Special Bd. of Aldermen — 04/30/2019 Page 10
Alderman Clemons
Thank you for all 3 of you for coming this evening and kind of giving us an idea of what you’ve been working on
the last few months and what you are kind of day to day. | think it shows that you have a very busy office; you
have a lot to do. | truly appreciate you taking the time out of your evening to come here. It was never a question
in my mind as far as the — first off all the amount of work that you do and secondly the quality of work that you do.
| think it’s always been good. This just shows that and backs up what Ms. Kleiner said which is your time can
weather this storm and get through this.
And make this an even better office really than it already is. And | really want to say that I, in all of my time in City
Government, | don’t think I’ve ever seen a point when one area of City Government has been so, so many
resources and so much time has been put towards it. And | think for anyone to say that somehow we are not
doing enough in this area after tonight, | guess they just don’t see it, they just don’t see what’s in front of them.
Because to me, what this proves to me is that there was a problem, and we’ve addressed it and we are going to
continue to address it until it is completely solved. And so | don’t need any more evidence, | don’t. Just keep up
the good work.
President Wilshire
For the record, Alderman Dowd has joined us at 8:00.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Yes thank you. First of all thank you for coming this evening and for your presentation. | am not going to repeat
Alderman Clemons’ comments but | would agree with them. | think all of us know how hard you work down there
and we also know that there’s just a lot of paperwork. You are under the gun to make sure your numbers are
correct and it is very detail oriented and requires much of your focus and time and that you are committed to
making sure that it is being done correctly.
| also think that having this presentation this evening and having you here to maybe make what you do and
what’s gone on in those 38 days more public goes a long way to letting the residents of the city understand
where you are going and what you are looking forward to doing. And | think what’s happened in the past several
months has certainly made all of us a bit uncomfortable and wondered what is going on. But | think sometimes
when those things happen, and I’m saying this as someone who worked for a school district that was under a
federal audit for many years; when those things happens it makes you kind of stop and say “Well we’ve been
doing business as usual and we’ve always done what we thought was the best, but maybe it’s time to take a step
back and say wow, are there things we could differently? Not because what we are doing is necessarily bad or
incorrect or wrong but it will just make what we do a better quality product”.
And to Ms. Kleiner’s point, just more understandable to the public, because | think my frustration and not recently
but the things I’ve heard from people in terms of their frustrations has been “I can’t understand this and | feel like
a fool that | can’t understand my own assessment data”. So | think anything we can do to just make the public
feel more comfortable in accessing their own data and understanding it also goes a long way towards people
feeling like we are all just working together. So thank you again and thanks for all your efforts, not only currently
but in going forward to look at where things can be modified and adjusted to improve the quality of your hard
work and what your product is.
