Board of Aldermen Page 14
November 9, 2016
Alderman LeBrun
| want to commend the City Clerk on a job well done at the polls yesterday. | think in Ward 5 it ran like a fine
Swiss watch.
Alderman Siegel
Just to address to Mr. Sullivan's comments with regard to my motivation about suggesting that this go to
committee, it had nothing to do with leaving here early, that was an assumption on his part. It was for the
expediency and efficiency of accomplishing a task which is to get better information and provide interactive
participation which this forum does not allow.
Alderman Dowd
My thoughts are with the families of Angie Kopka and Fred Britton. Angie has been around for a long time in
many capacities and | served with Fred Britton on the Airport Authority and it was a very pleasant experience
working with him on the Airport Authority and the Board of Aldermen and he will be missed.
The other thing is that there was a lot of concern of the poll workers on Charlotte Avenue because of the
sight lines with the crosswalks and | was standing there trying to help people cross the street | noticed that
there were some number of cars that were speeding through there and some had big signs in the back of
them. Is there any way that we can enforce the 20 MPH speed limit that they have when school is in session
during polling?
Alderman Cookson
City Clerk Piecuch, you did a fantastic job yesterday. Please express that to your co-workers and
employees. Also, thank you to the voters that came out. | believe the final count was somewhere in the
neighborhood of 72% of all registered voters participated in yesterday’s election. Now we know that they are
there and | am looking forward to future elections and seeing that same participation.
Alderman Wilshire
| would also like to commend the City Clerk and all of the poll workers for a great job yesterday. | had a
really good experience given how many people there were voting.
Also | would like to send my condolences to the family of Fred Britton and Angie Kopka. Fred was a terrific
member of this Board and | enjoyed serving with him and | had known Angie for many years, they will both
be missed.
Congratulations as well to two members of this Board who were re-elected, Representative LeBrun and
Representative O’Brien.
Happy Veteran’s Day! | will not be able to make the parade but | thank all of the Veteran’s for their service.
President McCarthy
| would also like to echo the sentiments in thanking the City Clerk’s office. Our election’s always run like a
“finely tuned Switch watch” rather than a typical American election.
| would express my condolences to the families of Fred Britton and Angie Kopka.
Lastly | wanted to talk about some changes in the Aldermanic office. If you recall some time ago we met with
the delegation and in had some discussions on this Board there was a request that we figure out a way to be
