A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, September 25, 2018, at 6:30 p.m.
in the Aldermanic Chamber.
President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderman June M. Caron led in the Pledge to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with 15 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Harriott-Gathright arrived
after roll call at 6:32 p.m., Alderman Ken Gidge arrived after roll call at 6:42 p.m. and Alderman Lopez arrived
after roll call at 6:40 p.m. were recorded absent.
Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Brian S. McCarthy, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting
There being no objection, President McCarthy accepted the communication and placed it on file.
DISCUSSION
Performing Arts Center with Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development.
Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development
Thank you Mr. President. For the record, my name is Tim Cummings, I’m the Director of Economic
Development for the City. I’m here before you to give a general update on the progress relative to the
Performing Arts Center. On your desks you will have some various pieces of material; one is the power point
for you to have as an overview to help guide the conversation. Second is the fund raising feasibility study that
was just recently produced and then thirdly is a draft strategic document for guidance relative to operations of
the Performing Arts Center. Those are all bundled within a piece of collateral, a marketing brochure that was
put together by our consultant who helped us throughout the summer. | will get into more detail relative to
assessing our private capital contribution assessment.
Up on the screen before you is the cover page and | put this up mainly for the viewing audience at home so
they could actually see what it was that was done. So there is the cover, the next page, basically talking about
the creative economy, then we talk about a positive economic impact within the State of NH and how it could
be effective for us here in Nashua. Also, talking about the vision that we have for 201 Main Street and then
talking a little bit about the reasons why we want to move this forward.
So that was a piece of material that was produced at the beginning of the summer and it was the start of the
scope of work that our consultant undertook with the feasibility study and it was tested out in the market place
with the fundraising assessment. | wanted to, again, just to make sure folks saw that. We are pretty proud of
that piece. It is going to be tweaked based on the feedback that we got. But it was a good piece of material for
us to help orientate our conversation with folks
To refresh everyone’s memory, | was before you at the end of June of 2018 so this summer with an update
and basically at that time, to refresh your memory, we were talking about engaging full-circle consulting to start
the feasibility study. We outlined that it would take place through the summer and we thought that it would be
completed in the fall, which is essentially where we are right now.
Site visits occurred, approximately 10-ish various site visits to performing arts center over the summer and an
RFQ was written and released seeking responses from both architectural and engineering and construction
management firms. Additionally, we have met with a third party management firm to have a due diligence
