Board of Aldermen 3-10-2020 Page 30
Alderman Tencza
I’m all set thank you.
Alderman Lopez
| want to express my condolences to Selectman Laughton. Lisa was a very strong presence in the
community, she was well-liked. There were many, many community events where she was parked there
with her wheelchair, she had the little dog, she’s going to be greatly missed.
| also want to say | appreciate the courage that it took to come forward. | know for some of us politicians
you might be like “what” all of these things just got thrown at us at once. But it takes a lot to open yourself
up in that particular way. It takes a huge amount of courage to admit publicly that you did some things you
aren’t proud of and | respect that. | respect that you did apologize and | admire the strength that you are
demonstrating here and your commitment to moving forward. | also appreciate your advocacy for people
who are struggling with mental health issues because sometimes it is difficult, especially wnen we are
dealing with a sudden loss or we don’t know exactly what is going on around us, to act the way that the
public expects us to. | think you are a very good champion for that; you are wearing my heart on your
sleeve. | don’t think this Board appreciates that.
Alderman Clemons
My colleague Alderman Lopez said it probably better than | could. But let me give you my deepest
condolences and | accept your apology.
Alderwoman Kelly
| also wanted to thank you for your comments, it definitely is a lot of courage to get up share what is going
on and that you are hopeful for the future. | am sorry for the loss of your wife. But | also appreciated your
comments in the beginning around the title change it’s a small victory (inaudible).
Alderman Klee
| am sorry for your loss. | know it’s not easy to lose someone. | also just want to make a comment about
the budget and everything that the Mayor shared with us. | know that the Administrative Director has been
working very hard on the health care issues, and trying to do everything she can to get that cost down. |
look forward to the Budget Hearings and | look forward and to see what changes we need to make and |
know everybody is trying to cut their budget as much as possible and it'll be our job to kind of look at it.
Thank you so much.
Alderman O’Brien
| would just like to again express my condolences. | knew Lisa as you know over the years from the
O’Brien Family, our deepest condolences.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Same here Stacie, you’ve got my deepest condolences. | knew Lisa as well and | remember sitting in the
car together and making it up to Portsmouth and other places that we’ve been. | wasn’t aware that she had
passed so | just heard this tonight, so | am truly sorry.
Alderman Schmidt
A loss is hard, thank you for sharing it with us.
