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LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2020

ORDINANCE: 0-20-013

PURPOSE: Amending the Zoning Map by rezoning land off of Amherst
Street from Park Industrial (AJ) to Park Industrial with Mixed
Use Overlay District (PI/MU)

ENDORSERS: Alderman Richard A. Dowd
COMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENT:
FISCAL NOTE: None.
ANALYSIS

This ordinance changes the zoning from Park Industrial (PI) to Park Industrial with Mixed Use
Overlay District (PI/MU) for an area of land located on the southwest side of Amherst Street. A
map showing the location is attached.

State statute (RSA 675:2) and NRO Section 190-132 require a public hearing and referral to the
city planning board. The public hearing is conducted by the aldermanic planning and economic
development committee with notice published in a newspaper of general circulation and posted
in two public places at least ten calendar days prior to the date of the hearing. (Notice period
does not include the day notice is posted or the day of the public hearing. RSA 675:7,1) A
favorable vote of two-thirds of all the members of the board of aldermen present and voting
would be required if a protest petition is filed pursuant to RSA 675:5.

Approved as to form: Office of Corporation Counsel

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LEGEND: PROPOSED REZONING DESCRIPTION

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A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Monday, March 16, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Auditorium at City Hall, 3% floor.

President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Susan K. Lovering recorded.

Prayer was offered by City Clerk Susan K. Lovering; Alderman Patricia Klee led in the Pledge to the
Flag.

The roll call was taken with 13 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Laws and
Alderman Jette were recorded absent.

Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.

DISCUSSION
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
President Wilshire

| am going to turn this over to the Mayor for discussion on the Coronavirus, COVID-19. Mayor?

Mayor Donchess

Well thank you Madam President for calling this meeting tonight and thank you everybody for
attending. We all are going to talk to you about the City’s response as we have planned it for the
response to the Coronavirus outbreak, COVID-19. | am proposing that you pass a couple measures
tonight which | will detail in a minute. But first, | want to thank the group of people that work for the
City that have been formulating the City’s Plan for some weeks now and have led our response to the
COVID-19 virus. We, of course, have on the front lines is Director Bobbie Bagley of Public Health who
has been working with the hospitals and thinking through the issues, the health issues that we might
be facing over the coming weeks and months. She has done a great job, along with Director Justin
Kates of Emergency Management. He’s been thinking about what to do, in terms of exactly how to
respond and how the City should react for a number of weeks now from his position in Emergency
Management. The same with Director Kim Kleiner, who has been thinking through many of the issues
that we need to do with technology and personnel and many of the other issues that we are going to
need to face as we move forward with respect to the City’s response.

| want to thank them and all of the other people who have worked hard; the Police Department, the
Fire Department, the hospitals. Everybody has been involved in talking this through. Of course we
want to take this very seriously. We already have one case in Nashua which was discovered the end
of last week and was confirmed over the weekend. Director Bagley has been on top of this case. It is
someone who traveled internationally, came home, was back for a couple of days before reporting
symptoms; then was tested and diagnosed within a couple of days, then on Sunday received a
diagnosis. She has been investigating this case, talking with the family and trying to determine who
else might have been at risk or who else could have been exposed. But fortunately the person with
the virus did not travel much around the City. So you will hear more about that from Ms. Bagley.

Also, of course, we have seen what happened in China and Italy and you all heard on the media how
important it is that we try to extend the curve, meaning reduce the number of cases that come initially
during the spike, so that we can enable our health care system to treat the people who need treatment
and so that the healthcare system will not be overwhelmed by an influx of many, many cases at the
same time. You’ve seen what actions that have been taken at the State level, first in terms of ordering

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that the schools transition into remote learning and today that bars and restaurants only serve take-out
starting tomorrow.

Now specifically the steps that we are suggesting that we take, and you will hear more in detail from
the Directors, is that we want to limit access to City Hall beginning Wednesday the 18", and so it
would be closed to the public and only people working for the City would be involved here. Secondly,
then starting on Friday the 20", we propose that non-essential employees work remotely, that they not
come in, that they work remotely as directed by their supervisors. Essential employees would be
required to report to work and Justin Kates and others have been working over these weeks to define
which are the essential services and which are not. And that’s all in writing, but the obvious essential
services, of course, are the Public Safety, Police and Fire and also from Public Works, the Treatment
Plant employees, we’ve got to run the Waste Water System as well as certain members of the Street
Department who would be picking up the garbage and doing other tasks. Also people within City Hall
who are required to make payroll and pay everybody that are working and a few other functions which
Ms. Kleiner can discuss.

We are proposing that you pass, and | will show you specifically, a Policy that enables us to allow
people if they are sick to be out of work without using sick time so that there is no, to discourage
people from coming in when they are sick. That’s one of the ways that the virus gets spread; is people
feel they have to come to work when they are sick. Also if people, as a result of the School closing,
have childcare issues and they can’t come in, we are proposing that they be allowed to work remotely
or stay away without having to use vacation or sick time. Again, to help the City and the employees
get through this crisis.

Specifically the Policy that we are asking you to pass is attached to the Memo from me of March 16", it
is the second page and it is entitled, “Temporary Policy on Shutdowns and Emergency Leave”. We
are also asking you to pass, under suspension, a Resolution that would transfer funds. Ms. Kleiner
can discuss the need for more funds related to technology and the licenses that are needed for remote
work as well as the servers that are required to support many people working remotely. That is the
first element of Resolution R-20-024. That is $100,000.00. You did appropriate $50,000.00, but as
they are getting into this, this is going to cost more than $50,000.00. Secondly, United Way is trying to
put together an emergency fund for the non-profits and has asked a number of institutions for
$5,000.00, a relatively small fund, but still a fund together to support the non-profits while demands on
them are increasing. So this Resolution proposes that we honor the request of United Way and
contribute along with some other institutions to that emergency fund.

Finally, of course, we still face issues with our public schools. The Governor and the Educational
Commissioner announced Sunday that there are transitioning to remote learning. A lot of questions
about how that might work; a number of families do have the capability, computers and the like,
Internet to have the kids learn remotely. But many families do not. When the Commissioner was
asked, “Well how does that work for people who don’t have computers”; he said analog learning,
analog connection. And | thought, “Well what does that mean”. And when | asked the Superintendent
that question, that means paper. Analog means paper, not computers. So certainly there are some
issues that need to be worked through there if we possibly can do that. So we are going to be talking
with the School Department about how that might be accomplished.

Also, for the remote learning for young kids, really may not be realistic. How can a second grader
really learn over the Internet, reading and the like? A question that | haven't yet put to our City
Attorney, but | will, I’m not asking him to answer now, but simply to come back with some thoughts on
it later on. Is some of this an unfunded mandate which would require reimbursement under the State
Constitution by the State of New Hampshire?

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In any event, those are some of the issues, some of the things we have been dealing with. But rather
than talk further, | would first go to Director Bagley on the health front and then to Director Kates on the
Emergency Management and all of the organization that he has been involved and then to Director
Kleiner regarding the need for the funds and how this would be used to enable remote working. So
thank you Madam President.

President Wilshire
Thank you. Director Bagley.
Bobbie Bagley, Director of Health and Community Services

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you Board of Aldermen. We do face a serious health threat at this time
with the COVID-19 virus. The last time we did a presentation was on March 13" and at that time in the
United States the number of cases that we had were 1,629 and today which is the 16" there are 4,464
cases. So this is a virus that is spread very, very quickly and very easily. In the State of New
Hampshire on Friday we had 7 cases and today, on Monday we have 17. And so, again this is a virus
that spreads very, very quickly and very, very easily. It is a virus that also when certain population
groups, populations over the age of 60, our population of individuals that have underlying health
conditions are impacted tremendously by this disease.

Younger people and people who are fairly healthy, if they come into contact with this virus may have
mild symptoms and may not even know that they are carrying the COVID virus. The actions that we
are taking with social distance is very important. The actions that we are taking with individuals who
are sick and asking them to stay at home, it is very, very important. The action, as simple as it is, of
telling people to wash their hands, and cover their cough, and don’t touch your face and don’t touch

your mouth and don’t touch your eyes. These are all very, very important Public Health measures to
stop and to contain and to mitigate the spread of this virus.

What we are doing in Public Health right now is we are trying to push that message out as much as we
can through social media, through the radio, through newspaper, on our web site. As much as we can
get this information out, we are going to do that. We also want to make sure people are informed as
they can be with the changing and the ever-evolving changes that we are seeing with this virus. So
although it seems like, you know, we are hearing about this every day, every day, every day, we think
this is really important because we need people to take this seriously. We do an update once a week
on the numbers as the State puts out a daily update on what they are seeing and the changes that are
occurring across the State.

As the Mayor mentioned, we had our first case reported to us in Hillsborough County, a Nashua
resident on Sunday. | have been investigating that case. Usually with the COVID virus, the
expectation or the average of how many people will get infected when one person is affected is about
2.5. But that depends on your situation; if you are in a large crowd and someone is sick and they don’t
know it but they are coughing or they are sneezing and they are not covering that cough and they are
not covering that sneeze and they are in a large room, they are going to spread that infection to a large
number of people. So these measures may seem to be extreme, but they are very, very important.
Again, we don’t want to put at risk the most vulnerable populations in our community because from
what we have seen with what happened in China and what is happening across the world, in Italy and
Europe, the elderly population is impacted by this greatly. What we are seeing in the State of
Washington, with the number of individuals that have died there, the majority of them have been older
adults that have compromised or underlying health issues.

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We have to also think about individuals that have Diabetes, Heart Disease, Asthma, people that are on
Chemo, any kind of immune compromising disorder is going to put individuals that suffer from those
disorders at greatest risk. So we appeal to our community, we want people to be socially responsible.
We want individuals to think, not just about their protection, but the protection of others and take these
measures seriously and enact the preventative measures that we need to on a daily basis. | don’t
know if folks have any other questions about the case that was reported, of what information can be
shared? | will address those as confidentially as | can.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you. Director Bagley, from what | heard on the National News and everything, there was the
recommendation and is it still current that one — if they think they are infected or suffering symptoms,
the worst thing that they could do is actually show up at the ER where they could contaminate or
perhaps shut down the whole hospital for a short period of time. So would it not be best and should
we iterate that to the public, if they feel that they are contaminated, to contact their primary care
physician or another immediate care facility and go through the screening process before showing up
to the Emergency Room.

Director Bagley

Yes Aldermen, that is exactly what we need for people to do. If people are sick and they have
symptoms, they should not go to their doctor's office; they should not be in the emergency room. They
do need to call first so they can have a screening done over the telephone and that provider will give
them further directions on what may need to happen. And so that the hospitals can also be prepared if
they do come into the hospital.

Mayor Donchess

You might mention the public service line that you are attempting to set up.

Director Bagley

Yes at this time there’s a couple of things that we are looking to do over at the Health Department. The
Public Health Nurses have been trained to actually do the sample collection so that we can increase
testing and will offer testing from a mobile site. We are also looking to set up a phone line so that we
can take questions and answers from individuals in our community. The State has been overwhelmed
since the first case in New Hampshire that was diagnosed in January and as they continue to go up.
Those numbers, if you think about the number of cases that there are, there are hundreds of calls that
they get on a daily basis of individuals that are really concerned about their risk for this infection. So
we do plan to set up a call line or a call center so we can take questions and answers from individuals.

Alderwoman Kelly

Thank you. | wanted to ask about testing. | know Alderman O’Brien talked about specifically getting
screened first. But | want to know if we have more information on how many tests are available and
are we ruling it out or is it better that we just keep ourselves in quarantine.

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Director Bagley

So the State continues to get test kits from the CDC. | heard today that there were a number of tests
that came in. Last week we heard that there were 250 tests that the State has and so as they continue
to produce the reagents, we continue to get more and more tests. There is a very strict criteria still in
place for testing. If an individual can describe to their provider what their risk factors were, so for
instance travel: no longer just travel to China or travel to Europe, travel to any other place where we
are seeing the numbers are spreading in the community. So folks are asked that question. Folks are
also asked questions about their symptoms; and so if they’ve had a fever or if they have a cough, any
relation to having traveled or if they have been in direct contact with someone that has been
diagnosed as a positive person with COVID 19. If they meet that criteria they will be tested.

If individuals also are over 60 or if they have underlying health conditions and they’ve been in contact
with someone, they are also going to be tested. Right now we ordered 30 kits so we can do at least
30 tests. We plan to start doing those activities by Wednesday and the State will give us tests as we
have need of them.

Alderwoman Kelly

| Know there’s been, maybe I’m just confused, but | wanted to know if there is any cost. | know at some
point at the National level they said, “Absolutely not, we are going to make sure that’s taken care of”.
But | just don’t know where we are with that.

Director Bagley

So for the kits that we have received, the collection kits we have received those are free, those are
free. | do know that if people have health insurance and they go into their private practitioners’ offices
or if they go into the ED, their health insurance will be charged. | don’t believe that if a person is
required to get testing that those individuals will be turned away if they can’t afford to pay for it.

Alderman Klee

Thank you. We had learned up in the State House last week in our marathon meeting, that the
insurance, the head of the insurance department had contacted all insurance companies and said that
there would be no co-pays, no anything for those that are insured, so that they are completely
covered, but again, like you said, those that do not have insurance, | don’t know. But all private
insurance companies are going to pick up all ED costs, all hospitalization if any as well as all primary
care cost.

Alderman Cleaver

Director Bagley thank you. About a week ago, ten days ago you had proposed Ward Meetings that we
arranged, Ward Communication Meetings, and | was wondering if that was still in the plan?

Director Bagley

No we have actually sent out a message that all of the events that we had planned for our Community
Health Assessment, we had a lead conference that was planned; we’ve cancelled all of those events

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for the next 45 days. So you should be receiving an e-mail from me because we just sent that e-mail
out today. So those will all be postponed.

Alderman Tencza

You said if you have mild symptoms call, in your professional medical opinion, what are mild
symptoms? | think a lot of people, there’s so much information out there. I’ve read that up to, you
know, unless you have pneumonia; don’t call, if you are relatively healthy person otherwise and under
the age of 60. So at what point should people call or present to their doctor?

Director Bagley

So again if a person has traveled to places in our country where COVID-19 has spread in the
community, whether those symptoms are you know a slight fever or 100.4, headache, the case | am
investigating right now has very, very mild symptoms. Their case is travel-related and so because the
person had traveled and then presented with these symptoms, that’s why that person was screened.
The person feels pretty good right now, had a high fever for a couple of days, had some diarrhea but
right now that person feels fine. That person has to remain in isolation for the next 14 days no matter
how well they feel at this point, because they can still spread the infection in the community.

And so some symptoms are going to be very, very mild; in children they may have a little runny nose,
they may have a very slight fever, they may not have too many symptoms at all. But they can also
carry the virus that they’ve come in contact with it. And then there are others that will have very severe
outcomes as a result of this viral infection if they have any immunocompromising situation in their body
where their immune system is weakened.

President Wilshire

So a question about that, if a young person has it and has very mild symptoms that you wouldn’t
consider Coronavirus, but they can carry that virus and pass it on to someone else?

Director Bagley

Yes, they can.

President Wilshire

Oh good to know, thank you.

Alderman Schmidt

One of the issues that they are finding down in Massachusetts is it is actually moving through the
community these days. It isn’t about your travel anymore, it is about you running into somebody who
is just at the beginning of the symptoms, doesn’t know it yet and goes out into the community. | know
it’s really, really important for people to stay in their homes right now. What can you tell us about how
long it'll have to be confined?

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Director Bagley

So if we think about what we have seen with China, they had their first case in December and we are
now in March. 80% of the individuals who were infected with the Coronavirus in China have now
recovered. It is 2 % months and there are still some cases and so if we even look at some of that
data, the people or the numbers that we know about are those that actually had the opportunity to get
tested. So there are probably quite a few that were not tested either because they didn’t have access
to healthcare or they couldn’t afford to pay for it. And so for the numbers that we are seeing, there are
probably many others that we don’t know about. But we also see that in 2 % months there’s been an
80% recovery rate of those who were diagnosed. So | think as the Mayor described, the things that we
are doing with our mitigation is to try and flatten that curve. So for instance if we get a spike, there’s a
bell curve that looks like this and this is what you saw in China, you just say it just peak up like that,
you saw it just peak up in Italy. With the steps that we are trying to put in place, we want to flatten it
out so we want to spread a little bit longer over time, but we just cannot afford to have the kind of
surges that we’ve seen in some of these other countries, because we just don’t have the capacity with
our workforce, we won't have the capacity with our First Responders. We don’t have the capacity,
even right now, with our State being able to manage the volume of calls that they are getting. They
are at work until 12 and up until after midnight just taking calls and trying to go through the numbers of
investigations that they are doing. So we want to spread this out so that it remains manageable for us
here in Nashua and the Greater Nashua area.

Alderman Schmidt

And our hospitals are prepared for this?

Director Bagley

Our hospitals right now are prepared as they can be, we are not prepared for a surge. We won't have
enough ICU rooms if we need to have, you know, people in ICU especially in those most vulnerable
populations. We don’t have enough negative air pressure rooms and the emergency rooms are on the
floor, if we have a spike in this area, we just don’t have that.

Alderman Dowd

I’ve heard differing stories on when they think this is going to peak. At one point they thought it was

going to be in May but in the Globe, | guess they are epidemiologists, they say it is going to last well
through the summer. How does that impact a lot of things that we are doing right now? Are they
going to be in place for that long or do we not know?

Director Bagley

That’s an unknown. Unfortunately Alderman Dowd, that’s an unknown.

Mayor Donchess

One thing | didn’t mention is what we are proposing is that these policies remain in effect until at least
April 3“ which corresponds with the school closings or the remote learning ordered by the State of
New Hampshire and that we re-evaluate at that time. I'll let Ms. Bagley finish.

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Director Bagley

It is hard to predict, but again | think the measures that we are taking, | think it is going to be very
helpful for us in our area.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you, Madam President, just a point of order if | may. Just a reminder to the fellow Aldermen
that | think these microphones are basically, they have to be in front of you if you are off to the side
then the public may not hear you. | know there is 17 of us and very few microphones, so feel free to
share. | think it does go with some distancing so we should be alright so, thank you Madam President.

President Wilshire

Director Bagley, what is the incubation period? So if someone was say in Washington State during
February vacation, the last week of February, would that like it’s three weeks out. The incubation
period should be over by then?

Director Bagley

The incubation period is between up to 14 days and that’s why from the first on-set of symptoms we
are asking people to quarantine for 14 days if they’ve been in contact with someone that has the virus.

President Wilshire

Thank you.

Alderwoman Lu

Director Bagley can you just talk about where we will find the telephone number when you get that set
up?

Justin Kates, Emergency Management Director
The information line?

Alderwoman Lu

Will it be a number that’s currently ...

Director Kates

Yeah so, we will publish that within the next probably few days, once we get the set up. One of our