Special Board of Aldermen 11-17-2020 Page 3
Alderman Schmidt
| am present, | am alone in the room, and it is still unsafe together.
Alderman Laws
| am here, | can hear you and! am social distancing because of the pandemic.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
| am present, | can hear you, | am practicing social distancing and | am in the room alone.
President Wilshire
| am here, | am alone and | am social distancing.
Susan Lovering, City Clerk
You have 11 in attendance.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Also in attendance is Mayor Donchess, | see Director Marchant, anyone I’m missing? Dan
Donovan, that’s all | see right now. Ok tonight’s Public Hearing on Ordinance 20-034, Extending
Temporary Adjustments to Site Plans to allow for greater outdoor seating at restaurants. Is there someone
here to give us an overview of this? Director Marchant?
Sarah Marchant, Director of Community Development
Thank you, Alderman Wilshire. | will give just a quick overview. This was enacted as an emergency
measure back in June | think to complement some of the changes that the City was doing on public
property in downtown. This is very specific only to private property. Since this was enacted, we had over 15
private property restaurants take advantage of this program. They are very much are interested in
continuing, so we are asking for your approval to continue with this. There may be some that don’t have
outdoor seating over the winter but would like to be able to reopen as quickly as they can in the spring. Or
some are interested in attempting to continue to have outdoor dining during the winter months. So we want
to be able to accommodate those businesses that are trying really hard at this moment.
President Wilshire
Thank you very much. As is customary, | will turn this over to not the Chair, Alderman Tencza is not with
us this evening, but Alderman Laws as Vice Chair, | will turn over the Public Hearing.
Vice Chairman Laws
| said | was prepared for that but ... | am not sure the procedure here, | thought we were going to do the
public hearing. So | just call and see if there are any members of the public who would like to speak.
President Wilshire
Testimony in favor and testimony in opposition.
Vice Chairman Laws
Thank you, sorry.
