Board of Aldermen Page 15
November 9, 2016
more involved with what legislation there is that will affect us and how can we try to influence that. As a
result, | had some conversations with the Mayor and we went out and looked at what it would cost to hire a
firm to do some of that work for us and the number, just to keep track of the bills and inform us of which ones
we might be interested in, without any lobbying efforts would have been $25,000 per year which we didn’t
think the budget would support. | went back and looked at some things. We have Derek Danielson in the
finance office who is working on tracking bills in general and looking at what effects the city and what | have
done in our office is asked Trish, who has done a tremendous job for us to expand her hours to about 34
hours per week to take on a lot more of the responsibilities of transcription and some of the day-to-day work
of the Board which will allow Sue some time to work with Derek in terms of looking at legislation that this
Board will be particularly interested in. | Know from looking at what comes out on an average term there are
a lot of things that will effect Tricia Piecuch’s operation but are not of tremendous policy interest to the Board
of Aldermen so we will be looking for things that effect land/use or municipal financing or tax policy or the
retirement system that will be of interest to this Board and I’ve asked Sue to take on when we look at those
and when there is a policy position from this Board that we would like to express we will send Sue up to read
some statements or talk at hearings of the committees and we will ask her to keep in touch with the
delegation and | think we will be setting up more opportunities for the Board to talk to the delegation about
what is going on at the state level.
Committee announcements:
Alderman Wilshire
Human Affairs Committee will meet Monday, November 14" at 7:00 p.m. here in the Aldermanic Chamber.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Planning and Economic Development Committee will meet on Tuesday, November 15" and we will have a
public hearing at 6:30 p.m. on O-16-020, Clarifying and Updating the Elderly Housing Supplemental Use
Regulation. At the last Planning and Economic Development Committee meeting a request was made for
Attorney Bolton to attend that meeting and he will be in attendance. The regular meeting will follow the
public hearing.
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE NOVEMBER 9, 2016, MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED
MOTION CARRIED
The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:35 p.m.
Attest: Patricia Piecuch, City Clerk
