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Michael Reinke
In Support of Performing Arts Center

Jamie Turbyne
Supporter of PAC

Michael A. Joseph
in Support of an Extension (PAC)

Gordon Jackson
Not in Favor of Performing Arts Center as Proposed

Laurie Ortolano
Request to Provide Documentation Showing Amount of Money Raised in Private Funds

Tom O'Loughlin
NO to Extend Deadline on Performing Arts Center

Ernest DuVarney
Movement of Responsibility for Parking Enforcement from the Police Department to the City of
Nashua

Ann Menulty
Don’t Spend Money on Peforming Arts Center

Priscilla Tempelman
Sidewalks

David Pinsonneault, Secretary, Board of Library Trustees
Request for Joint Convention

PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON
THIS EVENING

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Contract Award of 2020-2022 Cyclical Revaluation

Jim Donchess, Mayor
Contract Award with Conway Technology Group for Copier Purchase and Maintenance
Agreements and with US Bank for the Lease of this Equipment

PETITIONS

Petition for Street Renumbering — Almont Street

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

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Substandard Living Conditions Special Commilttee...................:006 02/13/2020
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12, CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-20-002

Endorsers:

Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman-ai-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza

RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $294,000 FROM THE COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY INTO CAPITAL PROJECT GRANT ACTIVITY “INVESTMENT
TAX CREDIT PROGRAM FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER”
e Joint Meeting - Planning and Economic Development Committee and Committee on Infrastructure
Recommend: Final Passage

R-20-003

Endorsers:

Mayer Jim Donchess

Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman June M. Caron

Alderman Thomas Lopez

Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright

AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF APPLICATIONS AND EXECUTION OF GRANT AGREEMENTS WITH
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR GRANTS UNDER THE URBAN MASS
TRANSPORTATION ACT OF 1964, AS AMENDED, FOR FISCAL YEARS 2027 AND 2022

«Human Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-20-006

Endorsers:

Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman June M. Caron

Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire

RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $290,000 FROM THE STATE OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE, DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “FY2020 OPIOID ABUSE
REDUCTION INITIATIVE (OARI) GRANT”

«Human Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-20-013
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Pairicia Klee
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $24,972.80 FROM THE STATE OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “PROJECT SAFE
NEIGHBORHOOD”
e Human Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-20-014
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O'Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $35,196 FROM THE STATE OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, EXOTIC SPECIES PROGRAM AND
AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF MATCHING FUNDS
«Human Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage

UNFINISHED BUSINESS ~ ORDINANCES
NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-20-016
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
AMENDING THE PURPOSE OF A FISCAL YEAR 2020 UNLIKE ESCROW FOR THE COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

R-20-017
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
RELATIVE TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF $50,000 TO FUND A FEASIBILITY STUDY
FOR THE FUTURE REUSE OF THE ELM STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL BUILDING

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

Q-20-008
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
Alderman Patricia Klee
CHANGING THE STARTING TIME OF THE OVERNIGHT PARKING TIME LIMIT RESTRICTION IN
CERTAIN LOCATIONS

0-20-009
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-ai-Large Ben Clemons
RELATIVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT
0-20-010
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
CLARIFYING THAT COIN DEALERS ARE NOT SECONDHAND DEALERS

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Committee announcements:

ADJOURNMENT

Joseph R. Olefirowicz
35 Newbury Street
Nashua, NH 03060

City of Nashua Board of Aldermen

City Hall

Nashua, NH 03060

(per e-mail)

Feb, 12, 2020

Dear Board of Aldermen,

My name is Joseph R. Olefirowicz. Perhaps the name is recognizable from recent comments on
Facebook regarding the PAC project, which have been further distributed in a recent Union
Leader article addressing concerns about the PAC and its concept.

lama Nashua resident since 2008, and since this relocation from Europe to Nashua: am the
Minister of Music of The First Church (UCC) of Nashua, Artistic Director of the First Music
Concert Series also in Nashua, and a freelance conductor and concert artist here and abroad,
working in the genres of Musical Theatre, Opera, Ballet, Symphonic, Classical, Pops, Choral and
Jazz music. As well, | ama trained theatrical lighting designer from four years of study at Ithaca
College in New York State (prior to VariLites and CAD becoming the norm), learning this
concurrently with my degree in Direction for the Musical Stage. — Essentially, a theatre kid at
heart. With now a career at the console and on the podium.

It is wonderful that Nashua wishes to enhance the Arts in the city and help boost support of
Downtown with a Performing Arts Center. However, as this project has now developed, and
unfortunately has been honed down from its original vision: what you have now on the docket,
for a heckuva lot of money, is NOT a PAC. It is a very expensive event center with theatrical
elements. However, it is no-where near capable of accommodating most of the traditional
“oerforming arts” ina larger scale already in the City: community organizations such as the
ActorSingers or professional organizations like Symphony New Hampshire, which is one of the
major professional Arts organizations crucial to Nashua’s (and New Hampshire’s) identity.

Yes, studies are quoted. Studies say we need a venue of Size X. There is a management
company already eager to book the new venue with performing acts ready to use the space.
But where js the vision here? Studies say one thing, but the Arts was never built on studies.
Does one believe Picasso took a poll to see if someone would like his work? No. He painted. —
Does an opera company not try to start up ina struggling market? No. Artists energize people,
get them behind something grand and not-before-known as a need, have a vision and plant the
seed. If we only build what we know, there can never be true growth. Dream. Build. And they
will come. For this amount of money: dream BIG!

The seed was planted here. Marvelously. ~ But then it sequestered itself in its planning from
even the most basic of contact to the Arts organizations in this community, of which First Music
is one (for instance) but wouldn’t necessarily have “use” for even a 700-seat venue, and relying
ona natural (not sound enhanced} acoustic. As far as | could tell, public comment periods were
not announced well at any point, and only recently has there been a deluge of opportunity for
public comment, but unfortunately (for me personally), always in a rehearsal period here or
time away abroad conducting.

| have had the fortune to work in, and also open- four to five newly-built and repurposed arts
venue properties in Germany, from a range of 600-1800 seats. One even having a significant
hotel and mail attached. - | have seen the process of a new design and worked first-hand on the
load-ins of several original companies of Broadway shows in Germany, including a complete
new-build of a theatre on Potsdamer Platz tn Berlin by architect Renzo Piano. Watching the
Nashua design and planning process proceed from a distance, | was greatly supportive, UNTIL
the Alec’s property location became the only option and started morphing the project into
something that fs far from a true Perorming Arts Center.

If the intention of the new build is to ONLY accommodate modern genres of performer: rock,
pop, some jazz, comedians, other small acts: by all means! But please don’t call this a PAC. In
only seeing the limited ground plans available to the public online, it is clear the lack of:

e Anorchestra pit
e Wing space in any direction (usually two areas to accommodate full sets moving on or offstage)
e Proper “tly” space to make complete curtains, drops and sets disappear into the air
e Dressing room space for chorus, ballet, or other larger ensembles
e A planned natural acoustic without sound enhancement (or flex planning if both are wished)
e Stage space to accommodate either existing organizations in their usual stage capacity

will NOT serve the community and professional organizations well in the long term! One is
beginning to reach the finish line towards the Marathon of building Court Street: the sequel. A
known space limited in its use, and completely unacceptable currently in its poor upkeep. (Bless
all the organizations that use it successfully! We need them and they need a home!)

In limited speaking with either Arts Commission or PAC Steering members, criticism is clearly
not wished and everyone simply quotes the “studies” — Well, if that is the “vision” — God help
the taxpayer and the residents of this city who have looming fiscal issues coming up in the next
years, without a current design that is NOT fully useful in its marketed intention, and seemingly
being pushed through just for the sake of saving face.

When ail this planning started, Elm St. Middle School was not yet to be closed. Placing the PAC
at Keefe Auditorium was not an option, but it really is possible now. If one does not consider
this: where do organizations like ActorSingers or Symphony NH have their future home base in
Nashua? They can’t, if Keefe disappears. And although the purpose of the PAC is to expand

smaller professional offerings to the city, at what cost to existing successful arts machines in
the city who cannot use such a venue fully at such an enormous cost?

Imagine sucha vision: a stunning new architectural glass enclosure flanking the current front
and entire left side (enclosing the entire pillared entrance but allowing for a modern foyer, coat
room and audience gathering space, new restrooms and a possible café?) — The opportunity to
reconfigure the Keefe Auditorium to both modern seating standards (reducing capacity) and
possible designing retractable walls to close the balcony, etc. for smaller arts events. (Or even
acoustically alter the space for when lesser reverb is wished) — The chance to build a proper
orchestra pit and expand wing and backstage space in an almost limitless fashion for a true
Performing Arts Mecca for the city. To serve revitalization downtown and also keep the
footprint of downtown from the Plaza to the top of Concord St? — Not simply down to City Hall
and “we’re done.” — This is vision. This is something to get excited about.

The initial excitement for a new PAC downtown began to wane in arts circles here, in my
opinion, when compromises were made to keep costs down. SPEND that extra $10 million and
build it right, once! — Look at your high schools. Both with mediocre performance auditoriums,
when clearly the newer school could have had a much more substantial performance space
which could have fulfilled such a need. But that point is long moot.

In the same way an 18-month extension was given to initial fundraising to plant the seed
money needed for this project, | personally implore the board to allow itself the extra time to
have the city explore Keefe as an option, now that this is suddenly on the table, and not make a
rash decision for a design at the ALEC site that will not serve the needs of a// performing arts for
the coming generations.

With the known fiscal crisis of city employee’s insurance, a new Middle School on the horizon
and those immense costs, an unknown fate of the Tannery property possibly needing taxpayer
assistance for clean-up, the public support of this “PAC” project is at a low in the community.
Many cannot tell you exactly why. But here on an artistic level, from a local resident working
ardently in many genres of the Performing Arts industry worldwide, perhaps, please... take a
step back to evaluate, but not kill the project. Make sure the right decision is made to support
the Arts properly for the long term. Something Nashua can be excited about. All of Nashua.

Without any offense to multiple people | know personally on a few of these Commissions:
please, guys — do the right thing for the project, and not just make sure there |S a project.

Respectfully submitted,
Joseph R. Olefirowicz
(electronic e-mail signature)
35 Newbury Street

Nashua, NH 03060

Disclaimer: the contents of this mail do NOT represent the opinion of The First Church of Nashua or the First Music Concert Series and are solely
the personal opinion of Joseph R. Olefirowicz.

Graham, Donna

From: Graham, Donna
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2020 8:02 AM
To: Ben Clemons; Board of Aldermen; Brandon Laws; Caron, June: Dowd, Richard;

Harriott-Gathright, Linda; Lopez, Thomas; O'Brien, Michael; Schmidt, Jan; Tencza,
David C.; Wilshire, Lori
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I am a puppeteer, artist, and performer and | am very much in favor of the city of nashua doing whatever
possible to finish the performing arts center and securing funds to make my dream and others a reality.

Teresa Moler
Blue String Marionettes
Nashua, NH. 03063

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To the Board of Alderman,

It has come to my attention that tonight there will be a meeting of the budget committee on extending or lifting
the deadline requirement for fundraising for the Performing Arts Center. I have enthusiastically supported the
Performing Arts Center Project since the idea first became public, and was one of the citizen majority who
voted to approve it. A performing arts center would not only be a cultural boon for the city, but would be a
source of revenue for the city and for local businesses.

Whenever Great American Downtown sponsors a cultural event, there is an influx of visitors from surrounding
communities, from paid events like “A Taste of Downtown” to free events like “New Muse.” It matters not if it
is in winter, like the “Holiday Stroll,” or more temperate seasons, like the “Roots Festival.” For practical
reasons, however, few events are held in colder seasons. The Performing Arts Center will be a venue to attract
local and not so local patrons in all seasons.

While Nashua is a town with many advantages, one thing we lack is a regionally recognized performing arts
center, which could attract both local performers and bigger names. My family personally travels to Boston,
Lowell, Worcester, Hampton Beach, Concord (NH), Littleton (MA), even Portchester, New York to attend
music concerts and cultural events. Even many smaller towns have public or private cultural centers like
Tupelo’s in Derry and Bull Run in Shirley, MA and The Monadnock Center in Peterborough. These venues
draw audience from local and distant areas, and shows are routinely sold out. ] was recently at a concert at
Tupelo’s and spoke to a woman from Beverly, MA, over an hour away when it’s not rush hour. Nashua is so
strategically placed; a performing arts center will surely be as successful. I, for one, will appreciate not having
to drive to The Capital Center for the Performing Arts. A Nashua Performing Arts Center will be a source of
pride, as well as revenue, for our community.

It is my understanding that the architectural plans have been drawn up, and a significant portion of the
necessary private funds for this project have been raised, including a recent $250,000 pledge from Bank of
America. Perhaps the artificial threshold that was created after the public vote has not been reached, but it is
within sight. Please do not let the Performing Arts Center - so far along in its planning, and supported by so
many people - crash and fail. Please vote to eliminate, or to at least extend, the deadline for fundraising. The
next phase of fundraising - from small donors in the public, has not yet even begun.

Sincerely,
Mary Theresa Freund
3 Masefield Road

Nashua