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cap and | like to see that, however, the priorities that we are establishing in the budget | am a little dissatisfied
with. | listened to a speaker who spoke in public comment today about social security increases and 2.5% may
not seem like a lot and sometimes we refer to that as a stable tax rate but it is stable growth in a tax rate where
many folks don’t have stable increases over the same period of time. Services have been maintained in this
budget and that’s great. The increase went all to salaries primarily; raises that were given largely that were in
excess of the cap and | think the city and taxpayer pay a price for that. If we were to take a look at the trends
you will see that salaries are up and pensions are up. Benefits are down and | think that’s a step in the right
direction. | think benefits probably still exceed those in the private sector. We see the operational portion of
the budget relatively flat and that’s the part of the budget where people say services have not been increased.
Here we have a budget, salary, and pension increase, services flat and taxes up and | think that I'd like to see
us in the future strive to change some of those trends so that salaries and pensions match more of what
happens in the private sector and that for increased money, if there is increased tax revenue to be raised it
goes to increased operational costs.

Alderman Clemons

| too will not be supporting the budget this evening but | have a very different reason. I’ve heard the opinions
that unions and salaries are to blame for the fact that we can’t do more in our city but actually my opinion is
that Nashua stands in the middle of the pack as far as wages go for most city employees when you compare
us to other municipalities. In addition to that there are many other reasons why services have stayed flat or in
some cases have been cut and those reasons are cost of materials and the cost of outside contracting, for
example, the school bus contract, the costs associated with downshifting of state liabilities onto the
municipalities. These things have all cut into what we can spend because of the spending cap. | consider
myself to be more liberal than the average person but even still; | am a homeowner in Nashua and | pay taxes.
| don’t want to see my taxes go too high but what | also don’t want to see is for me to pay more in taxes and
get less in service and that’s what this budget does. | know that the Mayor worked very hard to get the budget
under the spending cap but in order to do that some services had to be cut and whether or not you look at
those services as being important or not, the reality is that they are being cut and there are things that we had
last year that we won't have this year. Yet, we are going to pay more in taxes than we did before. In fact, for
the last 10 years we have been cutting the amount of services and increasing the taxes. For those reasons |
cannot support a budget that | am going to pay more for and have less to show for it.

Alderman Siegel

To address some of Mrs. Johnson’s points, there was a lot of discussion about what we could or could not cut
and in fact, | would recommend to anybody if they want to see a very constructive conversation to look at the
previous Budget Review Committee meeting where we did the wrap-up session on the budget and there were
a lot of suggestions made and potential ideas were kicked around about what could or couldn’t be done and |
think there was a wide variety of viewpoints and it was a very interesting exchange of ideas. Unfortunately, we
were not able to come up with anything. From my perspective it is somewhat frustrating. In the past | have
been able to come up with certain things. Just FYI, one of the things we might look at in the future is the
stop/loss policy that we have. | have gotten some figures from Mr. Griffin on it. It’s a large insurance policy
that we are paying right now but there’s no reason to do anything with it right now because we've paid already
for the premium going forward and effectively we’ve got a free look for quite some time until we have to
actually take action on the renewal of that policy so there’s no particular reason to do anything and take it out
of the budget when the possibility may exist that we will actually use it above and beyond what it costs us.
That was specifically why | didn’t address that. As far as the notion of specific services which are cut, | would
challenge anyone to identify the significant amount of cuts of services because | know where the money came
out of. There was a significant amount of money saved in the bond debt, there was money saved in the
healthcare provisions and some different estimations on other costs. | think if anything we did a fairly decent
job balancing the need for accommodating the expenses of the city and finding some savings where they are.
It’s very difficult because we have certain costs which are not contractible. We can’t tell bond holders that we
are going to cut your payouts by 2%. Once you go through those things which are fundamentally inflexible you
are back to trying to make the hard decisions about what to do. With regard to the police contract, | voted in
favor of it reluctantly because the way the police supervisor’s contract was structured we really would have had

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no choice. We could have voted it down and gone to arbitration and have it spit right back at us with the same
net financially but with a very demotivated workforce. It would have been a net loose, although | am
sympathetic to the notion that in the future we should be very careful about negotiating contracts with “me too”
clauses. | think the Budget Review Committee did a very reasonable job reviewing everything and | would like
to thank the department heads who really stepped up to the plate. | think overall the city is run relatively
efficiently and where there may be possible savings that can be had | think they are outside the scope or the
control of the Board of Aldermen. | would recommend to my colleagues that unless you have a very specific
idea about how you would change the budget after all of those review periods and what you might do after the
careful consideration that we made, | would urge you to vote for the budget even if it is reluctantly.

Alderman Lopez

| rent an apartment and a lot of people in my Ward do as well and we are not at all immune to tax increases
because our rent goes up as well and | know that a lot of the people in my Ward that are on fixed incomes rely
heavily on quality city services being offered. We can’t allow the quality of our services to degrade because we
are not paying people competitively. | did attend the Budget Review Committee meetings and | did learn a lot
about how these decisions have to be made and weighted. | am in favor of the budget as it was presented. |
am always mindful of the situation that our residents are facing when on a fixed income and how our taxes
impact them.

Alderman LeBrun

| echo many of the statements made by Alderman Schoneman. | too am on social security and | have not
seen an increase in the past three years except for | believe a 1% the year before last. | also paid my tax bill
recently and | do not get the services that many people get. | pay for my services and | pay my taxes so other
people can get services. | will not vote for this budget. | had not voted for the past state budget nor have |
voted for the past county budget. Until we begin to reign in government and make government more workable
and smaller in size | cannot vote for any of these budgets.

Alderman Siegel

By “reigning in government,” do you have a suggestion by what that specifically means tangibly and what cuts
and changes you would make? | have paid my taxes and | am on well water and a septic system and all of my
children have graduated from the school system. So as far as services that cost everybody a lot of money, |
am not using many of them however, it is unfortunate that | have to pay the bill too and | feel the pain. It’s a lot
easier to say no without explanation than it is to say no but here’s what | would change.

Alderman Clemons

In response to Alderman Siegel | would eliminate the spending cap and bring in a real budget that we could
look at without regard to that and see what our real needs are. It could be that we would end up spending less
than we do now but more likely it would be a little bit more but | think it would be fair.

Alderman Siegel

| would say to Alderman Clemons that is beyond the scope and power of the Board of Aldermen and therefore
is not a viable option.

Alderman Schoneman

The issue | don’t think is trying to find services or things that we can cut. Services have stayed essentially flat;
they are no worse than they were last year. There is an increase in taxes and there is an increase in the
budget. The issue is where that increase seems to be going; it seems to be going towards salaries and
pensions. We can’t come in here and say we are going to cut the salaries because they are contracts that

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were previously approved. That doesn’t mean that those approvals were good. The priorities going forward
have to change and in the meantime, | can’t support it.

Alderman Clemons

| think repealing the spending cap is a viable option that this Board could consider. The only thing | wonder is
if it's going to take Nashua to become like Fitchburg or Brockton before we do it or are we going to do it ahead
of that.

Alderman Caron

| too watched the Budget Review Committee work on this and | don’t support everything but | think the Mayor
and the Budget Review Committee worked really hard for this and | will be supporting this budget.

Alderman Moriarty

When talking about services it might be helpful to compare the services the city provides versus the services
the state provides through Concord. It works out given the $11 billion biannual budget in Concord versus the
$260 million budget in Nashua. Per capita the state budget is about the same size as Nashua which means
that the $6,000 per year that | will pay in property tax for Nashua, | get a certain amount of something from the
city and equivalently through all of the business profit taxes and various other things that | will spend that will
end up in Concord, they spend an equal amount. It’s useful to recognize that in the City of Nashua’s budget,
about 80% of our budget is for city staff so in some sense the services that you get is exactly the number of
people working for the city within 80%. If you take bond debt it’s almost entirely....lf you want to answer the
question quantitatively, are services getting better or worse you just count the number of people that are
working for the city. The police department has not gone down, the fire department has not gone down and
the school; the teacher to student ratio has remained constant over the past few years. The services in
Nashua have remained consistent. In Concord their salary and state budget is less than half. Basically
Concord just gives out welfare checks, Medicare, Medicaid; none of which | use. | was surprised that Mayor
Donchess managed to get it in under the spending cap at all. | am a big fan of the spending cap because
without it the tax rate would out of control. VWe’ve had many opportunities to show fiscal prudence without a
spending cap looming over our heads and had everything to do with the salary contracts that we passed which
| voted against 90% of them. In summary on the one hand part of me wants to support the budget because it
did come in under the spending cap but what | want to warn everybody about is this insidious spending cap by-
pass that we keep getting. | think we are up to five now. One example was that CTE special revenue fund and
we have a lot of bonding. There are items that should have been in the budget that, in order to keep the
budget under the spending cap they are being squeezed out. Another one is R-16-045, establishing an
expendable trust fund for the state employer pension cost which is coming here, that already failed once and
now it’s coming back. That is a spending cap end around end around. | can vote against the budget by the
mere fact that there are all these other spending cap by-passes that are occurring as a result of poor planning
up to it.

Alderman Siegel

The CTE fund was funded totally from money outside of the taxpayers of the City of Nashua. As far as the
legislation that will be before us for first reading, it's funded at zero. It’s a container so it doesn’t by-pass
anything. It’s just sitting there waiting to be filled which is unlike the previous legislation where one could argue
and there was an argument that was a by-pass and it failed. It’s to create the vessel such that should we find
money that was available we can set it aside for the time next year when we are going to be staring at a $2
million bullet aimed at our head.

Alderman Clemons

I'd like to point out that while the police department , the fire department and the class sizes in the schools
remain level, the problems that these individuals have to face every day is increasing. We have a drug

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epidemic going on in this city right now and the police department and the fire department have to battle it
every day. It’s great that the Mayor got the increases that he did so we can keep those people on the streets
but it’s not good enough for the person who doesn’t get help because there wasn’t enough staff because the
demand was too high. The same stressors are at the schools. These problems have increased over the last
few years and instead of responding to them we have simply said well, wnat was good enough five years ago
is good enough now and to me that’s not true.

Alderman Lopez

With regard to Alderman Moriarty’s point regarding state services and city services being comparable, we had
an opportunity to see the state police and the Nashua police department in a joint exercise a few months ago
after a car chase and | was much more impressed with how Nashua conducted itself. | think that speaks to
why you need competitive personnel who are well trained. | know that Nashua Fire Rescue is very respected
in this region as a training center. They do their job while battling extraordinary circumstances; an out of
control heroin epidemic and other factors and | think they have done a great job managing. | don’t disagree
that maybe we could use more officers on the ground and fire stations but with the budget we have right now
we reflected the most immediate need is making sure that the ones that we have are very efficient. | continue
to support the budget.

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Deane, Alderman Dowd, 9
Alderman Caron, Alderman Siegel, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy

Nay: Alderman Clemons, Alderman Cookson, Alderman Schoneman, 6
Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty

MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-16-034 declared duly adopted.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-16-011
Endorsers: Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderman David Schoneman
Alderman Tom Lopez
ADOPTING PROVISIONS FOR REDUCED TAXATION FOR CERTAIN CHARTERED
PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES
e Tabled at Full Board Level — 5/10/16

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NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-16-044
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Sean M. McGuinness
Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
AMENDING R-15-188 TO ALLOW THE CLOSING FOR PURCHASE OF THE HYDROELECTRIC
FACILITY IN MINE FALLS PARK TO OCCUR ANYTIME BETWEEN DECEMBER 15, 2016 AND
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Given its first reading; assigned to the COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE by President McCarthy

R-16-045
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
ESTABLISHING AN EXPENDABLE TRUST FUND FOR STATE EMPLOYER PENSION COSTS
Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-16-046
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman June M. Caron
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF AN ADDITIONAL $39,862
FROM THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION INTO GRANT
ACTIVITY “TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES PROGRAM (TAP) GRANT” AND
TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF MATCHING FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $7,972.40
Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-16-047
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Siegel
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY TREASURER TO ISSUE BONDS NOT TO EXCEED
THE AMOUNT OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000) FOR VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS
AT THE SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT FOUR HILLS LANDFILL
Given its first reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD TO ACCEPT THE FIRST READING OF R-16-047 BY ROLL CALL,
ASSIGN IT TO THE BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE AND THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, AND THAT A
PUBLIC HEARING BE SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, JULY 25, 2016, AT 7:00 PM IN THE ALDERMANIC
CHAMBER

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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:

MOTION CARRIED

R-16-048
Endorser:

Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large David W. Deane
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Ken Siegel

Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman David Schoneman
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy

APPROVING A LOCATION OFF STADIUM DRIVE AS THE REPLACEMENT SITE FOR THE DAVID W.
DEANE SKATEBOARD PARK CURRENTLY LOCATED ON BRIDGE STREET
Given its first reading; assigned to the COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE and the BOARD OF PUBLIC
WORKS by President McCarthy

R-16-049
Endorser:

Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman Lori Wilshire

Alderman Benjamin M. Clemons
Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman June M. Caron

Alderman Tom Lopez

Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy

AUTHORIZING THE CITY TO ENTER INTO A TWINNING (SISTER CITY) AGREEMENT FOR THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATION WITH THE CITY OF MYSORE,
KARNATAKA STATE, INDIA

Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President

McCarthy

Alderman Lopez

Can it also be referred to the Cultural Connections Committee?

President McCarthy

That is a good suggestion, yes it can.

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NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-16-014
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien
Alderman Benjamin M. Clemons
Alderman Lori Wilshire
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Sean M. McGuinness
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman David Schoneman
ENABLING THE SAMPLING OF BEER OR WINE AT FARMERS’ MARKETS
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President
McCarthy

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

Mr. Jim Cutter, 86 Palm Street

Mr. Cutter read aloud a letter dated June 28, 2016, addressed to Alderman McCarthy and is attached to these
minutes.

Ms. Paula Johnson, 15 Westborn Drive

| have a question. | thought anything with new business had to come to the end of the meeting that we couldn’t
discuss it at the beginning of the meeting like earlier this evening. First of all, Alderman Clemons, it is the will of
the people that we have the spending cap and it was a teacher that changed it that made it a little bit worse now
so you would have a little bit more money if he didn’t change the dynamics of it and the City Clerk’s office was a
little bit more informed with the public on that spending cap. We are starting to have a revolution in this country;
they already had it in Britain because the will of the people is being stomped on.

| am here for R-16-048, the relocation of the David W. Deane Skateboard Park. How many people go and walk
in Mine Falls Park? Five, okay, | live by Stello’s Stadium and when | was on the Board | was against Stello’s
Stadium because of the noise. We were promised everything by Streeter and by the time Streeter left all of his
promises were broken. It has become very congested in the that area, we’ve got the Y, Conway Ice and | know
they want another sheet of ice and | hope we sell the street department over there to Conway at market value
and not for peanuts. Companies pay their fair share and it offsets our taxes and when they don’t pay their fair
share then we have to pick up the cost to maintain. So now we are going to put in the David W. Deane
Skateboard Park.

| am a nimby and | have spoken to a lot of the neighbors who are also concerned about this. We have a Board
of Public Works commissioner who lives in the neighborhood. If you look at the congestion over there now, we
have the high school, the police department, the buses; we have Stello’s in the fall and in the spring that’s very
active and we’ve got the Y.__| have some pictures of where everybody parks over there to go into Mine Falls
and now we are going to have people go skateboarding over there. | guess the question is how much can one
neighborhood take. They park around the oval and by the side of the salt barn. We have a dirt road that goes
into Mine Falls that we have to share with bicyclists and cars. We share it with people who are not accountable
for keeping their dogs on a leash and the DPW started to put up signs but they didn’t put up the ordinance with
the signs. These dogs are off leash and they can bite someone. Now we are going to cram in the skateboard
park. Because none of us are direct abutters we were never notified of what was going on. If | just didn’t
happen to ask anybody about this, which was Director Fauteux, | probably wouldn’t have known that the first
reading was tonight. Since | can’t make all of the meetings | figured | would voice my opinion about this. My
concern as well as a lot of the neighbors concern is with the neighborhood, who is going to come into the

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neighborhood and who is not. That are is so congested now. We don’t get police presence because | guess we
have such a drug crisis in the city which | understand; | wrote an op-ed on heroin addiction. We are asking the
city, state and the federal government to pay the doctors and the drug companies to really do it because they are
the ones writing the prescriptions and getting a lot of these people hooked on it. Everybody that signed on
because you think this is a great idea, think about the neighbors because | don’t see anybody coming forward to
say the skateboard park should be in their area.

I’ve been complaining about West Hollis Street for months. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out.
Just take a solid white line and make the whole thing a left turn right down to Ledgewood Hills and see if that
works. Don’t put up any more signs unless it’s all going to say left turn. Somebody is going to get killed there
and it’s going to be on the head of the city because the city has known about this and the former Mayor knew
about this and it’s only getting worse. It’s getting worse because people have no respect, they run the red
lights left and right in this city.

Alderman Siegel asked a very important question if the Renaissance was going to pay for this, $250,000 came
from the contingency and the rest from the cell tower, they are not paying for anything. Enough is enough
already and | hope notices will go through my entire neighborhood so everyone is aware of this, that this
meeting is coming up.

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Wilshire

| want to send my condolences to the family of Michael Boucher.
Alderman Cookson

| would like to thank the members of the Board and the Mayor for your expression of sympathy at the loss of
my mother. It was greatly appreciated.

Alderman Dowd

| would like to thank the Board for passing the budget this evening. It was a very difficult job for the Mayor to
put the budget together and I’d like to thank the Budget Review Committee for all of the work that they put in
on the budget. There were elements brought up of reasons why people didn’t vote for the budget and one
being salaries and that has to do with we want to have a liaison with the Boards that actually present the
contract to us and that should be arranged without actually interfering with a negotiation process. Also, the
pensions, the pension issue that we had with our budget here in Nashua is caused by the monies that are no
longer paid by the state, they passed it down to us and it’s severely impacting our budget and the next two
years it’s going to be even worse. The only way to solve that is to vote for people that represent us in Concord
that are going to vote to fix that and accept the responsibilities that they originally said they would take on
pensions. All of those things were beyond what we can do here with a budget committee vote so | thank
everyone who voted for the budget.

Alderman Schoneman

Regarding the budget and pensions, | have a counterpoint. The pensions are based on salaries and the
pension problem isn’t just the states not paying what they said they were going to. The pension problem
includes the fact that some of these pensions are pretty large and that’s now what the state is passing down to
us it’s just part of what we offer for compensation and | think that should be addressed.

Secondly on Saturday, July 9th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. over at the airport there is going to be an
experimental aviation event. | think it will be a great family event.

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Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

On July 23 the Millyard Nano Brewery which is on East Otterson Street is doing a fundraiser for the Dreams
Heard Foundation which is located in Nashua. If any of you have family members or children that have
hearing loss or deafness this organization provides funds and help locate services for children throughout the
year including camps.

Alderman McGuinness

| lost my father a week or so ago and | want to extend my thanks to all of you for your sympathy and the
flowers.

Alderman LeBrun

Some months ago | met with Alderman Deane and Ms. Marchant in reference to the skateboard park and |
expressed the same concerns that the previous public speaker expressed. This is not the place for another
facility. There are too many problems in that area and too much congestion.

Alderman Lopez

With respect to the skateboard park, | don’t Know enough about the site selection to start second guessing the
whole process but what | will say is that it did strike me as a surprise that we are moving it so far away from its
other site because | would have imagined that local neighbors would have probably been the main users of it.
| will also say that there is a skateboard park on West Hollis and Ash Streets that is very popular. | definitely
look forward to the discussion at the Infrastructure Committee meeting. | also wanted to announce that on July
4" the Riverside Bar-be-que and at Bicentennial Park there are two events going on to celebrate the 4" of July.
There are a lot of Veteran’s in our downtown area who can’t celebrate the 4" of July with a Bar-be-que
because they don’t have a backyard. All Veterans are welcome.

Committee announcements: None
ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE JUNE 28, 2016, MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Deane, 14
Alderman Cookson, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Siegel,
Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman McGuinness,
Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty, Alderman O’Brien,
Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 3:54 p.m.

Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk

PALM ST.

From: James B. and Mary E. Cutter
86 Palm St., P.O. Box 69-Nashua, NH 03061 Ph. 889-4246
Date: June 28, 2016
To: Alderman-At-Large Brian S. McCarthy, President
Ce: Jim Donchess, Mayor, Steve Bolton, Corporaion Counsel,
Thomas Lopez, Alderman, Ward 4.
Subject: 1949 Plat Plan error at 88 Palm Street.

Dear Alderman McCarthy,

At the last aldermanic meeting, I said we would like it very much
if the BOA helped us with the city error of approving the 88 Palm
St. bldg. permit that took part of our driveway/clothesline area.

But, it would be easier if Mayor Donchess helped because Sect. 45
of the City Charter has the Mayor ‘shall enforce the ordinances of
the city.'. Thus, we wish Mayor Donchess will enforce the 1949
plat plan ord. of 1971 at 88 Palm St. to 51' rather than 53.57'.

The Assessing Dept. changed the 88 Palm St. Tax Map to 53.57' in
1950 because they did not check the building permit against the
deed. It stayed that way in 1971 because it used the very same
paper when approving the 1950 building permit.

Leo Caron made mistakes to claim 53.57' in 1950 as the actual
dimension because it was not in the deed and there can not be a

gap in a driveway with a property marker. The original deed had
a 3' long gap on Palm St. split by the house. See sketch below.
After I found the plat plan error I went to Angelo Marino of the
Assessing Department. As of 2007, the tax map boundary line was
corrected to 51' to agree with the deed recognized as the actual
dimension. Please inform the Gilbertsons to return our property.
Sincerely,
0)
pS 86 Palm St.
| Gap is 2', 9" between north boundary and house.
| House | 3" between house and driveway.
bee | House is 20' wide.

/ Driveway is 10' wide.

' 88 Palm St.
There is about 51' from property line going

- south to Buck Street.

BUCK ST.