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▶ 2:54 Speaker 1: Yes. Chairman Sinella? Yes. Seven yes. Councilor Migliorelli?

▶ 3:00 Leila Migliorelli: Yes, Chair. Yes, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to present a point of information related to Order 2020-89.

▶ 3:09 Leila Migliorelli: Before we start tonight's hearings, I want to provide the Council with an update on the information I requested from the Mayor's Office regarding additional context for our budget hearings. In an email dated May 22nd, I stated that to date, the budget hearings have focused on the deliberation of very small line items in an attempt to ensure the Council fulfills its fiduciary obligations. However, I think this line of questioning has been unproductive. First of all, any unexpended departmental line items will flow back to free cash, thus enabling the city to redeploy these resources, with the council's approval, of course, to the areas of greatest need. Second, the minor cuts will not protect the city if faced with a major revenue shortfall, and department heads are not in the best position to answer questions about the overall impact of a citywide revenue shortfall on their individual budgets. so while we certainly need to thoroughly examine the proposed departmental budgets i believe what this council and the residents of this city needs is a more comprehensive look at projected revenues and potential shortfalls as a result of the crisis and any onion and any anticipated impact on city services i understand that this is a complicated request and that the mayor did touch on this in his presentation to the council on the 14th however it's clear from the past week of budget hearings that there is an opportunity to provide greater context for this proposed budget so the update from my fellow counselors is that i've spoken with the mayor's office and we will be provided with additional information to help guide us through the remaining hearings i'm pleased with their cooperation and i'm hoping this additional context will allow for more productive conversations mr chairman before moving along i'd like to motion make a motion for my email to be attached to order 2020-89 second

▶ 4:45 Christopher Cinella: motion to attach your email um vice chair who seconded that raise your hand counselor stewart

▶ 4:55 Speaker 1: Vice Chair Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Eccles? Yes.

▶ 5:09 Christopher Cinella: Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Dermaladin? Yes. President Grigoraitis? Yes. Chairman Cinella? Yes. Levin, yes. To our guest speakers tonight, just uh to let you know as you present um councils will raise their hand which is to indicate to me that they'll have a question i put them in queue i just want to make you aware of that when they