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Memorandum

To: Board of Aldermen
From: Susan K. Lovering, City cient
Date: November 9, 2021

Re: Proposed Rules of Procedure Relative to the Recount of Ballots Cast

Ward 1 Alderman Race — November 2, 2021 Municipal General Election

Charter Section 26 sets forth the recount procedures for city elections, but is silent as to
the specific steps for the actual recount. Since 2003, the Board of Aldermen has closely
modeled the Rules of Procedure for Recounts used by the NH Secretary of State under
RSA 660:5, Conduct of Recount. That procedure authorizes the use of such assistants
as may be required and states that the recount teams “shail visually inspect each baliot.”
Election officials, from wards other than Ward 1, and City Clerk personnel will be available
on Saturday to assist with the recount of the ballot cast

| respectfully request that the Board of Aldermen adopt the following Rules of Procedure
for the recount for the votes cast in the Ward 1 Alderman race to be held on November
13, 2021, beginning at 9 a.m. in the City Hall Auditorium.

Thank you.

Under Charter section 26, the Mayor is assigned the responsibility for opening the sealed
boxes of ballots returned by Ward Election Officials the night of the election.

The Rules of Procedure for Recounts previously approved by the Board of Aldermen, are
as follows:

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RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR RECOUNTS
The City Clerk will operate with two-person recount teams.
For each two-person team, each candidate may have one observer.

Each candidate will be informed as to how many two-person teams will be
conducting his/her particular recount.
a. The candidate or designee shail be responsible for identifying, organizing,
instructing, and supervising the candidate’s observers.
b. The City Clerk will conduct the recount as scheduled. The recount will not
be delayed by the absence of a candidate or of a candidate’s observers.
c. It is the sole responsibility of the candidate or his/her designee to ensure
that the candidate has an observer at each counting team

Each candidate, directly or through his or her observers, will control the pace of
the recount and bear responsibility for the accuracy of the recount.

a. The procedures set forth below allow the candidate or his/her observers to
slow or stop the process at any point should doubt arise about how a ballot
is being counted or the accuracy of the counting.

b. However, only one opportunity will exist to challenge the count of each ballot
and only one opportunity will exist to challenge the accuracy of each step
of the counting process.

c. When a candidate or his/her observer fails to make a challenge when that
one opportunity arises, the candidate waives his or her privitege to contest
the manner in which a ballot is counted or the accuracy of that step in the
counting process.

Observers shall not have any writing instrument in their hands at any time while
observing or while sitting at the recount table.

Observers are prohibited from touching the ballots.
Observers shall not have any food or drink at the recount table.

No cell phones may be used in the recount area.

Much of the recount process requires that counters and observers maintain
concentration and keep their focus on the ballot before them. Loud or interfering
conversations among bystanders will not be tolerated and bystanders may be
directed into the hallway so that their conversations do not interfere with the
recount process.

10. The Mayor shall unseal the boxes containing the ballots which are to be counted

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and the City Clerk will distribute all ballots to the counting teams. A counting
team member will be designated to hold up a ballot and declare for whom the
vote was cast. The counting team member shall afford the observers an
opportunity to view each ballot. The moment when a ballot is presented for
viewing by the observer is the one and only opportunity for the observer to
challenge how the counting team intends to count the ballot.

In a recount for a single seat office, counted ballots will be stacked as follows:
ballots for candidate A, ballots for candidate B, no-vote ballots (blank or overvotes),
write-in ballots, and challenged ballots.

12. If an observer challenges how a ballot is being counted, the counting team may

agree that the ballot was inadvertently being sorted into the wrong stack and if the
counting team and all observers agree, the ballot may be added to the correct
stack.

13. If the counting team and any observer disagree on how to count a ballot, the ballot

will be set aside into the challenged ballot stack. The Board of Aldermen will later
rule on and count the ballots in the protest stack.

14. After the sorting process is complete, one counting team member shall count the

ballots from each stack into groups of 25 ballots.

a. The second counting team member shall recount each stack to verify that
there are 25 ballots in each group.

b. Observers shall be afforded an opportunity to observe the counting in a
manner that permits the observer to verify that the count is accurate. The
moment when the second counting team declares that a group contains
exactly 25 ballots is the last moment when an observer can protest the
accuracy of the count of that group.

15. The counting team shall count the number of stacks of 25 and any remaining

ballots and enter the total number of ballots containing votes for each candidate

on a tally sheet.
a. The counting team shall count in a manner that allows the observer to verify

the accuracy of the count.

b. The counting team shall show each observer the completed tally sheet
before the team takes the sheet to the City Clerk who will add the results of
each counting team on a master tally sheet. Observers are encouraged to
document the tally sheet result for their candidate and to verify that the team
count is accurately entered on the master tally sheet.

16.When all teams counting ballots from the same polling place have completed their
counts, the Board of Aldermen will rule on all challenged ballots from that polling
place. If the Board’s decision is protested, the City Clerk will attach on the
protested ballot a statement of fact. Protested ballots shall be separately
preserved.

17. The candidate who requested the recount may cancel same at any time during the
procedure, at which time the City Clerk will publicly announce the candidate’s
request to cancel the recount and that particular recount will cease at once. The
official results for the election shall be those results announced immediately after

the election.

18. The City Clerk will maintain a tally sheet showing the old and new figures and at
the completion of a recount will present the Board of Aldermen with those figures.
The Board of Aldermen shall then dectare the results of such recount or contest.

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appreciate you being people of honor to take this under consideration. All of those in favor, you know how | feel about
you. Thank you for your service.

Bob Keating

My name is Bob Keating, 5 Coburn Woods. I’m a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church, and Social Justice
Committee, and Granite State Organizing Project. Coming here today, | feel some sense to speaking to the choir
because the process on this inclusionary zoning I'm asking for your support on that has been to me a wonderful example
of a positive process. There was research done to demonstrate what was needed - a second research there. The Board
of Aldermen was actively engaged, Matt Sullivan, Tim Cummings, and Sarah Marchant | think educated the public.

What | think is created here is what we've been wanting to do is to increase more affordable housing. For every 10 unit
development, more units will be created or at least money set aside for it. It will also be done in such a way that will not
be a burden to the city or taxpayers. It will not be a burden to the developers because of the set asides. So it's really to
me it's sort of like a civics lesson and about how government can work and how a community can move through a
particular process. We know this doesn't create, you know, staggering amounts but it is one more method and it also
sends us an extremely positive message about we were willing to tackle an issue to move things along of it. Really what
we're doing is that we're going to reduce the burden of housing costs for some families and hopefully that in our upcoming
legislation with opera money, we'll be able to do more of that. I’m here. | didn't think a message needed to be said but |
wanted to continue the message that for GSOP and many others feel, this is good what has occurred and | wanted to be
part of what | believe will be a yes vote on this all the way through. So thanks again and Happy New Year to all of you
and we'll miss Linda and Alderman Caron for next year. With Skip up there, | don't see him, but I'll miss him too. And Jan
obviously from my Ward Alderman. Take care. So thanks again.

Rabbi John Spira-Savett

Good evening. | want to say I'm Jonathan Spira-Savett. | live at 39 Coburn Avenue. My best wishes to those of you who
are sick and healing, and my thanks to those of you finishing your terms of service, and all of you really for this intense
period of service you have been in. | served as Rabbi of Temple Beth Abraham on Raymond Street. I'm one of the
leaders of the Greater Nashua Interfaith Housing Justice Group and | represented Ward 1 on the Imagine Nashua Master
Plan Steering Committee.

I'm speaking in support like Bob of O-21-073 amending the inclusionary zoning supplementary use regulations to speak
as part of a group of religious leaders who meet every two weeks on affordable housing. For two years, we have been
working closely with the Community Development Department formerly Director Marchant, Manager Sullivan, as well as
Director Cummings, and other staff members of this Board, and Mayor Donchess. We've been there to advocate at the
Statehouse for affordable housing policies that you have sought to help the city innovate and collaborate with developers
and secured funding sources. We've been networking within our congregations, finding members of different connections
to housing issues and networking has cleared profit of real estate and business communities.

There are more of us speaking regularly at your meetings and communicating regularly with you about affordable housing
policies when they were a couple of years ago. Behind us are many more in our congregations. You can know that going
forward the work of adding more affordable housing with many more hands with new skills and perspectives to build not
just homes, more vibrant neighborhoods, and to find and carry through the creative and effective approaches that a city
like Nashua is uniquely poised to execute. Your city staff and your committees have set up this end of year victory for one
step among more than common to make our city a tighter community where fewer people spend more than they can
afford on rent and mortgage where we are less divided by how much we earn. The people who teach our kids, and take
care of our sick, and fight our fires and keep us safe, their whole lives here as resident would have to just commute here.
Because of a more interwoven way of living, we can all see the picture of the city and (inaudible) and bring better eyes to
the solutions, the challenges that we can see better because we'll see them together.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.

Bob Keating

The proposal in front of you O-21-073 responds to a moral necessity for housing in a way that is practical financially.
When you have those opportunities, you have to take them. Next year we'll work together on the harder parts and we'll
build on tonight's votes, and the values you affirm, and the partner standing behind it with you eager to work together with
you. Thank you.

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John Sullivan

Good evening. John Sullivan, 30 Holbrook Drive in Nashua. I'm speaking out tonight urging the Board to reject
Resolution 21-202 and 203. Nashua doesn't have an open space problem. We have a housing problem. Reading the
city's Master Plan under the parks and natural areas goal section, nowhere under the five action items listed does it
recommend the expansion of Greeley Park. In fact, Greeley Park isn't even mentioned in that portion of the plan.
Nashua’s Master Plan advises the following: protect Pennichuck Brook corridor, expand planning for Salmon Brook by
extending conservation land protection - which is in Ward 9. We sold Camp Doucette to a private developer. So | guess
we missed the mark on that. Review park inventory to determine how accessible parks are for all residents, seek funding
and build neighborhood parks in areas of the city and | quote, “that are park deficient”. This part of town certainly is not
park deficient.

Nashua’s 2020 housing study calls for all levels of housing and puts a number out there 5,000 units for the city. Thanks to
the Planning Department, I’ve come upon some numbers. We have 40 units of housing that have either been constructed
or underway, another 800 new units of housing in various stages of construction, and there are about 500 more in very
early stages of approval but there is no guarantees that those will all be built. Add those altogether conservatively, we are
still a long way away from the 5,000 units that we need.

If we move forward on this, then we sit around in five years and still wonder why we have a housing problem. You can
draw a line from the decisions that we make today as to why we still have that problem. We pay to come up with these
studies. Let's follow the guidance and the studies and stay true to it. Thank you.

Lela Spira-Savett

Hello, my name is Lela Spira-Savett. | live at 39 Coburn Avenue. I'm a recent graduate of Nashua High School North and
a first year student at Barnard College. During my last three semesters at North, | served as a researcher for the greater
Nashua Interfaith Housing Justice Group. | learned about housing policy both in the US and in our State and city. In
response to the requests the group got from the city, | created a briefing about affordable housing trust funds that some of
you on the Board have heard me present. | took part in other meetings in the city and statewide addressing the impact of
the pandemic on renters and landlords. As you know, more than 40% of Nashua renters are cost burdened spending
more than 30% of their income on housing and almost a third of those who work here cannot afford to live here. The
existing State and federal programs for affordable housing are beginning but we do not have nearly enough funding
sources right now at the scale of our need.

Inclusionary zoning, which | found in my research to be a widely used and successful way to increase affordable housing,
is one way for city policy, city leaders, and developers to work together in a way that will make more of an impact without
financial burdens on the builder, the landlord, or the city. It is important for some of my peers who will move back to
Nashua after college as well as other young people looking for a place to live as they start their careers to have affordable
options for housing. It is also important for any community striving to be dynamic and diverse to not have the cost of
housing the barrier to living here. | hope tonight you will pass O-21-073 and keep the momentum going for more
affordable housing. Thank you.

Paul Metzgar

Thank you. Paul Metzgar, 25 Columbia Ave., Ward 3 speaking in favor of R-21-202 and R-21-203. First, I'd like to thank
all of you, Board of Aldermen, Mr. Mayor for your service to the city. Even if you don't agree with my position, | respect
you and | appreciate what you do. But why do you do it? Why did you agreed to serve the city? | expected to not
because you enjoy seeing the underbelly of human nature, hearing all the complaints receiving threats so why do it? |
expect that part of it is you feel a need to represent your constituents. Part of it may be that you're drawn to fulfilling your
civic duty to serve the city. Part of it may be that you feel a sense of stewardship. You want to keep the city going down
the right path, fix a few things along the way, and leave it in a better position than you found it for your children and their
children.

It's the sense of stewardship that I'd like to address tonight. Now, | know that anything | say tonight is unlikely to change
the minds of those of you who are opposed to these resolutions but I'm going to try anyway. So regarding the property at
15 Bartlett Ave. if someone wants to take the front part of the property where the house and lawn is subdivided that and
build a few houses, | don't think that any of us, myself included, would be opposed to that. The part I'm concerned about
is the back part of the property - the old growth forest and wetlands. That forest is surrounded on three sides by city
property. Look at a map. The Barker forest is essentially a peninsula that juts into Greeley Park. Yes, technically it abuts
the park but | challenge anyone who looks at a map to tell me with a straight face that that property doesn't look like it's
already part of the park. Cutting down that forest will forever change the look and feel of the west side of Greeley.

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You have to represent your constituents. | get it but how many have spoken in opposition? Tens maybe 100. Earlier
today | e-mailed you the spreadsheet with the signatures from the change.org petition imploring you to purchase the
property. We currently have the overwhelming support of almost 3,000 people with 1,300 of those — 1,300 in Nashua and
majority of those being outside of Ward 3. Now Alderman Klee is estimated at the annual cost of the 20 year bond to
purchase this property is about $158,000. According to the US Census Bureau, population of Nashua is about 91,000.
So we're talking about $.175 per person. For comparison...

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.
John Sullivan

...walk up a Dunkin Donuts coffee - $2.27. So that stewardship thing, what's going to make you prouder telling your
children and your grandchildren that you saved them the cost of a small coffee or that you did the right thing and that you
personally helped save the forest for them. Thank you and again even if you choose to vote no, | thank you for your
service to the city.

Tim Root

Hi many name is Tim Root. | live at 63. Berkeley Street. A longtime resident of Nashua - my entire life. | grew up here
with my family, four brothers. Three of us still live in the city. | want to thank the Aldermen for holding this session tonight.
| Know it's a busy time of year, and | hope you all had a happy holiday, and | look forward to a new year.

| personally walk Greeley Park all the time. | actually have a plot in the garden down there as well and so really have a lot
of first-hand knowledge of the beauty of the park as well as seeing thousands and thousands of people enjoying the
space on a regular basis. If any of you have not walked the backside of the park going by the Barker land, | strongly
recommend you do that to get a feel for what we're talking about and how much of that land will change on the backside
of Greeley.

| think it's really important to see this as a short term investment but a long term opportunity for the city. There aren't
properties like this that exist anymore in Nashua. This is a lot of space where there's a lot of things a town could
potentially do with it. | think number one, though, is looking for keeping a feel of Greeley and keeping that open space.

As was mentioned earlier, really critical. It brings people to Nashua. It's highly recommended the Greeley Park for people
to go there. It's just a great experience.

So a lot of people have mentioned a lot of the reasons. | just wanted to add on to that and hope you're strongly, strongly
in favor of both of these resolutions. | think it's critical for Nashua to think long term and look at properties like this as
something that is not available. You're talking about the plan. | agree the plan probably didn't talk about expanding
Greeley because there were no options (inaudible) It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for Nashua to grab this space and
then looking to do what we want with it to enrich the city over time. So that's all | want to say. Please thank you for your
time and appreciate your recommendations that the folks on the Aldermen that are in favor of it and in hope those that are
not appreciate the time in listening to the comments.

Bob Born

Hi. I'm Bob Born, 28 Farley Street. Thank you for the time this evening. I'm speaking in favor of R-21-203 and 202 the
acquisition of the Bartlett forest property. A lot of things have happened since the last meeting all leading us tonight's
discussion and your ultimate vote. We know that developers who had the first purchase and sale agreement for the
Barker Family Trust has backed out thus giving us a little bit of time on this more of the community and | pray to your
hearts. We know that there are at least two more offers pending on this property, neither of which will be as clean and I'll
put “clean” in quotes as a city adding the acreage to Greeley Park. Please don't let this get away.

The last time | spoke, | mentioned that there will be many topics to address. There still are all germane to the community
issues, topics including traffic, water, sewer, environmental, safety, etc. all of which are critical but tonight I'm going to
address our collective responsibility to the greater good of Nashua. As parents we make decisions about and for our
children. Some decisions are difficult. Difficult because they may result in short term pain but ultimately we believe in the
positive result. As family members, we do similarly. We defend what needs to be defended, we protect what needs to be
protected, we help our families often times making those difficult decisions. As members of neighborhoods, we do the
same thing. We assist in helping our neighbors with the needs of the neighborhood. Neighborhood Watch is a great

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example of this. As community members, again, we follow suit. We assist, we contribute, we help in any way we can.
For that, we are all better off.

Greeley Park was given to a larger entity - the city. Not to the neighborhood, not to the Ward. The result has been
spectacular. Mr. Greeley did this not because it was better for him or his family but for the greater good. It didn't benefit
the Greeley children. It didn't benefit the Greeley neighbors. It didn't benefit the lessors and pieces of the Greeley Farm.
It was purely of benefit to the city, and those that enjoy the park, and those that will enjoy the park. I'm asking you to put
down your guards and your conscience and use your conscience and think about the benefits to the city as a whole.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.

Bob Born

To think bigger than just the impact on you individually, your family, your neighborhood, your Ward, your larger
community, the city wins with your decision to purchase the parcel. I've heard or you will hear about many topics that are
critical to the issue of developing the Barker property. You've been given a gift during this holiday season. The gift will
allow you to cement an enduring legacy to continue to stabilize and grow the environment in and around Greeley Park.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

Time is up.
Bob Born

Perhaps one day this park will be up against the original size in grandeur of Mr. Greeley’s selfless gift. Thank you.

Kristy Besada

Thank you. My name is Reverend Kristy Besada. | live at 12 Nutmeg Drive in Nashua, Ward 9. | am also one of the
Pastors at Main Street United Methodist Church and | represent the Nashua Interfaith Housing Justice team and also
Granite State Organizing Project this evening. | first want to say thank you. As | have said many times before for your
work on inclusionary zoning. This amendment is going to be very important in ensuring that the people who live and work
in Nashua, particularly singles starting at about $56,000 up to households of four making about $109,000, will have places
that they can afford to live. Having been a housing justice worker in this city for years, however, | am aware that there are
many other struggling households, 40% of renters in fact, as Lela has so eloquently said who are still rent burden and are
struggling to continue to live here.

The housing study was referenced by Mr. Sullivan and the 5,000 unit need is extremely strong. So | want to call the
Board of Aldermen to a moment of accountability. It is clear to me that the city government is willing to go into significant
debt to protect and enhance the experiences of our middle class to more affluent residents through debt, for performing
arts centers, for park enhancements, and I'm not here to argue with those choices at all. But | would like to ask the Board
as well as the Bartlett neighbors who speak about caring for the whole community to be accountable and to join us in
working toward housing that all Nashuans can afford.

| am here to remind you that we have $16 million of American Rescue Plan money coming into the city that has not yet
been designated for being spent and I'm asking the Board to consider being accountable to the goals of the Master Plan,
to the goals of the housing study, and to designate the majority of that money to affordable housing be it through special
projects or the Affordable Housing Trust Fund that still needs to be fleshed out. | thank you so much for hearing me this
evening and | asked you again to support inclusionary zoning in its current form fully. Thank you.

Francis Murphy

Good evening. My name is Francis Murphy and | want to make sure it can be heard. Thank you. | speak to urge the
Board to move forward on the purchase of the Barker property on Bartlett Street so it can be integrated into Greeley Park.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

Your address, please.

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Francis Murphy

72 Berkeley Street, thank you. I'm here speaking in my private capacity but I'm also the President of the Friends of
Greeley Park as well as Chairman of a group formed under State law - the Lower Merrimack River Local Advisory
Committee. Our task is to advocate for all good things related to the river. It's been referenced to the Master Plan. My
main purpose and point is to state that the purchase of the Bartlett Street property is entirely consistent with the city's
Master Plan. Indeed if the city were not to move forward with the purchase of the property, (inaudible) contrary to the
spirit and dictates of the Master Plan. I'm going to attempt to pull up portion of the Master Plan on a screen share. So
that's not working. I'm going to read from the Master Plan. On objective 2, the Master Plan states, “the goal is for open
space, scenic areas, passive recreation, the city should strive to provide all residents of the city with adequate and
accessible recreational space”. The specific recommendation b says, “is to protect and set aside open space areas in
each of the city's quadrants wherever possible”. Aspiration recommendation F is, “acquire additional open space areas”.
Then finally, for my point, recommendation G is, “to amend site plans, such that clear cutting or near clear cutting of
vegetation should be prohibited”.

The plan that was put forward was to create 40 housing units over 55.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.

Francis Murphy

That would have been involving clear cutting most of the 13 acres. So | urge the purchase of the property as it is entirely
consistent with the Master Plan. Thank you.

Laurie Ortolano

Hi. Good evening. Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. Happy almost New Year. | wanted to give my support to the
affordable housing inclusionary zoning amendment. | believe the Board is going to back that tonight. | think that's a move
in the right direction. | hope we do some good monitoring of that program and if adjustments need to be made to it that
we move accordingly to make those adjustments.

I'd also like to speak regarding the Bartlett Street property. | think there was some good points raised from individuals
John Sullivan and another individual reading the housing issue and the housing shortage. | do think that, you know,
you're looking at creating housing versus preservation of land and it's a competing issue here. | see a lot of spending
going on in the city. | see a Mayor who's very liberal (inaudible) in spending and | don't see a lot of solutions in place as to
how we're going to afford what is being spent. So that concerns me, it continues to concern me. So the Board is going to
do what the Board is going to do but I'm, you know, I'm watching what's going on here.

Also a third item you have a lot of letters in your packet regarding the mask mandate that was put in place. | asked Donna
Graham to please provide me with any additional letters that didn't make it into the packet. Your packet had, | believe 29
letters, but there were additional 33 letters that didn't go in because they were not addressed properly with a full address
to be counted. | think when you look at - | hope all Board members got all of those letters because when you look at
those letters, | was pretty surprised to see the lack of support for the mask mandate on the level that | saw.

President Wilshire

We're not going to be acting upon that this evening Ms. Ortolano. Could you stick to items we're going to be acting upon?
Laurie Ortolano

Well they are the items you read into the record and you allowed me to do this before. So they were acknowledged. So
there were 42 people who were opposed to it and 21 people in support the mandate. So | hope that one individual or
several individuals on the Board asked for a weekly update on the numbers and a weekly briefing be given to the Board. |
don't see that that's on the agenda tonight but | would like you to pay attention to that because | think you don't have that
support because people are not buying into what you're stating. | think your Board of Health was very misleading in what
they gave to the Board.

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Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.
Laurie Ortolano

We're all concerned about the load on the hospitals. However, these are regional hospitals that support patients from all
over the area. Communities that are more population in the City of Nashua, we should assume that it's only Nashuans
that are filling the hospital beds. It's a misrepresentation. | expect more from our Board of Health when it comes to data
and | think they fell woefully short. Thank you.

Penny Ferreira

Okay, thank you. My name is Penny Ferreira. I'm on John's computer and we live at 3 Birchwood Drive in Nashua, New
Hampshire. Thank you for letting me speak again and | hope all of you had a really safe and blessed holiday with your
families. Thank you for all the work that you do, because this has been a learning curve for me and God bless you all.

So | had a wonderful exchange with Mr. O'Brien this afternoon. He's not only a dapper dresser but he's a good debater
and | told him | was gonna do a pros and cons and many of my neighbors have stayed in some of the bets that | wanted
to. One of the comments though that John Sullivan stated, respectfully John, if you look on page 178 of the Master Plan,
the main goal says, “recreation and open space to expand and enhance existing open spaces to balance the protection of
Nashua’s environmental assets with the opportunities for redevelopment”. Fran Murphy spoke so eloquently about
opportunity for this. He also educated me about the spring that is underneath this property. | heard from another
neighbor too that the land - the Barker land is kind of moist because of this spring. The only thing that's keeping it from
flooding are those trees. There's also a commitment | know from Alderman Klee that you are passionate about climate
control. This is a perfect opportunity to do that - to follow the Master Plan and to check off a huge win for climate control.

Mr. O'Brien you said that there were other Wards that said they don't have the green spaces because Greeley. Well they
may not have had the opportunity because of how their area is built but the southern quadrant is it's slated for the most
opportunity for building and it's also in your Master Plan that you will work with developers coming in to develop more
green space. So they have an opportunity to get their green space. Maybe not as big as Greeley but that can also be on
the added expense of the builder. | know that our Economic Developer Tim Cummings and Matt Sullivan will do a good
job at making sure that that happens. There are other Wards like Ward 1 with Jan Schmidt. You said that you...

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.

Penny Ferreira

...you would love to save the green space but you didn't hear it from your constituents. | have friends that live in your
area. | hope you got more e-mails this year stating that there are people in your area that use Greeley and would gladly
pay a higher tax. Caron you also lost property in your area. But again, it's a city. It's a city park so you have an
opportunity to save this land for the entire city. And even though...

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

Your time is up.

Penny Ferreira

Okay. Thank you. | really appreciate it. I'll come back.

Alex Comeau

Thank you. Alex Comeau, 4 Lewis Street. I'd like to begin by thanking the seven outgoing members of the Board —
Alderwoman Caron, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Lu, Alderman Cleaver, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman

Tencza and Alderman Cleaver. Thank you for your service to City of Nashua. | speak for a lot of people in my
neighborhood and we thank you for everything you've done for us.