Board of Aldermen 6-09-2020 Page 29
Alderman Clemons
Right so if | could continue. So in other words, if an Alderman wanted to get rid of this in the future, they
could bring forward legislation to get rid of it?
Attorney Bolton
Yes. That is true of everything you do.
Alderman Clemons
Exactly, so | answered the question correctly. Thank you.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you, Madam President. | just wanted to apologize to Alderman Clemons. | in no way meant to
offend you. | was just expressing that my question had been meant to get some information that perhaps |
misunderstood. So hopefully you don’t feel offended. Thank you.
President Wilshire
The motion before us is to accept the first reading as amended by roll call, assign it to the Planning &
Economic Development Committee and the Planning Board and that a Public Hearing be scheduled by
the Board of Alderman via Webex Meeting. Further discussion on that. 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, 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 15
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Alderwoman Kelly
Yes before we go into Remarks By Aldermen, | was wondering if | could bring up a general discussion?
President Wilshire
Sure.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. So | wanted to bring to the Board that | think that when COVID hit there was a lot of decisions
that we made for safety purposes, etc. We have gotten a number of e-mails around public comment and |
would like to see us do something in response to that. | think that we originally didn’t want people
gathering in large groups that come to Public Comment, that made a lot of sense in the moment. But we
also saw through the Public Hearing that there is an electronic way to allow people to bring forward their
public comment. And | think it’s very different to accept someone’s communication and put in on file than
to allow them to actually make a comment during the meeting.
