Jung, 5th District Alderman Jennifer Levie and 2nd District Alderman Mollie Jones all voted in favor of moving the resolution to the Common Council, and 3rd District Alderman/Committee Chairman John Tate II said he supported it, too.

Twelfth District Alderman Henry Perez wasn’t a fan of the resolution and was the lone “nay” vote on Public Works and Services. Perez said he backed the proposal in principle, but was concerned about its “vague language.”

Money pressures

“We need to be responsible as a community and as a government,” Perez said. “We don’t have an economy in place to do this.”

There aren’t any specific spending requirements in the resolution, and Perez doesn’t want the city to make commitments it can’t keep.

“I’m afraid that we (the City Council) continue to make these resolutions that are going to cost us more money down the road, (and then) we won’t even have the money to cover the stuff we’re doing now,” Perez said. “I don’t think this is efficient and I don’t think we’re ready for this right now … not because I don’t like it, but because I think it obligates us to something economically we don’t have the resources for.”