Board of Aldermen 12-11-2018 Page 46
Alderman Laws
| just wanted to thank everyone who came here tonight and sat through this incredibly long meeting. It
means a lot to me and | am Sure it means a lot to everyone else on the Board. Thank you.
Alderman Klee
I'd like to give my condolences to the McGuire family, as the Mayor said her passing was quite a shock,
quite a shock. She was a lady, | used to call her a little spit ball of fire, tiny little thing, but no matter
how sick she was, she was always right there to bring soup to somebody else. You could count on her
to volunteer for anything. She was truly a great lady and | want to also share part of my voice is going.
| want to share something that Alderwoman Kelly had said to me earlier today and it is perfect for
tonight, sometimes we agree, sometimes we don’t, but we are going to get the job done. And | think
that really summed up tonight. | too would like to thank everybody who came, who spoke today, all of
you diehards who stayed through the night with us. Thank you.
Alderman Dowd
Happy Holidays everyone and | wanted to mention that the Joint Special School Building has selected
Harriman as our architect and Phase 1 is commencing along with Harvey Construction, who | had
mentioned before is our construction manager and we will be moving forward with the middle school
project. And also I’ve cancelled the Joint Special Meeting on the 20" because we don’t need and |
know everybody on the committee will enjoy that and we won’t be meeting again until January.
Alderman O’Brien
| too would like to give my condolences to the Vivian McGuire family, she was truly a strong advocate of
our democratic process, standing at the polls, doing all sorts of work and her work will be sorley missed
and she was a great person, so my condolences again to the family. Which also leads to the
condolences to City of Worcester, who again in the month of December, the most worth month with
family, suffered another tragedy with the untimely line duty death of fire fighter Roy. My best to my
fellow fire fighters down in Worcester and firefighter Roy’s family.
But on a happier note congratulations to all of those who got sworn in tonight, we really need you to do
some of this work and thank you for doing so.
| would remiss if | did not comment on the fine display that we received tonight in the choice of hat attire
by Alderman Caron, Alderman Kelly and Alderman Klee, it was very nice. | too wore my holiday tie
tonight and took the liberty to decorate my desk so may | wish to everybody Happy Holidays to all.
President Wilshire
| too would like to wish everyone Happy Holidays and we did have plans to go out after the meeting;
however, | think all the restaurants and bars have closed by now so maybe we can reschedule that for
the 26",
Committee announcements:
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
PEDC is scheduled for Tuesday the 18". Thank you.
