attendance at meetings of the Full Board of Aldermen and the meetings of the standing
committees; that’s what you are paid for. All the work is really done in the Committee. Am |
correct? Of course | am correct. And then you bring it to the Board to vote on it, which is
assigned. And absence will be excused only if due to illness, which illness could cover
pregnancy because you don’t have to put down health, illness, and or death in the Alderman’s
family. Simple, it’s simple. Let’s not water it down and make it more complicated than it is. You
are being paid to be here. When | was on this Board | was raising 3 children; worked part-time,
ran a business with my husband because he worked all the time so | was basically raising them
by myself and | managed to be at every meeting here. Very rarely did | take any time off unless |
was sick. So if you want to be an elected official, you can still have children, you can still have a
pregnancy, you can still adopt, you can still have a baby and attend every meeting. You can
Skype, you can FaceTime or you can be on the phone. This piece of legislation was written
probably for somebody, you know, and if I’m correct | think she’s pregnant she just put her
name on the legislation which | think is a conflict now. Self-serving and the mere fact that it
should not be like this. These words on the original and the ones that were changed covers
everything, maybe you should just add in there ‘can be at the meeting by FaceTime, Skype and
/ or telephonically’ like on does at the Board of Education. So there’s no reason why you can’t
attend a meeting unless of illness and/or death in the family. Thank you very much.
