Board of Aldermen 07-13-2021 Page 26
R-21-155
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $75,000 FROM DEPARTMENT 194 “CONTINGENCY”, ACCOUNT
70100 “GENERAL CONTINGENCY” TO DEPARTMENT 198 “INTERFUND TRANSFERS”, ACCOUNT
89725 “TRANSFER TO CITY RETIREMENT TRUST FUND”
Given its first reading; Assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President Wilshire
NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES
O-21-067
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Skip Cleaver
RECOGNIZING JUNETEENTH AS A CITY HOLIDAY AND REVISING THE HOLIDAY SECTION OF THE
UNAFFILIATED EMPLOYEES PERSONNEL POLICIES
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, DIRECTOR
OF FINANCIAL SERVICES DIVISION, HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT, PERSONNEL ADVISORY
BOARD WITH THE MAYOR, by President Wilshire
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Laurie Ortolano Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. 1’d like to just state quickly that | did support the veto by
the Mayor and | think that | get a little concerned when | hear a lot of emotional language used to describe the
reasons why we have to keep the Fire and Police budgets where they are at. We elicit an emotional response
in people when we look at these safety issues and time but | am not certain that is fully justified or we have
seen enough numbers that do justify that and when we talked about the personnel cuts that would have to be
endured in the departments based on these budget cuts, the math just didn’t really make sense. So your DPW
Department also is a very large department, they negotiated a pretty reasonable contract, they didn’t come in
an ask for additional funding and the type of work that they do is really gives pleasure to people and makes the
City life more appealing and satisfactory and because it doesn’t elicit this negative, emotional response
regarding safety and health we sort of overlook that. So | think the vetoed budget should have carried and |
think it was reasonable.
Also | want to speak at that last meeting last week, Attorney Bolton made some statements regarding a Right
to Know request | read into the record. He said that | did not provide, | conveniently left things out. | did not. |
also didn’t read the full correspondence into the record. That’s true because | am limited by a three-minute
time period and | sent you all the email, the Right to Know request response so you could all read it in its fully
glory. But | did read the sections that were important to me that | highlighted that | felt were not correct on the
part of the City. | am also really concerned that he was able to tell all of you last week that | had received all
the available emails that Ms. Kleiner had received from IT and | hope you read that request and saw that they
were not provided to me. | am getting an update on July 30" which is not necessarily the response or that the
records would be responded to, it would just be an update. And it really concerns me when he can identify that
the Right to Know was given to me that night and then give information that is not correct. Because right after
