Board of Aldermen 08-13-2019 Page 30
Yea: Ald. O’Brien, Ald. Gidge, Ald. Dowd, Ald. Klee, Ald. Laws,
Ald. Lopez, Ald. Caron, Ald. Kelly, Ald. Jette, Ald. Melizzi-Golja,
Ald. Teneza, Ald. Schmidt, Ald. Clemons, Ald. Wilshire 14
Nay: 0
Alderman Klee
Yes I’d like to also mention about the Back to School, last year was the first year | went to it. And |
primarily went to it because | was an Alderman. | have no children, | have no children in the School
System. But! have to tell you, walking around it was excitement of all the kids gathering all the stuff and
putting it in their bags. It was just a pleasure to see. They were excited about going back to school, they
were excited about their little goody bags. | think also seeing all their friends and even some of the
teachers and so on, it was quite exciting. And | am glad we are going to have the immunizations and the
free lead screening, | think that’s a wonderful addition to this.
And then I'd like to kind of address some comments that were made and | hope | don’t embarrass Mrs.
Kleiner over there but Mrs. Kleiner | noticed that there 3 missing, employees here. Did you send out an
invitation and skip those three? Ok thank you, | just like to make sure that gets into the record. And the
comment about the EYB | believe that was addressed in the management audit. And | think that when they
came and talked to us they talked to us about there was some subjectivity to the EYB so | don’t think we’ve
been hiding anything or anything to that nature.
And | also just want to make one other comment, the City has not done a Full Measure & List since 1991:
while my house was done in 1991 and my house was done in 1995, mine has been out there a little bit
more. I’m done, thank you very much.
Alderman Dowd
Yeah some quick things. There was a Yard sale at Kessler Farms the other day and a woman came up to
me and wanted to know if | had any notebooks because she was trying to get things for her kids to go back
to school and | steered them to the Back to School event. She was ecstatic and | just want to thank
everybody involved because I’ve tried to be at every one every year. It is an amazing event and the kids
really love it.
Second thing is the bond process, correct me if I'm wrong, Corporation Counsel, but the $1.3 million has
now been approved and then go out and get bids. If it comes in over $1.3 million it has to go back through
the process, it needs a new public hearing through Budget and would have to go back through the Board
again. Also when a contract is arranged, it will have to go through Finance. So there are other checks and
balances on the $1.3 million.
Third thing is I’ve been getting a lot of questions on the Middle School Development. We are expecting the
Architect’s Report in September. I’m not going to put an exact date on it but in September, it got delayed a
little bit because vendors are very hard to get as far as some of the things that we had to do make sure that
the property is buildable and environmental aspects of Elm Street and other things. So it is still going on
and we will have some answers probably in September.
And the fourth thing | want to congratulate the Spartans Drum & Bugle Corp; they won the World
Championship. It is an organization that gives kids another outlet for their musical talents and gives them
something to do and get them off the street. That is what they established for many years ago and they do
a phenomenal job. That’s it.
