Board of Aldermen Page 7
February 14, 2017
O-17-034
Endorser: Alderman Ben Clemons
ADDING BADGER STREET TO THE OVERNIGHT ON-STREET PARKING PROGRAM
Given its first reading; assigned to the COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE by President McCarthy
O-17-035
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Mark S. Cookson
Alderman David Schoneman
Alderman Sean M. McGuinness
Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
ADOPTING THE ALL VETERANS’ TAX CREDIT
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President
McCarthy
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT- None
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Deane
I'd like to repeat one of the remarks made by our Mayor. With the storms we’ve been having, especially the
last one, our crews did an outstanding job in getting the roads cleared and the sidewalks done. It’s nice to see
the capability and manpower to do that. On another note, I’d like to send my condolences out to the families
and friends of Mike Zapenas, who passed away. He spent a lot of time up at Lincoln Park pulling his hair out.
| spent some time up there with him helping him with a number of his projects, as well as Mel Dutton. Mel
used to be an umpire when | was president over there for ten years. | wasn’t president for ten years, | was
there for ten years. Mel was part of the original six umpires that | had over there. There’s only one left. The
rest of them have all passed away. He’s a great guy, who spent a lot of time for the kids and the community
and so did Mike as well. Thank you.
Alderman Cookson
| would also like to express my condolences to the Zapenas family, as well as our own Alderman Lopez for the
loss that his family has experienced. To both families, my family’s thoughts and prayers go out to you. | would
also like to thank Alderman Schoneman for chairing the last Infrastructure Committee meeting in my absence.
And | would like to thank Alderman Moriarty for making a quorum. We appreciate that. I’m glad that we were
able to see our business continued to be conducted and those items that were debated at the last
Infrastructure meeting made it on to tonight’s agenda so nothing was held up. | wanted to express my
appreciation and thanks for the quorum that evening and continuing to conduct the business of the city. Thank
you.
Alderman Caron
|, too, would like to thank the mayor and the staff at DPV. We had a few issues that came up and we got
speedy responses and we really appreciate it considering the two back-to-back storms that took place. | also
want to express my condolences to the Zapenas family. | worked a lot with Mike, especially when we were
