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Summary of Economic Impacts on Hillsborough County

Construction Impacts Input (Local Expenditures $12,000,000
Output (Sales) $19,930,800
Earnings $5,930,400
Jobs Created (person-years) 112
Ongoing Annual Impacts Input (Year 3 Spending) $460,000
Operations Output (Sales) $740,674
Earnings $171,111
Jobs Created (annual) 4
Audience Spending Input (Year 3 Spending) $402,220
Output (Sales) $654,165
Earnings $139,015
Jobs Created (annual) 5
Total Annual Operating Impacts Output (Sales) $1,394,839
Earnings $310,126
Jobs Created (annual) 9

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Economic impacts - qualitative

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SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN
MAY 2, 2017

7:00 PM
PRESIDENT BRIAN S. MCCARTHY CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER
PRAYER OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA D. PIECUCH
PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERMAN DAVID SCHONEMAN
ROLL CALL
COMMUNICATIONS

From: Brian S. McCarthy, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting

ADJOURNMENT

Aldermanic Chamber

Board of Aldermen

City of Nashua
229 Main Street Brian S. McCarthy
Nashua, NH 03061-2019 President, Board of Aldermen

(603) 589-3030

April 7, 2017

Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk

City of Nashua acl CENNY
229 Main Street

Nashua, NH 03061-2019

Dear Ms. Piecuch: APR FM ow 67

Please be advised | am hereby calling a Special Meeting of the Board of Aldermen for Tuesday, May 2,
2017, at 7:00 p.m. in the Aldermanic Chamber. Representatives from Bruner/Cott Architects and
Planners and Webb Management will be in attendance to present the Performing Arts Center Phase II
Feasibility Study.

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Brian McCarthy, President

cc: Mayor Jim Donchess
Steven A. Bolton, Corporation Counsel

A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, April 25, 2017, at 7:34 p.m. in the Aldermanic
Chamber.

President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia Piecuch; Alderman Richard A. Dowd led in the Pledge to the Flag.

The roll call was taken with 11 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Clemons, Alderman Deane,
Alderman Dowd, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja were recorded absent.

Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

The thing | wanted to talk about tonight is, of course, the budget which is on your desk. First is obvious. | am
introducing this second meeting in April as opposed to the first meeting in May. Therefore, two or three weeks
earlier. The point of that is to give the Budget Committee a little bit more time to consider it. Having served on
the Budget Committee, myself, | know how difficult a period of time that can be. This will give you two more
weeks so you can spend a few less consecutive nights at city hall. Possibly, next year | would be able to do it
two weeks earlier to give you an additional month from the way it was last year.

As an overview, Mr. President, the budget before you attempts to accomplish a few things. First, making the
significant educational step forward of expanding our kindergarten from half day to full day. At the current time,
5 of the 12 elementary schools have full day kindergarten. This would expand full day kindergarten to all 12
schools. | think this accomplishes a number of important objectives.

First of all, for the children of our community, the studies and research in this area shows very conclusively that
full day kindergarten has long term beneficial effects for kids throughout the remainder of their lives: better
results, lower dropout rates, higher grades, more success in life.

Secondly as an economic development issue, Nashua is one of not that many communities in New Hampshire
that still has only half-day kindergarten. Seventy percent of the kids in New Hampshire go to all day
kindergarten. This has been identified as an important objective at the state level by our new Governor
Sununu who is expanding and encouraging all communities to go to full day kindergarten. When people
consider a community in which to live or a business considers a community in which locate, it is one of the first
questions that come up. What are the schools like? Most people from other parts of the country would be
surprised by a community that only has half-day kindergarten.

We can accomplish this pursuant to the budget that was proposed by Superintendent Connie Brown, who
adopted a very imaginative creative approach which really accomplished the all-day kindergarten through the
reassignment of teachers and slight increases in class sizes at some of the elementary grades and the
secondary grades to accomplish this without a lot of extra money. Two of the things she cut, those being the
Clearway High School program, which she proposed bringing in-house, and the two teaching coaches, the
school board restored those cuts as being counter-productive to the educational mission of the city. The
budget that | propose would follow those recommendations.

The second thing that | think that the budget does is it helps us hold the line, maintain the quality of services
and the level of services in the face of a serious law enforcement and public health emergency, which is the
opioid crisis. We have a number of employees across our major departments working on this problem. The
firefighters are, of course, involved in responding to OD calls with narcan, and they have been doing that for a
couple of years now. The police department is involved in making drug arrests, fighting the illegal drug traffic,
and the school department is involved in not only educating kids but dealing with significant social problems
which have resulted from addiction from families that are deeply affected from kids who are not getting enough
to eat and suffering other ill effects of addiction or the close association with people who are involved with
illegal substances or substance abuse. They are doing a very good job.

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If you look at first our police department, they made 749 drug arrests last year which is an incredible number
for a community of our size. This year, through yesterday, they had made 285 drug arrests which is slightly
ahead of last year’s pace. Since the beginning of 2016, they have arrested more than 1000 people on drug
charges. They are doing a fantastic job at making it very difficult to deal heroin and other illegal substances in
Nashua.

The Safe Stations program, and Chris Stawasz keeps all the statistics, has seemingly a significant effect on
the amount of number of ODs and drug incidents that we have. When the program started in November of last
year, we started to get about a person a day reporting to a Nashua fire station. In April of this year, this current
month, it is up to about 3 people a day reporting in. That's probably 75 people this month. At the same time,
the number of ODs have dropped significantly to the point where through Sunday night, the 23", there had
only been 6 OD incidents in Nashua. Through the night of the 23%, there were only 6 OD incidents in Nashua.
That’s compared to a peak of 47 incidents in October of 2016. Unless there’s kind of a spike in the next few
days, it could be the lowest month that’s ever been recorded since the statistics have been kept which goes
back to the beginning of 2015.

Of course essential to this effort is Harbor Homes, who is providing extremely good responsiveness and
service to those who report to Safe Stations. We are maybe alone in terms of this trend. In Manchester the
ODs have gone up significantly in the last couple of months. They are running a slightly different program, but
the point that | am making with respect to the budget is that despite the increases in costs that we do not
control, which | will address in a minute, this budget would maintain our ability to respond to the drug crisis
through current service levels for the fire department and for the firefighters who are doing such a good job;
Current service levels for the police department and the police officers that are doing such a good job; and,
current service levels and public kindergarten on the school department for everyone who is working very hard
there.

The two things | think this accomplishes is at a modest cost it expands to full day kindergarten and maintains
our community's efforts in the face of the opioid crisis.

The cost drivers, we have a few item costs that are going up significantly that are beyond our control. First of
all, we have the pension increase imposed by the State of New Hampshire that we discussed at some length
many times in the past. That is adding about two and a quarter million dollars to this year’s budget.

We have also the cost of health care. The city is self-insured, meaning we are not paying an insurance
company except to administer the program. Otherwise, the city pays the benefits. It’s not like a company that
buys insurance and you know exactly what your health care is going to cost. The health care is an estimate
based upon past experience as to the use that city employees will make the health care system. We
underestimated the amount of use for last year and the year before and costs are increasing. We need to
adequately budget for health care items so that we don’t go significantly into deficit. The amount of that budget
item in this budget has gone up $3.6 million to about $28 million.

Another big driver is the cost of water. Pennichuck’ s rates are going up 12 percent. There are some
additional costs related to the dams, but of course they are going to bring in more revenue and have an overall
downward or positive effect on the tax rate. Special Ed costs are going up far more than the cost of inflation.
That’s within the school budget.

Those are the main items that are affecting the budget. The bottom line is that the budget is up about 4
percent more than we would like, but it maintains current services in the fact of the challenges that |
mentioned, while at the same time paying these additional costs, the big budget items over which we have no
real control. Under the budget cap as recalculated following the wastewater decision, it’s about $1.9 million
below the budget cap as currently calculated.

A couple more items, hopefully briefly, we did change the presentation to some degree. If you look through the
budget you will see that each of the departments contains a written explanation of the mission statement, the
services and functions of each department. The point there is to give people who aren't as familiar with the

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budget as we are, who are not as familiar with city government, more insight into what the departments do,
what their objectives are. | think if we continue to improve on this approach over the next few years, we can
add significant transparency for members of the public as to what the city is up to. For example, we could also
include for the use of the public a very short, 3 or 4 or 5 line budget that kind of sketches each department’s
wages and other things to give people more insight of what is going on.

One new item, new approach in the budget that | hope you will consider is that within the capital improvement
budget | have included $200,000 for citizen participatory budgeting. What the proposal is, and | will give you
details soon as to how this could work, and it would have to be adopted by you, and this is an approach that
has been taken in various communities around the country, this small portion of the capital improvement
budget we would solicit public ideas as to small capital improvement projects that people would really like to
see. Through a process similar to the review and comment commission, we would develop and vet these
ideas using volunteers and, of course review them by staff as well, and narrow it down to 8 or 10 projects
which then the public could vote on. We would learn what people would really want. Those projects that
received the most votes we would consider approving for implementation using the $200,000 figure. We could
do two $100,000 projects or four $50,000, whatever the public thinks is the best. | think this way we could get
more involvement by citizens in our government. | think we could come up with projects which we would be
surprised by but with which we would be pleasantly surprised by. Final decisions would still have to be made
by the Board of Aldermen, but in the same way we really improve the recommendations made by the
downtown improvement committee. We could use that approach in basically adopting, unless serious errors
we think are made, the projects that are approved, developed and ultimately favored by the public. I'll be
giving you more on that idea over the next few weeks, but that you will see as one line item in the budget.

| think, Mr. President, that gives you a good summary of what is going on. Of course the schedule of reviews
has already been established by the budget committee, and | think they begin this week. You will learn and
see more of the details as the presentations unfold. Thank you very much, Mr. President, that’s all | have.
RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR

Alderman Cookson

It will probably be discussed in budget, but if you could just give us again the guidance that you provided the
different departments within the city: police, fire, school as far as what their expectation was for a budget

percentage and then what they came back in and what you are presenting within your budget for each one of
those departments. Just police, fire, education and public works please.

Mayor Donchess

The police and fire were each 2.9 percent, which maintains current services. Education was 1.9, and public
works was 1.3 or 1.4. They all met those. Well, the schools came in at 2 percent, and | cut it to 1.9 roughly.

Alderman Cookson

Thank you.

RECOGNITION PERIOD — None

READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEETING

OF APRIL 11, 2017, BE ACCEPTED, PLACED ON FILE, AND THE READING SUSPENDED
MOTION CARRIED

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COMMUNICATIONS

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

From: Larry D. Goodhue, CEO/CFO & Treasurer, Pennichuck Corporation
Re: Annual Meeting of Sole Shareholder — May 6, 2017
e Pennichuck Special Water Cmte Recommends: Election of James P. Dore, Elizabeth A. Dunn
Paul A. Indeglia and John M. Murphy

MOTION BY ALDERMAN MORIARTY TO ELECT THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO THE PENNICHUCK
CORPORATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS, EACH FOR A THREE-YEAR TERM AND UNTIL THEIR
SUCCESSORS ARE ELECTED AND QUALIFIED: JAMES P. DORE, ELIZABETH A. DUNN, PAUL A.
INDEGLIA, AND JOHN M. MURPHY; AND, AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR TO TRANSMIT, BY PROXY CARD,
THE VOTE OF THE SOLE SHAREHOLDER TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF PENNICHUCK
CORPORATION

MOTION CARRIED

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

PETITIONS — None

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

Appointments by the Mayor

The following Appointments by the Mayor were read into the record:

Conservation Commission

Michael Reinke, Alternate (New Appointment) Term to Expire: December 31, 2017
2 Quincy Street

Nashua, NH 03061

Gene Porter (New Appointment) Term to Expire: December 31, 2019
77 Concord Street

Nashua, NH 03064

Cultural Connections Committee

Lauren Osowski (New Appointment) Term to Expire: December 31, 2019
14A Artillery Lane

Nashua, NH 03064

Nashua Arts Commission

Michael Joseph (New Appointment) Term to Expire: April 1, 2019

71 High Pine Avenue, #10

Nashua, NH 03063

Judith Carlson (Reappointment) Term to Expire: April 1, 2020

15 Manchester Street
Nashua, NH 03064