Board of Aldermen 03-09-2021 Page 21
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you. | have a follow up but if Alderwoman Kelly has an answer to that question, | don’t know or | will just
finish my follow.
Alderwoman Kelly
Finish your follow up; | don’t have an answer. | have another question.
Alderwoman Lu
Ok. If we were an organization that was printing money like the Federal Government then | could understand
us trying to be supportive in this time but all we are doing is adjusting to reduced revenues all around, and
increased costs. It seems to me that the Downtown Improvement Committee has a good chunk of money
there and rather than go ahead and say let’s decide what’s going to happen in 2022 now, | agree with
Alderman Jette that | don’t feel it is my place to be choosing the winners and the losers and these are
taxpayers whose money this is and | don’t think | can support this. Thank you.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. It’s funny that Alderman Clemons thought | had the answer when | actually was going to ask
another question, because | believe actually this Committee is the result of a Committee that Alderman
Clemons put together a number of years ago. My question was actually, | have only been tangentially involved
in sort of what happens with the Downtown Improvement Committee. | do appreciate all the people who are on
that Committee and the work that they do in the downtown; | am a downtown business owner myself. But | was
just interested if anyone, anyone on the Board has kind of a take list of some of the things that they have
invested in over the years with this money?
President Wilshire
Alderman Clemons?
Alderman Clemons
Thank you. Yeah | can let you know. So basically they have done all of the, they have funded all of the
studies for the Performing Arts Center. They have done the pay and displays, we’ve done, | am trying to think
what the Downtown Improvement Committee over the years, several festivals that have occurred, some of
them on a recurring basis. They have put money towards the Holiday Stroll in years and | am trying to think,
and | think they want to do the lights this year to see if we can reconfigure the lights on Main Street. So those
are, you know, those are some of the things that get done. | know quite a bit of the money for the sidewalk
improvements went from the Committee. So it has been things like that, between infrastructure projects and
events that have been really the — what has the money been spent on over the years.
Alderwoman Kelly
If | could follow up, please?
President Wilshire
Alderwoman Kelly?
