Finance Committee - Minutes - 9/1/2021 - P15
Finance Committee — 09/01/2021 Page 15
Chairman Klee
Alderwoman Lu, I’m going to stop you right there again. | feel like you’re now attacking the Board and the truth is we were
not elected to work together. We were elected to represent the group of people that we are elected by. So for instance |
work for Ward 3. You work for Ward 7. President Wilshire and Vice-President O’Brien at-large, they have to answer to
the entire city. Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright has to answer to Ward 9. | think we do work very well together. I’m sorry
that you feel that way and if your next question has to follow up on attacking the Board members now, | am going to say
no. So | will give you a couple of seconds but | will stop you. So continue.
Alderwoman Lu
| was only citing a Mason’s | don't know if it’s a rule but | was citing Mason’s. So | feel that if any of this Board is not
getting access to what their Ward representation has a right to that every member of this Board should put some support
behind them and at least list — at least...
Chairman Klee
Again Alderwoman Lu that is your opinion. You know the bottom line here is we do not all agree. Tomorrow there is
going to be a work study that | have a completely different viewpoint than perhaps President Wilshire and so on. There is
going to come a point when that happens to every single one of us. That doesn’t mean either one of us is right and it
doesn’t mean either one of us is wrong. We do what we do best and we also do our own legwork. We get the information
that we have to when we have to do that. | am sorry that you don’t feel supported but, again, my job is not here to support
you in that respect that you don’t feel like this department is contacting you. | was not elected to hold anybody’s hand nor
was anybody elected to hold mine. We do work independent and | think we do work very well together when we work well
together. Any further thing because | think we probably exhausted this conversation. | can see the frustration on your
face and the hour is getting late and | think we’ve spent as much time talking about this as we did on the meeting.
Alderwoman Lu
I’m fine.
Chairman Klee
Okay thank you. Are there any other comments? That being said.
NON-PUBLIC SESSION - None
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ADJOURN BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright,
Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Wilshire 5
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
The Finance Committee meeting was adjourned at 8:20 p.m.
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Committee Clerk
