Board of Aldermen 01-26-2021 Page 9
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE and
SCHEDULE A SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN PUBLIC HEARING ON MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2021, AT
7:00 PM, by President Wilshire
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT - None
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Lopez
Thank you Madam President. First I'd like to thank the Mayor for clarifying the access to the COVID-19
vaccination clinic for people who aren’t able to drive. As a non-driver personally it wasn’t necessary for me
to Segway my way through this one because | have been registered at a clinic as a healthcare provider.
But | know a lot of people who were very concerned about their access to those clinics. | have also been
working with Director Bagley to see if we can do some site specific ones for places where there are a large
population of elderly people and people who are less likely to be able to travel to those sites. So Director
Bagley has been very, very helpful in that area.
Particularly tomorrow is the Point in Time Count, it is the annual time of year where we count all of the
homeless people that we are able to locate. So with that in mind, anybody who is currently homeless,
either unsheltered, couch surfing, or staying in a shelter, please make sure you participate. You can call
211, you can participate at the Soup Kitchen or the Rescue Mission; anywhere where you are able to make
contact with people. Tomorrow is a snowy day so | know it’s going to be difficult for people but in addition
to that, Director Bagley has arranged with the State to get a limited number of advance inoculations for the
homeless population, specifically because they are so at risk and they are transient. So she has arranged
for a special clinic at the Soup Kitchen to take place between 10 and 12, only for people who are homeless.
So please everybody let’s stick with our sign in plans and all that kind of stuff. This is for people who won't
necessarily have regular phone contact or contact with people, because we thought it is extremely
important to count the people who are unsheltered right now and it is also extremely important to engage
them and try to get them vaccinated if possible.
So | want to thank Director Bagley for all of her efforts on that end and the Mayor as well for all the things
that he’s been helpful with. Thank you.
Alderman Clemons
Thank you. | want to just also echo Alderman Lopez. | want to thank him and Director Bagley for all of their
efforts with the vaccination sites because | myself got a few phone calls from people who are concerned
who didn’t have vehicles that they were going to get turned away and we cleared that up pretty quickly and
actually are turning that around and maybe even, you know as Alderman Lopez said, working on different
sites, specific things. So | want to thank both of them for their continued effort on that.
| also want to thank the Mayor for the news about the barriers; | think we got a great deal on them. And |
think that program is going to be very successful this year and with what President Biden had said today,
he said that hopefully we will be able to have vaccinations done by the end of summer. So | think that it is
going to be important that we continue our COVID-19 protocols through the end of the summer anyway and
keep our best efforts and one of those that we did in Nashua was the barriers and the success that we had.
So | am looking forward to having that discussion and getting those out and moving that forward. So thank
you very much, that’s all that | have.
Alderman Klee
Thank you Madam President. | want to echo the comments of my colleagues about the efforts of Director
Bagley and Alderman Lopez and the Mayor, etc. for getting extra clinics set up for those that do not drive. |
think that is extraordinarily important and | thank everybody’s efforts.
