Board of Aldermen 02-23-2021 Page 24
Part of the deal was that we were agreeing to pay the builder $2.5 million dollars to build a garage to provide
approximately 50 spaces in order to satisfy the parking concerns of the neighbors. All | am saying is that until
that numbers appears in an agreement, it’s not there. So if the Mayor is correct and this plan was submitted in
August, let’s just attach it to the agreement. Or if the agreement was recently, if that was just a concept and
that really wasn’t the plan if there is a plan as Attorney Melville | think said, that has been prepared now, let’s
just put it in there so it is something we can depend on. And | think we can do this within a couple of weeks by
our next meeting and | don’t think that’s going to hamper this project or delay this project or certainly not kill
this project. | am not against this project. | was against it but we voted for it and | accepted that vote. | am
trying to kill the project now. | accept the vote, let’s go ahead with the project, but let’s do it correctly. So |
made a motion to refer it back to the Committee.
President Wilshire
Ok that’s your motion, Alderman Jette?
Alderman Jette
My motion was to table this and refer it back to the Budget Review Committee.
Alderman Clemons
You can’t do both.
Alderman Dowd
| think Attorney Bolton will want to say something.
President Wilshire
Attorney Bolton?
Attorney Bolton
Tabling and referring are two different things, they cannot both be done simultaneously, they could be done
sequentially. But it has to either be tabled and be in possession of the full board or it has to be referred to a
Committee and then be in the possession of the Committee.
Alderman Jette
OK hearing that, | move to refer it back to the Budget Review Committee.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN JETTE TO REFER BACK TO THE BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE
ON THE QUESTION
President Wilshire
OK. Alderman Dowd.
Alderman Dowd
| was just going to say that Attorney Melville showed the parking plan. The options we have are if you want to
take that parking plan as the proposed parking without nailing it down to exactly 50 spaces because again |
don’t think that’s what you want to do. Or if you want to make the approximate 50 spaces part of the lease,
