Board of Aldermen 08-10-2021 Page 37
| also think we need to be careful about not just moving the problem away for immediate convenience but actually tackling
the problem because we have done things to change the way the rail trail is used in the past — taking out trees, putting in
community gardens, and that has been with the intent of positive space use and it’s also redistributed issues that we have
at the community that are more complex. So we need more conversation about this. | would love to see more aldermanic
support at the Continuum of Care meetings where these decisions and resources are being collectively discussed among
the nonprofits. | think it’s going to be very important that they get all of the support that they need because the weather is
going to be getting colder. We're going to be having those conversations about cold weather stations. We can’t make
assumptions about oh well they can go to the Library or whatever because we don’t know for those cases to be certain
that people will have access to those types of things. Unfortunately when | started that push last year to get a cold
weather warming center up and running, the person who precipitated it passed away because during the day there was
nowhere to stay. She got into drinking and there was a medication reaction which resulted in that. So this is happening
all around us. | think the police are potentially encountering an unfair amount of it. | don’t think that the Police
Commission was actually an appropriate venue because | misunderstood the nature of their role versus places like the
Board of Health. | do think that we need to sure up our resources in the nonprofits. We need to support community
efforts to address these public health issues because they’re impacting our citizens and they’re starting to characterize
neighborhoods which don’t’ deserve to be characterized that way.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you. | first wanted to ask about the vote on the Police Commission. Did we vote it down Madam Clerk if you could
just...?
Susan Lovering, City Clerk
The motion failed for final passage.
Alderwoman Lu
Okay the motion for final passage failed. And then did we then...
Susan Lovering, City Clerk
There was a subsequent motion by Alderwoman Kelly to table at the full board level. That carried.
Alderwoman Lu
Okay. | didn’t know we could do that. Okay.
So | just wanted to ask at one point in July | had asked that we can in anticipation of the like and unlike escrow vote that
we could get a couple of pieces of information. For instance, annual report on the TIFs included captured incremental
increases and assessments and the use of the related tax revenues. | never did hear back on that. | sent this to you
Mayor Donchess, and also to Director Cummings, and the rest of the Board, and also CFO Griffin. Do you think that this
is something that could be forthcoming in annual report on the TIFs?
Mayor Donchess
Well it probably exists. | mean it’s in the budget and all of the expenditures had to be approved by the Board but they at
least recommended by the TIF committee and approved by the Board of Aldermen. | mean these aren't expenditures that
are made without Board approval. | would say look to your records and your minutes.
Alderwoman Lu
Well | couldn't find it in the CAFR. You said it’s in the budget? Expenditures, well...
Mayor Donchess
| don’t know if the CAFR is a detailed document and we'd have to look to see what it includes regarding this. Any
expenditures made out of the TIF have to be approved by the Board of Aldermen. | mean there’s an advisory committee
which you asked about the membership of earlier. They don’t decide things. They recommend and the Board of
Aldermen has to approve. So if you want a report of what’s been done, | would suggest you look to the minutes, and the
Budget Committee, and the votes of the Board of Aldermen and you have taken because that’s where the records are. |
