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December 13, 2016

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-16-017
Endorsers: Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
AMENDING THE STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA TO AMEND O-16-017 IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REPLACING IT
WITH THE GOLDEN ROD COPY PROVIDED WITH THE AGENDA

ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Siegel

What are the changes?
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

The change addresses alternates. When we had a meeting earlier this year we realized although we had new
membership on the committee we did not have a way to provide alternates so the business of the committee
could move forward so that has been added so we have the appropriately designated individuals there from
the different Boards, Committees, the Mayor’s office and the three committees from the Board of Aldermen,
Planning and Economic Development budget and Infrastructure.

Alderman Siegel

| did notice that there was a language change from “chairman” to “chair” and | didn’t co-sponsor that but |
would urge us to not try to purge that type of language. “Chair is an inanimate object and “Chairman”
indicates a human and we are all here as Aldermen expect for one Alderwoman so perhaps you might change
to Alderman Melizzi-Golja or we can all be Alderhuman but again, this is light hearted. | know what the intent
is but | think that stuff is not necessary.

President McCarthy

I'll just point out Alderman Siegel, that in the past | have dealt with Chairmen who seem to be inanimate
objects also.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
| don’t think | actually requested that change but if | did that’s okay | will take credit for it.

Alderman Moriarty

| am greatly concerned at the elimination of all usages of “man” because it applies we have a heroic task
ahead of us fixing all of the aggressious errors in our charter and all of the ordinances. Now we have an
inconsistency with the resolution which eliminates all usage of “man” as a suffix. If you are an Alderwoman
does that make you an “Alderwo?” | am going to vote no on this.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN MORIARTY TO AMEND THE GOLDENROD CDOPY TO USE THE WORD
CHAIRMAN INSTEAD OF THE WORD CHAIR

ON THE QUESTION

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Alderman Clemons
| am not going to support that and the reason is that we live in a time when we should be respectful of other

peoples’ wishes as far as their gender identity goes and to me this is an attempt to put an identity on a
particular individual and | am not going to support it.

Alderman Moriarty

Roll call.

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

Yea: Alderman Deane, Alderman Cookson, Alderman Dowd, 12
Alderman Caron, Alderman Siegel, Alderman Schoneman,
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun,
Alderman Moriarty, Alderman O’Brien, Alderman McCarthy

Nay: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez 3

MOTION CARRIED

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-16-017 AS FURTHER
AMENDED

Alderman Cookson

| noticed that one of the changes which impacts the chairman of the Infrastructure Committee is that the
chairman of Infrastructure used to be vice Chair and is now just a...

President McCarthy

There was no vice chair and that’s one of the things that the ordinance addresses.

Alderman Cookson

So the chairman of the Budget Review Committee is now serving as vice chair of this committee.
President McCarthy

Correct.

Alderman Cookson

| am wondering what the difference is. Why Budget versus Infrastructure? What was your decision making
process in determining who was the vice chair of the committee?

President McCarthy
| didn’t put the amendment in, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja did.
Alderman Cookson

| thought these were your suggestions.

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President McCarthy

There are amendments in there to the way the appointments of the alternates. The legislation as submitted
had the change to the vice chairmanship in there and as | said prior to the legislation there was no vice chair
named in the ordinance and that was one of the issues that it had.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

| believe at the first meeting | chaired in July we had a discussion about, as we had talked about this with
Director Marchant and Director Cummings and we talked about strategic planning relating to budgeting . At
that meeting Alderman Dowd was elected vice chair of the committee.

Alderman Cookson

| recall having the discussion and electing Alderman Dowd as vice chair for this particular setting but | believe
that’s the way it should be conducted for all strategic planning. | don’t believe that we should designate a
particular individual or chairman of a particular committee to be chair or vice chair of a particular committee. |

think it should be up to the Board, whoever is present in that body to make a decision who they want to lead
and co-lead.

President McCarthy

That would be inconsistent with every other committee, they are either defined by ordinance or they are named
by the president when the committee is appointed.

Alderman Cookson
| appreciate that but that’s my two cents.
Alderman Deane
They are named by the president but they are approved by the Board, right?
President McCarthy
Yes.
MOTION CARRIED
Ordinance O-16-017 declared duly adopted as amended.
O-16-019
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
INCREASING SEWER USE FEES RATES AND CHARGES

Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS TO AMEND O-16-019 IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REPLACING IT WITH
THE GOLDEN ROD COPY PROVIDED WITH THE AGENDA

ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Clemons

The change is moving the effective date from July 1* to January 1°.

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MOTION CARRIED

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-16-019 AS AMENDED
ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Clemons

We had a very good conversation at the Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee regarding this and a very
good presentation as to the necessity of the rate change. One of the things that came up in public comment
was that some people were surprised by this and | understand that. It came up after a lot of the condo
associations approved their operating budgets. While this is likely still going to go through | am hoping is that
this spring we can have a discussion to see if we can get these increases to be more systematic so folks will
know what to expect in the future without being blind-sided.

Alderman Deane

| don’t think anyone was blind-sided, the prior administration did not bring in the rate increase as was
recommended through the rate study and the expenditures associated with the system. The financial analysis
that was presented to us with our wastewater equipment reserve fund, with capital projects, operations and
maintenance we know full well that we are going to be looking at a 7.5% increase every year now. It’s not like
it was never discussed in a public setting. | think we do need to put a system in place and look at what we
have to do to cover the cost. This is by far the most important facility in the city. There were a myriad of
issues from in the past where our unassigned fund balances drained and we had to make up the difference on
that. Nashua’s rates are still low in that area comparably. Maybe in spring we should get a rate study done
and put an ordinance in and address it right then and there so folks know what the increases are going to be.

Alderman Siegel

| would concur with Alderman Clemons that it is very good. | would urge everyone to please review the
minutes and the presentation that Mr. Griffin gave. It explains very clearly why this isn’t optional.

Alderman Moriarty

It looks like the demand charges are going up by 15% and then there is a flow charge that goes up in two
steps, a 15% sort of retroactively and then it goes up another 15% in the beginning of 2017, is that right?

Alderman Deane

Yes.

MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-16-019 declared duly adopted as amended.

O-16-021
Endorsers: Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Tom Lopez
CHANGING THE NAME OF THE REVIEW AND COMMENT COMMISSION TO THE CITIZENS
ADVISORY COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY GRANTS
Given its second reading;

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MOTION BY ALDERMAN CARON TO AMEND O-16-021 IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REPLACING IT WITH THE
GOLDEN ROD COPY PROVIDED WITH THE AGENDA

ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Caron

In reading the legislation we found that Review and Comment was still in place in some of the areas so we had
to make sure that the Citizens Advisory Committee for Community Grants was put in place in all of these
areas. This now tells people exactly what this group of people do with the non-profit agencies who come in for
applications.

Alderman Moriarty

Alderman Wilshire, | think we worked on this when | was on Human Affairs about 4 years ago and | think this is
where this was generated because it mentions a worksheet approved by the Human Affairs Committee and
now it’s no longer approved by the Human Affairs Committee. Are you aware of this and is it okay?

Alderman Wilshire
| am in favor of it.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN MORIARTY TO AMEND THE GOLDENROD COPY TO CHANGE “CHAIR” TO
“CHAIRMAN”

MOTION CARRIED

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CARON FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-16-021 AS FURTHER AMENDED
MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-16-021 declared duly adopted as amended.

O-16-022
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
ESTABLISHING AN ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY COMMITTEE
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-16-022
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Deane

Is this really necessary? Is this going to stop the five diesel buses from idling down here for hours on end? It
looks like busy work for people.

MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-16-022 declared duly adopted.

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O-16-023
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Mark S. Cookson
Alderman David Schoneman
Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
Alderman June M. Caron
AUTHORIZING FREE HOLIDAY PARKING AT METERS IN ZONE III WHICH INCLUDES THE
ELM STREET AND HIGH STREET PARKING GARAGES FROM DECEMBER 11, 2016,
THROUGH JANUARY 2, 2017
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN COOKSON TO AMEND O-16-023 IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REPLACING IT WITH
THE GOLDEN ROD COPY PROVIDED WITH THE AGENDA
MOTION CARRIED

MOTION BY ALDERMAN COOKSON FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-16-023 AS AMENDED
MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-16-023 declared duly adopted as amended.

O-16-024
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman David Schoneman
Alderman Ben Clemons
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
EXTENDING THE OVERNIGHT ON-STREET PARKING PROGRAM INDEFINITELY AND ALLOWING
RESIDENTS OF ORANGE STREET AND WHITNEY STREET TO PURCHASE OVERNIGHT ON-
STREET PARKING PERMITS
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN SCHONEMAN TO AMEND O-16-024 IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REPLACING IT WITH
THE GOLDEN ROD COPY PROVIDED WITH THE AGENDA

ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Schoneman

The program has been working very well; it’s used in the French Hill area and the Tree Streets, most being the
Tree Streets. French Hill has been less widely used with only 20 permits being issued. Not every street up
there is suitable for overnight parking but there are plenty of designated spaces. There are people that ask to
be given permission to park on an adjacent street because their street is too small and the change that we are
making is to add Orange Street and Whitney Street but since the legislation was originally submitted Atwood
Court is now added.

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MOTION CARRIED

MOTION BY ALDERMAN SCHONEMAN FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-16-024 AS AMENDED
Alderman Wilshire

Atwood Court is mostly public housing. Are they aware of this ordinance?

Alderman Schoneman

A resident there brought it to my attention.

Alderman Wilshire

The Housing Authority owns most of the property on that street and | would have thought that you might have
reached out to the management of the Housing Authority.

Alderman Moriarty

| am in support of this but | would like to take this moment to recognize Mayor Donchess who was the
originator of this when he was an Alderman. There was a lot of discussion on this in the old days. A
constituent had called me and said there was a suspicious looking car parked in front of his house and asked if
overnight parking was allowed where he lived and | knew that it was not because of this whole discussion. It
turns out that the car parked in front of his house was someone buying drugs down the street so it was a useful
way to identify that there was a problem of concern in that particular neighborhood.

MOTION CARRIED
Ordinance O-16-024 declared duly adopted as amended.

O-16-026
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Sean M. McGuinness
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
COMBINING THE BUILDING CODE BOARD OF APPEALS AND THE BOARD OF FIRE
PREVENTION CODE APPEALS INTO ONE BOARD OF BUILDING AND FIRE CODES
APPEALS
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-16-026
MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-16-026 declared duly adopted.

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NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-16-083
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 Don LeBrun
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $58,000 FROM THE STATE
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “FY2017 VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN GRANT PROGRAM” AND TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF $59,533
Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-16-084
Endorser. Alderman David Schoneman
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Sean M. McGuinness
Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
AUTHORIZING A TWENTY YEAR EXTENSION (FROM 2047 TO 2067) OF THE MASTER LEASE
TO THE NASHUA AIRPORT AUTHORITY
Given its first reading; assigned to the FINANCE COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-16-027
Endorser: Alderman Don LeBrun
AUTHORIZING A STOP SIGN ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF TACOMA CIRCLE AT ITS
INTERSECTION WITH OLYMPIA CIRCLE

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

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Mr. Fred Teeboom, 24 Cheyenne Drive

| stand corrected regarding the public comment because it does say you can only address resolutions and
ordinances but that was a change.

Let’s talk about the cost of charter schools compared to the cost of the Nashua School District. | mentioned
the $86.5 million contract which you just adopted and represents about $1,000 for every citizen in Nashua.
That took about three pages of discussion at the Budget Review Committee meeting. Compare that with the
$90,000 item; a tax offset that doesn’t appear in the budget and represents $1.00 for every citizen and it took
nine pages of discussion. Alderman Siegel mentioned that there was a lot of rambling going on and if you look
at pages 18, 19 and 20 that Alderman Siegel was doing most of the rambling. The teachers at the charter
schools get paid $40,000 per year and that’s the maximum. Teachers in the Nashua School District make
$62,000 per year as their base pay, loaded it’s $88,000 per year. That is a lot more than the charter schools
and yet they produce a superior product. The Academy of Science and Design is rated number one in the
entire state and forty in the U.S.A. During the Budget Review Committee meeting Alderman Schoneman

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arranged for representatives from the Academy of Science Design and the Micro Society to be here. He asked
them if they had any problems. We are talking about $70,000 for ASD and $20,000 for the Micro Society. The
ASD guy we are okay but the Micro Society representative said that their lease is at $180,000 and it goes up in
$20,000 increments and they owe $170,000 and they have difficulty making the money and $20,000 would
certainly help them. They can’t go out and raise taxes or fees, they have to beg parents for money which can
be difficult for them to do. You wouldn't even allow them the $90,000. The teacher ratio is usually 20 to 1 and
the Nashua School District it's 14 to 1. | didn’t vote for Donald Trump but he appointed a staunch charter
proponent to be Secretary of Education. | did vote for Chris Sununu for Governor of the State. Chris Sununu
also says he is for charter schools. | hope we start proposing charter schools. The views on this Board
against charter schools is just unacceptable. It a bias. There’s 491 kids that reside in Nashua go to charter
schools. All the taxpayers in the state contribute $5600 to the student of a charter school. A cost of a student
in the Nashua School District is $13,000 a year. That’s a big difference. IEP kids in the schools are high. It’s
20 percent. | just checked with the school district this afternoon. One out of every five kids have an IEP. | find
that difficult to believe. One out of five kids is dysfunctional. I’ve used that word and I’ve been criticized for it.
We need to support charter schools. The school district is always complaining they don’t have enough money.
| mentioned it earlier and I'll go over it again. Since 2001, 2002, the state population went down by 2,218
students. That represents 17 percent of the student body. Most of the kids have come down in the elementary
schools and the middle schools: 1918 kids less. It keeps going down, but we still have the same number of
schools. This was recognized in 2007 when the school district sponsored a study. They didn’t draw a
conclusion; there’s no conclusion in the report. | find it hard to believe that they spent $100,000 or $40,000 -
$50,000 on a study and there’s no conclusion but they do talk about closing a school. Mount Pleasant was the
one most likely. You close Mount Pleasant down because they don’t need a school. They’ve got plenty of
space. They even have a gym at the Mount Pleasant School for free to a charter school. That’s the kind of
thinking that needs to take place instead of just looking at percentages. It’s never enough and they always
complain. | hope this carries a message. Thank you.

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Alderman Lopez

Next Wednesday, December 21, at 5:00 p.m. in front of the Main Street Methodist we are holding a vigil to
remember the people who have passed away that are homeless. It’s the longest night of the year so we
thought that was appropriate to remember them. On a slightly lightly note, we’re organizing the decoration of
the Delanis Hall, the veterans housing program. Anybody who has extra Christmas decorations, it would help
the veterans decorate their halls.

Alderman O’Brien

Over the last month of December, we lost two retired firefighters. Artie Paine did a lot of good years of service
to the community and the fire department. Another, Lt. Michael Dolan, who upon his retirement sought a
second career and worked very hard with the Salvation Army and gave a lot of himself to that organization.
Both of these people are wonderful human beings that will be sorely missed. | would like to thank everybody
on the board the best of the holiday season and to all the constituents and citizens of Nashua the same.

Alderman Moriarty

| do want to apologize | missed last Tuesday’s Planning & Economic Development Committee and | forgot to
all ahead. | was on business on Ohio and at the time was on a plane. | just want to wish everybody a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Alderman LeBrun

Today | had the pleasure of welcoming 70 4" graders from Main Dunstable Elementary School at the State
House. We had quite a conversation for about two hours. They presented with a challenge. They gave me a

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bill that they wanted me to submit to name the painted turtle the official state reptile. | took them up on their
challenge and | submitted the bill today so it will go through the due process. Also, | wish everyone a Merry
Christmas, and a Happy, Safe and Prosperous New Year.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

| would just like to join my fellow aldermen in wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. For those who celebrate
Hanukkah, Happy Hanukkah and best wishes for the New Year.

Alderman Schoneman

This past Sunday we had Santa in the Park. It was a very successful event. | want to thank the Parks and
Recreation Department for all the work they did helping to get the gazebo set up and the Friends of Greeley
Park, many of whom volunteered their time. A special thanks to Ed Lecius and Lynn Magee who agreed for
Santa and Mrs. Claus to make an appearance. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the
Board. | appreciate Mr. Teeboom's comments. | think as we move forward in the new year, we have to take a
look at some of the challenges that we’re looking at in education and try to find some solutions. While the
charter schools may not be appealing for a lot of reasons, often political reasons, | think to say there is no merit
there | think would be a mistake. | think we can look to their example, look at some of their activities and see
some benefits to the taxpayers. Thank you.

Alderman Siegel

Vis-a-vis Mr. Teeboom’s remark, | might point out that in fact the legislation was tabled. It was nto disposed.
We have not come to a final decision on what’s going to be done. A lot of the reason why it was tabled was
because the legislation was meant to attract charter schools or prevent them to leaving as a consequence of
financial hardship. There was no demonstration that either there was a charter school coming in that could
take advantage of it and would make a decision to locate in Nashua as a consequence to that or at least in the
immediate future that a charter school was in jeopardy of closing as a consequence of not adopting it so it was
tabled for the time being. We will revisit it. As to whether or not | was rambling or not, that’s a matter of
opinion. We tried to vet the legislation. There was a lot of discussion. There were members of the school
board and also the acting superintendent there. To a certain extent they were blindsided because they didn’t
expect that to come off the table so they weren’t really in a position to discuss it. It wasn’t blindsided in a
malicious sense, they just weren’t prepared to really have the level of discussion. Secondly, God bless
everybody and have a Happy Holiday.

Alderman Caron

Thank you, Alderman Lopez and Alderman Dowd, for coming to the First Annual Breakfast with Santa at the
Senior Center. Mayor Donchess, we were all excited to see you. Santa Claus had a good time condemning
City Treasurer, David Fredette’ s gingerbread house. The fire department decided to put a caution tape across
it. He did a terrible job, but he stepped up to the plate and really did a good job. The Nashua Senior Center
staff and the Board of Directors again would like to thank the Board for giving them the $25,000 to do
continued maintenance to the primary location for the senior center. As you know that building is a little over
ten years old. The money comes in very handy to do the things that they cannot do with the small budget they
have. We really appreciate it. If you have a chance, please come down. We have a new member of the Senior
Center, Alderman Dowd. He’s going to take advantage of the gym class. On that note, | would like to wish
everyone a Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Alderman Dowd
The Charron Avenue/Amherst Street intersection is coming along, although nowhere near as far as we had

hoped. Through efforts of the city and the Mayor you can now take a left turn off of Charron Avenue onto
Amherst Street. It has improved the traffic flow somewhat. As soon as we get through the snow season, they