← City Council · 2019-01-22 · City Council Regular Meeting
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▶ 6:15 Monica C. Medeiros: lucky to have it here and the theme is unity and community and I thought that's It's a great way for us to start off the year.
▶ 6:23 Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you, Alderman Medeiros. Are there any other reports under Rule 53?
▶ 6:32 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: Excuse me. We're moving on to the calendar. We have no items before us.
▶ 6:35 Speaker 1: Alderman Svirko.
▶ 6:37 Michael P. Zwirko: Thank you, Madam President. With a point of personal privilege here at this moment, I wanted to make a brief statement and then I'm hopeful that I can suspend the rules and my colleagues can join me that on
▶ 6:52 Michael P. Zwirko: November 1st of 2005, the UN General Assembly designated January 27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and is meant to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions other victims of Nazism. We stand, I request that we would stand together today to honor those who were murdered and remind each other what happens when we turn a blind eye to racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and persecution. With that being said, we don't meet again until after January 27th, So I'm using this meeting this evening to request that we suspend the rules so we may all gather around the rostrum and take a picture with this sign that says, We Remember. This is a We Remember campaign that happens every year around this time to mark the closing of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
▶ 7:39 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: We have a motion to suspend the rules. Second. Made by Alderman Zwirko, seconded by Alderman Mortimer. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? We're now under suspension of rules. If the alderman would come and join me.
▶ 7:50 Speaker 3: Thank you.
▶ 7:55 Peter D. Mortimer: Oh dang, dancing on a living room floor.
▶ 7:59 Speaker 6: Probably a job just over.