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Board of Aldermen — 2/21/16 Page 4

We cannot talk about the state of our city without recognizing the central importance of our schools.
Families must have confidence that their kids will get the education they need to succeed in life. Good
schools are also a key part of our economic development strategy because businesses need to know
that we are graduating students who have the skills to perform in the workplace.

Our high school students are making us proud. In Nashua we have more students excelling in Advanced
Placement courses that any in other community in New Hampshire. In 2016, 13 Nashua students were
recognized as National AP Scholars, out of a total of only 42 in all of New Hampshire. Thirty percent of
the statewide total come from Nashua. Last year 3 students from Nashua were admitted to MIT, while
three students Mary Zhu, Aashish Welling and Harshal Sheth won top awards at the New Hampshire
Science and Engineering Fair.

Now we have the opportunity to take a dramatic step forward in ensuring quality of education for all of
our kids. Superintendent Brown has proposed a creative budget which while making some cuts also
includes full-day kindergarten for all of our 5-year-olds. | support full-day kindergarten, and | am
announcing tonight that | will include full-day kindergarten in the budget | present to the Board of
Aldermen later this spring. Research shows that kids from all backgrounds benefit from all-day
kindergarten — fewer drop outs, higher GPA’s, more success.

In 1988, when | was Mayor before, we started half-day public kindergarten in Nashua for the first time,
when kindergarten was not state-mandated. We have waited a long time for the completion of what we
started back in 1988. In order to bring on full-day kindergarten, and to achieve a budget with a 1.3%
increase, Dr. Brown’s proposed budget eliminates some things which | believe we should retain.
Ensuring that all of our children reach their full potential, as well as seeing to it that the quality of our
teaching remains high require that Clearway High School and two teaching coaches be retained in the
budget as key elements of our educational program. In addition, | believe that cutting ten custodians is
too much.

Clearway, an alternative high school run by the Adult Learning Center, has been effective in educating
kids who thrive in a smaller high school environment. The two teaching coaches enable our junior
teachers to fully blossom into the classroom leaders we need. | want to make sure that all our teachers
have the skills and experience they need to enable Nashua’s school children to reach their full potential.
When | submit my budget to the Board of Aldermen, | will add funds for Clearway High School, for the
two teaching coaches, and for some more custodians.

Let’s thank our teachers. In thinking about Nashua’s schools, we must understand the critically important
role that our teachers play in the lives of our students. Some don't fully understand the challenges our
teachers face today. Many kids come to school unprepared to learn, some because they are hungry or
cold. Two hundred and sixty-seven students are classified as homeless. Certainly too many kids have
parents or family members who are in the grip of addiction. Yet, Nashua teachers are meeting these
classroom challenges every day.

In addition, dedicated teachers, principals, and other staff are also working hard for Nashua’s needy kids
by collecting and distributing food, clothing, and other necessities. Other members of our community are
also making a difference. The Chamber, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, and George Katis of Nashua
Wallpaper organize the Back to School event at the library every fall. And the volunteer organization End
68 Hours of Hunger distributes food to 50 needy families at four of our elementary schools every Friday.
But | believe we can do more to combat childhood hunger.

Therefore, tonight | am announcing that along with the Nashua Soup Kitchen, End 68 Hours of Hunger,
United Way, the Salvation Army, the Corpus Christie Food Pantry and others, we will launch a new
initiative, End Childhood Hunger in Nashua, before this year is out. We will start in Crown Hill, the home
to the Dr. Crisp Elementary School, where over 80% of the kids qualify for free or reduced lunch.

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| want to thank Michael Reinke, the new leader of the Soup Kitchen, for the inspiration to launch an end
childhood hunger campaign here in Nashua. | know that by working together we can make the lives of
many hungry children a lot better.

We are making Nashua city government more open and accessible. | am reaching out to citizens and
learning from them about their hopes and dreams for Nashua. For the second year | am holding town
hall meetings in all of the neighborhoods of our city. | have also started a monthly Coffee-with-the-Mayor
at Jajabelle’s on Main Street. | have talked with hundreds of Nashuans in these informal settings.

| have also appointed nearly 50 new people to city boards and commissions.

| want to involve leaders from our millennial generation in helping to chart the course of Nashua’s future.
Therefore, a number of my new appointments are millennials — Lydia Foley, Simon Sarris, Amanda
Schneck, Dan Weeks, James Tobin, Alison Bankowski, and Sindiso Mnisi Weeks on boards and
commissions, joining James Vayo, Sarah Marchant, Tim Cummings, and Madeleine Mineau who are
working inside city government. We are also working closely with other young leaders, especially
downtown where the passion of our millennials is clearly focused — leaders such as Aldermen Ben
Clemons and Tom Lopez, Paul Shea, Manny Ramirez, Jessica DePontbriand and Ben Ruddock. Our
young leaders are helping us plan a city that has walkable streets, new housing, a beautiful and
accessible river, and a diverse business community. It is inspiring to me that we have so many talented
Nashuans who are willing to share their time and talents for the benefit of our great city.

In a new effort to open Nashua city government to even more citizens, | am announcing tonight that
starting on March 6, we are launching our first Nashua City Academy. On Monday evenings over the
course of 13 weeks up to 50 citizens will be able to learn from our division and department heads about
the details of city operations and budgeting. Do you want to see what goes on inside a firehouse? Do
you want to learn more about how the city plows its streets or landfills its garbage? Do you want to learn
more about city budgeting? Sign up for the Nashua City Academy right away.

Speaking of our streets, Nashua has not kept up with street paving, and the condition of our streets has
deteriorated over the years. This is a problem that many citizens have spoken to us about. We have
completed an assessment of all of Nashua’s 1,300 streets and have determined the Paving Condition
Index, or PCI, of each street. | am announcing tonight, that in concert with the Board of Public Works
and Aldermen David Deane, Ken Siegel and other aldermen, | will be proposing a big leap forward — a
plan to devote $7.5 million per year to paving and patching our streets over at least the next 5 years.
This catch-up initiative will significantly upgrade the overall condition of our streets.

Our beautiful parks and our active recreation programs are part of the fabric of Nashua. We have
historic Greeley and beautiful Mine Falls Parks. This year through a combination of funds raised
privately and over $175,000 of city funds, we established the state’s first all accessible playground at
Labine Park. Eric Brand was the inspiration and driving force for the Legacy Playground, and many
others contributed including Eric’s Leadership Greater Nashua class, donors, volunteers, and Parks
Superintendent Nick Caggiano. However, there is one area where our recreation programs need
improvement, and that is the number of soccer/lacrosse fields we have. We have only 11 fields, and we
have not added a new one in at least 20 years. Eleven is not nearly enough. We have about 2,000 kids
and a lot of adults engaged in soccer and lacrosse.

The condition of our fields needs to be better, but grass needs rest in order to grow. That is why we
need more fields, so that we can establish a rotation schedule — letting the grass grow on some fields
while kids and adults are using others. Tonight | am announcing a plan to build two fields in the dusty
area next to the Charlotte Avenue Elementary School and a third field at the park on Jewell Lane next to
the school. Our partners in this project are Rob Leonardi and other members of the Charlotte Avenue
Elementary School PTO, the Nashua School Department, and the Nashua Parks Department.

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Nashua has a long history of immigration. Waves of French Canadian, Irish, Lithuanian, Jewish, Polish,
German, Greek and other immigrants worked in our mills and built our city in the 19'" and 20" centuries.
In the 21* century new immigrants have been arriving and helping us build our community — people from
India, Mexico, Brazil and other countries. Nashua is the most diverse city in New Hampshire, and we are
proud of our diversity. A recent study by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine
found that immigration has a positive impact on the long term economic growth of the United States. The
study also found that second generation Americans, the children of immigrants, are among the strongest
contributors to the US economy.

The Nashua Chamber of Commerce has found that over recent years Nashua’s population would have
dropped by 4-5,000 people but for immigrants coming from outside of the US. We have many successful
new Americans here in Nashua. There are many examples, but | will mention particularly John
Olapurath who immigrated from India and who founded Zco Corporation, a successful software and app
developer that employs 25 people right in our Millyard. Nashua is extending a hand of welcome to new
Americans. During 2016, with the support of the Nashua Chamber, United Way, and many citizens, we
Officially became a Welcoming City — signifying that we welcome new Americans who wish to move here
and contribute and that we remember the contribution of past immigrants.

In 2016 we also established a Sister City relationship with Mysore, India. Mysore is a cultured, university
city in southern India, a region from which may of our Indian-American citizens have come. Mysore has
a highly educated population and is today one of the IT centers of the world. We hope to build upon this
relationship to strengthen our economy and enrich our city. We are working with our legislative
delegation to help Nashua, and | want to thank our delegation for taking up the city’s cause. A major
goal is to halt the downshifting by which year by year the State of New Hampshire pushes more costs
onto local government and raises property taxes while crowing about “no new taxes” and about a “budget
surplus.”

The largest of these downshifts right now is the imposition of another $2 million in pension costs on the
city and our taxpayers. Our legislative delegation has advanced three bills to address this problem and
we are fighting to get at least one of these bills passed. There are other state actions which would
increase property taxes, one is the reduction in state education aid. Nashua’s school aid was reduced by
$479,000 last year while aid to Bedford and Windham almost doubled.

A major legislative objective for us is extending commuter rail to Nashua. During its last session, the
legislature cut the funds necessary to accomplish the final planning steps for commuter rail even though
the funds required were all federal, not a dime of state money was needed. Our delegation support rail.
This session | have testified in favor of including rail funds in the capital budget and against eliminating
the state Rail Authority.

During the past year, | have been inspired by many Nashuans. | want to single out our Nashua’s Safe
Stations team: Nashua Fire Rescue, Chris Stawasz of AMR and Harbor Homes. As | have visited our
firehouses, like the Amherst Street Fire Station, and as | have talked with our team about the shattered
families who are coming to a Safe Station, | have seen their total commitment to the mission of rescuing
Nashua from opioids. Our Safe Stations team are showing the character that is part of Nashua’s history
and fabric. | am thankful to every one of them.

So let’s continue pulling together, working together, and showing the heart that is evident in every
neighborhood of our city. Together we can accomplish great things. God bless the great city of Nashua.
Thank you very much.

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ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE FEBRUARY 21, 2017, MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 7:35 p.m.

Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk

£:00 PM MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
PRESIDENT BRIAN S. MCCARTHY CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER
PRAYER OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA PIECUCH

PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERMAN-AT-LARGE DAVID W. DEANE
ROLL CALL

MAYOR’S ANNUAL STATE-OF-THE-CITY ADDRESS

ADJOURNMENT

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, February 14, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.

President Brian S. McCarthy presided; Deputy City Clerk Judith Boileau recorded.

Prayer was offered by Deputy City Clerk Judith Boileau; Alderman-at-Large Mark S. Cookson led in the Pledge
to the Flag.

The roll call was taken with 14 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Clemons was recorded
absent.

Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.

REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

Mayor Donchess

First | wanted to mention the storms we’ve been having in February. We've had several, most recently on
Sunday when it snowed over a foot. Our Department of Public Works has been doing a great job working very
hard and long hours cleaning up the snow over and over again. Director Lisa Fauteux and her staff have
devoted many hours making sure that the cleanup is effective as possible. | just want to thank them for all of
their hard work. We do have possibly a small storm tomorrow, maybe an inch. Director Fauteux tells me she
doesn’t think it will be too bad. Hopefully that will go just as well.

On the agenda, first is R-17-089, which is coming in for a first reading. This has to do with the repurposing of
Broad Street Parkway earmarked funds that were assigned to this project by congress. In 2010 when the
route of the Broad Street Parkway was changed, the result was the city and the state acquired parcels of
property for the old route that were no longer necessary for the new route, which now comes right down Pine
Street Extension. Sometime in 2015, the federal DOT began to assert that the expenditures made to acquire
those parcels that were not necessary were not eligible expenses and could not be reimbursed through
earmarked funds. The result could have been that some of the earmarked funds would never have been used
for the project and would have gone unused by the city. In 2016, we approached our congressional delegation
and began to talk with federal DOT and particularly state DOT about the issue. Through discussions of a
whole lot of people on the city staff, the state DOT, and federal DOT, we worked out an arrangement whereby
the funds that were earmarked would be repurposed from the Broad Street Parkway to several paving projects.
We know that we need paving anyway. The projects that are designated are Somerset Parkway, the link to
Somerset Parkway, Amherst Street from Charron Avenue to Somerset, Kinsley Street, the entire length, and
Broad Street from Amherst Street to the oval, the roundabout by the high school. Those will be paid for now
out of the earmarked funds and we will use up all of the earmarked funds that were designated towards the
City of Nashua back when the earmark was done. Our city staff worked very hard on this. The state DOT
commissioner, Victoria Sheehan, who happens to be a resident of Nashua in Ward 5, and |’m sure this had
nothing to do with the way she handled it, but she was extremely helpful and cooperative in guiding us through
the negotiations with her department and with federal DOT. When you consider this, | think you will have
confidence that we are going to be able to use all the money that was assigned to us by congress.

The other one | wanted to mention was the veteran’s tax credit, the voluntary veteran’s tax credit which is on
the agenda for adoption by the city. O-17-25. This would follow up on the act passed by the legislature to
expand the credits to include all veterans, which currently it does not. | have sponsored along with some of the
other aldermen. My only suggestion is that, given the analysis by the assessors that this could result in a
revenue loss of $670,000, possibly more, that we make it effective April 1, 2018, rather than 2017, mainly
because of the $2 million hit we’re going to take on the pension fund which result in higher taxes. We are
going to have difficulty absorbing another tax impact in addition to that. So my suggestion would be we
recognize our veterans but given the difficulties we have this year that we make it effective April 1, 2018.

We have a ward meeting coming up, Ward 8, Thursday night at Bicentennial at 7:00 p.m. On the 24" of
February at Harbor Homes there’s a pancake breakfast to benefit Safe Stations. That’s at 7:00 a.m. Harbor

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Homes has been raising money, has a number of sponsors and any members of the board that can make it
that early or don’t have work commitments at that time, you would be of course very welcome. | wish everyone
a Happy Valentine’s Day, Mr. President, and conclude my remarks.

RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR
Alderman LeBrun

You mentioned $660,000 on the veteran’s tax. My understanding is that the amount of the exemption is
optional. How can anyone come up with a $660,000 figure?

Mayor Donchess

The current veteran’s tax credit, which gives a $500 credit to any veteran who served during a period of
combat, results in about $1.5 million in credits being awarded. This will open it up to another 25 or 30 years of
service for people who served not during periods of combat. | think the estimate is that there could be as many
as 1,300, 1,400, 1,500 people who would qualify. It also applies to spouses. If all of those people qualify and
apply then the Assessing Department is saying that it would mean that we would give credits of $670,000 over
and above the credits we’re giving now. Currently credits have been earned by about 3,000 veterans and
spouses. This would expand it maybe to 50 percent more.

Alderman LeBrun

Follow up, Mr. President.

President McCarthy

I’d actually like to ask that this be held for the committee meeting where this is taken up since it’s about the
substance of the bill, if you don’t mind. We'll make sure that the tax collector is here to justify those numbers.

RECOGNITION PERIOD — None
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS AND PUBLIC HEARING

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEETINGS
OF JANUARY 23, 2017, AND JANUARY 24, 2017, AND THE PUBLIC HEARING CONDUCTED BY THE
BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE ON JANUARY 23, 2017, BE ACCEPTED, PLACED ON FILE, AND THE
READINGS SUSPENDED

MOTION CARRIED

COMMUNICATIONS

MOTION BY ALDERMAN MORIARTY THAT ALL COMMUNICATIONS BE READ BY TITLE ONLY
MOTION CARRIED

From: Thomas J. Leonard, Chairman, Pennichuck Corporation Board of Directors
Re: Special Meeting of the Sole Shareholder — March 24, 2017

MOTION BY ALDERMAN MORIARTY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND REFER TO THE PENNICHUCK
WATER SPECIAL COMMITTEE
MOTION CARRIED

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PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS EVENING
None

PETITIONS — None

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

Appointment by the Mayor

The following Appointment by the Mayor was read into the record:

Zoning Board of Adjustment

Steven Lionel (New Appointment) For a Term to Expire: September 11, 2019

19 Cabot Drive

Nashua, NH 03064

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DEANE TO ACCEPT THE APPOINTMENT BY THE MAYOR AS READ

AND REFER IT TO THE PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

MOTION CARRIED

Appointment by the President of the Board of Aldermen

The following Appointment by the President of the Board of Aldermen was read into the record:

Auditorium Commission

John C. Franzini (New Appointment) For a Term to Expire: December 31, 2017
13 Lutheran Drive
Nashua, NH 03063

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DEANE TO ACCEPT THE APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE
BOARD OF ALDERMEN AS READ AND REFER IT TO THE PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE
MOTION CARRIED
REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

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There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the January 23, 2017, Budget
Review Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the January 18, 2017, Finance
Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the February 1, 2017, Finance
Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the January 25, 2017, Committee
on Infrastructure accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the February 8, 2017, Committee
on Infrastructure accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the January 24, 2017, Personnel/
Administrative Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the January 17, 2017, Planning &
Economic Development Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the January 30, 2017, Strategic
Planning Committee accepted and placed on file.

WRITTEN REPORTS FROM LIAISONS — None

CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS - None

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-16-081
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
AMENDING THE PURPOSE OF THE EXPENDABLE TRUST FUND FOR OPERATING THE
JACKSON MILLS DAM TO A HYDROPOWER RESERVE FUND FOR BOTH DAMS

Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-16-081 BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Deane, Alderman Cookson,
Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron, Alderman Siegel,
Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty
Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy 14

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Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-16-081 declared duly adopted.

UNFINISHED 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 second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN LEBRUN FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-16-027
MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-16-027 declared duly adopted.

O-17-028
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderman Sean M. McGuinness
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman-at-Large Daniel T. Moriarty
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
AUTHORIZING LEFT TURNS ONTO AMHERST STREET FROM CHARRON AVENUE
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-17-028
MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-17-028 declared duly adopted.

O-17-030
Endorser: Alderman David Schoneman
ALLOWING RESIDENTS OF JEFFERSON STREET TO PURCHASE OVERNIGHT ON-STREET
PARKING PERMITS

Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN SCHONEMAN FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-17-030
MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-17-030 declared duly adopted.

O-17-032
Endorser: Alderman David Schoneman
PROHIBITING PARKING ON A PORTION OF MANCHESTER STREET NEAR THE TOWN OF
MERRIMACK BORDER

Given its second reading;