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worth of capital projects. What Budget Chairman Dowd indicated is to put in, and we can discuss it, we
would be happy to discuss it, we are going to put in the $77 million and that includes and maybe | could
hand this out. So what we have, what you will be receiving is what | refer to as - what Budget Committee
Chairman Dowd indicated is typical grants for the City and typical grants for the School.
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Laurie Ortolano
| object to Attorney Bolton sitting in this chamber. There should be somebody else sitting in this chamber
representing the Legal office. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Anyone else — public comment?
Sherry Dutzy
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Laura Colquhoun
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that. If you take that into account that’s on the table on page 1 of my Memorandum — hopefully you all have
a copy — you'll see that it says 1.7 increase. For the Police, it’s 6.6 percent increase in the budget. For Fire
— the Fire people are here, the Police is here looking to get their raises...
Alderman O’Brien
30 second.
Fred Teeboom
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A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Thursday, July 1, 2021, at 7:55 p.m. in the
aldermanic chamber as well as via Zoom teleconference.
President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Susan Lovering recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Susan Lovering; Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright led in the Pledge to
the Flag.
To join by Zoom — please refer to the agenda or the website for the meeting link and telephone number.
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TESTIMONY IN FAVOR - None
TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION - None
Chairman Caron
Looking for testimony in opposition. Anyone within the chamber or on Zoom that would like to speak?
Okay. Looks like we have none.
Chairman Caron closed the public hearing on Resolution R-21-152 Proposing an Amendment to the City
Charter Relative to Adding Two Additional Members to the Board of Health at 7:28 p.m.
ADJOURNMENT
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Chairman Caron
Okay thank you Alderman Lopez.
So now we'll move on to testimony in favor of R-21-152 Relative to Adding Two Members to the Board of
Health. Is there anyone within the chamber who would like to speak in favor? Please come to the podium.
No one. Okay. Do we have anyone on Zoom who would like to speak in favor of adding two members to
the Board of Health? Please raise your hand. Okay | don’t see anyone so we'll move on.
TESTIMONY IN FAVOR - None
Chairman Caron
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Alderman Lopez
As a point of personal privilege, some comments were made about me directly and | would just direct the
public to | did, in fact, bring it up at the end of both the April meeting and the May meeting. It was not
included in the agenda and both meetings were ended without discussion. But no opposition to it was
voiced by anybody but the Chair.
Dr. Anthony Storace
Excuse me. I'd like to retort to that if the Chair...
Alderman Lopez
