Board of Aldermen Page 10
December 13, 2016
Alderman Clemons
| am not going to support that and the reason is that we live in a time when we should be respectful of other
peoples’ wishes as far as their gender identity goes and to me this is an attempt to put an identity on a
particular individual and | am not going to support it.
Alderman Moriarty
Roll call.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Deane, Alderman Cookson, Alderman Dowd, 12
Alderman Caron, Alderman Siegel, Alderman Schoneman,
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun,
Alderman Moriarty, Alderman O’Brien, Alderman McCarthy
Nay: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez 3
MOTION CARRIED
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-16-017 AS FURTHER
AMENDED
Alderman Cookson
| noticed that one of the changes which impacts the chairman of the Infrastructure Committee is that the
chairman of Infrastructure used to be vice Chair and is now just a...
President McCarthy
There was no vice chair and that’s one of the things that the ordinance addresses.
Alderman Cookson
So the chairman of the Budget Review Committee is now serving as vice chair of this committee.
President McCarthy
Correct.
Alderman Cookson
| am wondering what the difference is. Why Budget versus Infrastructure? What was your decision making
process in determining who was the vice chair of the committee?
President McCarthy
| didn’t put the amendment in, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja did.
Alderman Cookson
| thought these were your suggestions.
