Board of Aldermen 3-10-2020 Page 21
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Klee
May | speak to it? The reason that | brought this forward was because there was a handicap parking space
that has not been used for a very long time. Parking went and checked to make sure that this was, in fact,
that the neighbors aren’t able to use this parking space because it doesn’t have a handicapped person
there that it had been awarded for. This was kind of the concern that | had when | asked for another place
to get a handicap parking space is because when they no longer need it, we have no way of knowing. And
| keep bringing this forward and we do have to something on it, finding a way of being able to put a sunset
on it, these type of legislation or that every year they have to come in and re-app for it or make it a sunset
for one year or something. But anyways, in light of that, that we don’t have that, | am asking to remove the
handicap parking space in front of 7 — 9 Lemon Street
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you. As the Chairman of Infrastructure, I’d like to thank Alderman Klee for mentioning that.
Throughout the City and it’s going to really depend upon the good people if they see it, such as is the
situation where there may have been a disabled child and that sign went up in the neighborhood and now
the child has moved out of the City and has children of their own. The sign is still there. There is no real
record right now. | mean perhaps maybe we should have, as was suggested, a sunset clause to visit it, but
it would take somebody to do that and right now it doesn’t exist. So | am going to rely and make the public
service announcement to the good people out there, if you see an old sign that is no longer germane to the
situation that it was well intended to be put up to please call the Public Works Department. | think that’s a
good start right there and we can start taking some of these down. Then it might increase the effectiveness
for the ones we do need.
Alderman Lopez
| guess just a question to Alderman O’Brien, wouldn’t this be something we could ask the Parking Study to
do while they are studying parking? | assumed they were going to do an inventory of parking spaces?
Alderman O’Brien
| can’t tell you, without seeing a complete parameters, but | think we could bring this up, but | think it can be
done. | will see if we can definitely work towards that goal.
Alderman Lopez
If you would prefer | could represent Alderman O’Brien on March 17".
Alderman O’Brien
| unfortunately had to cancel one cultural event to attend the meeting.
MOTION CARRIED
Ordinance O-20-007 is declared duly adopted.
