Board of Aldermen 10-12-2021 Page 6
Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws,
Alderman Cleaver, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 14
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MOTION CARRIED
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL
From: Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director
Re: Communication on Overnight Parking
President Wilshire
Okay, so Director Cummings is asking us how we want to proceed on the overnight street parking program
expansion. He's looking for us to give him some direction on that.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you, Madam President. I'll start this off. Many of us did go to the meetings and they did take an area that
was involved, particularly in the downtown. Is it complete? The answer is no. | mean, many people that have
extenuated (inaudible) my colleague Ward 3 and different other areas. It didn’t encompass all of Ward 3. It was
just basically an area. But let's look what the intention is to do. The attention is to give what happens let's say
within that geographical area of Cedar Street? What happens on Cedar Street can that be applied to Tolles
Street? And the answer possibly could be, you know, as far as like some of the parking and everything. So I'm
not against this. This would increase the area and | hope I’m focused on what | think of that, you know, talking
about what we heard in the Committee. But I'm not against this. The only thing is | just wonder if it would come
with an extra cost that Mr. Cummings mentioned that it would increase the scope of the company that is doing
this study.
President Wilshire
| don't recall that.
Alderwoman Lu
Could | just ask Alderman O'Brien to just clarify what it is that you you're saying needs to be increased in
scope? | wasn't clear on what you...
Alderman O’Brien
Well you had the opportunity — all Aldermen had the opportunity, particularly the downtown - the ones that are
affected by this. You had the opportunity. There was a meeting upstairs at the auditorium and if I'm correct,
that's what we were talking about here. What it is, it didn't go all the downtown wards. So it took a section of
the city. So increasing this will be looking at — there was questions by some of the home aldermen - there was
two meetings. The first one | attended was a stakeholders meeting and then there was a second meeting
Opening it up to the ward aldermen. It seems to favor somebody or Ward aldermen they wanted - well how
come you're not bringing in my whole complete ward?
The intention was just to have like a focus on this. Like | said, we are paying the contractor to come in to take a
look this. And again, I'm all in favor of expanding this. You know what | mean to look at it to get a good fair
understanding of it.
