Board of Aldermen 12-22-2020 Page 6
PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS
EVENING
President Wilshire
It looks like we have 109 people on our meeting tonight, not quite as many as last night. We did cover a lot
of the curfew issue last night so if anyone is going to speak on that, that spoke to us all last night, | would
hope you would keep your comments brief, because we did listen to everyone that was here last night. So |
am going to open the Public Comment Period, and | am going to ask that no one speak more than 3
minutes per our Ordinances. | don’t see anyone’s hand up. Robert, | need your name and address,
Robert?
Robert 92 Ledge.
President Wilshire
Name and address for the record please?
Robert 92 Ledge Street.
President Wilshire
What is your last name, Robert?
Robert
Can you hear me?
President Wilshire
Yes, we need your name and address for the record.
Robert Farinelli 92 Ledge Street.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Ok. We are ready for you.
Robert Farinelli Yeah, so | don’t if this was, | wasn’t really on the meeting last night so | don’t know if this
was said last night and | hope | am not reiterating too much. But basically | am not sure why the Board of
Aldermen wants to go through with passing a curfew. The virus doesn’t wake up at 9:30 and it doesn’t go
to sleep at 5:00 p.m. And basically it just transmits the same, no matter what time of day it is and | don't
understand why there is a need to ruin people’s lives over this. At a certain point, if you are a bar ora
business, and most of your business happens at those hours, then quite frankly it would better for you to
shut down permanently or until the curfew is rescinded and you can get your normal hours back, than stay
open because you’d lose more money being open rather than shutting down. And the economic damage of
this on top of all the other economic damage we had is probably going to be a lot worse, you know? People
get lonely get depression, contemplate suicide. So | just recommend the Board vote against it.
President Wilshire
Thank you. | have Rich Lannan.
