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Board of Aldermen 12-11-2018 Page 44

When we go down the street on Berkeley Street we have another family that moved in from the mid-
West, they came in, a renovation $85,000.00 done by a prior home owner resulted in a $55,000.00
increase but then the Assessing Office wasn’t happy with that and they kept running the numbers and
they moved that house from $400,000.00 to $615,000.00 until the homeowners screamed uncle in
2011, filed for an abatement got a reduction in 2013 and the house came down $200,000.00. We are in
that situation that the other house on Berkeley Street is in. We’ve been 5 years with it jammed down
our throat way too high and this, we are trying to get to the other side of this. | wish the Mayor had
given us a chance to talk to him about this, | expect my Mayor to understand the difference between a
tax bill and an assessment.

| was very concerned at the last meeting when you were positioning yourself to say that people with
young families, or we don’t want to charge more than $1,000.00 for a new kitchen or $1,500.00
because of their family situation. Our property cards don’t come with family photos, we have to make
assessment a fair issue for everyone. What the Mayor is talking about is a progressive form of tax, we
feel that we paid with the progressive tax, somebody looked at our house, our income level, the fact
that we bought the house for cash and decided these people can pay out the nose. We don’t want that
to happen. | want to make certain that the new people coming in are treated the same as the
established people. And | agree the influence of a Mayor or Alderman although the billing cycle fell
when you got elected for some reason in 2011, they were supposed to come back to your property in
2012, they never came back, | don’t even know if they had finished their assessment cycle. We don’t
know. The notes are a little messy on that card. It’s not that clean.

But what is interesting too with your card, your permit was opened in 2007, nobody followed up until
2011. The property card is updated on a 2010 page, but it wasn’t paid for in 2010, and in 2009 was a
reassessment year and your assessment was dropped $45,000.00 despite the fact that you were into
all these renovations. The property at Berkeley Street that | am referring to in 2009 was raised about
$50,000.00, they didn’t get a drop because they were doing, they had done renovations and the
assessing office was looking to raise it more. You got the benefit of a reduction while doing
improvements because nobody knocked on the door and came out and followed up on what has
happened in 2 years. You didn’t even get a knock on the door. That is the difference. And we just
want it to be fair Mr. Mayor. | am not accusing you of anything, | am not accusing the card | held up
with the City, the appointed position to the Board of Assessors that hadn’t had anyone come to it since
1994 despite 8 permits being pulled, 3 of monetary value. It is a connected person it is a well-known
person. Nobody comes, that’s not what happened to us. That’s not what happened to the house on
our street that is a connected well-known person that got a half value assessment for reasons |
understand now, a lot of bad mistakes were made on that property. That was the most heavily visited
property on Berkeley Street in 5 years with 6 official visits from the Assessing Office and in 6 official
visits nobody did the property card correctly. And a house equivalent to mine was assessed at $343
and we were assessed at $700,000.00. So our tax bill was $18,000.00 and our equivalent home was
$8 so please understand we are just trying to get where we want to feel like we are being treated equal,
we want to pay our fair share, but we want a system that recognizes that new people need to be treated
like the old guard and the system has to be equitable. Thank you.

Mary Robbins Good evening | will make this short because | guess we are running long. My name is
Mary Robbins, | live at 40 Berkeley Street and | have read in the newspaper about the assessment
situation and the particular problems with my neighbor and the way she has tried to contact the
assessors and what not. What! would like to see, maybe even on the web site of the City the
qualifications that these assessors have. What is their educational background and what specific
training do they have to be assessors? And how is the training here in Nashua how does that equate to
the training that assessors get in other cities in maybe New Hampshire or in New England just to see
what we are dealing with here so it seems a little less random than it seems to me just hearing about it
and reading about it. Thank you.

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Paul Shea My name is Paul Shea, | am a resident of 102 Toll Street and | am also the Executive
Director for Great American Downtown. | sent you remarks in favor of the Performing Arts Center
updates and | just wanted to stick around this evening to say thank you for the mindful way in which you
are approaching this project. It is a complex thing, there is a lot of work that has gone into and will go
into it. You are all doing great work to ensure that it is done in a responsible and sustainable way and
that the project has great success. So thank you for that.

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja Yes just briefly, this evening as | drove into the City around 5:00 | came
down West Hollis and across Spruce and there was an active fire on the side street on the west side of
Spruce. There were a number of fire trucks and a couple of streets, Temple Street was partially
blocked off because off because of the running of hoses. In less than 2 hours after that, fire trucks went
both north and south on Main Street, so it was a busy night. | would like to thank them for their service
and for those who had the fire emergencies | hope their losses were minor and certainly at this time of
year, we all want to be aware of our wiring, our candles and all of those decorations we have up that
are probably more flammable than we would like to believe. Just a comment on that.

And then finally for those who were here and some who are still here, all of those that were sworn or
will be sworn in thank you to see so many people here volunteering to do the City’s work is really
encouraging. Thank you to all who spoke in support of the Performing Arts Center Amendment. Thank
you.

Alderwoman Kelly

I'll Keep it brief. | just wanted to note that this is the last full Board meeting of the year and | have just
appreciated this is our first year for a lot of our full board. The next one is the 26°? Oh we had this
conversation on the way in and | thought for sure that this was the last one of the year. | will rescind
that. | will save it for that day. But! do want to say Happy Holidays.

Alderman Caron

| too would like to wish everyone a happy holiday and see you the day after Christmas.

Alderman Lopez

I'll be totally brief. | wanted to comment on something | have kind of been watching unfold over the last
couple of months. There is a gentleman who used to play his guitar down on Main Street, kind of just
trying to make some extra bucks and asked a lot of questions and then he started to show up without
the guitar, and explained it was broken, he had a very complicated life and he had a lot of Police
encounters as well. So | saw him again with his guitar and | was like you got a new guitar how did you
pull that off. He explained that somebody had gotten it for him from the recovery community, which |
thought was a tremendously kind thing to do but also that he didn’t have any strings for it and didn’t
really know how to tune it and Nashua PD went out of their way, some officers, to get him strings to
tune his guitar. And this a man that does not have other things or anything. So for me, | wanted to
share that act of kindness because | think it speaks highly of Nashua Police. They do a lot of really
good work in the community. They go well beyond just managing their calls in a courteous and kind
way. They reach out and they really try to connect with people in need in the community.

Next Friday, December 21%, at 5:30 in front of Main Street Methodist we are going to be acknowledging
the people who have passed away who are homeless. We do it on the longest night of the year
because it is the longest night that people have to go through when they are unsheltered. So |
encourage all of you to join us when we are doing that. Also, | am grateful for everybody who does
whatever they can to help people around them who you may just walk by, you may not necessarily see,
find a place to stay especially when it is cold, and it is dark.

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Alderman Laws

| just wanted to thank everyone who came here tonight and sat through this incredibly long meeting. It
means a lot to me and | am Sure it means a lot to everyone else on the Board. Thank you.

Alderman Klee

I'd like to give my condolences to the McGuire family, as the Mayor said her passing was quite a shock,
quite a shock. She was a lady, | used to call her a little spit ball of fire, tiny little thing, but no matter
how sick she was, she was always right there to bring soup to somebody else. You could count on her
to volunteer for anything. She was truly a great lady and | want to also share part of my voice is going.
| want to share something that Alderwoman Kelly had said to me earlier today and it is perfect for
tonight, sometimes we agree, sometimes we don’t, but we are going to get the job done. And | think
that really summed up tonight. | too would like to thank everybody who came, who spoke today, all of
you diehards who stayed through the night with us. Thank you.

Alderman Dowd

Happy Holidays everyone and | wanted to mention that the Joint Special School Building has selected
Harriman as our architect and Phase 1 is commencing along with Harvey Construction, who | had
mentioned before is our construction manager and we will be moving forward with the middle school
project. And also I’ve cancelled the Joint Special Meeting on the 20" because we don’t need and |
know everybody on the committee will enjoy that and we won’t be meeting again until January.

Alderman O’Brien

| too would like to give my condolences to the Vivian McGuire family, she was truly a strong advocate of
our democratic process, standing at the polls, doing all sorts of work and her work will be sorley missed
and she was a great person, so my condolences again to the family. Which also leads to the
condolences to City of Worcester, who again in the month of December, the most worth month with
family, suffered another tragedy with the untimely line duty death of fire fighter Roy. My best to my
fellow fire fighters down in Worcester and firefighter Roy’s family.

But on a happier note congratulations to all of those who got sworn in tonight, we really need you to do
some of this work and thank you for doing so.

| would remiss if | did not comment on the fine display that we received tonight in the choice of hat attire
by Alderman Caron, Alderman Kelly and Alderman Klee, it was very nice. | too wore my holiday tie
tonight and took the liberty to decorate my desk so may | wish to everybody Happy Holidays to all.
President Wilshire

| too would like to wish everyone Happy Holidays and we did have plans to go out after the meeting;
however, | think all the restaurants and bars have closed by now so maybe we can reschedule that for
the 26",

Committee announcements:

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

PEDC is scheduled for Tuesday the 18". Thank you.

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ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE DECEMBER 11, 2018 MEETING OF THE BOARD
OF ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 11:11 p.m.
Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch City Clerk

Greater Nashua

Chamberof
Commerce

DARE TO SUCCEED

December 11, 2018

The Honorable Lori Wilshire, President 142 Main Street, Fifth Floor
and Members of the Board of Aldermen Nashua, NH 03060
Nashua City Hall Phone: 603-881-8333
; Fax: 603-881-7323
229 Main Street snuachamb
Www. Nasnuacnamber.com
Nashua, NH 03060

Dear AiderngpMlishire and Members of the Board,

On behalf of the Board of Directors and hundreds of members of the Greater Nashua
Chamber of Commerce, | am writing to express our strong support for R-18-092, Amending
R-18-001 authorizing the Mayor and City Treasurer to issue bonds not to exceed the
amount of fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars ($15,500,000) for the Performing
Arts Center located at 201 Main Street. | regret that a previous commitment prevents me
from joining you this evening and expressing our strong support in person.

The Chamber was an enthusiastic supporter of the original bond resolution introduced last
year, we were active in endorsing and promoting the passage of the non-binding ballot
question last November and we carried that support through to the passage of R-18-01.
However, at the time, we also had concerns about the impact of the wording around the $4
million endowment requirement on the ability to raise that money in the first place.

In essence, the requirement handicapped the ability to raise funds by requiring that the
funds be raised before any of the bond money could be spent for design - and design is
essential for raising funds. Few if any donors, regardless of how passionate they are a
bout a project, will commit significant dollars towards a building project without being able
to see what that project will look like. Amending the bond resolution to allow for funds to
be used for the design phase removes that barrier and helps ensure the success of the
project.

The proposed language around New Market Tax Credits simply clarifies explicitly that those
funds are in fact private dollars provided by companies investing in approved community
development activities such as the proposed Preforming Arts Center,

| ask for your vote in favor of R-18-092 and thank you in advance for your support.

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CHICKEN AND COOP REQUIREMENTS

STANDARDS

Chickens shall be kept in accordance with all applicable City Ordinances and regulations, and
state laws, including but not limited to RSA 644:8, Cruelty to Animals.

A maximum of six (6) adult female chickens may be kept on a lot. Roosters are prohibited.

The keeping of chickens shall be in a separate structure, accessory to and on the premises of a
single-family or two-family detached dwelling. Chickens are for personal use only.

No person shall sell eggs or breed chickens, or engage in commercial activities related to
chickens.

Chickens shall not roam free. Chickens shall be housed in a coop during non-daylight hours.

Coops and enclosed runs must be located in side or rear yards, and cannot be located within
twenty (20) feet of a property line.

Feed must be stored in rodent proof containers.

Stored manure shall be covered and fully enclosed. Up to three (3) cubic feet of manure can be
stored.

All manure not used for composting or fertilizing, waste material (including but not limited to
spent feed, litter, and waste eggs), and dead chickens shall be properly and promptly removed
from the property.

Coop and enclosed run must not disturb neighboring lots due to noise, odor, or other adverse
impacts.

Coops and enclosed runs shall comply with all zoning requirements, including but not limited to:
Accessory Use, Open Space Percentage, Wetland buffers, and Floodplains.

COOP REQUIREMENTS

Space with Enclosed Run: A minimum of three (3) square feet of floor space per chicken
Space without Enclosed Run: A minimum of ten (10) square feet of floor space per chicken

Total Coop and Run Space = Ten (10) square feet per chicken

COOP REQUIREMENTS (continued)
One (1) foot of roost space off the floor per chicken.
Height shall be a maximum of eight (8) feet from the ground to top of the structure.

Coop must provide adequate ventilation and be kept in neat and sanitary condition.

ENCLOSED RUN REQUIREMENTS
Enclosure: Run must be bound on all sides and overhead by fence, cage, or wire.
Attachment: Run enclosure must be attached to the coop.

Height: shall be a maximum of eight (8) feet from the ground to top of the structure.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

1. Submit a completed Building and Land Use Application to the Community Development
Division at City Hall.

2. Attach a plot plan showing the location and dimensions of the coop and enclosed run, property
boundaries, location of all existing buildings, structures, paved areas, wetlands, and proposed
buildings, structures, and paving. (sample attached)

Plot Plan shall be to scale, not reduced or enlarged when copied.

3. After the plan is reviewed for compliance, pay the $25.00 application fee.

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AGENDA MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN DECEMBER 11, 2018

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12.

PRESIDENT LORI WILSHIRE CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER
PRAYER OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA PIECUCH
PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERMAN JAN SCHMIDT
ROLL CALL

REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR
RECOGNITIONS

READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARINGS

Special Board of Aldermen............ 0.0.60: cece cee cee teeeeeteeeeeteetttteeesseee 11/26/2018
Board of Aldermen ......... 0.0... ccc cee cce cee ee cee cee cee cee ceetee see tseesseesteeseeeeee 11/27/2018
Public Hearing Conducted by the Committee on Infrastructure................ 11/28/2018

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From: Tim Cummings, Director, Economic Development
Re: | Communication Notification of PAC Steering Committee's Recommendations(s)

From: Alderman June M. Caron, Ward 7
Re: Summary of Expenditures — Nashua Senior Activity Center

PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON
THIS EVENING

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Contract for Energy Recovery Upgrades — Construction Services

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: | Change Order #5 — Northeast Earth Mechanics, Inc.

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: | Change Order #2 for 2018 Sewer Replacement — Harvard Street

PETITIONS
NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

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Budget Review Commiittee.................. cece eee ttettteetttetseeeees 12/06/2018
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Committee on Infrastructure... 20.00.0000 cece eee cee ee cee eee eee eeeeae aes 11/28/2018
Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee........0..0.000000 ee 12/03/2018
Jt. PEDC/Committee on Infrastructure... 0.00.00. ee eee ee eee 12/04/2018

Planning & Economic Development Committee.............0....0........ 12/04/2018

13. CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS
Airport Authority

Brian H. Law (New Appointment) Term to Expire: August 31, 2023
78 Concord Street
Nashua, NH 03064

Cultural Connections Committee

Sylvia Gale (Reappointment) Term to Expire: February 28, 2021
4 Clergy Circle
Nashua, NH 03064

Downtown Improvement Committee

Stephen Saxe (New Appointment) Term to Expire: September 13, 2019
74 Musket Drive
Nashua, NH 03062

David Grebowski, Alternate (New Appointment) Term to Expire: December 1, 2021
Fay’s Fine Cabinetry

172 Main Street

Nashua, NH 03060

Energy and Environment Committee

James E. Pyle (New Appointment) Term to Expire: October 31, 2021
14 Elyston Circle
Nashua, NH 03064

Mine Falls Park Advisory Committee

Greg Andruskevich (Reappointment) Term to Expire: June 30, 2020
3 Caraway Lane
Nashua, NH 03063

Nashua Arts Commission

Tina Cassidy (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 1, 2021
36 Arlington Street
Nashua, NH 03062

Tracy Hall (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 1, 2021
37 Chester Street
Nashua, NH 03064

Lindsay Rinaldi (Reappointment) Term to Expire: April 1, 2021
705 Belmont Street
Belmont, MA 02478

Nashua Housing Authority
Paul Deschenes (Reappointment) Term to Expire: October 13, 2023

57 Tyler Street
Nashua, NH 03060