Board of Aldermen 09-10-2019 Page 33
it. | have no objection with the negative vote, it is part of the Legislative Process and | think the students
understand in their maturity. So | think it was good and it is all part of the democracy.
The second thing, if allowed, is I’d like to congratulate and admit a great loss that we are going to feel here
in the Board with Sue Lovering being appointed downstairs to the City Clerk’s Office. | think she has been
asset to this Board. And | wish Patricia Piecuch again best wishes in her new assignment and everything.
And | would like to congratulate the Kelly family on the addition of their new baby and recently Corporate
Counsel and Kathy Bolton had another baby. So | would like to announce tonight a new addition to the
O’Brien/Dionne Clan or the Dionne/O’Brien Clan of my granddaughter who came into the world at 12:45
this morning, kept us up late, so we were very happy with that. She’s a bundle of joy and | say that at this
time with much prejudice, she’s the cutest darn thing. So congratulations to them and to all the babies, may
they all have a long and health life and best wishes. Thank you.
Alderman Klee
Yes | too would like to congratulate Ms. Lovering on her new appointment and let Ms. Piecuch know that
we will miss you dearly but | am glad you will be up at the State House where we can bother you up that
way, you will not escape from us. | also would like to in all jest, but | was whether or not we needed to have
Ms. Lovering to do a roll call to make sure that she does know how to do it properly. Don’t worry I’m not
going to do it. But | also would like to congratulate all the new babies into this world, Alderman Kelly,
Alderman O’Brien and Mr. Bolton for a grandbaby. | knew it was not your baby, | saw the look on your face
like did somebody not tell me something.
| do have one question, the person who spoke about the even you are hosting, what time would that be?
Ms. St. Pierre It’s at 7:00, | have fliers but | didn’t know if | could leave them.
Alderman Klee
| think you can. OK 7:00 p.m. Thank you so much.
Alderman Lopez
So there’s a bunch of stuff coming up this weekend that | just wanted to make sure the Board was aware
of. There is a Water Walk which is recognizing the steps people have to take just to get clean water and
fresh water in other parts of the world; that is Saturday morning in Greeley Park. There is a Food
Dedication at Ash Street and across the street from the PAL Center and that is at noon. The Beauty
Beyond Borders Art Olympics is also happening at 12:30 to | believe 2. Beauty Beyond Borders is a non-
profit organization that focuses on positive self-image so | am going to be busy, like running around left and
right. Then on Sunday there’s also the multi-cultural festival at St. Patrick’s Gym on Main Street.
| also wanted to invite everybody, members of the Board, the public, on September 21*' there is the Out of
the Darkness Walk also leaving from Greeley. It is done out of sympathy and in concert with people who
have lost people to suicide and to raise awareness of that as a social issue. There is a lot of stigma
associated with it where agencies won’t necessarily release statistics because they don’t want to alarm the
public. Individuals won't necessarily identify exactly what happened, they will deal with the trauma alone
which is not good, we need to be together for stuff like that. So the Out of the Darkness Walk, if anybody is
willing to join my team from the Board, I’d like to give them a free local politician hat. If any member of the
public wants to join | have extra Tree Streets Block Party Shirts that they can have. So that is September
21°, coming up fast, it is a week from Saturday. So that’s all that | have.
