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don't listen to them. | must say to that comment as |, and Laurie Ortolano, and many others have said that the Board of
Health does not offer public input. If our Board of Health doesn't listen to our residents and stakeholders, why do we even
have a Board of Health? Thank you.
Justin Rosenberg
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Alderman O’Brien
Time.
Sara Dobbins
Thank you. Sorry. | wish | could say more.
President Wilshire
Anyone else in the chamber that wants to give comment? I’m going to go to the people on Zoom.
Beth Scaer
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you’re the only one in here. You don't have to put it on. | don't feel like I’m breaking any big rules and | was literally the only
one in there. | went to another business, small one, the owner doesn’t wear a mask at all. He said you don’t have to wear a
mask. | don't wear a mask.
Alderman O’Brien
Thirty seconds.
Laurie Ortolano
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As far as the Facebook comments that | made earlier, | was trying to do some due diligence in reaching out to the public.
I’ve listened to many meetings going back months regarding a lot of topics. It seems like there’s always been mention of
sentiment on Facebook one group or the other, polls, public opinion surveys. | would find it interesting if this was the topic
that we were supposed to discount the opinion of people on social media where we give weight to that voice on other
topics.
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Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel
The cited section is in your code — your big black book if you will which basically says that the penalty for violation of any
ordinance where no other penalty is specified is a maximum fine of $1,000. So the amendment would basically eliminate
that from having any applicability to the ordinance under consideration.
President Wilshire
Further discussion on the amendment?
Alderman Lopez
Can | request it by roll call?
President Wilshire
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business — well it stipulated that businesses were required to have face masks on all customers, clients, patrons,
whatever. The new mandate that we've recently enforce to emergency 1, it requires businesses to post a sign but it
requires the individuals to be wearing masks. Am | accurate identifying the distinction?
Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel
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Alderman Klee
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Alderman Timmons
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with it in the family and they were all tested. The big concern was one of my daughters has a 3 year old and a 1 year old
that were exposed. That really concerned the heck out of me because they’re susceptible and for them to get sick, and
go in the hospital, and god knows what can happen. That scared the heck out of me.
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written and the sound you hear is the person erasing what was just said the last week before. Again, it’s changing. Any
questions you might have? Thank you for consideration. Again if you want to hear from the staff, please.
Alderman Klee
Thank you Madam Chair and this question may be for Corporation Counsel. I’ve gotten a lot of phone calls relative to the
previous mandate and this is basically just an extension of it. Defining businesses and so on and did that also include
