Board Of Aldermen - Agenda - 2/8/2022 - P6
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Graham, Donna
From: Alderman Alex Comeau - Nashua Ward 6 Ges
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 3:57 PM
To: Graham, Donna
Subject: Fwd: Adobe Portfolio Contact Form Submission From ‘Let's Talk’ Page
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Hi Donna, please add to the packet if you can.
Regards,
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Alderman Alex Comeau
Nashua, NH Ward 6
www. Comeau4Nashua.com
From: Alex Comeau 4 ee
Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:27 AM Oe
Subject: Adobe Portfolio Contact Form Submission From 'Let's Talk’ Page
To: <alexcomeaualderman@gmail.com>
Name:
Dana M Correia
Address:
33 Donna Street
Email Address:
Message:
I love your positions on things and thank you for running. Please fight the Covid tyrrany. This
starts with resisting the mask ordinance. This was never about anyone's health.
Feel free to text or email if you'd like. I just wanted to pass that along and say keep up the good
fight!
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hitps://comeau4nashua.com
Graham, Donna
From: Julia
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 12:44 PM
To: Wilshire, Lori; Graham, Donna
Cec: Cathey, Johnathan; Clemons, Benjamin; Comeau, Alexander, Dowd, Richard; Gouveia,
Tyler; Graham, Donna; Jette, Ernest; Kelly, Shoshanna; Klee, Patricia; Lopez, Thomas;
Moran, Melbourne; O'Brien, Michae! (Alderman); Sullivan, John; Thibeault, Derek;
Timmons, Gloria; Wilshire, Lori
Subject: Main Street Barriers
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To the Nashua Board of Alderman:
Charron Medical Equipment is an essential business and has been on the frontlines of
the Covid19 pandemic. Our employees have worked through the worst of the
lockdowns. We were here on Main Street in 2020 when the barricades were installed to
help the restaurants reopen with expanded outdoor dining. We believed this was
important to get people back to work and to help restore our community with a small
amount of normalcy.
That was in 2020. Now comes 2021 with barricades again. We sincerely believe that
ALL businesses on Main Street should be permitted the opportunity to succeed and
thrive. That was not the case in 2021. Many of our customers are elderly or disabled
and had difficulty finding parking near our store because of the barricades on Main
Street. So, they chose not to come in for their much-needed medical equipment. This
has broad and deep implications for the health of our community.
Our employees travel to work from out of town and the elimination of two lanes means it
takes 2-3 times as long to travel Main Street getting to work. Our delivery truck must
plan extra time for the traffic on Main Street when there are just two lanes. The effect
has been fewer patients served because of the barricades.
Therefore, we DO NOT support the use of barricades for expanded outdoor dining. We
DO support outdoor dining and our local restaurant businesses. In fact, we support
them as customers; we are frequent patrons of all the restaurants on Main Street. But
even our staff has found that with the barricades it takes too long to order take-out from
a restaurant on the other side of Main Street. We cannot pick up the food and get back
to the south end of Main Street with enough time to eat.
The proposed ordinance will effectively cause economic hardship for certain businesses
on Main Street in favor of other businesses on Main Street. We think this is unfair and
wrong. The proposed ordinance will effectively support and promote customer activity
for some shoppers while impeding the ability of other customers (i.e., elderly and
disabled) from shopping on Main Street. We have seen this firsthand in our store during
2020 and 2021. We cannot tolerate another year of this unfair and unwarranted
preference for some businesses and customers over others.
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In 2022, Main Street should be open for business for all customers and all businesses;
Covid19 protective measures like mask wearing and social distancing can continue to
occur without the barricades on Main Street. Outdoor dining will continue to occur
without the barricades. We believe the overreaching ordinance for expanded outdoor
dining and barricades on Main Street should not be adopted because it is restrictive to
general commerce, discriminates against certain shoppers, and promotes economic
preference for some businesses over others.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Please place this email/letter in the Next
Board of Aldermen Meeting Packet.
Sincerely,
Julia Bartlett, Treasurer
Charron Medical Equipment
222 Main Street, Nashua
603-889-7220
Sincerely,
Julia Bartlett, Treasurer
CHARRON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
222 Main Street
Nashua, NH 03060
(603) 889-7220
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Graham, Donna
From: cthibodeau7 Ge
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 11:33 PM
To: Board of Aldermen
Subject: Mask mandates in nashua
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Attention Alderman of the city of Nashua, My name is Chris Thibodeau I live on blossom street in ward 6. I
would like to express my feelings as it relates to mask mandates or any mandate for that matter. I can appreciate
no one wants anyone to die but strongly believe in freedoms and oppose over reaching government especially
when it is driven by a science that is changing almost on a daily basis.
The effectivity of general mask usage has been a topic of discussion, through many health professionals
including the CDC that has stated that cloth face masks are little more than facial decorations.
The usage of masks in indoor settings like restaurants, bars, gyms is a laughable.
Masks required while in line and being seated in bars and restaurants but ok to remove while sitting at your
dining table which is where people spend the majority of their time.
Usage in gyms, why transitioning between equipment, but ok to remove during to highest exertion portion of
gym attendance.
Some businesses will choose to continue, and that is their choice and should not be left to the decision of the
Alderman to force businesses to comply. Business owners want to run their businesses not act as enforcers of
these mandates.
Thank you for your time
Chris Thibodeau
71 Blossom St
Nashua NH
603-294-6881
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Graham, Donna
From: Di Lothrop
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2022 7:25 AM
To: Board of Aldermen
Subject: Mask ordinance
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TO: Nashua Board of Aldermen Members and President Wilshire,
| respectfully request that you please add me to the special public comments at the beginning of the
meeting prior to your vote on the Nashua mask mandate on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. | will be
calling in via Zoom.
Thank you for your consideration.
Diane Lothrop
10 Althea Lane
Nashua
Graham, Donna
From: Jan Schmidt
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2022 3:37 PM
To: Board of Aldermen
Subject: Vote on the mask mandate.
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My Dear Friends,
Southern NH is in the middle of a crisis. Our hospitals are full of covid patients while many of their workers
have contracted the virus themselves and cannot work. My daughter in Dover has been drafted to work their
covid ward. The ICU is incredibly difficult work, stressful and draining, and her 12 hour shifts are almost more
than a human should be asked to bear.
If you will take the time to consider Ward 1 citizens who have reached out to me, almost all are asking that
Nashua require indoor masking until the hospitals aren’t under this incredible stress.
So, please, we know what it takes - vaccines - distancing - air filtration and clean hands - and when all those
cannot manage the surge - we need masks. Please extend the indoor mask mandate for at least another month
Thank you for the seriously difficult decisions you will all have to make,
Jan
Representative Jan Schmidt
Proud Chair of the Nashua Delegation
At Home: Tesha4@qmail.com
11 Pope Circle, Nashua NH 03063
Hilisborough District 28, Ward 1 Nashua
In Concord: Jan. Schmidt@leq.state.nh.us
NH House of Representatives
Labor, Industrial, and Rehabilitative Services Committee
Room 307 Legislative Office Building
Report on NH’s COVID-19 numbers, for 1/20/22:
Just attributed to this single day:
2,258 new positive tests, among them, 906 are under eighteen
Plus 1,514 attributed to previous days
12 more deaths and 393 in the hospital
Graham, Donna
From: Edward Decatur
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2022 6:51 PM
To: Board of Aldermen
Subject: Mask ordinance
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I've read the Alex Berenson /formed medical editor of NY Times/ report on the effectiveness of
masks world wide for the last 100 years. They do no good, except that it makes people feel good
to see others wearing them. The only effective mask against the tiny nanno airborne germs is the
real N-95 mask - which are not currently in use due to their high cost. They are effective only if
they are form fitted to one's face with silicone or some similar adhesive and must be washed every
hour. Personally, I'm tired of non science based politicians making stupid decisions such as mask
mandates. I personally do not wear masks - especially when I'm shopping in our city's stores. I've
been confronted a few times and let them know that I - like many others - are tired of all
thiis political BS. These mandates are not law and cannot be legally enforced. Spend your time
on Tuesday doing something worthwhile for Nashua.
Ed Decatur 112 Kinsley St., city
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From: Laura Telerski
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 9:17 PM
To: Board of Aldermen
Ce: Graham, Donna
Subject: Support Extension of Mask Mandate
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To the honorable members of the Nashua Board of Aldermen,
I write to express my support for the extension of the mask mandate as recommended by the health
professionals on the Board of Health. The mask ordinance in late December came at a time when families were
congregating for the holidays, Omicron transmission was climbing, and our healthcare providers were stretched
thin.
Masking while indoors has been shown to be one of many mitigation efforts we can take to slow transmission.
While some may not like the idea of a mandate, the reality is compliance is high. Go into a busy grocery store
and the number of people masking in January is much higher than the weeks before the ordinance took effect.
There will be people who won’t mask, but many more have been because of the mandate. I believe the
extension through the end of the month is appropriate and can be considered again, or allowed to expire if the
transmission rate is on the decline.
Not all actions the board takes are popular, and many are difficult, but some times you have to make those
unpopular choices. Please know that my family appreciates the mask mandate, as well as many of my friends
and neighbors. Thank you for your service to our city.
Laura D. Telerski
5 Shakespeare Rd.
Nashua, NH
LauraTelerski@gmail.com
LDT2@georgetown.edu
(603)320-3957