A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Monday, September 27, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. in the aldermanic
chamber as well as via Zoom teleconference.
President Lori Wilshire presided; Deputy City Clerk Allison Waite recorded.
Prayer was offered by Deputy City Clerk Allison Waite; Alderwoman Elizabeth Lu led in the Pledge to the Flag.
To join by Zoom — please refer to the agenda or the website for the meeting link and telephone number.
Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance. When each member states their presence, please indicate if
participating via Zoom state why you are not meeting in person and whether there is anyone in the room with you during
this meeting which is required under the Right-To-Know Law.
Deputy City Clerk Waite called the roll and asked them to state the reason he or she could not attend, confirmed that
they could hear the proceedings, and stated who was present with him or her.
The roll call was taken with 10 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.,
Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly (via Zoom), Alderman Richard A. Dowd, Alderman June M. Caron, Alderman David C.
Tencza, Alderwoman Elizabeth Lu, Alderman Ernest Jette, Alderman Skip Cleaver (via Zoom), Alderman Linda
Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire.
Alderman Patricia Klee, Alderman Benjamin Clemons, Alderman Thomas Lopez, Alderman Jan Schmidt, and
Alderman Brandon Michael Laws were recorded absent.
President Wilshire to turn the meeting over to Alderman Richard A. Dowd.
Alderman Dowd
Yes, we have three items for public hearings this evening. The first is R-21-168 Relative to the Transfer of $30,000
from Account 70100 “General Contingency” to Accounting Classification 51 “Salaries & Wages’ in Administrative
Services ($25,000) and Economic Development ($5,000) for the Purpose of Funding Salaries and Establishing an
Opioid Abatement Expendable Trust Fund Funded by Appropriations and Making a Supplemental Appropriation of
$27,223.40 into the Expendable Trust Fund. Is there anyone here that’s going to give us an overview of this
Resolution?
Director Bobbie Bagley, Division of Public Health and Community Services
Yes good evening. Bobbie Bagley, Director for the Division of Public Health and Community Services. Just here to
give information on establishing the trust fund for the opioid abatement. This is going to be funds that will be coming
into the city from several suits that have been filed against several of the pharmaceutical companies that produced
opioid drugs over the next 18 years. As a result of this, the funds will be distributed over that period of time in different
amounts and allocations to the City of Nashua as well as to the other parts of our State as well.
These funds are to be used for recovery work for services that include intervention, treatment, and recovery services
that will help mitigate opioid use disorder. The objective of getting this funding is to distribute this to services
providers in our community that are providing these particular services so we can extend and tie it with opioid use and
substance use disorder. So it’s very specific to the opioid resettlement that’s expected to come to the State of New
Hampshire over a period of 18 years from different resettlements that have been filed over the course of time.
Chairman Dowd
All set?
Director Bobbie Bagley, Division of Public Health and Community Services
Thank you.
Chairman Dowd
Is there any explanation for the other part of the Resolution?
