Special Board of Aldermen 07-01-2021 Page 20
President Wilshire
You’re welcome. Anyone else? The motion is to restore the $241,338.00 bottom line cut — no to eliminate
that. Seeing no further discussion, would the Clerk please call the roll?
Alderman Klee
So this is not give them the $241?
City Clerk Lovering
The motion by Alderman Jette was to subtract $241,338.00 from the golden rod copy by reducing
Department 150 — Police 90120 bottom line by that amount - $241,338.00.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Jette 1
Nay: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Dowd,
Alderman Caron, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Cleaver,
Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire
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MOTION FAILED
President Wilshire
Do | have another motion? Alderman Jette?
Alderman Jette
| am sorry to waste everyone’s time but | would like to make a similar motion to eliminate $418,771.00 from
the Fire Department’s bottom line — Account Number 90120.
MOTION BY ALDERMEN JETTE TO REDUCE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT’S BOTTOM LINE BY
ELIMINATING $418,771.00 BY ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
President Wilshire
You’ve heard the motion? Alderman Dowd?
Alderman Dowd
Yes, we are still keeping part of the Mayor’s cut of $80,000.00. What we are keeping in the firemen’s
budget is the ability to keep an entire company of firemen on line. And it is not as simple as that amount of
money would pay for 16 people, it is not the way it is set up. Also it is allowing for a half-time, starting in
January for a safety officer in the Marshall’s Office which will be doing the twice a year, required State
inspections of schools that hasn’t been done. And from the discussions we have had in this construction
project, they are finding a lot of things that should be found by this Fire Marshall. We have 18 schools, that
is 36 different inspections plus this person is also going to be the person that manages capacity at different
places, you know? We don’t want to have some place burn down because nobody checked it and they
couldn’t have that many people in it.
