Board of Aldermen 06-26-2018 Page 15
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you Mr. President. | wanted to just remark about the Pride Parade, it is Saturday from 2:00 to
5:00 p.m. It will be starting at City Hall going down to Water Street and we will have a block party there
until 5:00. | want to make sure that | thank everyone who has made this happen, it has been a huge
labor of love. The Mayor’s Office has been involved, Kim Kleiner has been incredibly helpful, Patricia
Piecuch has been helping an incredible amount. We have been working with DPW and parking and it
has been everyone all hands on deck to make this happen. It is going to be fun but | kind of wish we
didn’t have to have it and | want to make sure we talk about, it is going to be a celebration but we also
are having this fora reason. By way of example, | read an article today that 50% of people who are
transgendered still don’t feel comfortable coming out at work. So that is one of the many of reasons
that we are having this. This is about including everyone and making everyone feels safe and
comfortable and proud of who they are.
That said, it is going to be fantastic. There are t-shirts and lots of rainbows and | am really looking
forward to having our City come out strong for that.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Thank you. | just would like to recognize Craig Adams and thank him for his service on the Fire
Commission and his service to this City and | know he will be missed on the Fire Commission. Thank
you.
Alderman Jette
| think | would like to respectively suggest that we try to come up with some other way of making these
wholesale amendments to proposed ordinances or resolutions other than these color-coded
amendments. A lot of us new people, when we came on the board, we were encouraged to use our
laptops to look at agendas and discouraged from requesting paper copies. But our laptops are not
color-coded. These goldenrod copies and blue copies etc. are not identified on our laptops and the
public has no idea what we are talking about.
| don’t Know what the solution is but | would encourage us to think about some other way of doing that
so that we all know what the amendments are. | remember before | became an Alderman watching
these meetings and hearing about goldenrod copies and back then thinking the same thing, what are
they talking about. | don’t know what the solution is but I’m sure that we have a lot of talent in this City
and someone can make a suggestion on how to continue to make it easy to do these large
amendments but also bear in mind that finding a better way of identifying them.
President McCarthy
| think we can actually get the intermediate text that has the changes in it with changes tracked posted
in such a way that you can find it on the website. That would be the easiest way to accomplish that.
Alderman Lopez
So | agree with Alderman Jette? And | think that slight thunder we all heard was everybody who has
ever been an Alderman agreeing because this seems to come up every year. You talk about the
goldenrod copy and you look around on the agenda and it is not golden. So it is confusing.
| also wanted to welcome everyone to the Pride Festival coming up, Pride Parade and thank Bobby the
young man who was also responsible for with Paul Shea raising the Rainbow Flag last year for being
one of the chief inspirations behind the planning for this.
