Board of Aldermen 5-21-2020 Page 54
Alderwoman Kelly
Yes.
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO RESCIND THE MOTION FOR A SECOND READING AND
INSTEAD REFER TO INFRASTRUCTURE
ON THE QUESTION
President Wilshire
Discussion on that motion?
Alderman Klee
Madam President, while | do think it is definitely a worthwhile conversation and | am not sure how | feel
about it going forward, | do have some anxiety about the possibility of us killing any kind of additional
parking revenue. | think it should be taken care of here but | do also respect the fact that working things out
in Committee is always the best thing to do rather than trying to work it out here. But, again, | think it
should end here and | am going to stop there. | don’t want to see loss of revenue and | wouldn’t even be
able to support it | think if it went to the Infrastructure Committee.
President Wilshire
Alderman Lopez.
Alderman Lopez
| really want to know what is going on with the parking study. So | guess my question is to Alderman
O’Brien, do we have an Infrastructure Meeting Committee coming up and can we maybe tackle this all
there?
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you. Alderman Lopez, as you know with what is going on is Coronas 19, the pending Legislation
before the Infrastructure Committee is a Public Hearing and it’s a Public Hearing on renumbering Almonst
spelling ?Street, it is a discontinuance of Palm Street. What has been on the back burner has been the
traffic study that we are all very much concerned about. But! am sure you have not iced since March 16
that Main Street has been kind of vacated. So to pay the money for that particular parking study at this
particular time would not be prudent in my opinion to the tax dollars. And now that we are doing this and |
don’t know when this is going to terminate, we are going to have to have a meeting with Director Cummings
and we may need to re-circle the wagons and come up with a new idea, you know, re-invent the wheel. So
| will refer further questions on that, as far as the parking study, through the Chair, through the President, to
Director Cummings.
Alderman Lopez
Just to clarify my question was whether we could talk about all of that. Like | wasn’t expecting answers for
it. As far as | understand, we were expecting the parking study to be done and as you have pointed out, we
just re-drew Main Street so | don’t if that’s feasible. But it seems like a Committee would be a good time to
actually have that conversation about what are we expecting, what can we expect and (audio cuts out).
