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understanding that this is not something that is needed to be voted today and | know two of my colleagues
have just gathered the information and they feel that they would be better prepared with time to reflect and
maybe do some further whatever they need to do. And out of respect for them, | feel why do we feel that
we have to rush a vote when some of our colleagues want to go by the originally proposed schedule for a
vote at our regularly scheduled meeting? Thank you.
President Wilshire
Anyone else? Alderman Jette?
Alderman Jette
Could | ask through you, could | ask the Mayor whether the original plan to vote on this at our next regularly
scheduled meeting would give him enough time to implement this or does he feel that we have to vote on
this tonight?
President Wilshire
Mayor Donchess? Mayor Donchess you are muted we can’t hear you.
Mayor Donchess
Oh sorry, sorry, sorry.
President Wilshire
OK you’re good.
Mayor Donchess
Can you hear me now?
President Wilshire
Yes.
Mayor Donchess
| would defer to some extent to Ms. Kleiner and Mr. Budreau on timing. We do have an open enrollment
period coming up quickly and as somebody has already pointed out, we need to be creative about how we
engage employees who are now working remotely in terms of trying to get them involved or get them
informed so that if they wish to make a change they can do it. And they realize that the time is up and they
can have their questions answered. | mean | would say the sooner the better but beyond that | will refer to
Ms. Kleiner and Mr. Budreau.
Kim Kleiner, Admin. Services Director
Thank you, President Wilshire. It is going to be a challenge now with the fact that we have to reach out to
all of our employees who are working, most of whom are working remotely. Having said that, we wanted to
allow WBS some time to incorporate some of these new changes into our Annual Enrollment Documents.
To be honest it would be better if we could have a decision this evening but we would make next Tuesday
work as well. It’s just all about having that extra time for employee education.
