Board of Aldermen 11-12-2019 Page 12
A viva voce roll call was taken for R-19-186 which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, 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 Clemons, Alderman Wilshire 15
Nay: 0
A viva voce roll call was taken for R-19-187 first reading assignment to Budget Review Board of Public
Works and a Public Hearing scheduled at 7:00 PM on December 27, 2019 which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, 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 Clemons, Alderman Wilshire 15
Nay: 0
A viva voce roll call was taken for R-19-191 accepting the first reading, assignment to the Budget Review
Committee, The Board of Education and Public Hearing at 7:00 PM on December 2"? 2019, which
resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, 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 Clemons, Alderman Wilshire 15
Nay: 0
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Laurie Ortolano Good evening, Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street, congratulations to those who got
through their races and are back in the Chamber. | want to thank the Board for bringing forth the Resolution
to look at funding a Chief for 2020. That makes me immensely happy and | am pleased that you are
considering doing that. | will come out to the Budget Meeting and listen up when that takes place.
| want to share a little bit of information with the Board. We know that the BTLA came down with a ruling at
the end of the month, the 29" or something that they are going to keep the docket open and ask for
quarterly reports from the Assessing Office to follow-up on what is going on with the List & Measure until
we complete the update in 2022. | am very happy with that and I’m glad that’s happening. That all came
about because of the Hearing on August 6" where | presented data in a report that was fairly
comprehensive with some members of the community. The City took the position to ask for a continuation
to counter the data that was given by members of the public. | had a chance a couple weeks ago to get
ahold of that rebuttal of sorts that Celia Leonard provided to the Board up at the BTLA.
| have to tell you | was pretty underwhelmed and pretty disappointed in it because it just showed me that
this Administration does not recognize any of its errors; does not recognize the things that the public has
been addressing — permit capture, timeliness of permit valuation. You know the document harped on the
fact that I’m not an Assessor, I’m not trained, I’m not certified, | can’t make judgements on proprieties.
What | want you all to Know is while that is true it is funny to me that when | brought my assessment issue
to KRT a year ago and had the chance to go through a Hearing and | brought comparable properties in my
neighborhood that | used as examples, the City then told KRT, “Oh go down that street again and take a
look at these properties that she’s called out. | think there’s some problems”. They didn’t tell me they were
doing it, they didn’t tell my neighbors they were doing it.
