Special Board of Aldermen Public Hearing — May 20, 2020 Page 18
Chairman Dowd
Ok, follow up?
Ms. Ortolano Just a follow up quickly. You know | was a proponent for allowing citizens or members of the
community to be involved with this and that was shot down and | want to voice my objection to that. | think
that citizens should be a part of sharing information about what we are looking for, for digital records. And |
think the City operates in a closed capacity and continues to look for ways to shut people out. And | am
disappointed in them. It’s nice to hear that they looked at it today but I’ve been waiting what? Three or four
months? So terrific, but | don’t know if they really know what I’m looking for Rick. And | have a funny feeling
that Assessing Office doesn’t. Thank you.
128 RISK MANAGEMENT
129. CITY BUILDINGS
Chairman Dowd
Alright. Anybody else on IT? Seeing and hearing no one, Risk Management? Any questions or comments
on Risk Management? Seeing and hearing none, City Buildings?
Ms. Ortolano
Yes, | have a question.
Chairman Dowd
OK.
Ms. Ortolano It was a question that | asked at your Budget or e-mailed over to you at one of the Budget
Meetings and | didn’t get an answer, but if we are looking at selling 141 Bourke Street and it seems to be
something that is happening, are we still carrying that building with the costs in the 2021 Budget? And is that
typically what we would do?
Chairman Dowd
That question is better reserved for when we get into Community Development or DPW. It is not a — the
building thing we are talking about here is maintenance of buildings.
Ms. Ortolano Well that Building was moved into that Budget and accounted for on maintenance for 2021 and
| don’t think it is DPW because it was moved out of the DPW Budget. We are paying for it for the whole year,
so my question is do we budget all the money typically to pay an entire year on a building that we look like we
are going to sell this year?
Chairman Dowd
Who would like to address that question? Director Kleiner or Director Cummings?
Director Kleiner
So Alderman Dowd, that building was moved to the City Buildings portion of the Budget for us to cover the
utilities and the upkeep costs until the building is sold. So it is common that it would stay in the Budget until
the building is taken off of the City book.
