A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Patricia Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia Piecuch; Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza led in the Pledge to the
Flag.
The roll call was taken with 12 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Gidge and Alderwoman Kelly
were recorded absent.
His Honor, Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
PUBLIC HEARING
R-18-073, Amended
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY CHARTER RELATIVE TO FILLING
VACANCIES ON ELECTED BOARDS BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE REMAINING
MEMBERS OF THAT BOARD
President Wilshire
Our City Clerk will give us a preview of this.
Patricia Piecuch, City Clerk
Thank you Madam Chair. So Resolution 18-073 was introduced in the Board and was then sent to the
Committee on Personnel and Administration for the Committee to vote to see whether or not it was needed. It
did come back to the Board. What this is doing, this would be changing the Charter relative to Special
Elections so that it go back to where it was prior to 2005. What this did, there has been two Charter changes,
back in January 2006 it was changed the way we fill the vacancies and then back in November 8, 2011 it was
again changed, but unfortunately there was an housekeeping error where it wasn’t caught. So we did have to
send back the Resolution back to Committee to amend it to show that language.
So this Public Hearing is to move this forward, once this Public Hearing is voted on then the Board will vote at
the full meeting and then we will follow the proper procedures and send it to the correct agencies and then if
that all comes back, the Board will vote on it and it will go on to the ballot in the November 2019 election.
President Wilshire
Thank you very much. | am going to open the floor to testimony in favor of Resolution 18-073. If you would
like to speak on this Resolution, you come up to the mic, give your name and address for the record.
Testimony in favor.
Testimony in Favor
President Wilshire
Seeing none | will call for testimony in opposition.
