Board of Aldermen 6-23-2020 Page 20
MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-20-023 AS AMENDED, BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Kelly, 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-20-023 declared duly adopted as amended.
Alderman Dowd
Before we address the final vote, | would like to make one more amendment to the R-20-023. You all
received a Memo from Director Kleiner on June 9" relative to the monies set aside for Workplace Benefit
Solutions for healthcare. In that Memo it said that we could reduce the $3 million dollars that we were
going to allocate out of the 2021 Budget by $348,334.00 therefore still maintaining a balance in our
healthcare account that would carry us through the next year. In further discussions with Director Kleiner
and the Mayor and others including President Wilshire, it was determined that we could adjust that number
to $500,000.00 and | would like to make a motion to amend the Budget to take the half a million dollars and
place it in General Contingency for the Budget so that it could be allocated later if and where needed.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD TO FURTHER AMEND R-20-023 BY REDUCING $500,000.00 FROM
THE HEALTHCARE LINE AND MOVING THE $500,000.00 TO GENERAL CONTINGENCY
ON THE QUESTION
President Wilshire
Discussion on that motion to amend? Alderman Jette?
Alderman Jette
Yes so a point of clarification, are we reducing the Budget by $500,000.00 or are we just moving the
$500,000.00 around so it really doesn’t lower the Budget it just takes it out of the healthcare contingency
and puts it into some other contingency fund?
President Wilshire
That’s correct.
Alderman Dowd
That’s correct. It is moving it out the healthcare and into a General Contingency so that it could be used for
something else. And the reason that it is not taken toward the tax are is if we take any more towards the
tax rate based on the motions we have taken before, that if you really need a detailed explanation, you’d
have to get it from John Griffin. But it would exacerbate the issue that we might have in FY22. So we are
not really changing the end number on the Budget, all we are doing it we are taking it out of that Healthline
and moving it into General Contingency where it could be used for other things during the year.
