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| am going to try to talk to the Board of Health to have them do some kind of workshop meeting so it isn’t such
an austere like we are definitely going to close restaurants at 9:30. | know that at least one member of the
public as a restaurant owner had mentioned that she would be willing to work on coming up with some kind of
phasing plan and if a different time makes more sense then we could look at that. So assuming the worst,
because that’s how | roll and that we will continue to need to address this issue, we can use this time to better
plan it. So the restaurant industry should know that Christmas, New Years, these upcoming Holidays, they
will be able to do what they can with them safely and there isn’t going to be this looming over their head but
then also we can try to request productive input so that if it does need to be addressed again we are a little
more prepared and a little more organized.
So | plan to talk to the Board of Health about that and try to figure it out over the Holidays. So thank you
everybody for indulging me. To the gentleman who spoke earlier and said something to the effect that we all
get 3 minutes to speak and then this asshole can go on. | can’t believe what I’ve become, so thank you for
pointing that out. | used to sit in the exact situation in the Board of Alderman meeting so I'll try to brief but | do
have to be attentive to my responsibilities as a liaison and make sure | actually introduce legislation
effectively. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Anyone else? I’d just like to say that my vote tonight on the curfew was about fairness. | could
support enforcement but a curfew just doesn’t sit right with me. It seems punitive given the small number of
restaurants that are actually open between 9:30 and 1:00. | think it’s a handful, I’m not sure how many but it
just didn’t seem fair wnen maybe not enough effort has been put forth in the enforcement piece. So that’s why
| voted the way | did on that. I’d like to thank each and every one of you for you know helping me through this
year, it’s been a rough year for all of us, you Know, special meetings and all the last minute decisions we’ve
had to make. You've all been really, really terrific. So | want to thank you all and | want to wish you all Happy
Holidays and to all our constituents, and everyone in the City, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas.
Committee announcements:
President Wilshire
Oh Alderman Dowd, you had to ruin it.
Alderman Dowd
Well fortunately somebody scheduled a Budget Meeting on the 28"" at 7:00 p.m. so things that were
referred to Budget tonight will be appearing on that Agenda. So as far as | know looking at the Agenda list
that’s the last meeting of the year.
President Wilshire
OK any other Committee announcements?
