Board of Aldermen 5-26-2020 Page 28
President Wilshire
Are you all set, Alderman Lopez?
Alderman Lopez
Yup.
President Wilshire
Alderman Klee.
Alderman Klee
| have been sitting here thinking and going back and forth and saying | trust our Fire Department and so on.
| have anxiety about opening up a Pandora’s Box. | think | have to vote “no” against this. And in deference
to Alderwoman Lu and her constituents there. | know what it is like to live with Holman Stadium in your
backyard and the fireworks display and so on and what it does to some of the neighbors. My fear is that
someone would say, we want to do a fireworks display and can we have it at Holman Stadium. It’s a big
enough place, we always do it there and so on. | really do, | have anxiety that this is going to end up literally
in my backyard and | can’t see it. | feel horrible because | want these kids to have a wonderful, special, they
are truly, truly a special group of graduates, but | just can’t do it. | can’t open up that Pandora’s Box and |
know Ward 3 will suffer for it because | know it will happen at Holman Stadium, | just know it. So | can’t vote
for it. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Anyone else? Alderman Clemons?
Alderman Clemons
Thank you. | too am a resident of Ward 6 and | live right down the street from BG, | drive by every day. |
saw them kind of setting up this afternoon. | think what Alderman Lopez said about maybe using the
emergency management system to call people or just somehow getting in touch with the neighborhood |
think would be a good idea. As a neighbor, | am kind of exciting for it, | might even go down and watch my
show myself if we do allow this. So just one Ward 6 constituent perspective.
President Wilshire
Anyone else? Alderman Klee.
Alderman Klee
| guess | have two comments about what was just recently said. One is, if we do send an emergency call
out there it is still after the fact; we are telling them to prepare themselves for it for this thing to happen, and
that’s one. And just what Aldermen Clemons just said, | may go out and watch it myself, which means we
could end up with a crowd. So just putting it out there again, thank you.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you and | appreciate the debate on this. | currently am struggling with supporting this right now and in
its current state, | don’t know feel OK supporting it. | don’t want to be punitive to the students, | know it has
been a rough number of months for a lot of people. But | want to make sure that if we are making sweeping
changes to Legislation that is being vetted and is being vetted properly through the process. | think there’s a
difference between suspending the rules to get aid quickly to people and suspending the rules in this case,
