Board of Aldermen 09-10-2019 Page 32
President Wilshire
Thank you. Ok there is no one else to speak. Ohl’m sorry no one else had signed up. Please come up to
the mic, give your name and address for the record, please.
Peter Shaefer 15 E Street. | would like to commend the students for having done all of this, hopefully they
are not partying somewhere now. But they did a lot of good work, they went to other meetings as well and
gave presentations and talked about it. So they put a lot of effort into this and it’s a really great opportunity
for them to sort of learn how the sausage is made and hopefully it will fare well for them in future.
| wanted to point out as some of the arguments that were made, | thought a lot of arguments well there
were two types of arguments that were made here. One was sort of the emotional, compassionate
arguments and some were sort of irrational, this is the way it is kind of arguments. | think next time the
students go through this again when they do the report | think one of the things that they need to take a
look at is some of the rational arguments they made really think that parking at the end of the parking lot
near the tree is not a big deal. | think if that were to become an issue for students not going to the Library
you have a bigger problem than just parking, OK? | also think if they are not comfortable walking that far to
go to the Library, then | think we have another problem that’s bigger than just parking.
So | think the arguments that were made they can hone that a little bit more. | just wanted to sort of point
that out. The other thing is that the other argument that many of you have made is that other people can
also ask for free parking. | mean | am a Senior citizen, you know, can | ask for free parking now as well?
I’m not going to by the way, | like walking OK? But | just want to point that out. We've got that rule that
says you know “Age before beauty”. Are we going to break that rule? So | really think that this was a great
opportunity for the students and | am glad that they won. | think they need a little bit more work next time, |
suspect. Thank you.
Committee announcements:
Alderman Lopez
Yes a meeting of the Substandard Living Conditions tomorrow at 7:00. Thursday | am sorry for some
reason | thought it was Wednesday.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Yes we have PEDC next Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.
Alderman Dowd
We have Budget next Monday.
President Wilshire
Anyone else? OK.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you, Madam President | would like to thank you for your reminder of decorum as with the debate,
you should have seen the meeting at Infrastructure where that very same subject was discussed. It did
take the equal debate a long time but it was very good. And | think that the students definitely benefit from
