Finance Committee - 04/15/2020 Page 23
Mayor Donchess
Why don’t we get back to you on this? This is the first virtual Finance Committee Meeting and normally we were there to
sign this document, so we will have to figure out what needs to be done. With that, will the Clerk please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 7
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
GENERAL DISCUSSION - None
PUBLIC COMMENT - None
REMARKS BY THE ALDERMEN
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
| just want to say, thank you guys for being patient with me on my first go at this.
Mayor Donchess
Well you were very good. There were no problems, other than sometimes people were muted, they muted themselves
and forgot about it. Alright.
Alderwoman Lu
| had a quick question. Thank you very much Mayor Donchess. Do you see any, maybe this is kind of premature, | can
understand if it is not something that you want to speculate on, but are you seeing any savings in any of our Departments
due to this?
Mayor Donchess
Well | think the School, well first of all, the expenditures we know about those, a lot of money is being — you are talking
about the COVID-19 crisis, correct?
Alderwoman Lu
Yes and | know there are a lot of new expenses, | just wondered if there any savings as well.
Mayor Donchess
| think there are some in the School Department, for example, substitute teachers. We are probably on gasoline to some
degree. Probably saving on utilities to some degree as the building, you know, City Hall is really not fully operational. So
there’s electricity. We are probably saving on mileage reimbursements to the extent that we offer those to certain people
who make house calls and things like that. So | mean nothing huge. Many people, our First Responders, our Essential
Employees are all working, Fire, Police, Public Works, maybe even more than usual. That leaves pretty much City Hall.
Some people in City Hall are working 7 days a week. | mean they are working than usual not less and we have a daily
conference call 7 days a week on what is going on.
Then the other people are working remotely. So there may be some savings which we can document over time, but right
now it is hard to quantify at all.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you.
