituents as they present themselves.

President Wilshire

| did attend many of the meetings and | was so impressed with the participation, and | agree with Alderman
Tencza and | think | spoke to Director Marchant about the captive audience. The amount of people who were
able to Zoom in and participate in this | thought was tremendous. I'd also like to thank Community
Development, especially Amber Morgan for her leadership in Chairing this Committee so thank you very much
- and everyone who worked on it. It's great and Matt back there to shaking his head. Yeah. Further
discussion?

Alderman Klee

Thank you again, Madam President. | just want to echo the words from everybody and | really would like to
thank the community for coming out. | hate to say that anything good came out of COVID but | do believe that
something good came out of COVID and there was more participation than ever before. People didn't have to
leave their homes they could do it. Through Director Marchant and in Amber’s guidance, we had the - and
Matt and everybody. | hate to keep naming people and forget somebody but we had the online polling where
people could literally just put a pin in a mask and say what they wanted or what there was an area and | had a
lot of constituents that called me asked questions. So | know that Ward 3 was quite involved in and so on. So
| do want to thank everybody’s working and all your ideas. They were phenomenal and the community came
up with some brilliant idea. So thank you.

Alderwoman Lu

| want to just reiterate that it's baffling to me that one Ward would not be included in membership and that no
one that was involved in this committee recognized it or thought it was important to in order to rally that
particular Ward while having an actual resident appointed. | cannot monitor the appointments and whether
they comply with the resolutions that we vote on. I've brought up in the past that it seems when a committee
appointment is required to be a Nashuan or it has certain restrictions or qualifications that are required, | don't
understand where the accountability sets for that. There's a reason for them for these appointments to have
characteristics that are described in our ordinances.

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I'm told that the committee that approves the Mayor’s selections is not tasked with ensuring that the
qualifications are being met. So! assume that our Legal Department is. | don't know who the Mayor is using
to keep these appointments proper, but they didn't treat Ward 6 properly and I'm just baffled that nobody
thought to give me a call. Thank you.

Alderman Lopez

| cannot speak for all the other Alderman but | will say | don't entirely trust all of the at-large Aldermen to
remember Ward 4 because you're all representing the whole city instead of the individual ones. So nobody
called me to let me know that there was nobody on Ward 4. | went through the list. | asked the Mayor about it.
The Mayor identified somebody who was definitely in June's Ward and then | gave him a list of candidates. So
Aldermen Caron sorry.

So | will say that we all do our responsibilities differently but if anybody from Ward 4 is listening and you reach
out to me, whenever | see things like this where | want to make sure that Ward 4 is fully represented and that
our perspective is heard, it does help to have a list of people so maybe everybody listening should reach out to
your local Ward Alderman if you're interested in volunteering or being involved or anything like that. Then as
Ward Aldermen, we can make sure that our residents are heard and are on these committees and on these
boards.

President Wilshire

Anyone else? Motion before us is for final passage of Resolution R-21-170 by roll call. Would the Clerk please
call the roll?

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws, Alderman Cleaver,
Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 13

Nay: Alderwoman Lu 1
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-21-170 declared duly adopted.

R-21-172
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO A SECOND AMENDMENT TO CONCESSION
AGREEMENT WITH GRANITE DIAMOND, LLC
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-21-172 BY ROLL CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

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Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,

Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,

Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws,

Alderman Cleaver, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 14
Nay: 0

MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-21-172 declared duly adopted.

R-21-173
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
APPROVING THE COST ITEMS OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
NASHUA BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE NASHUA TEACHERS’ UNION, LOCAL #1044 AFT, AFL-
CIO, UNIT B PARA-EDUCATORS FROM JULY 1, 2020 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2022 AND RELATED
TRANSFERS
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-21-173, BY ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Dowd

Yes this was unanimously approved at the Budget Committee. It was stated in several instances that the
Paras are a huge, huge asset to the city, and to the teachers, and to the students. These Paras. as was stated
underpaid based on everything that's happening and the job they perform. So | would ask that we get
unanimous approval. Thank you.

President Wilshire

Further discussion, Alderman Lopez.

Alderman Lopez

| just would like to say that | would not be where | am today without paraprofessionals. | appreciate all their
help over the years. | never bit or spit or anything like that but | definitely had my challenges to work through. |
would also say that they are increasingly critical to our school performance and needs as we see more adverse
childhood experiences piling up - not just from the opioid crisis and from, you know, increases in domestic
violence but from the blockbuster year that was 2020 and, you know, 2021 is shaping up to be. We need to
make sure that our staff are supported. We need to make sure that they're equipped to do the things they
need to do in order to help our children be successful and that includes making sure paying that we're paying
them a living wage.

Alderman O'Brien

Thank you, Madam President. | just want to say that | am so happy to vote for this. In the past of my time on

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the Board, the past Board President Brian McCarthy could not vote for this because his wife like my wife,
Diane, worked as a Paraprofessional. My wife worked up at the Broad Street preschool for over 20 years.
She did not get a pension because the hours that she worked with did not count as a full-time job in the
preschool environment. Her duties there was to assist the teachers because these were special needs kids.
They needed a lot of attention. The teachers had to do work and sadly another issue that's out there is
sometimes teachers kind of sit down and just do the paperwork. So who fills the void and does the work? It's
the Paras. The work that my wife did even into potty training some of the kids that came up. So as they
moved on and perhaps maybe hopefully they went to Harvard or somewhere else, they can have their potty
training experience from my wife. That's her educational legacy. But the thing is to have qualified people to do
this at such a low rate of pay - | was very fortunate in my occupation to do the wife and it’s what we both
agreed to. Yeah she could have gone out — she’s college educated. She could have done something else but
my daughter was born with Cerebral Palsy so we understand the needs. Our daughter received a good
education because of the Paraprofessionals. So | can speak highly. I'm very happy to give my vote for this.
This is one that | think the first time so that | could do so and it gives me such pleasure to do it. Thank you
Madam President.

President Wilshire
Thank you for sharing your story Alderman O'Brien. Further discussion?
Alderman Cleaver

I’d just like to mention that we need to raise the pay over the next year or so. The next contract should do
much better for these people. They do an outstanding job.

President Wilshire
They do. Thank you. Anyone else? See no one, would the Clerk please call the roll.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws,
Alderman Cleaver, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 14
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-21-173 declared duly adopted.
President Wilshire
Thank you to all the Paras. out there.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES - None

NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-21-174
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Richard A. Dowd

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