Board of Aldermen 08-13-2019 Page 28
want to attend and our home-schoolers are also invited. Every one of them receives a little goody bag of
school supplies. | think we all feel as a Committee that 15 years of 2 high schools is certainly something to
celebrate.
| know some of us sitting around this table are going “Oh my gosh, how long have we been doing this”. So
| would like to invite all of you to stop in on Thursday, the event goes from 5:00 to 6:30. Typically people
are lining up around 3:00 in the afternoon, we have 37 agencies and programs in the City who will be
participating out on the lawn. The Health Department, | am so glad to see Director Bagley here, the Health
Department is going to be providing immunizations free of charge, but you need to have your record. So
put it out on social media. The nurses have been making that available to people so | hate to say it, but
don’t spend the co-pay to go get your child’s immunizations up-to-date, come see us. We will be doing free
lead screenings also. | hope you will join us and thank you to Mayor Donchess and all of the Mayors in the
past who have supported us by providing City services for this event. Thank you.
Alderman Jette
| just wanted to say that | voted for the Bond for the Full List & Measure because we have been hearing for
some time criticisms about the Assessing Department. But more importantly on this issue criticisms of the
data that we have. | voted for the Full List & Measure because | thought that was a step in the right
direction as far as getting a handle on our data and updating our data. It has been a long time since we’ve
done it and there are some cities and towns that do this on an ongoing basis. They do a fifth of their
homes every year to keep up-to-date on it. | know that the issue about whether or not people have to let the
Assessors in our not has come up but | think that there are other ways that these professional assessing
companies can verify the accuracy of the records. So that is why | voted for it. | think it is a step in the right
direction. Hopefully it will help us in the long run.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. | wanted to start off by thanking City Clerk Piecuch, we worked very closely with her on the
Pride Committee and she was indispensable among other things that she does with the City so you will be
missed and | know the State is gaining someone who is very competent and passionate and | appreciate all
your hard work. As anew Alderman Ms. Lovering has been indispensable to me and | hope that we
confirm her in her new role but | will definitely miss her. | wanted to quickly note about the assessing, the
Full Measure & List, | just wanted to just thank everyone for the additional information given what has
occurred in the last couple weeks and also thank the Assessing Department for being here in full strength
and really explaining what they wanted to see come out of that. Lots of thank you's.
| just wanted to thank the Board for their support of the solar program. | know it is something that | am
personally passionate about but also the Energy & Environment Committee is really looking forward to see
happen in our City. And the appointment of the new student members which we have been working on for
a bit | think is really going to help us as we continue to build towards addressing the climate crisis. Lastly |
wanted to thank Ben for being here, as he mentioned we did put together a group of students who were
eager and interested in doing something this Summer and | worked with the Mayor's office to meet with
them weekly and this was the project that they came up with. | had no input on it; this was a project that
they felt very strongly about. They’ve done a lot of research and they are looking forward to presenting to
the Infrastructure Committee which | believe will be next week. So if you guys are able to come, they are
really a passionate group of students and | think they’ve done a great job on it so | hope to get your support
on that. Thank you.
Alderman Caron
Ok thank you. A few things, on R-19-148 went over my head but | would hope that that $700,000.00 that
we utilize some of that for that East Hollis Street/Bridge Street area. They were supposed to provide
recreation for those neighbors and unfortunately it didn’t come to pass. Giving us the money is wonderful
but | think it is very important for that neighborhood to get some of that recreation programs that they asked
for. | know that we worked, because Mr. Schaefer and | sat on the Committee concerning the traffic pattern
