Board of Aldermen 11-27-2018 Page 5
Alderman Dowd
For the public could we cover what were the changes?
Alderman O’Brien
| don’t have the particular facts right in front of me.
President McCarthy
Alderman O’Brien, | can have the attorney describe it if you prefer.
Alderman O’Brien
| Know it had to do with the changing to make it easier for the people in the office.
Stephen Bolton, Corporate Counsel
The amount of the exemption in each case has been rounded to the nearest thousand essentially so it
didn’t come out a more difficult and less practical number when trying to explain. So everything ends in
an even thousand instead of 683 or whatever it would be.
Alderman Dowd
| ran into former Alderman Chasse at the Stroll and he wanted to ensure that we continue to what he
always proposed, explaining the changes to the public.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you Madam President, exactly what Corporate Counsel has said, in looking into this, what the
amendment was brought forward, because when you are dealing with some of the elderly and you are
dealing with numbers for $1,582.67, it was basically just rounded off like Corporate Counsel said, it
made it easy, did nothing with the original proposal, we are still going to hit the 12.5 and 12.5, itis a
tiered effect thing and we will come to the 25% which will help out our elderly. | think it is better all the
way around and it is easier for the public to understand it. Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-18-029 AS AMENDED
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Jette
| would just like to clarify that for the elderly exemption as the Mayor explained this is not for everybody,
for all of the elderly. Besides reaching the age requirements there are also income limitations as the
Mayor mentioned, the $50,000.00 per person or per married couple but also an asset limitation of
$150,000.00 excluding the home that is being subject to the property tax. So it is not all the elderly that
are going to be able to take advantage of this, it is restricted to people with those income limitations and
asset limitations.
Alderman O’Brien
To reaffirm what Alderman Jette has said, it appears that the numbers that were brought before the
committee is we are dealing with 600 residents. But keep in mind that these are 600 residents that
really are in need, like | say, people who are blind or elderly and do not meet the criteria and that
