A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Monday, October 25, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. in the aldermanic
chamber as well as via Zoom teleconference.
President Lori Wilshire presided; Deputy City Clerk Allison Waite recorded.
Prayer was offered by Deputy City Clerk Allison Waite; Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly led in the Pledge to
the Flag.
To join by Zoom — please refer to the agenda or the website for the meeting link and telephone number.
Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance. When each member states their presence, please indicate if
participating via Zoom state why you are not meeting in person and whether there is anyone in the room with you during
this meeting which is required under the Right-To-Know Law.
City Clerk Lovering called the roll and asked them to state the reason he or she could not attend, confirmed that they
could hear the proceedings, and stated who was present with him or her.
The roll call was taken with 12 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.,
Alderman Patricia Klee, Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly, Alderman Richard A. Dowd, Alderman June M. Caron,
Alderman Benjamin Clemons, Alderman Thomas Lopez (arrived at 7:04 p.m. via Zoom), Alderman David C. Tencza,
Alderwoman Elizabeth Lu, Alderman Ernest Jette, Alderman Brandon Michael Laws (via Zoom), Alderman Linda
Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire.
Alderman Jan Schmidt and Alderman Skip Cleaver were recorded absent.
Mayor James W. Donchess was also in attendance.
President Wilshire
As is customary, | will turn the public hearing over to Chairman of the Budget Review Committee Alderman Dowd.
Chairman Dowd
Yes, tonight we’re going to have a public hearing on R-21-177 Relative to the Supplemental Appropriation of $250,000
of FY2021 Assigned Fund Balance into Fund #6500 “Property & Casualty Self Insurance Fund”. Mayor | believe you
wanted to open?
Mayor Donchess
Yes, thank you Mr. Chair. So as you see from the Resolution, we are proposing to transfer $250,000 from what is
called the “Assigned Fund Balance”. Now these are funds held in reserve for — and these are designated for
unanticipated liabilities. That’s what we have here. You're going to hear — and I’m going to introduce Ms. Kleiner and
Ms. Deshaies in a moment - but what we have are a group of serious worker’s comp. cases — serious injuries. No
question apparently that they are work related and as a result of this group of very significant cases, the risk pool
which was estimated at about $4 million this year according to the actuaries is a little short in order to pay all of these
claims. So that’s the proposal. | will introduce now Ms. Kleiner and Ms. Deshaies to give you more of the details.
Chairman Dowd
They do have a presentation which they will introduce in a moment and give an explanation of the actions that are
being taken and then if members of the Board of Aldermen have questions.
Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services Director
We just have three brief slides. The main purpose of these slides is to ensure you that our property and casualty fund
is in good shape. It is stable. We are not seeing claims that are out of the ordinary. We're just in a situation this year
where the expenses last year brought the fund low. Now with the incurred but not received claims which get booked
to the previous fiscal year, it has brought the funding to a deficit.
