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| think when you look at the history of the last ten years, we came out of 2008 which was a nightmare,
had to be a nightmare for all assessing offices. The crash of the real estate market was tremendously
difficult; and in 2010 they did a reassessment that was not an easy task; 2013 they did a reassessment.
My observation of that, because it is on the data cards is that we over-corrected, heavily. | know in my
neighborhood, they cut houses $100,000.00 which was in some instances 25%, it was just so steep,
when the equalized ratio in 2010 was 1.1.

So | noticed we went up streets and gave $30,000.00 discounts to every home, whether it was worth
$200,000.00 or it was worth $300,000.00, it wasn’t percentage based. It was just a single swoop cut
and | think that led to part of the problem in this assessment cycle. We found condo units that had
been dropped from $120,000.00 to $70,000.00 in 2013 that are now up to $130,000.00 from KRT
coming in 2018. So it was a total boomerang process for the people in those communities. | am
disappointed that the assessing office and our chair or our manager didn’t say, “Hey we need to get a
report. Give us the distributions.” That KRT data base is listed by Ward, every Alderman could have
had a Ward report, really simple to run, to Know what happened in my Ward? What was the increase,
where are the problem areas? Who might | be hearing from? How simple would that be?

And then we would get to work in the communities and neighborhoods that are messed up and we
would be putting some extra focus time into those areas to correct it, because there is a lot corrective
work that needs to be done. | was out in my neighborhood today walking a dog and got stopped from
two people from the other end that had gotten their tax bills and one guy put the spread sheet together.
He knew | was the person being public and he was like, “Oh my god, what happened to my house, how
did this happen, how did | go from the 300’s to the upper 500’s, what happened in a week when all this
changed over”. It is hard for people to understand. And then they say, “Well | looked down the street
and there are a whole bunch of houses in the 300’s, we are all over the map over here, what
happened”. | know, yes | understand that, it is a problem. It all has to do, | did meet with the Board of
Assessors, it was a good meeting. It has to do with how we capture our permits and how we handle
our MLS data in-between assessing cycles.

It is abundantly clear to me that we do not value renovations and home improvements the way that the
sales market tells you we should value it. We are undervaluing grossly, | mean it is ridiculous. All
assessors, all good assessors will tell you, it is all about the sales data. This business is about the
sales data and that is why when we abate, we only allow people to come in, working off of sales data.
We don’t allow them to use comps that are not sales based because the sales data is the hard data. It
makes perfect sense, | understand that. But the assessors should be operating on that sales data too.
Every time they look at a property they need to be asking themselves, what will this property bring in a
market sale? What would it bring when they look at these improvements. | am finding lots of permits
for home renovations, major home renovations, that bring $10, $15, $20, $30K to the property when
they assess it.

Then when | look at the sales data and | looked at substantial homes that sold — when you look at a
house that undergoes a home renovation, you are getting between, in neighborhoods all over Nashua,
especially for the homes in the high 200’s or 300 range, when they completely renovate that house |
could show you 10 sales that the house popped $180,000.00 to $200,000 to $225,000.00. They are
hot and they go and there’s a lot of data to support that. It is right in our neighborhood and that is one
the reasons when | looked at your permit that | was concerned, Mr. Mayor, because it was so under-
valued for the work done and any other house, there are three or four houses right around your
neighborhood that when they did that level of work, their homes sold for $150, $200,000.00 more. They
really get that pop.

| feel that we are just not principled in the office down there, that we just don’t have practices in place. |
was very clear with the Board of Assessors that | felt policy needed to be created. | told them that it
says in the mission statement that their role is to review and make certain that the Assessing Office is
compliant with their policies. Well there appear to be none, so | encourage them to perhaps encourage

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the Assessing Office to create some. It just seems like there should be something down there. | know
that legal counsel and members of City Hall, the Mayor, are very concerned about the time that | am
wasting with staff, that | have overstayed my welcome. | have to tell you it is enormously difficult for me
to access this data.

The property cards you cannot get on your computer at home, the data base that is available in the
house at your home is not a clean data base and it says right on the web site that there are errors in
this data and basically you can’t trust it. So | can’t do it from home and when | go into the Assessing
Office, | can use the computer but it will not bring up the format of a property card. | can’t get the data
that | need, unless | print the card out. So | have to use some staff time, and | do it all myself but then it
goes to the printer and they have to charge me and | pay and sort them and count them and send me
on my merry way. You know, | had asked the Assessing Office for help months ago in comping our
house and it was Steve Hamilton up at the DRA | had three good conversations with him. And he gave
me some questions that | would be able to ask my Assessing Office for help. They were not willing to
answer those questions. Their immediate was no, they are not going to help me. He said one of the
things you could ask about was comps. If you are looking at your property and you are confused about,
he knew the effect of your build was an issue for me we talked about this. He said, “Ask for comps”. |
did, so did my assessing chief at the Lakes Region, she said, “just ask for comps, ask for help and ask
them to give you comps”.

| asked John Duhamel for comps, “Could you provide me with any comps or any policies to help me
understand where my house EYB fell in my neighborhood”. He never responded to the e-mail. So the
only way for me to understand that was to go to City Hall and print the 55 cards and pay for it. And
what | learned is we were the only property that was changed aggressively when we were assessed
and that was great data for me to have. We were right at the top of the list. And | wouldn’t have been
looking so much and so deeply into the data, | look back at the way all of this has transpired, if
somebody had shown me some professional courtesy in that office, and just helped me out, had a
single meeting with me, got me some data, | wouldn’t have been in there digging for every property
card. If the guy had come back and said, “Oh you were the only house that was hit at this level, yes,
ok, that may be a question, that’s the data’, | would have been at least happy to know that. And |
wouldn’t have had to spend time down there digging like | have dug. That’s the level we are at.

| cannot emphasize enough how strongly | feel about professional courtesy in an office. You have one
assessor down there who is so professional, any time | am in that office and anyone walks in and he is
around and he happens to have good visibility, he will say to anyone, “Is there anything | can help you
with, do you need anything’?. The women in the office are A1 professional, the Chief, not cutting it. |
have never seen a more unprofessional person in my life. | have had two conversations with him and in
the second conversation a couple weeks ago, only twice, I’ve never had a meeting with this gentleman,
the second conversation | had a couple weeks ago he actually had his head facing a wall while | was
talking to him. Right in front of his staff | asked him if he could turn his head and look at me while | am
speaking to him, to have to ask for that is absurd. It is absurd. And the issue of not really being at work
really disturbs me. You have to take that job on full-time.

It would take very little for this management team or the Mayor’s Office or the CFO to go in there and
do a quick audit on what is happening with attendance and get that information pretty quickly,
somebody has to care and look into it. | think a lot of our problems occurred when | called him a year
ago, he wasn’t willing to meet, it was a very hostile conversation, | was wrong about everything, permits
are captured, sales data is done, you are wrong, you are wrong, you are wrong. And that is what got
me hopping because | didn’t feel | was wrong.

It is just really disappointing and with regard to our property card, | had another neighbor go in last
week, I’ve had two now, they go to the professional assessor, the one | would recommend to anyone,
and there’s only one that | will recommend that somebody go to in that office, only one. And they had a
question on the land issue on the cards, there is a bunch of neighbors who are really concerned with

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land valuation and the factors on the property card and | think there is a legitimate issue there. One of
my neighbors has been hot on it. He went in, he got the assessor to meet with him, the assessor could
not answer his questions, the assessor said, “I'll get back to you’, the assessor called back three days
later, he gave him an answer on the phone, my neighbor wasn’t really satisfied with it, but was super
appreciative that at least he got a response. That is more than we ever got in four years and we
happened to be with the assessor that doesn’t do that, that didn’t do it from the beginning.

| think that difference in the assessors should not exist. Even three years that should not have existed,
| shouldn’t have felt like | needed to get a lawyer to get RSA information. | didn’t know how to word my
questions to this administration without having a lawyer do it for me. | didn’t know how to ask for a
document, because | have asked, |’ve asked for the qualifications of our assessors because the CFO
has said they are all certified. | don’t know if they are, we all here have stuff on ... people walking into a
doctor who isn’t a doctor, we all here are being duped because we are told what the right answer is but
we don’t really know. | said, “Well when were they certified and what are they certified in, who are
they’? No answer nobody knows, but they are, just trust them, they are.

| want to point out one thing when it comes to assessing and assessing fairly and | told this to the Board
of Assessors, when | looked at our street, on Berkeley Street, there were a lot of permits that were
missed. But when | finally laid out all the permit data and | looked at what it showed, KRT came in and
met with the Board of Assessors and the Board said to him, Rob Tozier, “are all these problems caused
by people not pulling permits and they are doing work to their homes and we don’t know about it” and
Rob said, “I don’t know, I’m not certain it could be the problem”, right? How would he actually know and
in reality when | went into the Board of Assessors, | said “Let me tell you what | see. | see lots of
permits being pulled but | see the assessing people not going out to check on the permits or to close
them with a visit’. Tons, they are assessing at the desk off a picture.

On Berkeley Street there were 16 out of 35 permits pulled that were never visited or looked at. And |
am talking significant valuations, they didn’t go and in the process of not going they missed full home
renovations, major changes, because we know we cannot just trust what is written on a piece of paper
on what is happening with the permit. So 16 out of 35 were just never visited or seen and about 10 of
them of those permits were simply not valued, forgotten to be valued for new kitchens and stuff. That is
a lot, that is a lot of missed data that creates disproportionate assessments, it is very significant. You
know, | was culling through the extra hundred permit cards | printed a week ago. | am going to tell you,
| just scroll through them, scroll through them, | create a spread sheet and | take a look and | hit a
property card where there were 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 permits pulled, a lot done. Three big ones and the
rest were mechanical, electrical and plumbing and | said, “Oh this is a house that has a lot of work it is
in my neighborhood” and then | look at the activity section and there hasn’t been a measuring list since
1994 and they hadn’t done a data verification since 1998. There are absolutely no visits on this card,
all of that work and there isn’t a visit out there. The valuations are so flipping low it is crazy, a brand
new kitchen in an old home, yielded $1,500.00 on the assessment.

When | see a card like this and this is a card that they don’t go back to all the time, three big permits, no
visits, no visits, no visits, you Know what | do? | look at the name, who is this? It is a Board of
Assessor's member, you know, do they understand how hard it is for us? That to me is a conflict and |
don’t like seeing that. They don’t understand on the outside what is like for us if you are not having
anyone come to your property or that assessing office isn’t going to these properties’ to capture this
stuff. They are missing it on a big level so it is really disappointing. | am going to continue to work at it.
| don’t really care if you stonewall and | am sure that the City is going to provide nothing and | am not
going to get any answers and | am going to go back to the questions I’ve asked and | know | won’t get
answers. Over time | am going to try and verify the data by going back down there and obtaining
information but the only reason that | am doing that is because the City won’t give you any answers and
| am not going to sit back and just accept that it got taken care of or somebody looked at it. | am going
to verify it. And | am going to continue to verify it. And | do everything | can, | haven’t spent much time

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in the assessing office this week, they have been mobbed with people coming in with issues, it is a zoo
in there.

| have stayed out of there because | know what is going on with the tax bills. But when things calm
down a little bit, | will go back and do what | need to do. | hope that you folks as Aldermen can really
get onboard, | would love to see you take a vote of no confidence in that office. At least as a minimum
send a message that you’ve to clean it up. And you’ve got to care, it is really tough for us on the
outside and | just don’t see anyone on the inside doing and making the right decisions. And when you
talk about exemptions, let’s talk about Concord Street, let’s talk about all the communities that give
exemptions to historic homes. We never talk about that and they do and there is a street that is all over
the map with properties that we largely know have so much trouble selling. And | feel very badly, | don’t
benefit with this tax, | don’t live in the historic district, | am not pushing this for me, but these folks who
try to maintain those little mini-museums down there have a brutal time trying to sell those houses and
maintain them. When | see assessing done on those houses that jacks it $100 or $150 or $200,000.00
above sales prices, | cringe. We should be very careful in that neighborhood on how we assess those
homes. Thank you.

Mayor Donchess

| just want to correct any misimpression that may have been created with respect to the reference to my
house because | think there was the implication that somehow | had influenced my own, this building
permit. | think we took out and | actually brought my file, l’ve never even looked at it until | Know Ms.
Ortolano was investigating. We took out a building permit in maybe 2007 or 2008, | was neither an
Alderman nor in office nor a Mayor and the permit said $100,00000. Of course | never even saw the
paperwork at the time because | wasn’t that interested in how this would affect my assessment and the
project took a few years, the house is nearly 100 years old, so you have horse hair plaster, bathrooms
are really small, we moved a door, stuff that didn’t really effect value. There’s a post and whatever it is,
the old wiring system, a lot of that had to be replaced, the plumbing had to be replaced, some stuff had
to be taken out of the basement.

The value went up $30,000.00, at the time | didn’t even look, and it was maybe 2010 or 2011, again |
wasn’t even in office, the implication is that somehow | influenced this as Mayor? | was not Mayor, |
wasn’t even an Alderman and | didn’t even look at what the assessment was at all, | got the tax bill and
| paid it. So the idea that somehow this was improper is completely a slander and it is not an issue that
| thought about, | paid the taxes, | never looked at the property card | wasn’t even really aware of how
this affected my value until this came up and | looked back at the file. Because | knew this might come
up the last couple of meetings, | have had my file, so the next meeting | will bring you my file and you
can look at it, it is a totally an open book. This happened 10 years ago.

| think that certainly mistakes have been made, a lot of this was back in 2013, when you say that the
condos went way down and went way up, that is a two-sided problem, | mean in the sense that yes,
that sort of boomerang affect is a problem, but it meant that people paid lower taxes for five years. So if
that had not happened, they would have paid more to the City. So a lot of these arguments are that
individuals should be paying higher taxes, a building permit — enough value wasn’t added, that means
that some individual, some family who probably thinks they are paying too much, the argument is they
are not paying enough. | am more concerned about the people whose values went up so much from
not on Berkeley Street like Ms. Ortolano’s house where the taxes went down 20%, those aren’t the
people that | am worried about. It is the people who have owned $200,000.00 homes and their
assessments went up 30 or 40%, those are the people that | think we should be concerned about.

As you know, because | have sent you the Memo, | am just going to make two more points, because |
sent you the Memo, | asked John Griffin, CFO and Kim Kleiner, Chief of Staff to do a management
audit and an efficiency audit of the Assessing Office and | think you got that Memo, right? But if you

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look carefully at the data, this all began on Berkeley Street, if you look at specific houses, and the
specific factual statements that are made to support some of this, you will find that it is just riddled with
errors. Take the Berkeley Street, that’s where we started is Berkeley Street, the number one example
says the assessment never went up in 8 years. You look at it, that is flat wrong. If you go down one by
one by one, a few of them are correct, but most of them are wrong.

| am sure there are mistakes, a common mistake that has been made or misinterpretation I'll call it, is
that around the revaluations of 13 and ’18 that a building permit was not included in the value, well it
wouldn’t be because it wouldn’t kick in until the next April, because that’s the way the thing works, and
then the revaluation factors that in. So there is no change, but the revaluation takes it into effect. So |
will only get into this just because there was — you know | went on too long | am sure but this sort of
implication that there was some sort of improper conduct on my own house, | mean this is again before
| was an Alderman, before | was Mayor, just a private citizen, tried to fix up the house, the value went
up $30,000.00, | figured that out in the last few weeks, just because | looked at the property card and
looked at my file for the first time.

| think we will do the audit, we will give you a report on the assessing office, we may recommend some
changes and | can tell you that they are making a serious effort to look at everything that is taking
place; staffing, all the procedures — everything that is going on down there.

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you Madam President. | would just like to reiterate what the Mayor has said about the Holiday
Stroll, | would like to give my congratulations to Paul Shea, the Board of Director of the American
Downtown and his exhausted staff. | say that kind of tongue in cheek because | know being on the
former board of directors just how much, but I'll tell you, I’d also like to thank all the merchants that
pulled it all together and made it very successful. Even though it was a 25 year celebration it was very
good, it is a great venue for the family to come out, | took comfort in mentioning to Santa that | have
been on my best behavior, so everything has been good.

The other thing that really struck me tonight, what a breath of fresh air to see a young lady such as
Alexis Durant to do the type of work that she has done. | don’t think the little recognition that the Mayor
that you proposed, it was grand, the right thing to do, but probably not enough. I’d like to see more of a
challenge out there to other people of her age to come and step forward. | mean if you want a quality
City or you want any good program, you must be an active participant so | encourage the young people
to probably follow her lead and step forward in this. But it was really a breath of fresh air and | thank
her for it and | congratulate her on getting that award. Thank you.

Alderman Dowd

| took would like to thank Paul Shea and all the people that put effort into the Downtown Stroll. | talked
to several of the business owners down there and that is one of their biggest days of the year. The
more times that we can have the population and the Downtown celebrating the Downtown and taking
part in these businesses, the better the City will be.

Alderman Klee

| too attended the Stroll and it was incredible. Paul Shea, as usual, | call him the Energizer Bunny, he’s
just, he was hopping around and doing all kinds of things. He is an incredible man. |’d also like to take
a few moments and thank Alderman Lopez and Amber Loge for the work that they have done on the
Delaney House getting all the decorations and creating that wonderful atmosphere for them. Thank you
very much.

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Alderman Lopez

| was going to thank Alderman Klee for taking time to bring a bunch of trees that were donated and set
them up with her husband and then make sure they were all properly cared for. | thought that was a
very nice thing to and | appreciated it.

| also wanted to comment on Alexis’ example, proposing her recognition this week particularly just
because we initiated it after Alderman McCarthy’s passing and | know the Board was feeling a sense of
loss, at the loss of a great leader. | know in my work working with non-profits | get to see people
struggling to put their lives together but | also really get to see a lot of people showing leadership and
making that happen. People who are organizing their own massive undertakings that never see the
light of day, because at the end of the day it is what we need to keep moving in non-profits so | just
wanted to call attention to the fact that there is the higher level leadership that has a visibility of us as
Aldermen where we get to sit here every other week and be on TV for better or for worse and be seen
leading. But there are also everyday a lot of people who are just doing their thing every day to make
life a little bit better for someone, to encourage other people to do that and | just wanted to bring that to
the Boara’s attention.

Finally | wanted to bring to the Board’s attention that there is a Holiday Fair at Palm Square, the Arbor
Restaurant, it will be this Saturday and it will be from 12 pm to 6 pm. So come by and celebrate the
Holiday Spirit and support a good cause.

Alderman Caron

| took would like to congratulate you for honoring Alexis, it is important for our community for our young
people to get involved and when you see that, | think it motivates everyone to get involved. So without
them we have nothing for our non-profits and agencies that who are dealing with difficult situations.

And on that note, the Nashua Lion’s Club will be holding its Annual Santa Breakfast this Saturday from
8:00 to 11:00 at the Nashua Senior Center. Santa will be there, the Annual Gingerbread Contest will be
held, | understand that at this moment they have about 10 gingerbread houses, and if you haven’t seen
them, they are just magnificent.

Also, there will be a Craft Fair from 8 to noon, so come on down and have breakfast, see the crafts, see
the gingerbread and then go over to Palm Square. Thank you.

Alderwoman Kelly

| feel that where | sit in the horseshoe | end up just repeating what everybody said, but | did want to say
that | ran into Paul during the Holiday Stroll and he was in such good spirits and he did such an
incredible job. | know he took a couple days off and he deserved that so | really appreciated that.

And | also have a comment about Alexis, it was just so inspiring to see someone find their passion and
be so connected to it at such a young age so thank you for doing that.

Alderman Jette

First | would like to acknowledge the work that Ms. Ortolano is doing, whether everything she says is
correct or not, | think she is raising some important issues and | am glad to see that the Mayor has
initiated an audit of the Assessor’s Office to try to answer her questions and the issues she has raised.

| think it is so important that all of the taxpayers in the City, whether they are elderly and no matter what
Ward they live in, | think it is important that people feel that they are being treated fairly, that their taxes
are based on accurate information and that there are not differences in how they are being taxed as
opposed to other people. | think people expect and deserve a feeling that our tax process is fair. |
applaud the Mayor for taking that step and looking into that.

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| would like to acknowledge a gift | received from Alderwoman Kelly, it is a bag that says “Plastic ain’t
fantastic” kind of acknowledging the damage that plastic is doing to our environment and my meager
efforts in trying raise our awareness about that.

And lastly, the Nashua Rotary Club is selling Christmas Trees at the Plaza that is out on Amherst Street
near Pier One in front of Market Basket. The Demoulas Family very generously has donated or allowed
us to use that parking lot. Our trees are not plastic, they are real trees, they are New Hampshire trees,
so | encourage people to buy their trees from the Rotary Club. All profits go to local charities and my
wife and | will be selling trees there this Saturday morning, so please come on by and buy your tree
there. Thank you.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

| would just like to join everyone in congratulating Paul Shea and the volunteers downtown and the
Board of Directors of GAD. | too heard very positive things from the merchants as well as people just
down enjoying the evening. | think one of the things that is really nice to see is how many families are
coming every year, it seems like there are more and more families and | know some things are starting
a little earlier and | think that we are nicely growing the event for our families in the greater community.
So thank you for all of your efforts.

| would like to thank Alderman Lopez for bringing Alexis and all of her efforts to our attention and
through the presentation tonight to the attention of the greater community. | think that adults and youth
in the community should be inspired by her. And | also think that we need to recognize her family and
friends who have been supporting her. | think is important that as we look at young people in our
community who are reaching out that we acknowledge that they do have their family and friends with
them and just like each of us comes to this horseshoe with those who have supported us across the
year, they are also growing leaders through their leadership. So hopefully they will expand the number
of volunteers we have in our community. So thank you for bringing her to the community’s
acknowledgement and our awareness.

Two things, | got lots of phone calls because “Oh my gosh it is snowing and what is going to happen
with my yard waste collection”. It is going to December 7" so you can still rake leaves as the snow
melts, it will be picked up. The other thing is people have been contacting me because as many of you
know drainage in my neighborhood is a problem, we have a small lake at the end of Timberline
periodically. If you are out walking or driving and you see leaves in the storm drains, if you are so
inclined to remove them, that would be very helpful as we continue to get rains and have water backing
up throughout the neighborhood.

One final thing, NRPC has the draft of the 2019 to 2045 it says here Nashua Area Metropolitan Transit
Plan and it is going up on the website and it will be available for public comment so for you to review
and make public comment. It is up for 30 days and then will be discussed at NRPC. So if you would
like to take a look at that, it is on-line for you to look at. Thank you.

President Wilshire

| too would like to thank the Great American Downtown, Paul Shea, for all his efforts in putting on such
a great event — 25 years it has grown tremendously and is quite an event. People from out of town say,
“did you go to Nashua to that Stroll, it was really a good event” and so thank you to Paul Shea and
Great American Downtown.

I’d also like to thank you Alderman Lopez for bringing Alexis Durant in to us and recognizing her efforts.
She started at such a young age and it is so important to get young people involved.

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Alderman Lopez

| just want to point out, everyone has been thanking me but she’s been working for years, all | did was
nominate her.

Alderman Dowd

Just really quickly, yesterday the Mayor, myself, Alderman Jette and Alderman Klee stood out in the
rain and the snow to watch the Ribbon Cutting for the Connection of the Pennichuck in Nashua to the
Pennichuck East Utility in Litchfield. They laid 5,600 feet of pipe under the river to provide clean
drinking water to Litchfield and beyond because of the pollution over there that they’ve been having. It
was quite an event. Honorable Chuck Morris, the President of the Senate was there and | think we
must’ve had about 40 people in a 10x10 space under a tent. But it is a very interesting site, it’s kind of
hard to find but it is going to provide a fantastic service for the community.

Alderman Klee

| just wanted to add one other thing, the trees that were donated to Delaney House were donated from
a very incredible man, he is the manager of the Home Depot, Exit 6 and he donated the five live trees
personally — not from Home Depot, but he donated five live trees, not plastic to the Delaney House and
| wanted to thank him for doing that.

Committee announcements:

Alderman O’Brien

Tomorrow night, November 28", at 7:00 p.m. here in the Aldermanic Chamber we are going to have the
Infrastructure Committee meeting. We will be approving the preliminary design of the Greeley Park
Boat Ramp.

Alderman Dowd

Yes this evening we had the first reading of the secretary’s contract for the school department and had
to call a Budget Meeting on December 6th because by legislation we have to handle contracts in a
timely manner. So | am going to have a meeting on December 6th to discuss that one item.

Alderman Caron

Personnel will be meeting Monday December 3” at 6:00 p.m. We have a lot of people coming in for
appointments for various committees.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

Tomorrow night’s evening was originally scheduled as a joint Infrastructure/PEDC meeting and | know |
will not be there because we have a meeting for the Joint Special School Committee and | wasn’t sure
whether or not we would have a quorum. So in not wanting to lack of quorum of one of the committees
hold up that meeting, that meeting was re-posted this afternoon as being an Infrastructure meeting.

That being said, for members of PEDC who were planning on going, | would encourage you to go. It is
certainly an infrastructure project but it is also something | think it is going to have an economic impact
downtown and in the greater City. So to get an understanding of how that project is moving forward,
would probably be useful and | know | will be watching that meeting at some point. So | would just
encourage you to attend even though it no longer posted as a joint meeting. Thank you.

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Alderman Dowd

Yes | will add that you pointed out tomorrow evening and Thursday evening we will be interviewing five
companies for architectural design of the new middle school project. Last week we as you all know
because we put out a Memo, Harvey Construction was hired as the construction manager for that
project and will be helping us moving forward. And | was going to call yet another meeting after
Thursday, probably sometime next week if Ms. Lovering can find a date for me, to actually make the
selection of the architectural company.

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN LOPEZ THAT THE NOVEMBER 27, 2018 MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:45 p.m.
Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch City Clerk

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