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is someone of some critical need of this. He did have like a timeline that he was dealing with and he kind of
encouraged this but some of my brethren on the Board of Aldermen brought up the good point that they
wanted some information so we delayed it. Well | think the information has been adequately brought
forward and | think that because of the time constraints that are involved, | would recommend to move my
motion forward for final passage.
President Wilshire
Further discussion? Alderman Lopez.
Alderman Lopez
As it is the apocalypse, | thought | should agree with Alderman O’Brien. | think we have reviewed this pretty
thoroughly tonight. We had an opportunity to approach City Employees if we thought there were concerns.
The previous Board of Aldermen meeting was public and the Legislation was posted. So last week | was
concerned that we need to make sure that we are doing our due diligence and engaging in public
discussion so that the public knows we are not just making decisions on a limb but this is two hour’s in.
There’s no way anybody can think we are doing that. So | think we’ve done plenty of vetting of this. |
understand that there may be additional questions that other Aldermen have and | respect that but for
myself | think we can make a decision that is pretty well informed.
President Wilshire
Thank you, Alderman Lopez. Alderwoman Kelly?
Alderwoman Kelly
Yeah thank you. | understand that we have taken the time to vet this as Aldermen and | appreciate that.
The reason that | voted to put it back on the table is that we did say that and | understand that the City has
done a great job of engaging people and getting the information to them. But if something has come up int
this meeting that anyone wants to speak to, | feel uncomfortable not allowing them at least a week. And |
think we did say that next week’s meeting was fine to pass this. So if that is not the case, can someone
respond to me in terms of the timing because | thought that was how we left it, we were going to table it and
bring it back and next week’s meeting.
President Wilshire
We were going to bring it back at next week’s meeting until we had this meeting. | mean it was just being
put off until the next meeting and this happened to be the next meeting.
Alderwoman Kelly
OK.
President Wilshire
Anyone else? Alderwoman Lu.
Alderwoman Lu
Comment please? Yes. Thank you, Madam President. Well my feeling is that we have spent 2 % hours
discussing this. We did receive information five hours before we met but not all of us had the time to look
at it with much advance time before the meeting. So my expectation, | mean | would have hoped that this
information is available to inform us that we can be availed of it sooner than the day of the vote. My
