Finance Committee - 12/02/2020 Page 39
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Yes.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you, Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Donchess
Alderman O’Brien.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you and thank you Alderman Klee for your birthday wishes, another day older and deeper in debt as the
song goes. But! would really like to thank Mr. Ibarra for filling in. We lost a very good guy in Nick Caggiano
and thank you for filling in and doing yeoman’s job of that and presenting the equipment to the Board. It’s hard
to replace a good guy, but hopefully we will do that soon. But thank you so much for doing that.
Mr. Ibarra
Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Alright, any other items of general discussion? Alderwoman Lu.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. | just wanted to mention that | was out today and | happened to see a couple of trucks
putting the Christmas decorations up on Main Street. And it just, | noticed one of the vehicles was parked on a
side street and it was running. | see this a lot and it always bothers me when people leave their cars running. |
just wonder if we have considered or if there was more sensitivity to not leaving vehicles running, if we could
get more miles out of our vehicles. My husband was looking at the hours on one of them, the ones that were
really, really low and now | realize that those were plows and they are bound to be, you know, you don’t get too
far per hour when you are driving one of those things. But you know, | think if our fleet was just thoughtful to
the idea of not leaving vehicles running, it would be good for the environment and it would also be good for our
finances.
Mayor Donchess
Mr. Ibarra?
Mr. Ibarra
| can comment to that.
Mayor Donchess
Yeah go ahead.
