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October 11, 2016

Finally we have the Art Walk that is coming up this weekend which is always a big event for downtown
and we are looking forward to this very much. The kick-off is at noon on Saturday and then at 3:30 p.m.
there is a zombie bike ride so | hope that as many of you as possible can join me in the zombie bike ride.
| think it will be a lot of fun.

RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR

Alderman Lopez

Will the Mayor be dressing as a zombie?
Mayor Donchess
Apparently, yes so that’s worth just coming to see that.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

Just to follow up on the position be moved to Economic Development, | was there for the meeting and as
the Mayor said, Jennifer McCormack from the library thought that this move made sense and the
members of the Hunt Board of Trustees all thought that it made a lot of sense since one of the things that
they are looking to do is to increase the revenues coming from that building to support that building.
There was unanimous agreement in terms of making this change and moving the position to the
Economic Development Department.

Unfortunately Mayor Donchess | don’t have my scooter anymore so | can’t ride with you.

RECOGNITION PERIOD — None

READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 27, 2016, BE ACCEPTED, PLACED ON FILE, AND THE READING
SUSPENDED

MOTION CARRIED

COMMUNICATIONS — None

Alderman Deane

| believe we got an e-mail from Mr. Teeboom indicating that he wanted his e-mail accepted as a
communication.

President McCarthy
Yes and it’s on the agenda for the next meeting.

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

Mr. Fred Teeboom, 24 Cheyenne Drive
There was an article in the Telegraph today “School Tax Break to Wait” and it quotes Alderman David

Schoneman. He mentions that O-16-0111 has been sitting around for a long time. O-16-011 deals with
giving charter schools some small amount of offset based on the property taxes on whatever facility they

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rent because right now they pay the full share of the taxes on whatever they rent. That all seems unfair
really, | mean the public schools have buildings and don’t pay any taxes. Now, there was a quote made
when this first came up on 10 May on page 12 of the minutes where Alderman Clemmons is quoted as
saying when talking about charter schools, “I think that they syphon money off of the district for the
benefit of the few and then the rest of the population that’s left behind have fewer resources to invest in
the public schools.” That is a complete fabrication. There is no loss to the public schools from the
charter schools. If you look at the cost data and | did this once before and | think | sent it the Board
before, | won’t go through the details because it gets a bit complicated to stand here and go through the
mathematics but if you consider the average cost of a student in the public school is $13,000 per
student/per year and the average teacher in the Nashua School District, loaded, the current union
contract, makes $89,000 per year. There are a little over 1,000 teachers in the district and 11,500
students in the district. The ratio of teacher per student is 11.4 students per teacher. If you look at the
number of charter schools that are off-loaded, kids are off-loaded into charter schools. There are 257
kids off-loaded to the Academy for Science & Design. There are 464 children that were off-loaded totally
in all charter schools in the region. If you do the calculation of what the off-loaded cost is, what the
benefit of that is; by not having as many teachers necessary because the students are off-loaded. In
order to bring the charter school kids back into the public school you have to hire more teachers and if
you go through the calculations the ratio of teachers to students. The savings is $2 million if you look just
at the Academy of Science & Design. The savings to the taxpayers is $3.6 million if you look at all of the
charter schools. That’s based on off-loading teachers from the public schools. There is another way to
look at that calculation and that’s to look at the education aid from the state. The state, through the
budget, granted $40.1 million to Nashua. There’s a lot of debate and statements that some people think
it’s too much, other cities are complaining like Dover. If you look at that and spread that over the cost not
going to the charter schools, that’s an average cost of $3,490 per student state aid. That’s a cost to the
taxpayers. Bringing the students over to the charter schools you don’t get that aid. That’s a savings of
$2.62 million for the Academy of Science & Design and $4.4 million in charter schools. There’s two
different ways to calculating and they come to the same result. The results are the savings is between
$2 million and $2.6 million looking at the Academy of Science & Design and $3.6 million to $4.4 million
looking at all of the charter schools. The paper mentions that there are some costs for special ed.
Charter schools have to accept special ed kids and they do, a few. | haven’t had any time to look into
what the cost savings is. | don’t exactly know what it costs Nashua for special ed. Let’s assume its
$40,000 for special ed, | think it’s a high figure. Let’s assume there are 20 kids total from the charter
schools that’s still $800,000. Nowhere near the $3 to $4 million savings. | think that number is high.
Look at the results that the charter schools give us. First of all, Alderman Clemons is just plain wrong. If
you look at the ranking of schools, the Academy of Science & Design is rated number 1 in the entire
state. North High School is ranked 57 out of 77 high schools, that is 20 from the bottom. There are 56
high schools doing better than Nashua High School North and for that we pay $13,000 per student. | see
the Spofford School is going bankrupt and the federal government is questioning what value we are
getting for the money. If you think North is doing bad, South is number 76 out of 77 in the ranking.
There is only one more high school worse than Nashua High School South. The Academy of Science &
Design is number 1. The Nashua School District is 100 out of 125. There are 99 school districts rated
higher than the Nashua School District. Surely charter schools are an enormous benefit. Not for
everybody, two of my grandchildren went to charter schools. One went for two years and one went for
one year. My daughter, for reasons of her own, decided to switch them back to the regular public
schools. There is quite a bit of shifting back and forth actually. Kids go into them in the 7" grade and
leave in the 9" or they decide it’s not their thing. That’s okay but you don’t denigrate your other schools.
We have a proposition and this costs $80,000. | think Alderman Dowd asked that question and it was
answered, $80,000 is the total cost to ASD and the other $45,000 was the cost for all charter schools.
That’s the cost of the tax offset. That’s not in the financial analysis by the way but that’s the number that
came up at the Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee meeting, if | am correct. It is enormous value
and | wish Alderman Schoneman was here so he could take it off of the table. Somebody here should
take it off the table and Pete’s sake, vote on it. Thank you.

PETITIONS — None

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NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS
Appointments by the Mayor
The following Appointments by the Mayor were read into the record:
Building Code Board of Appeals
Daniel Bergeron (New Appointment) Term to Expire: October 1, 2019
27 Webster Street
Nashua, NH 03064
Scott Cote (New Appointment) Term to Expire: November 1, 2019
39 Tenby Drive
Nashua, NH 03062
Kevin Slattery (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 1, 2018
4 Berkeley Street
Nashua, NH 03064
Historic District Commission
Robert Sampson (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 30, 2019
18 Sargent Avenue
Nashua, NH 03064
Nashua Arts Commission:
Marc Thayer (New Appointment) Term to Expire: April 1, 2019
1 Clocktower Place, #416
Nashua, NH 03060
MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS TO ACCEPT THE APPOINTMENTS BY THE MAYOR AS
READ AND REFER THEM TO THE PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
MOTION CARRIED
REPORTS OF COMMITTEE
Finance Committee ..0......... cece eecceecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeees 10/05/16

There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the October 5, 2016
Finance Committee accepted and placed on file.

Human Affairs Committee 2.0... cecceccceecceeececceecececeeeeeeeeeeereeeraees 10/06/16

There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the October 6, 2016
Human Affairs Committee accepted and placed on file.

Planning & Economic Development Committee 2.00.00... eee 10/04/16

There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the October 4, 2016
Planning & Economic Development Committee accepted and placed on file.

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WRITTEN REPORTS FROM LIAISONS — None
CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS — None
UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-16-064
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF AN ADDITIONAL $7,072 FROM
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY INTO FIRE GRANT ACTIVITY “FY2015
ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT”
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-16-064
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-16-064 declared duly adopted.

R-16-065
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF AN ADDITIONAL $33,021.38
FROM THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES INTO TRANSIT GRANT ACTIVITY “FEDERAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY (“FTA”)
OPERATING GRANT”
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA TO AMEND R-16-065 IN ITS ENTIRETY BY
REPLACING IT WITH THE GOLDEN ROD COPY PROVIDED WITH THE AGENDA

ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Dowd

What are the amendments?

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

The period for the grant was originally October 1, 2016, to December 31, 2016; and the grant now will
run from October 1, 2016, to September 30, 2018. The amount has been increased from $33,021.38 to
$264,168.96. The committee agreed that this was important in terms of knowing that we would have this

money through September of 2018 for transportation.

MOTION CARRIED

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MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-16-065 AS AMENDED
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-16-065 declared duly adopted as amended.

R-16-070
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $32,366.55 FROM THE STATE
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “FY2017 SUSTAINED TRAFFIC
ENFORCEMENT PATROLS (STEP)”
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-16-070
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-16-070 declared duly adopted.

R-16-072
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $249,266.77 FROM THE STATE
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “FY2017
OPIOID ABUSE REDUCTION INITIATIVE (OARI)”
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CARON FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-16-072
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-16-072 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-16-073
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $46,592 FROM THE UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “2016 JUSTICE
ASSISTANCE GRANT (MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL)”
Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-16-074
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $25,000 FROM DEPARTMENT #179 “LIBRARY,” ACCOUNT
CLASSIFICATION 51 “SALARIES AND WAGES” AND ACCOUNT CLASSIFICATION 52
“FRINGE BENEFITS” INTO DEPARTMENT #183 “ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT”
Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-16-018
Endorser: Alderman June M. Caron
ESTABLISHING TWO FIFTEEN MINUTE PARKING TIME LIMIT ZONES ON PORTIONS OF
ARLINGTON STREET AND GILLIS STREET

Given its first reading; assigned to the COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE by President McCarthy

O-16-019
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
INCREASING SEWER USE FEES RATES AND CHARGES
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by

President McCarthy

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT - None
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Wilshire

| would like to say thank you to the people who put so much time into the Children’s Room at the library.
They had kind of a grand opening and it was well done and well received.

Alderman Cookson

| would like to thank the Rotary Club of Nashua West for putting on their 42° Annual Spaghetti City at
the Senior Activity Center this evening. It was well attended and appreciated having Alderman Lopez
join us for the event and | hope many more of you can join us next year for our 43% Annual Spaghetti

City. It was a lovely event.

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Alderman Moriarty

Nashua’s Mason Lodge is having an open house on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. They are across the street
from City Hall on Main Street.

Alderman O’Brien
| would like to congratulations to the Schoneman family and good luck with their new son.

Alderman Lopez

Last Sunday | participated in the Out of the Darkness walk through Mine Falls. It was heartening to see
how many people took the walk seriously and participated in it. It is meant to recognize suicide
awareness and support. There was a very good turn-out among some of our elected officials; Kelly
Ayotte, Peggy Gilmore and it was good to see the recognition and the support that our community
provides.

| wanted to remark on the Mayor’s comments regarding the opioid addiction issue. It’s still heavily
impacting our city. | attended the drug court proceedings today and Judge Leary commented that we’ve
had eight deaths in eight days starting off the month in October. The mortality rate is going through the
roof right now and it’s something that we as a city and each of us as community leaders should be
looking at to figure out how we can help and what we can do to contribute to the larger effort to make this
an issue that our community tackles.

Committee announcements:

Alderman Cookson

Infrastructure is tomorrow evening at 7:00 p.m. in these chambers.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

Planning and Economic Development Committee is next Tuesday, the 18" at 7:00 p.m. in the chamber.

Alderman Moriarty

Now that Pennichuck has filed their rate increase case | can actually schedule a meeting of the
Pennichuck Water Special Committee, hopefully soon.

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE OCTOBER 11, 2016, MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED

MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 3:00 p.m.

Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk

AGENDA MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OCTOBER 11, 2016

1. PRESIDENT BRIAN S. McCARTHY CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER

2. PRAYER OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA PIECUCH

3. PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERMAN RICHARD A. DOWD
4. ROLL CALL

5. REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

6. RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR
7. RECOGNITIONS
8. READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
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9. COMMUNICATIONS

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

10. PETITIONS
11. NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS
Appointments by the Mayor

12. REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

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13. WRITTEN REPORTS FROM LIAISONS
14. CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS
UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-16-064
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF AN ADDITIONAL $7,072 FROM
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY INTO FIRE GRANT ACTIVITY “FY2015
ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT”
e Human Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-16-065
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF AN ADDITIONAL $33,021.38
FROM THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
INTO TRANSIT GRANT ACTIVITY “FEDERAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY (“FTA”) OPERATING GRANT”

° Human Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage as Amended

R-16-070
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $32,366.55 FROM THE STATE OF
NEW HAMPSHIRE INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “FY2017 SUSTAINED TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT
PATROLS (STEP)”
° Human Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-16-072
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $249,266.77 FROM THE STATE
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “FY2017
OPIOID ABUSE REDUCTION INITIATIVE (OARI)”
° Human Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage

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

NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-16-073
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $46,592 FROM THE UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “2016 JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT
(MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL)”

R-16-074
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $25,000 FROM DEPARTMENT #179 “LIBRARY,” ACCOUNT
CLASSIFICATION 51 “SALARIES AND WAGES” AND ACCOUNT CLASSIFICATION 52 “FRINGE
BENEFITS” INTO DEPARTMENT #183 “ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT”

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES
Q-16-018
Endorser: Alderman June M. Caron
ESTABLISHING TWO FIFTEEN MINUTE PARKING TIME LIMIT ZONES ON PORTIONS OF
ARLINGTON STREET AND GILLIS STREET
Q-16-019
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
INCREASING SEWER USE FEES RATES AND CHARGES
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Committee announcements:

ADJOURNMENT