Finance Committee - 9/5/2018 Page 14
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you Mr. Mayor. | will echo both what Alderman Caron and Alderman Laws said, I’ve been getting
similar sort of what is going on type of questions. | would like to rescind my motion to approve and just table it
until the 19" which is the day after we will get all the information from you.
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO TABLE THE CONTRACT
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Alright there is a motion to table. Any discussion on that?
Alderman Klee
| have a question if we table this and we don’t go forward with doing that, how far does that put us behind?
Mr. Cummings
Mr. Mayor if | may, if you table this a month to two months potentially, | mean so the whole point of this was to
try to keep the consultant retained so we could easily transition into the execution phase of the fundraising
effort. Right now we are just in the feasibility study, which is the report and the strategy and the
recommendations that will be coming. Then it will be the execution phase and ironically enough if you delay
this then you will actually be a self-fulfilling prophecy because it will just be that much longer before we actually
then start to raise the money.
Alderman Laws
Respectfully | appreciate Alderwoman Kelly’s proposition but as Alderman Caron pointed out the clock is
ticking and at this point | feel like in the interest in time we really need to approve this to get this ball rolling,
because | am more concerned about dragging this out any longer. And let’s be honest, if this doesn’t work out,
we are all going to be run out of town ayways. Let’s get this moving. Thank you.
Alderman Caron
Thank you. | understand Alderman Kelly’s concern and | agree this is part, it’s almost like the second half of
her job. So if you stop if for another month or so it really doesn’t help the situation so | agree with Alderman
Laws, we just need to just push it forward. But knowing that we are going to have a report in September and if
we are not seeing anything that we really think we are doing, then there always other avenues. But think you
don’t want to stop this. You are like driving the car to 500 miles and you stop at 250 and say let’s wait a month
or two. So | would ask you to approve this.
Alderman Klee
Thank you. | agree. | think we need to approve and not go with the tabling.
Mayor Donchess
Alright well the motion on the floor is to table. Any further discussion?
MOTION FAILED
