Search

Base 2080 Hours

of Fleet

of Fleet - Certified 1

of Fleet - Certified 2

of Fleet - Certified 3

2 rs 3 rs
Grade Grade
702 703
100,674 101,681
812 813
103,190 104,224
822 823
101,683 102,699
832 833
104 105,265

4not 10
Grade
704
102,700
814
105,267
824
103,726
834
106,319

Certified 1

Certified 2

Certified 3

EMS certification appropriate to date of hire and
Hazardous Material Awareness, Operations and
Decon

ASE Truck Technician

Certified 1 and Certified 2

Base 2080 Hours

Su ntendent of Fleet

of Fleet - Certified 1

of Fleet - Certified 2

of Fleet - Certified 3

2 rs 3 rs
Grade Grade
502 503
91,163 92,075
612 613
93,444 94,378
622 623
92,076 92

632 633
94,379 95,322

4not 10
Grade
504
92
614
95,321
624
93,928
634
96,276

Certified 1

Certified 2

Certified 3

EMS certification appropriate to date of hire and
Hazardous Material Awareness, Operations and
Decon

ASE Truck Technician

Certified 1 and Certified 2

94

10 not 15
Grade
705
103,726
815
106,319
825
104,763
835

107

10 not 15
Grade
505
93,927
615
96,275
625
94,867
635
97,239

15 not 20
Grade
706
104,763
816

107
826
105,810
836
108,456

15 not 20
Grade
506

94
616
97
626
95,816
636
98,211

20 not 25
Grade
707
105,810
817
108,456
827

106
837
109,539

20 not 25
Grade
507
95,815
617

98
627
96,775
637
99,194

25+
Grade
708
106,867
818
109
828
107,939
838
110,637

25+
Grade
508
96,774
618
99,193
628
97,742
638
100,186

Base 2080 Hours

Mechanic (3rd Rank

Mechanic - Certified 1

Mechanic - Certified 2

Mechanic - Certified 3

Probation
Grade
300
80,812
410
82,845
420
81,635
430
83,676

Off Probation 2 rs
Grade Grade
301 302
81,632 82,449
411 412
83,674 84,511
421 422
82,452 83,276
431 432
84,513 85,358 86

4 not 10
Grade
304
84,106
414

10
424
84,949
434
87,074

Certified 1 EMS certification appropriate to date of hire and
Hazardous Material Awareness, Operations and
Decon

Certified 2 ASE Truck Technician

Certified 3 Certified 1 and Certified 2

95

10 not 15
Grade
305
84,949
415
87,074
425
85
435
87,945

15 not 20
Grade
306

85
416
87,945
426
656
436
23

20 not 25
Grade
307

654
417
20
427
87,523
437
89,712

APPENDIX E
HAZMAT TEAM FLOW CHART

When a vacancy occurs on the HAZMAT “A Team” all current “B Team” members will be offered the
position. If no “B Team” members wish to move to the “A Team” the senior “B Team” member who is
NOT signed in to a permanent station assignment will be assigned to the “A Team”

If all “B Team” members are signed in to a permanent station assignment then the senior unassigned
trained HAZMAT technician (AKA. C Team) will be assigned to the “A Team”

If there are no “C Team” members and no unassigned “B Team” members than the JUNIOR signed in “B
Team” member will be assigned to the “A Team”

*Signed in drivers of Engine and Ladder Companies, and the Shift Management Technician will be exempt
and may not be involuntarily re assigned.*

“A Team”
Opening

Offer spot to
current “B
Team”
members

“B Team” No “B Team”
member members
accepts accept

1. Senior 2. Senior 3. Junior
unassigned unassigned signed in “B
“B Team” “C Team” Team”

member member member

“A Team”
Assignment

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A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at 7:30 p.m. via
teleconference.

President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Susan Lovering recorded.

Prayer was offered by City Clerk Susan Lovering; Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright led in the Pledge to
the Flag.

President Wilshire

As President of the Board of Aldermen, | find that due to the State of Emergency declared by the
Governor as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and in accordance with the Governor's Emergency
Order #12 pursuant to Executive Order 2020-04, this public body is authorized to meet electronically.

Please note that there is no physical location to observe and listen contemporaneously to this meeting,
which was authorized pursuant to the Governor's Emergency Order. However, in accordance with the
Emergency Order, | am confirming that we are:

a) Providing public access to the meeting by telephone, with additional access possibilities by
video or other electronic means:

We are utilizing WebEx through the City’s IT Department for this electronic meeting. All members
of the Board of Aldermen have the ability to communicate contemporaneously during this meeting
through this platform, and the public has access to contemporaneously listen in to this meeting
through dialing the following number 1-978-990-5298 and using the password 273974. The
Public may also view this meeting on Comcast Channel 16.

b) Providing public notice of the necessary information for accessing the meeting:

We previously gave notice to the public of the necessary information for accessing the meeting,
through public postings. Instructions have also been provided on the City of Nashua’s website at
www.nashuanh.gov and publicly noticed at City Hall and at the Public Health Department.

c) Providing a mechanism for the public to alert the public body during the meeting if there are
problems with access:

If anybody has a problem accessing the meeting via phone or Channel 16, please call 603-821-2049
and they will help you connect.

d) Adjourning the meeting if the public is unable to access the meeting:

In the event the public is unable to access the meeting via the methods mentioned above, the
meeting will be adjourned and rescheduled. Please note that all votes that are taken during this
meeting shall be done by roll call vote.

Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance. When each member states their presence, please
also state whether there is anyone in the room with you during this meeting, which is required under
the Right-To-Know Law.

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The roll call was taken with 15 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Michael B. O’Brien,
Sr., Alderman Patricia Klee, Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly, Alderman Richard A. Dowd, Alderman June
M. Caron, Alderman Benjamin Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman David C. Tencza, Alderwoman
Elizabeth Lu, Alderman Ernest Jette, Alderman Jan Schmidt, Alderman Brandon Michael Laws, Alderman
Skip Cleaver, Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire.

Mayor James W. Donchess, Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton, were also in attendance via
teleconference.

Alderman O’Brien

| am present, | can hear you, and | am alone.

Alderman Klee

| am present, | can hear you, | am alone and | am here per the stay-at-home orders.

Alderwoman Kelly

| am here, | am alone, | can hear everyone and | am participating remotely due to the Governor's orders.
Alderman Dowd

Yes, | am here alone, | can hear everyone and | am practicing social distancing in accordance with the
Governor's directive.

Alderman Caron
Yes, | am here, | can hear everyone and | am home alone per the Governor’s orders.
Alderman Clemons

Yes, | am here, | can hear everyone and | am at home alone and participating at home because of the
Governor’s orders.

Alderman Lopez

| am here, | can hear you guys, | am alone and | am social distancing.

Alderman Tencza

| am present, | can hear everybody and | am alone.

Alderwoman Lu

| am here, | can hear you | am alone and | am participating remotely pursuant to the Governor's orders.
Alderman Jette

| am here, | am alone and | can hear you.

Alderman Schmidt

Present, | can hear everyone and | am alone as well.

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Alderman Laws

| am here, | am alone and | can hear you all.

Alderman Cleaver

| am here, | am alone and | am practicing social distancing. | can hear everybody just fine.

Alderman Harriott-Gathright

| am present, | am alone and | can hear you and | am practicing social distancing.
President Wilshire
| am here, | am alone, and | am practicing social distancing.

Susan Lovering, City Clerk

You have 15 in attendance.

President Wilshire

Thank you. Is the Mayor with us this evening, Mayor?
Mayor Donchess

Yes, | am Madam President.

President Wilshire

Do you wish to address the Board?

REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

Mayor Donchess

Yes, thank you. | wanted to give you first a quick COVID-19 update. As you know, Public Health and
others in the City have been working very hard to contain the virus. There’s quite a bit of good news.
Certainly, it is still with us and there’s always the risk of a reemergence. We do not know how this is going
to go in the future. But from the testing we are doing, the testing that is being done here in Nashua and
State-wide has a very favorable trend. Right now, as of yesterday, there were 539 COVID-19 cases in
Nashua. But the percentage of people that are being tested, who show positive, who come up with a
positive test, has been declining now for about 40 days from above 10% to below 5% in some cases. So
that is a very important and very favorable trend. Unfortunately 18 people in Nashua have died; one is |
think well-known to many of us, Kevin Slattery, a very generous, kind member of the community who got
COVID-19 and was in the hospital for a couple of months and ultimately passed away. So that is a very
sad loss. But that is the reason we are undertaking the steps that we all find difficult. It is frustrating and
difficult to have to meet like this remotely, to not go out, to have to wear the masks. But in the end, we are
doing something very important together and although Kevin passed away, we are trying to save other
people like Kevin and we are being successful in doing so.

We need to continue and | am determined to continue to consider safety and use the scientific evidence
we have, and, of course, people want that. | think they, of course, need us to exercise and undertake the
steps that will help keep everybody, our families, our friends, safe.

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So we can talk more about COVID-19 but we’ve gone over that, we have discussed everything the Health
Department and everybody is doing in the past. So as much as | admire the efforts of everyone, | won’t
repeat that for you again. Of course, we are looking to the light at the end of the tunnel. We are taking
many steps together to energize and re-establish our small business community especially. You
approved the COVID-19 Relief Fund, a Fund of about $1.1. We have had 55 loan and grant applications,
more than can be provided in full but the loan committee is considering each application and has awarded
some of the loans and a few grants averaging about $25,000.00. And over the course of the next few
weeks, we will be completely dealing with all of the applications, so | want to thank them as well.

Also, as you see downtown, the steps that we have taken to enable the outdoor dining in the expanded
areas of the travel lanes, one lane north and south as well as many of the parking space, they have really
energized the downtown business community and have been a big shot in the arm. The atmosphere
downtown, | think, has been incredibly positive. The traffic and | go down there quite often, there’s a little
congestion but nothing terrible and certainly the worst predictions in terms of traffic congestion have not at
all been realized and the positive energy that has erupted downtown as a result of the more pedestrian
friendly design. Even though it is using Jersey Barriers and the like, what we have arrived at has really
changed and | think improved the character of downtown. So at least so far, we have to consider that a
major success. Many people are enjoying it; | see restaurants that have many people and hopefully tables
8 feet apart, but many restaurants and businesses are doing very well with that and of course, we are all
very glad to see that.

| wanted to mention on thing briefly, Madam President, regarding the proposed Fire Contract. There was
some stuff on the internet, Facebook, over the weekend which could have implied that the City never
offered anything. | just want you to know that we tried to be fair. In 2019 the City offered the same
amount, the same wage increases that you approved for the Police Sergeants, that was back in 2019
before negotiations or the Fire Commission took over, that was the City’s negotiating team. The same
raises that were offered to the Police Sergeants and of course that has remained on the table ever since.

Finally, Madam Chair, | would like to congratulate Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Gloria Timmins, Jordan
Thompson and others who put together the vigil, the protest over the weekend, sponsored by Black Lives
Matter Nashua, the NAACP, the OBU which we have known for a long time. The protest/vigil included
many, many people but was very peaceful throughout. The Police Department, of course, did a good job
but in the end, there was really no conduct that they had to be particularly concerned about. The speakers
were very good, especially the young speakers, the young people who came on in the second half of the
program. They were, | thought, incredible and overall | hope that it raises the spirits of many people in our
community so that they, the members of our African-American Community and others understand that we
are behind them and see that they have been affected and are in pain as a result of the events out in
Minneapolis and elsewhere. So | just want people to know that there is solidarity and that march/rally/vigil
helped to demonstrate that. So thank you to them and to everyone who was involved in organizing what,
in the end, was a very, very uplifting, and positive event.

And that’s all | have, Madam President.

RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR

Alderman Lopez

| just wanted to comment on Alderman Kelly’s speech, | found it extremely inspirational. She was one of
the speakers and | know she has been involved in helping organize as well. | was particularly moved by
the admonishment | guess that we were reminded that we were guests at the event and this was really to
mourn an experience that was shared by the black community. And | was happy to be a guest at that, and
| was happy to be invited to participate and share in that grief with them. And | am committed to doing
whatever | can to reach out to that community. So to that community | would just say that | am here, tell
me what you need and let’s see what we can do.

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Alderwoman Lu

Thank you, Madam President. | have a question through to Mayor Donchess.
President Wilshire

We can’t hear you very well Alderman Lu?

Alderwoman Lu

Really? | have a question for Mayor Donchess, and it is - did you, | think our COVID Relief Fund started
at $1.5 million is that what you said?

Mayor Donchess
No it’s $1.1, it is in the range of $1,100,000.00 to $1,200,000.00.

Alderwoman Lu

| see, OK. Ok, because | just did the math and it seems that close to all 55 — so we are short, | multiplied
$25,000.00 times 55 applicants. So that is a little more than what we have. When will we see the funds or
is it on-going?

Mayor Donchess

Well it’s on-going. Some of the grants, well the loans and a few grants have already been awarded and |
believe the borrowers and grantees have been notified, but not all of the money has been yet disbursed.
There is a Loan Committee that consists of some City people, but some bankers and others who
customarily are involved with lending money. They are reviewing the applications and so it is an on-going
process but it should be completed soon.

Alderwoman Lu

Thank you.

Alderwoman Kelly

| just wanted to also comment on the event on Saturday, | think the organizers who have been doing great
work in the City put together a really meaningful and powerful vigil. This isn’t easy stuff to work through so
| was honored to speak but also to just see our community come together. And the Police Department did
an incredible job of keeping everybody safe and making sure logistically it really ran smoothy so | thank
them and | thank everyone for taking it in and being peaceful and finding ways to keep the conversation
going. So thank you.

Alderman Klee

Thank you, Madam President. | too want to say that it was an incredible evening Saturday night at the vigil
and you could just feel the love and the harmony. And the conversation was important, it was extremely
important. | know it made me walkway very thoughtful of what | had heard and what | had experienced.

| also want to comment on the outdoor dining downtown. | can tell you that | have eaten out downtown a
few times since it has been opened and | just hear incredible chatter and happiness down there. And |
think it makes our downtown look incredible to see all these people out there and | have been getting a lot
of calls of people saying thank you.

Board of Aldermen 6-09-2020 Page 6

So all the hard work that went into that, | want to thank Director Cummings and all the people, you know,
our Public Works people, Director Fauteux and all of those who had so much to do with that. Thank you.

Alderman Gathright

| actually want to echo the Mayor and | want to say, thank you Mayor for being a part of it and to
Alderwoman Kelly, thank you for being a part as well. It really was important. | am going to say as long |
have been in Nashua and I’ve been to a lot of big events, but | must honestly say that that’s the first even
that I’ve ever been a part of, that | truly felt that people were there because they cared. They truly were
concerned with what was going on, not just outside of Nashua but inside of Nashua as well and other
cities in the State. So | am looking forward to a lot of people who have volunteered and come forward
who want to work with Nashua Community Conversation on Race Injustice that myself and Chief Carignan
chair. So | just see a lot of good things happening, because we work well together and | am sure that is
going to continue. There are some things that we have already spoken about in the Committee and we do
plan on having a Town Hall very soon. But it will be open to the City. So we just have to continue getting
this Zoom together that we can put people in different rooms to speak and talk with one another. So
thank you.

RECOGNITION PERIOD - None

READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the Special Board of
Aldermen meetings of May 21, and May 27, 2020, and regular Board of Aldermen meeting of May
26, 2020 accepted, placed on file, and the reading suspended.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From: Len Fournier, Superintendent Woodlawn/Pinewood Cemeteries
Re: Requesting Joint Convention Meeting with the Woodlawn/Pinewood Cemetery Trustees

From: Linda McGhee, Deputy Planning Manager

Re: Referral from the Board of Aldermen on proposed O-20-014, allowing the temporary adjustment
of site plans by the Community Development Director or Designee to allow for greater outdoor
seating at restaurants

From: John L. Griffin, Chief Financial Officer/Comptroller
Re: Fire Union IAFF Local #789 Collective Bargaining Agreement

From: Dorothy Clarke, Esquire

Re: R-20-043 “Authorizing Pennichuck Corporation and Pennichuck East Utility, Inc. to enter into a
term loan and renew a fixed asset line of credit with CoBank, ACB” — letter from Pennichuck
without confidential financial documents

From: Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
Re: Communications Received from the Public

There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communications and placed them on
file.

Board of Aldermen 6-09-2020 Page 7

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

Keeping in mind the health and safety of our residents and employees, we are requesting
that if you wish to speak on agenda items, you submit your comments to include your name
and address via e-mail by 5 PM on the Wednesday prior to a Board meeting which will be
accepted and placed on file with the minutes of the meeting. Please e-mail your comments
to: BOA@nashuanh.gov

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Justin Kates, Director of Emergency Management

Re: Approving the 2019-2020 Memorandum of Understanding between Goodwill Industries of Northern
New England’s Goodwill VISTA Partnership and the City of Nashua

MOTION BY ALDERMAN LOPEZ TO ACCEPT THE ALLOCATED FUNDS AND APPROVE THE 2019-

2020 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN
NEW ENGLAND’S GOODWILL VISTA PARTNERSHIP AND THE CITY OF NASHUA, BY ROLL CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd,
Alderman Caron, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Cleaver,
Alderman Laws, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 15

Nay: 0

MOTION CARRIED

PETITIONS - None

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

Joint Convention with Trustees of Woodlawn/Pinewood Cemeteries

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared that the Board of Aldermen meet in joint
convention with the Trustees of Woodlawn/Pinewood Cemeteries for the purpose of re-nominating
two Trustees and called for nominations.

Trustee Jensen nominated Mark Coulombe and Todd Whitney for five-year terms to expire
March 31, 2025.

There being no objection, President Wilshire closed the nominations.

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd,
Alderman Caron, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Cleaver,
Alderman Laws, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire,

Trustee Buslovich, Trustee Jensen, Mayor Donchess 18

Nay: 0