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SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN

MARCH 21, 2016
7:30 PM City Hall Auditorium

PRESIDENT BRIAN S. MCCARTHY CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER
PRAYER OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA D. PIECUCH
PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERMAN RICHARD A. DOWD
ROLL CALL

COMMUNICATIONS

From: Brian S. McCarthy, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting

PRESENTATIONS
Joint Presentation by Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce and One Greater Nashua

ADJOURNMENT

Board of Aldermen

City of Nashua
229 Main Street / P O Box 2019
Nashua, NH 03061-2019

(603) 589-3030 « FAX:(603) 589-3039

March 18, 2016

Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk
City of Nashua

229 Main Street

Nashua, NH 03061-2019

Dear Ms. Piecuch:

Please be advised | am hereby calling a Special Meeting of the Board of Aldermen for Monday,
March 21, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the City Hall Auditorium. The purpose of the meeting is for a
joint presentation by Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce and One Greater Nashua.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Aad Who

President, Board of Aldermen

cc: Mayor Jim Donchess
Steven A. Bolton, Esquire, Corporation Counsel

A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.

President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.

Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderman Sean M. McGuinness led in the Pledge to
the Flag.

The roll call was taken with 14 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Tom Lopez was not
in attendance but participated in the meeting via telecommunication.

Mayor James W. Donchess was also present; Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton joined the meeting
after being sworn into office.

President McCarthy acknowledged Alderman Lopez was participating by telephone and under the terms of
the state law that allows him to participate, Alderman Lopez stated he was in Honduras, that he was alone
and that he could hear the proceedings. President McCarthy acknowledged he could hear Alderman
Lopez and asked Vice President Wilshire to make a motion to accept procedural actions without objection.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE RULES BE SO FAR SUSPENDED AS TO ALLOW
FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF PROCEDURAL ACTIONS WITHOUT OBJECTION

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Deane, 15
Alderman Cookson, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Siegel, Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja,
Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty,
Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

Mayor Donchess

First on tonight's agenda are two appointments; one is Steve Bolton for the position of City Attorney.
Attorney Bolton has served as City Attorney before. In fact when | was Mayor the first time around he was
the City Attorney for a number of those years and he always did a really good job. He is an expert in
municipal law and a graduate of Dartmouth College and New England Law School. | am confident that he
will do a good job for the city and I’ve told him that one of his principle responsibilities is to respond to
inquiries and requests by the Board of Aldermen and to provide even-handed legal advice to us as a city
based upon the law of any question that comes so | would ask for your votes to confirm Steve Bolton as
the City Attorney.

The other appointment is Bobbie Bagley for the position of Director of Public Health and Community
Services. Bobbie is extremely qualified in the area of public health. She has a Master’s Degree in Public
Health in addition to a Bachelor's Degree. She’s pursuing a doctorate in public health policy from the
University of Illinois at Chicago; this is an on-line course. She has previously been a public health nurse for
the City of Nashua, she’s been the Director of the Public Health for the City of Nashua and she has most
recently been running the Master's in Nursing Program at Rivier College and of course has been a
professor there and has been teaching at Rivier for the last few years. She came on as an interim acting
capacity a couple of weeks ago and since that time she has been leading the Mayor’s Opioid Task Force

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and that’s one of the reasons that | appointed her because she highly qualified to help us respond to the
problem of heroin and substance abuse in the city. We held the second meeting of the task force earlier
this week and | think we have made a good start with her help in assembling people from industry and the
people that are involved with the problem; Harbor Homes, the hospitals and many other people in terms of
prevention, treatment and recovery. We are trying to develop objective criteria as to how to measure
whether we are improving our response and also fill gaps in service where we know they exist such as in
the area of recovery services for those who have been treated but need support for a couple of years after
their treatment program. | am going to ask that you also support Bobbi Bagley for the positon of Director of
Public Health and Community Services.

| also wanted to mention that our representatives on the House Public Works Committee, the Governor’s
10-year highway plan proposes a $4 million allocation for the completion of all of the work that is necessary
to prepare for a federal application to seek a rail subsidy in order to pursue the rail to Manchester. That’s
$3.2 million of federal money which is very specifically purposed to projects like this and $800,000 of toll
credits. Those toll credits are simply credits and not real state money so this particular step does not cost
the state any money, despite that there is some opposition in the legislature. So on that committee we
have Marty Jack from Ward 9 and Carl Siedel from Ward 1 and they both did an extremely good job of that
committee where they were able to defeat an amendment to remove the $4 million from the Governor’s 10-
year plan and it now goes on to the House floor and hopefully no changes will be made by the House but
that vote is expected to take place Wednesday or Thursday.

Burke Street; our project continues. Alderman Deane and the others that are helping to make
recommendations regarding that project have interviewed and made an initial selection regarding an
architect. This will come before us later on and | think they are now discussing and negotiating with the
architect in order to try to get the best deal we can in terms of the architectural services for that big project.

Another thing | wanted to mention regarding Burke Street is that there is this 50,000 square foot office
building there and that’s one of the main purposes for which we made the decision to buy the building.
Bobbi Bagley and the other department heads from the Public Health and Community Services made a
visit over there to see if they would be interested in the extra space. The plan has been that public works
would be relocated over there and take approximately % of the space and our public health people went
over to see what they thought of the space and they were very enthusiastic about it which surprised me
because | thought the distance from the downtown would be an issue. They have talked with the transit
people and there is a bus stop nearby and that can be adjusted a little bit to make it very possible for
people who want to use their services or need their services to go by bus. Anybody who is working with
welfare or with public health can get a free bus pass. This isn’t set in stone and it would come before you
but | thought it was interesting that after we have been searching for an alternative for that division for a
long time in terms of additional space that it at least might be possible that Burke Street would work out.

RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR - None

RECOGNITION PERIOD — None

READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen
meeting of February 23, 2016, accepted, placed on file and the reading suspended.

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COMMUNICATIONS

There being no objection, President McCarthy declared that all communications be read by title
only.

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Contract Award for 2016 Paving Program

MOTION BY ALDERMAN COOKSON TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT
TO BROX INDUSTRIES, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,627,902

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Deane, 15
Alderman Cookson, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Siegel, Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja,
Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty,
Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Contract Award for Biosolids Disposal

MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE MULTI-YEAR
CONTRACT TO CASELLA ORGANICS FOR A THREE-YEAR TOTAL AMOUNT OF $1,215,000

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Deane, 15
Alderman Cookson, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Siegel, Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja,
Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty,
Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
From: Brian S. McCarthy, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Resolution R-16-007, Relative to the Acceptance and Appropriation of $40,000
From the State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
into Public Health and Community Services Grant Activity “FY2016 and FY2017
Climate and Health Adaptation Plan (CHAP)”

There being no objection, President McCarthy accepted the communication and placed it on file

PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED
UPON THIS EVENING — None

PETITIONS — None

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NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS — None
REPORTS OF COMMITTEE
Committee on Infrastructure .........c. ccc ccccccecccecececececececececeravereverevereeeraees 02/24/16

There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the February 24, 2016
Committee on Infrastructure accepted and placed on file.

Human Affairs Committee Site Visits .....00.... ce cecceecceeceeeeeeeeeaeeeaeeeaes 02/29/16

There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the February 29, 2016
Human Affairs Committee Site Visits accepted and placed on file.

Planning & Economic Development Committee ............... eee 03/01/16

There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the March 1, 2016
Planning & Economic Development Committee accepted and placed on file.

Finance COMMIttee 2.0.0... ee ccecccecccececececeeeceeceeeeeseaeseaeeeaeseaereaeeeaeenaes 03/02/16

There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the March 2, 2016
Finance Committee accepted and placed on file.

There being no objection, President McCarthy suspended the rules as to allow for the oral report of the
Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee meeting held last evening regarding the appointment of Steven
A. Bolton to the Office of City Solicitor and the appointment of Bobbie Bagley to the Officer of Director of
Public Health

Alderman Clemons gave an oral report regarding the Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee
recommendation on the above-referenced Appointments by the Mayor.

Alderman Cookson

Is there no substance to the report?

President McCarthy

You have just heard it.

Alderman Cookson

That’s unfortunate; thank you, Mr. President.

There being no objection, President McCarthy accepted and placed on file the oral report as presented.

WRITTEN REPORTS FROM LIAISONS - None

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CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS

City Solicitor

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE TO CONFIRM BY VOICE VOTE THE APPOINTMENT OF STEVEN
A. BOLTON, 4 KYLE DRIVE, NASHUA, TO THE OFFICE OF CITY SOLICITOR FOR AN INDEFINITE
TERM AT THE PLEASURE OF THE MAYOR

ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Siegel

| did not discuss this at Personnel last night, that was enough of a zoo but my opinion on this is that |
appreciate Attorney Bolton’s skill as an attorney. My concern is that the job is more than just City Attorney,
it's also a manager of employees; in particular some valuable employees, Celia Leonard and Dory Clarke
who | know we all love. | also want to make sure that one of the things that distinguished Attorney Bennett,
and he’s not with us so | am not lobbying for his return or anything, was his ability to separate out; we
would go head to head pretty hard but that never really entered into anything else. There was always a
separation there and legislation got through. I’m just a little concerned that | wouldn’t see the same thing. |
am particularly concerned that as a manager of our employees of the legal department; | would just like to
believe that everything would be okay but my only experience is what | have seen in the public forum which
is this Chamber so that’s my concern. Again, | am not taking away from Attorney Bolton as an attorney,
he’s demonstrated that he is more than capable, that’s not the issue and that’s all | have to say.

Alderman McGuinness

| did not attend the meeting last night but | will say that | listened to some of the media on the website and
with respect to Alderman Schoneman’s question to Attorney Bolton, | thought his answers were well
thought out and | believe everything he says and | will endorse this nomination.

Alderman Schoneman

| was at the meeting last night and | asked the question and the answer was a good one. Nevertheless, |
am still thinking as we go around here for this vote what would be the best thing to do. | take
representation seriously and I’ve heard from a number of folks in Ward 3 who are not in favor of this
appointment. Nevertheless, | do also recognize that Mr. Bolton is qualified to do the work. It’s a difficult
question but | weigh constituent needs and feelings heavily but in spite of that | did respect his answer and
| respect him as an attorney.

Alderman LeBrun

To the Board, | have spoken to quite a few individuals that | keep in the highest regard about this
nomination. They are people who have been in city government in the past that know the attorney very
well and for that very reason, based on what they have told me about him, | will be voting for this
nomination.

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Cookson, 13
Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron, Alderman Schoneman,
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun,
Alderman Moriarty, Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez,
Alderman McCarthy

Nay: Alderman Deane, Alderman Siegel 2

MOTION CARRIED

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President McCarthy declared Steven A. Bolton duly appointed to the Office of City Solicitor for an indefinite
term at the pleasure of the Mayor.

Oath of Office administered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch.
Director of Public Health

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS TO CONFIRM BY VOICE VOTE THE APPOINTMENT OF BOBBIE
BAGLEY, 17 BUNKER HILL DRIVE, LONDONDERRY, TO THE OFFICE OF DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC
HEALTH FOR AN INDEFINITE TERM AT THE PLEASURE OF THE MAYOR

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Cookson, 14
Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron, Alderman Siegel,
Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman McGuinness,
Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty, Alderman O’Brien,
Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy

Nay: Alderman Deane 1

MOTION CARRIED

President McCarthy declared Bobbie Bagley duly appointed to the Office of Director of Public Health for an
indefinite term at the pleasure of the Mayor.

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS THAT THE RULES BE SO FAR SUSPENDED AS TO ALLOW
FOR A MOTION TO RECONSIDER R-16-007 BY A PERSON NOT ON THE PREVAILING SIDE

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Dowd, 8
Alderman Caron, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman O’Brien,
Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy

Nay: Alderman Deane, Alderman Cookson, Alderman Siegel,
Alderman Schoneman, Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun,
Alderman Moriarty 7
MOTION CARRIED
MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS TO RECONSIDER R-16-007
ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Deane

| would appreciate being called on when my hand goes up. At the last meeting you didn’t call upon me
until after the vote was taken.