Board of Aldermen 06-26-2018 Page 5
But | am asking the Board to be conscious that we are moving this budget forward in a pretty austere
nature when there are needs and there were specific programs targeting vulnerable people that we
made certain decisions about while we have made other financial decisions in other departments and
in other areas; to just be conscious that if we have problems that start to present themselves, | think we
owe it to consider them and make tough decisions if necessary.
All that being said, again, Alderman McCarthy and Alderman Dowd were pretty clear that the
revaluation is a significant risk, they've been through this and they have seen it before. | agree with
their caution that we need to be very careful this year and | appreciate the budget that the Mayor has
prepared.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. | will be supporting the budget as well. | did bring up the same things that Mr. Roche
brought up and | think he brings some really valid points and | think that what Tom is talking about is
very important that we continue to look at as the year goes on. | hope that once we get those numbers
in we can look at things and see where we can help because | agree, we are definitely putting some of
the most marginalized students at a disadvantage. So, thank you.
Alderman Klee
Yes thank you. | too am going to support the budget as it is going forward. | recently had some town
hall meetings with some of my constituents and they are concerned about the taxes going up. That is
basically what convinced me. | had a number of people that told me if they go up too high they are
going to have to sell or they are going to have to leave.
That spoke volumes to me, although | do think in agreement with Alderwoman Kelly and Alderman
Lopez, | think we need to look forward to possibly having to maybe next year or even sometime this
year, look at some of the things we have done. Thank you.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
| too support the budget but | do have a concern just as Alderman Kelly’s and Alderman Lopez’s
concern is the same for me. But! do hope that once everything settles down and we look at where we
stand with taxes, that if there is anything available we will look at these two issues.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Gidge, Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Dowd, Alderman Klee, Alderman Laws, Alderman Lopez
Alderman Caron, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Jette, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Tencza, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman O’Brien, Alderman McCarthy 15
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-18-019 declared duly adopted as amended.
