Special Board of Aldermen 08-24-2021 Page 6
I'm wrong, | see you're on line, but we’re going from roughly around 40 units to approximately 150. This will be such
a product that | think will greatly assist the citizens who find it difficulty and need assistance for substantial living
within our city. Thank you Madame President.
Alderman Lopez
Yeah | just want to remind my fellow aldermen and anybody in development where in looking in particularly how to
best help the city, we’re playing catchup. The Housing Authority did a lot of work to make this happen and a lot of
work to push this forward and as Alderman O’Brien pointed out, it doesn’t happen anywhere near often enough. This
is not going to solve problems in our city, or surrounding homelessness, or having stability housing equality. We're
still playing catch up in many, many ways inthe city. There’s a lot of people who are looking for housing at a decent
rate. There’s a lot of families that can’t find a sized apartment for what their needs are. The Housing Authority is
doing a tremendous amount of work to address that which is very encouraging and | think we need to continue
supporting these kinds of efforts.
President Wilshire
| agree with Alderman Lopez. | think we need to support them and they’re willing to put in the hard work and bring
this project to fruition. I'm very pleased about that. Thank you. Anyone else?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Cleaver,
Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 9
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-21-157 declared duly adopted.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS ORDINANCES
There being no objection, President Wilshire suspended the rules to allow for second readings of Ordinances
O-21-069 and O-21-170.
O-21-069
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
REMOVING THE ONE-HOUR PARKING TIME LIMIT ON SOUTH SIDE OF MYRTLE STREET
Given its second reading;
MOTION BY ALDERMAN LOPEZ FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF 0O-21-069
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you Madame President. Just to re-brief members of the committee. Myrtle Street runs in the area ofthe
Bronstein development that were currently discussed previously. So by doing this, this will allow for the shovels to
start getting into the ground so it’s part of the coming together of this project. So it goes hand in hand. Thank you
Madame President.
Alderman Klee
Just one quick question. If| remember the discussion, is this a permanent change is just a temporary change?
