Finance Committee — 03/16/2022 Page 5
Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services Director
Great question. So we actually looked at the condition of the space. The possible uses of the space. Looking at and
coming up with a value. We had to put fire protection in that space, so we were looking at recouping that as a City.
Actually that fire protection probably should have been installed when we did the rest of the building but like | said, this
space was so rough you really even couldn’t even walk in it. | think it was just overlooked at that point in time for doing.
So we’re looking at over the costs, can we get back that cost to us that we put out which was about $9,200 and can we
have some functioning use of the space since it cannot be used for anything else without real work and investment being
done.
Alderman Gouveia
Thank you.
Alderman Wilshire
Thank you. | toured that space and | don’t remember if it was last fall or a year ago but it was rough. It was really rough.
We had to walk, climb over things, and | can’t see using it for anything else other than storage. It’s that rough, but I’m
sure that your maintenance department did a great job cleaning it out. It sure did need it, so thank you for that. | think it’s
a good use of that space. It’s just a junk pile.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone else?
MOTION CARRIED
NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES - None
REGORD OF EXPENDITURES
MOTION BY ALDERMAN COMEAU THAT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS COMPLIED WITH THE CITY CHARTER
AND ORDINANCES PERTAINING TO THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE PERIOD FROM FEBRUARY 25,
2022 TO MARCH 10, 2022
Mayor Donchess
Any discussion or questions?
MOTION CARRIED
GENERAL DISCUSSION - None
PUBLIC COMMENT
Laurie Ortolano
Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. Just a couple of things. The riverfront project that you spoke about, and these are
questions which | know I’m not going to get answers to but maybe an Alderman later can answer me. Is this our first time
doing the maintenance work or the development down there? Does Department of Public Works carry any responsibilities
or any costs associated with doing the cleanup down there? I’m just curious about that.
Also, I'd like to talk about the scanning project that you approved. Maybe that was the last meeting. It didn’t seem to me
that we really got an indication on the timeframe it’s going to take to get the records up and you know it’s not clear to me
that as records have been returned and put on the DocuWare system digitally that any redacting has started at this point.
So I'd like to know what amount of redacting work has started. | don’t mean just in the last month. I’m talking the last
year if we’ve done any of that. How many people are you going to hire to do this redacting work so we can get through it?
| said before | don’t agree with redactions that take off the address of the prior owner because that’s information on the
deed and | recently got cards that had redactions on them on the property record card itself, which is very unusual unless
a note is added that there would be anything redactable there and it was the address. It just makes no sense to go and
do potentially 250,000 property record cards and redact that field. | would challenge that. | told the Legal office | would
