Board of Aldermen 06-22-2021 Page 8
President Wilshire
Alderman Lopezif | could. First off the Board of Health is appointed by me and approved by the Board not
appointed by the Mayor just for clarification.
Alderman Lopez
Okay | understand.
President Wilshire
The other thing, Attorney Bolton just advised me that your motion can’t have the word “if” in the first sentence.
You made a motion to determine if it's necessary. We need to strike the word “if”. Could you amend your
motion?
Alderman Lopez
My mistake. Sorry. | read the script but thank you for the direction Attorney Bolton.
President Wilshire
Would you amend your motion to take that out?
MOTION BY ALDERMAN LOPEZ TO AMEND TO DETERMINE THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO MOVE
FORWARD WITH PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY CHARTER RELATIVE TO ADDING TWO
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF HEALTH, BY ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
Alderwoman Lu
This sounds intriguing and interesting to me. | think it’s worth considering. | would like to suggest that it goes
to committee before we vote on whether it’s necessary. Thatis wnat! thought that we did with Charter
changes. | think it would be rather than schedule a public hearing on something, it would just be better to
address it at committee and at that point decide wnether — | don’t know whether we need to come back to the
full Board to decide that it’s necessary but! would — that’s how | feel. That’s why | will vote against this.
President Wilshire
Anyone else?
Alderman Lopez
If | could ask Attorney Bolton for a clarification on the process. | had thought that this was the process that we
had to follow but ’m not opposed to having it discussed in committee before scheduling the public hearing. |
am concerned that the month turnaround for reviewing it with committee puts us into the end of July probably
August depending on what the committees we refer it to are and if we schedule the public hearing then, we
might run into the timeline for when we can’t put things on referendum.
Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel
| think you make a very good point Alderman Lopez. The Statute that governs amendments to the City Charter
is very specific and after the determination that it’s necessary, the City Clerk must forward the language to
three State officials who then after receiving thathave 45 days to compare that proposed Charter language to
all of the State Statutes and determine whether any State Statute would be contravened. Then you have to —
