Minutes

Finance Committee - 07/01/2020 Page 19
Alderwoman Lu

So do you mean in this period that we are looking at here, we decided to just pay these out to 10 or 15 different
small businesses in the downtown?

Mayor Donchess

The Downtown Improvement Committee funds are not being used, | think they gave some of their money to
the COVID Impact Fund, but it went into the COVID-19 Impact Fund and would be distributed that way.

Alderwoman Lu

| am actually looking at Page 33 of the Record of Expenditures.

Mayor Donchess

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Alderwoman Lu
Sure, yeah, but aren’t they issued as checks?
Mr. Griffin

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Mayor Donchess

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Alderwoman Lu

Well OK.

Mayor Donchess

Because | agree with you, that they should be. Public Health Employees should be also included along with
our other First Responders who are receiving that stipend.

Alderwoman Lu

| think that’s shameful, but thank you.

Mayor Donchess
They should be included no question about it. Now why they are not, | haven’t gotten a clear explanation.

Alderwoman Lu

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A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 7

Nay: 0

MOTION TO TABLE CARRIED

Mayor Donchess

Now Alderwoman Lu, why don’t you go ahead and ask Director Bagley the question you were wanting to ask?
Alderwoman Lu

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Mayor Donchess
| think it has been $99,000.00 for a long time.

Alderwoman Lu

Yeah, ok. Well thank you, that’s all | wanted to know. | wondered so if was $99,000.00 before the chicken
came in?

Mayor Donchess
It was.
Alderwoman Lu

So | just wondered whether, we want to pay them at least the $99,000.00 so | wonder if this could just be
approved and amended but | don’t know what’s better. Thank you.

Mayor Donchess

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hard for them to manage. So | will have to find out if, in fact, we have seen a number of impoundments of
chickens and if, in fact, what the impact of that has been.

Alderman Klee

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Mayor Donchess

OK please just could you give the explanation then?

Director Bagley

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Alderwoman Kelly

| just had a question more from a standpoint of have you seen an increase in people requesting these? | know
Pest? are at home more now and are producing more trash and recycling potentially than they have in the
Mr. LaFleur

I’m sorry, are you saying lids or for more carts?

Alderwoman Kelly

Toters, yes.

Mr. LaFleur

Toters, yes. You know, | haven't really. People are following the guidelines of only filling it up so much and

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Mr. LaFleur

We buy them — it depends on the price, the fluctuation, it depends on the resin costs and everything. | can
probably purchase about 3,000 or 4,000 of these at that cost, not including lids. So | always keep 1,000 in
stock so that’s when it gets depleted, then | just resupply the stock.

Alderwoman Lu

Ok and do we replace people’s when they break at no cost?

Mr. LaFleur