Board of Aldermen 03-09-2021 Page 38
Alderwoman Kelly
So Attorney Bolton, the way | am understanding this and | want to make sure | understand it completely is that
these Ordinances are tied to that map. So if we sign it in as, then they have to put them exactly as that map is
drawn. Is that the case?
Attorney Bolton
Yes.
Alderwoman Kelly
And so the follow on thought there is that that we are just allowing and | think the intent here right is that we are
not to be going up every weekend and moving these barriers. But if Director Cummings is meeting with people
this next week and wants to make some adjustments, we are giving him that flexibility?
Attorney Bolton
Well that’s what you did on the prior Ordinance that you already made an amendment to and passed. | believe
what Alderman Jette is attempting to do here is allow the Mayor to adjust the time period. So instead of noon to
9:00 perhaps for certain locations it would make more sense to have it 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. or 11:00 a.m. to
9:00 p.m.; 7:00 p.m., you know, whatever an appropriate number is depending on the location. And | think
that’s the essential upshot of the amendment you are now considering.
Alderwoman Kelly
So we are actually not talking about moving barriers here, it is just the potential move of those times and just
giving additional flexibility because we already passed that amendmert.
Attorney Bolton
| have got to say | don’t see the Mayor taking this as authority to go out and buy a $500,000.00 piece of
equipment to move a barrier. | don’t think you ought to worry about that at all.
Alderwoman Kelly
And to that point | think that was the intent of both of these is that | trust Director Cummings, the Mayor, all the
people who are going to be installing these to make some forethought and discussions and we are not going to
be going out and moving these every weekend. If there’s a larger problem maybe they can put them together
and do them as one big thing if something needs to be moved. But it already sounds like they are having
these conversations earlier than last year to make sure that they can try to accommodate as many people
downtown. So thank you.
President Wilshire
Alderwoman Lu?
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you. Alderwoman Kelly sort of cleared it up for us. But it is my understanding that this is just about
giving flexibility to the timeframe when we enforce or have a limit to how long you can park. So for instance, in
the early spring we may say, or whatever, we may say that you can park more than 15 minutes up until 3:00 in
the afternoon.
