Board of Aldermen 06-11-2019 Page 25
Ms. Ortolano Thank you | waited very patiently to get here and | appreciate you giving me the time.
President Wilshire
Thank you.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Jette
| want to congratulate Alderman Clemons and Alderman Gathright for having the courage to be the sole
nay votes on the two motions or two or three motions. I’ve been there and | recognize their courage in
doing so.
Alderman Lopez
So in reference to the Mayor’s comments about the Tree Street Block Party it is this Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
We have closed off Ash Street between Central Street and West Hollis. We have a Reggae Band, Mighty
Mystic who will be there. We have a barbeque that is being hosted by Revive and Riverside Barbeque.
We have a number of non-profit organizations that are doing like carnival games for kids. We have
Touch-A-Truck so it is going to be a great event. It is free for the community. Tickets are available for the
reggae concert if you want to check out the event on Face book. It is really an even to kind of celebrate
the diversity and community aspects of the Tree Streets that are unique to the Tree Streets so part of that
is welcoming so you are all welcome to come and attend.
Additionally, Monday night during | guess the Assessor’s Training, there is also a Ward 4 Town Hall, so |
will be attending that instead of the Assessor’s Presentation.
Alderman Klee
Yes I'd like to make two comments. One is the Ordinance O-19-047, | am really hopeful for this,
“Establishing an Animal & Dog Park Advisory Committee” and | am hoping that they go a little further
based on who they are going to have on their committee. | am hoping to add one more to it, | think a
School Board or School Department person should be on that committee too. But in keeping with this, |
think it is time we had a free dog park as well as a place where people can let their dogs go off-leash. We
have issues in Mine Falls and we have issues in Greeley Park. So | think it’s really, really important that
we do that. And the other thing is that I’d like to thank and | feel because | don’t have all the names of
those people who stepped up to play crossing guards because they are not trained, so they weren’t
crossing guards, but crossing walkers where we would walk the students from one side of the street to the
other side of the street. For those people on Manchester Street when | got half-way across and continued
to go, I’m not happy. | think in all our school districts, we need to be very consciences that it is a 20 mile
per hour zone and that we should drive accordingly. In order to get a sign up that would say what your
speed is, we are looking at $10,000.00. We can’t afford to put those in every single school zone; | think
we as adults and anybody who is driving should be more responsible and so on. | think the majority of
people are; but just a reminder. Thank you.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you Madam President. | would like to thank the Mayor for coming up with, hard to describe it but
practical budget. | Know it was tough for you and | would really like to complement the people that we have
working for the City; Division Directors who listened to you, that worked with sharpened pencils and
scrunched the numbers and came up with something that | think all the citizens can live with. And I'd like
to give a vote of thanks myself personally, I’m sure other members on the Board, to the men and women
