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Alderman Moran

Thank you.
Tim Sennott
Thank you.

Alderman Moran

Thank you, Madam President.

Alderman Thibeault

Thank you, Madam President. So want to know what the most important thing or | should say, what do you think is the
most important thing - well, most important issue in Nashua currently and something that you care about? So lining up,
right most important issue you care about the most?

Tim Sennott

Well, that's a good one. Most important issue | think facing Nashua is the most important issue that faces Nashua
every day and that's providing services that best serve our residences. | think that starts at the core of any municipality
- good schools, well supported police, well provided firefighters. We place a great deal of emphasis on the Fire
Department. My family, my wife's grandfather is a retired Fire Captain who built the house that’s three doors down from
ours. We all have that reminder every day but the services that we provide to the residents need to be first and
foremost. In doing so, we need to always approach issues that affect those departments whether it's fire, police,
streets, roads, schools with a mind for bolstering the folks that make those work whether it's our Department of Public
Works having the tools and the funding that they need to make our roads safe, keep our roads from damaging our
vehicles. We need to attract and retain the best teachers that we can. I've said in this chamber before that we cannot
expect to always kick the notion of attracting and retaining the best teachers down the road and expect to keep and
retain the best teachers. Teachers approach their careers just like any of us do. When I'm looking for a job in
accounting, I'm looking for I'm looking to get the most bang for my buck. Teachers the same way. We need to start
treating them like the smart and educated folks that they are if we want to keep them retain them here and see them
here for the long term. The best teachers that | had growing up, they've all moved away.

We need to support our Police Departments. We have in Nashua, | believe, a very adequate Police Department. |
know they've bolstered at the request of the residents in Ward 7 their presence significantly In Crown Hill at least over
the past few years. They're very responsive to even the silly, little pithy neighborhood concerns that we have
somebody speeding down my road. We can get an officer out within five minutes. That's the sort of community
oriented policing that | like. | just feel that bolstering those services that we have, putting them up, and continuing to
ensure that they thrive should be the most pressing thing for our city. Everything else can come on after.

Alderman Thibeault

That’s a lot of issues. Great, thank you.

President Wilshire

Anyone else? Thank you very much. We will take up nominations after we're done interviewing all four candidates.
Tim Sennott
Thank you all for your consideration.

President Wilshire

Thank you very much for yours.

e Bob Resch
114 East Glenwood Street

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Nashua, NH 03060

President Wilshire

Okay. Next we have Bob Resch. Bob is joining us via Zoom tonight. So Mr. Resch, you have five minutes.
Bob Resch
Thank you. Thank you to the Board. My knee thanks you for allowing me to do this through Zoom.

As the saying goes, | wasn't born in New Hampshire but | couldn't wait to get here. | was born in New York City and
spent the first 39 years of my life there. | had New Yorker’s view of the world. New York, Hudson River, vast
wasteland, Pacific Ocean. | went to school in the New York City school system. | graduated with a Bachelor's Degree
in Political Science from the city college. Through a twist of fate, of course, | ended up in the medical profession.

In 2003, | had a job offer from an MRI company in Maryland and | decided to leave the City and find out

what life was like beyond the Hudson. What | found stunned me. | found a place where | could move in a very
comfortable way without paying a fortune and rent and taxes. After several years, | left that company for a new position
in New England. At first, | lived in Massachusetts and when my wife and | decided to stop renting and buy a home, we
found Nashua. We found it a very friendly City and State. Not just friendly towards people but friendly towards
business as well. In the years we have lived in Nashua, my wife and | have seen numerous new businesses open and
new housing being built. A few months ago, my wife and | went to the movies just over the border in Tyngsboro. We
saw a shopping mall that had once been filled now had over half of its stores vacant due to the economic restrictions
imposed by Massachusetts. In driving home, we saw two new stores being built in Nashua. The difference is striking.

Our nation is currently experiencing an economic downturn. Although Nashua hasn't been hit as hard as some other
places, we are still feeling the crunch. | see the best way to ease the crisis is with careful government spending and
incentives for new businesses. When we grow our economy, we grow our community. The New Hampshire advantage
is real. We are informed the Gate City just (inaudible) location as the entry in New Hampshire. We are a gateway for a
freer way of life and if you choose me to be Alderman for Ward 7 maintaining that freedom for our citizens and our
State's advantage will consistently be at the forefront of my decisions. Thank you for your time.

President Wilshire

Thank you. Anyone have any questions for Mr. Resch?
Alderman Klee

Thank you, Madam President. Mr. Resch thank you for applying. | have actually two questions. I'll start with the one
that I've asked everybody else so far. What are your views on the asphalt manufacturing company?

Bob Resch

Well although | do feel that there is a necessity for new business to be brought into our city, | don't feel that the location
for the asphalt manufacturing facility is the proper location for it. As was pointed out before, the speaker who preceded
me, it's not something that the residents there want to wake up to smelling every day. | think that we can find a better
use for that property, a better way to bring jobs in then to have something like that which can ultimately be toxic to the
residents in the long run.

Alderman Klee

Thank you very much. | do have one other question for you. You're very thoughtful in discussing the economic
downturn, and careful government spending, and etc. | don't know how long you've been here in New Hampshire but
are you aware that New Hampshire is a Dillon State and sometimes as Board of Aldermen although we may want to do
something, we can't do it unless we've had legislation approval from the State of New Hampshire as we are a Dillon
State?

Bob Resch

Yes, |am aware of that. I've been in Nashua for eight years now.

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Alderman Klee
Thank you very much.

Alderman Thibeault

Thank you, Madam President. Thank you for applying Mr. Resch. We have not met at all. | don't know you

at all so I'm trying to find a little bit more out about you. I'm going to start with the question | asked the other two just
because | want to be very consistent in questioning each person. What do you think about keeping or not keeping the
Keefe Auditorium at Elm Street?

Bob Resch
| don't believe it's absolutely a necessity at this point. | figure | feel that with the Court Street auditorium and with a new
art center that's opening up, we can find a better use for that space or even to sell that space and to use that money in

conjunction with private funds to enhance the Court Street auditorium.

Alderman Thibeault

Thank you.

President Wilshire

Anyone else have questions for Mr. Resch?

Alderman Sullivan

Thank you, Madam President. Same questions as | asked her Mr. Sennott. Why you, why now?
Bob Resch

As Alderman Moran pointed out not only do we require people who have been on the Board for a long time for their
knowledge, their wisdom, their experience, we also require fresh eyes, fresh perspective, fresh blood. | have not
served in government in New Hampshire or Nashua and | feel that | do have, although | do have experience serving in
local government and school government, and | feel that a new fresh set of eyes, a new way of looking at things,
someone who is not beholden to anyone, and be a very good boost to the drawing board.

Alderman Sullivan

Thank you.

Alderman Lopez

Mr. Resch thank you for putting your name forward. | just wanted to get an idea of what your experiences in the
neighborhood you'd be representing are. Do you have - have you spoken to any of the other candidates in any of the
capacities that they served in? Have you volunteered with any organizations? Anything like that?

Bob Resch
No. To be honest with you, | have not spoken with any of the other candidates. Due to my past workload which has
now been alleviated quite a bit since | work from home now, | will | will have much more time than | would have in the

past which is why I'm actually putting my name in now and have not done so before.

Alderman Lopez

Okay. Thank you for your answer and your willingness to get more involved.

President Wilshire

Anyone else have questions for Mr. Resch? Okay. So we're gonna take up nominations after we interview
our last candidate so stay with us. Mr. Guarino.

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e Ray Guarino
59 Elgin Street
Nashua, NH 03060

Ray Guarino

Thank you, thank you very much and thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here. | live on Elgin Street. I've
been a resident of Ward 7 since 2002. Many of those years June Caron has been my representative on the Board and
| always voted for her because | believe she did a great job.

| also Know Tim Sennott and he has always been a very hard worker, very dedicated at Ward 7. So you have some
great candidates for Ward 7. | think they they'll do a great job. They both believe in good government and even though
we have changes, | want to speak a little bit about what Alderman Moran said about how having changes. June Caron
has about 10 years’ experience but some of these new people in these new changes, change is sometimes not good
because you don't have people who actually believe in government that are in government. But you do have people
like Tim Sennott who do believe in government and do a good job. So | think is very careful about change. Some
change is good, some change is not good.

| actually want to remove my name from consideration because | think June has done a good job. | would urge you to
vote for June. | know Tim. Tim is also very good candidate too. So | hope that helps you get closer - it makes your job
easier choosing a candidate. Whoever you choose, you know, I'm going to help them at Ward 7 because we do have a
team down there at Ward 7, especially on Election Day and everybody works together. So thank you very much.

President Wilshire

Thank you, Mr. Guarino. We appreciate you coming. Okay.
Alderman Dowd
Yes. I'd like to nominate June Caron to fill the Ward 7...

President Wilshire

Alderman Dowd, I'd like to open up the floor for nominations. Okay. I'm going to open up the floor for nominations.

Alderman Comeau

If | may before you do that, just a quick question. | noticed there's a hefty sized audience on Zoom and | wondered if it
would be appropriate for us to allow a period of public comment before we decide to vote.

President Wilshire

We don't have public comment at this meeting this evening.

Alderman Comeau

Could | make a motion to allow public comment?

President Wilshire

You can make a motion.

Alderman Comeau

Then | would like to do so please.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN COMEAU TO ALLOW PUBLIC COMMENT, BY ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION

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Alderman Lopez

| generally like to be the sole agent of chaos But in this particular case, | would find it helpful to hear what members of
the public who live in the neighborhoods that we would be appointing someone for because | find this to be a very
unusual circumstance where there was an election, they voted, and now because of the resignation of Alderman
Cathey, we're in a position to make a decision for people whose personally | don't live in that neighborhood so | would
be supportive just to kind of understand what the sentiment is there.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you, Madam President. Aldermen Comeau beat me to it. That's all | had to say.
Alderman Klee

Thank you Madam President. | usually do vote for public comment and | do think it's a good idea to get some input
from Ward 7. My only concern is that when we put out the agenda, it did not have public comment. So some of the
candidates that are here won't have necessarily representation. | still want to hear from the public but | want to make
that very clear that it wasn't on the agenda. So there may be some people that just didn't bother to come. They may
have come if they knew it was on the agenda and | think that needs to be taken into consideration when we place our
vote so thank you.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you, Madam Chair. | just wanted to say that I will not be entertain the thought of public comment. | usually want
to hear exactly what the public has to say but in this particular case, we have. This meeting was to nominate
candidates. | have great fear if we open it up for public comment, we will hear much more not so much about the
candidates but perhaps other different things that could be better addressed at a full Board of Aldermen meeting when
those particular subject matters are taken up at the particular Board. I'll go by the wishes of the Board but keep that in
mind in your vote that unless somebody wants to make an amendment to the motion that the comments must be on to
the specific nominations. Thank you, Madam President.

Alderman Dowd
Yes, again, | would favor a lot of time public comment but in this instance since we're selecting a Ward 7 Alderman, |
think, the only people that we should hear input from are people who live in Ward 7. Otherwise, | think we're going to

get into personality and conflicts that are only leading to elongate this meeting without due cause.

Alderman Thibeault

Thank you, Madam President. Usually I'm for public comment as well. Last week, | made a comment that we should
have had public comment on the Franklin Street issue but in this case, people did not know that they were going to be
able to speak tonight so someone may not have come. They've had opportunities to send us stuff and some people
have. | mean that's just as good as any public comment. So thank you.

Alderman Moran

Just to be safe, I'd like to amend the motion to allow for public comment restricted just to this topic and only from Ward
7 residents.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN MORAN TO AMEND TO ALLOW FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RESTRICTED JUST TO THIS
TOPIC AND ONLY FROM WARD 7 RESIDENTS, BY ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION

President Wilshire

Okay, so you've heard the amended motion. Discussion on that?

Alderman Gouveia

Thank you, Madam President. Just a question. How are we vetting public comment? Are we asking for addresses
and checking to make sure they live in the Ward?

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Alderman Comeau

Thank you, Madam President. | would support an amendment to restrict comment to just the item before us. | don't
know how, you know, unless we're sitting here with Google maps open that we're going to verify by the time people
start talking whether they live in the Ward or not. So | would prefer that the amendment just restrict the topic and not so
much the geography.

There's an argument to be made also that even though it is a Ward 7 Alderman, decisions that that Alderman is going
to make affect everyone who lives in the city. So I'd still like to hear an opinion if somebody has one from a different
Ward as long as it's on this topic only.

Alderman Moran

I’m going to withdraw my amendment and offer the amendment of only on this topic of Ward 7 candidates.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN COMEAU TO ALLOW PUBLIC COMMENT ONLY ON THE TOPIC BEFORE US RIGHT
NOW, BY ROLL CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Sullivan, Alderman Klee, Alderman Moran, Alderman Lopez,
Alderman Jette, Alderman Clemons, Alderwoman Kelly,

Alderman Comeau, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Gouveia, Alderman Wilshire 11

Nay: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Thibeault, Alderwoman Timmons 3

MOTION CARRIED

PUBLIC COMMENT

Lou Juris

Good evening. Lou Juris here. 56 Haines Street in Nashua. This is maybe for me a difficult, | guess, discussion. A
difficult choice and | know both candidates very well. It was good testimony tonight. Good questioning and | would
support Mr. Sennott at this point to carry the remainder of the term. Thank you for your time and | want to thank all the
candidates - June, Ray, Mr. Resch, and Tim for putting their names forward. Thank you.

Sonia Prince

Hi. My name is Sonia Prince, 49 Tufts Drive. | do hope that you support either Mr. Sennott or Ray Guarino. | think
they're both very qualified, very involved in the community, they know their stuff, and it's refreshing to see people who
are that excited about coming to our Aldermen meetings. So | hope you consider those candidates. Thank you.

Beth Scaer

Beth Scaer, 111 East Hobart Street. | wanted to say | really miss John Cathey on the Board. I'm sorry that we lost him.
He did a great job and | think Tim and June are, you Know, I'm happy that they're running. | have really good
relationships with both of them but | would really love to see you appoint Bob Resch. | loved hearing about his fiscal
conservative outlook. The city's going to be in deep trouble with property taxes shooting up as the commercial values
fall and residential property values go up. We need a lifeline here. So please consider appointing Bob. Thanks.

President Wilshire

Thank you.

Matthew _Gouthro

Thank you. Matthew Gouthro, 104 Fawn Lane here in Nashua. | wouldn't be as presumptuous to assume that my
comments would sway anyone from voting for the candidate in which you've met this evening. | believe all the

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candidates that spoke out here, | applaud them for volunteering to come out here and step forward and putting
themselves in this position to help assist our government during this time of need.

| just think that at the end of the day, this should be settled by the voters in a special election. | Know that the Charter
has been changed recently to reflect that and | hope in the future that we have a review of our Charter to see if we can
put unique situations like this back in the hands of the voters. | appreciate you allowing comments for this and thank
you for your continued support of our residents here in Nashua.

President Wilshire

Thank you.

Allison Dyer

Hi. Allison Dyer, 9 Squire Drive Nashua, New Hampshire. | just wanted to echo the sentiments of the previous
speaker, Mr. Gouthro and again say that | thought everyone did a wonderful job with their speeches this evening. |
would have to say | would love to see June Caron come back. | think she has been great for the City of Nashua in the
time that she was there and | think that she's contains a broad spectrum of views and | think that would be good for the
residents of Nashua again. So thank you again.

President Wilshire

Thank you. Is there anyone else wishing to give public comment on the Ward 7 nomination? Seeing none, okay, I'm
gonna close public comment. Right now I'm going to open up the floor for nominations

President of Board of Aldermen calls for nominations for Ward 7 vacancy
Alderman Dowd nominates June Caron
Alderman Dowd

The first thing we should all be thinking about is why are we here this evening? We're here to select the best
candidate to fill the Ward 7 slot. All the candidates are good, hardworking people, and it's no reflection against any of
them. I've Known a number of Aldermen in like 12 years serving on the Board of Aldermen and | have never seen an
Alderman that works as hard as Alderman Caron. She is in a number of things and works hard to support all the
people in her Ward. So many people in her Ward that | talked to that were shocked that she didn't run again. | think
it's probably a fair bet that if she had run this last term that she would have won since she’s been elected five previous
times.

Also, | think it's a good idea to have a diverse Board - new people and people with experience and knowledge
because the new people learning every day, and can hear what has happened in the past, and take that extensive
background into consideration. So | just think that we need that mix of experience. Certainly June Caron with 45
years working for the city, and 10 years on the Board of Aldermen, and all of the different things she's involved in -
Senior Center, going back to school, Lions Club number of things that | think that she presents the best person that
can represent the people in Ward 7 and | think that's why we're here this evening and | think that's the way we ought
to go.

Alderman Clemons nominates Tim Sennott

Alderman Clemons

| have known Tim for the last couple of years as a hard working Ward Moderator. Somebody who has a lot of interest
in local government, in politics particularly here in Nashua obviously. He cares a lot about his neighborhood and he's
involved in the goings on in his neighborhood. | think that he will offer a fresh perspective to this Board. | have
worked well with June in the past and | think that she would do a great job as well but | think we need to look to the
future and | think that Tim will offer us that path forward. So | hope that my colleagues will join me and support Tim
this evening.

President Wilshire

Any other nominations?

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Alderman O'Brien

Thank you, Madam President. | would like to make a motion to close nominations.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO CLOSE NOMINATIONS, BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Sullivan, Alderman Klee, Alderman Moran,
Alderman Jette, Alderman Clemons, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Comeau, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Gouveia, Alderman Thibeault,

Alderwoman Timmons, Alderman Wilshire 13

Nay: Alderman Lopez 1

MOTION CARRIED
VOTE ON ELECTION OF WARD 7 VACANCY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE 2022-2023 LEGISLATIVE TERM

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

June Caron: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Sullivan, Alderman Klee,

Alderman Jette, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Comeau,

Alderman Dowd, Alderman Gouveia, Alderman Wilshire 9
Tim Sennott: Alderman Moran, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Clemons,

Alderman Thibeault, Alderwoman Timmons 5

President Wilshire

So the votes go to June Caron. Ms. Caron would you please come up and be sworn in.
Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel.
Alderman Dowd

Alderman Caron we have good news and bad news. The good news is you've been elected to the Ward 7 Alderman.
The bad news is you have a meeting following this one.

Alderman Caron

| thought | was going to go home and celebrate or cry.

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE JULY 25, 2022, SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED, BY ROLL CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Sullivan, Alderman Klee, Alderman Moran,
Alderman Lopez, Alderman Jette, Alderman Clemons, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Comeau, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Gouveia, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Thibeault, Alderwoman Timmons, Alderman Wilshire 15

Nay: 0

MOTION CARRIED

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The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:19 p.m.

Attest: Susan Lovering, City Clerk

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NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

Ward 7 Alderman Vacancy