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Board of Aldermen — 8/8/17 Page 20

R-17-122
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Brian McCarthy
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman Michael O’Brien
Alderman Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard Dowd
ESTABLISHING A PERFORMING ARTS CENTER STEERING COMMITTEE
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President
McCarthy

R-17-123
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard Dowd
Alderman Michael O’Brien
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian McCarthy
ESTABLISHING A NASHUA RAIL TRANSIT COMMITTEE
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President
McCarthy

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-17-041
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Michael O’Brien
AMENDING THE COMPOSITION AND PURPOSE OF THE DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENTS
COMMITTEE
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President
McCarthy

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

Barbara Kelson

Hello. | don’t understand grouping of the Burke Street and the downtown theater together. | feel that’s apples
and oranges. Furthermore, | don’t understand making available money for the theater before exploring Daniel
Webster College where there’s plenty of parking and Paula Johnson suggested that. | agree with that. Or
improving the library, they need help or the Peacock that | suggested where there is enough parking. Many
people are enjoying the downtown without adding a theater and | was against all the improving of the
downtown. | thought it was too much money and everything but! do love it the way it is. | just think there’s
going to be too much traffic and extra money for extra parking. | just think we have other venues. Thank you.

Paula Johnson

Good evening again. Paula Johnson. | still live here in Nashua. A couple of things | just want to say. | notice
when some of the aldermen were co-endorsers on some of the legislation — R-17-122, 123, and 117. They
seem to be almost all the aldermen that love to spend our money continuously. | don’t think you ever vote no
on anything. | think it's sad. As my friend Barbara was talking about combining the money for the performance
arts center and | guess the Public Works building is going to be the Taj Mahal of Nashua now. | think it’s a little
bit outrageous. | was unable to go to the public meeting because some of us have to work and | work a lot at
night. | was unable to go. | think putting all those trucks down a neighborhood street, Burke Street, is going to

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be a heavy thing of the road to take. | kind of think about it. When our forefathers put that DW bond over there
at Exit 5, | think they did that for a reason because it was centrally located. There’s a reason why you need it
centrally located especially in the winter when you have to get the plows out then to start plowing the streets
here in the city and sanding. Now we’re going to put them down on Burke Street in a residential neighborhood
and to try to get the trucks out to sand. The other thing | look at is the building, and | know my opinion it’s a
toxic building if you’re doing all this renovation because | know there’s mold in the building because when | go
near mold, my glands swell instantly. I’m so allergic to it. So | knew the day when | was in there and a friend
of mine who used to work at that building starting pointing out. | could see some of the mold on the wall and
you could smell it. This project because our former Mayor bought it and it was supposed to be for the building |
guess if we needed it for the wastewater plant and now we're going to start housing everybody in there. Part
of this problem is so Conway ice could have another sheet of ice or another buck a year and have a nice long
lifetime lease like they do now. We all know that Conway ice wants another sheet. They’ve been wanting it for
a long time. The one building that’s standing in the way is the Public Works garage. How do | know, | used to
be an alderman. | used to sit on this board. | remember it. From the time | remember Attorney Bolton,
Alderman McCarthy, Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Deane, we knew it from the time that they put up that
building there wasn’t enough sheets and they needed more. So that’s just kind of the story behind that.

| want to talk about the rail also. Because again Attorney Bolton, Alderman McCarthy, Alderman Wilshire,
Alderman Deane, we all sat around this horseshoe when | believe it was $4.5 million that we got from the
federal government when Bernie Streeter was Mayor and because we didn’t use that money for the rail, we
had to send it back to Washington. Now the rail keeps coming up, and coming up, and coming up. |
personally don’t want to spend the money. Don’t use any more of my tax dollars to bring the rail to Nashua
and then give me a bill because I’m not going use the rail. | don’t go to Boston. | have no desire to go to
Boston. The only time | go to Boston is when | have to see the doctors and | try to stay away from there as
much as | can to see doctors. I’m paying for something because people chose to move to Nashua because
people cannot afford their homes in Massachusetts or afford to live there so they come up here. | remember
even when | was an alderman they come up here and then they want all the amenities that they left in
Massachusetts and then our taxes rise. We don’t care about anybody else but who will have to pay these
taxes. So we accommodate everybody who move to this city. They don’t want to drive to Lowell because it’s
20 minutes, they’re going to hit traffic, not my problem. You chose to live here, take the bus. The performing
arts center, a waste of money. Make it a private donations. If you want it badly enough, go out and raise the
money.

The other thing | think I’m going to end on that | happened to see in the Telegraph. Crews putting finishing
touches on relocated Nashua skate park. This is the same skate park that I’m still going to ask for the minutes
of those meetings that never were. How do you have a meeting and Mayor Donchess said to me well | didn’t
form that committee? It was Mayor Lozeau. It doesn’t matter. The committee was formed. The committee
reconvened. You voted on a location. Nobody knew about it except the members of the committee. | guess
when money is no object — coming soon — David W. Deane world class skate park. World class. When money
is no object, you only get how much was it like $30,000 some odd thousand dollars | think it was from the cell
towers and the whole thing cost us a half a million dollars combined. People quoted “it’s incredibly complex
and it will be the premiere” “premiere” we have to have in Nashua at the cost of the taxpayers. There’s people
who can’t afford their taxes. There’s people going to have a three percent increase this year. A premiere park
in the east. | couldn’t give a darn about the east. This is Nashua but we bring Merrimack — people want it, we
build it for them. They build for everybody except for the needs in this city and what this city can afford. If the
city can afford to build things, we wouldn't have to raise our taxes like this. When was the last time we had a
tax decrease? Mayor | remember back in the ‘90s when we started the spending cap, it was because of
spenders like you that keep spending and spending. Skate park wrap up this work within two BMX bikers said
“that we’ve been watching for it like since the beginning.” They were saying that this is more a bike park
versus a Skate park. The bottom line is | don’t know any skateboarders doing some 12 foot quarter pipes. So
we build this skate park the best in the east at the expense of the Nashua taxpayers who are not even going to
use it. You have cell towers. You're violating your own ordinance when you vote on it and yet you tell us the
citizens of this city that we have to abide by the ordinances that you write. It’s like the federal government. We
have to abide by the laws when Congress doesn’t abide by their own laws that they write. Isn’t this funny. Isn’t
this a joke on the people here?

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I’m going to end with this and this is what | can’t understand. If you live in Nashua, you have to be a resident
and you have to have an address basically on where you live so you can prove your residency | believe. Can
someone tell me how can you live at a PO Box Alderman Deane? | don’t understand how you can list a PO
Box and that should be an ordinance saying that any alderman, any elected official has to have a legal address
with a number on it and not a PO Box because then we don’t know where you're living. Thank you very much.

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman O’Brien

I’d just like to congratulate the firefighter softball team. They beat the Police Department. | mention it only
because the Fire Department liaison is not present and take some umbrage with the Police Department liaison.
The real winner was the kids who went to CHAD and that’s a good thing. | support our men in blue and our
men in red that did something extraordinary and it sounds like it was a good time for all. Thank you.

Alderman Dowd

| just want to thank all the people involved in the paving of Tinker Road. The only complaint | heard was that
the people got caught off guard they started so soon which they all dismissed because the road is done. It’s
done quickly and it’s done right. It’s serving that area of the city and very, very well. | want to thank everybody
involved in that. We had the opening of Charron Avenue on Amherst Street today. That project was a good
example of public, private partnership coming together. The State project that was envisioned to do the same
thing was about $24 million more. Basically this project saved the taxpayers $24 million because we did it with
a public, private partnership and did just what we needed to do. The other thing is that | let people know today
at the ceremony that this construction was originally the idea of former Alderman Larose from Ward 2. When
he decided not to run again and he and | had a meeting, it was one of the things that he wanted to have
pursued. | think he would be very proud to see how it turned out. Thank you.

Alderman Caron

Alderman Melizzi-Golja isn’t here today but I’d like to remind everyone that the annual Nashua goes back to
school event takes place August 23" from 5 to 6:30 at the library. We already have about 30 vendors there
and it will be held rain or shine because of the extensive work that was done in the library to add the Chandler
portion to it, we will have room for all the venues this year. If you want to see people work real hard, come see
RSVP on Tuesday to bag 1,500 bags within less than 3 hours. Thank you.

Alderman Cookson

Just take a couple minutes this evening. | wanted to let the Board know | met a wonderful gentleman a couple
Tuesday nights ago by the name of Pat Patterson. One of the things that he’s doing for the baseball youth of
the city is he’s having over at Lincoln Park over in Ward 1, he’s having this Tuesday night summer night
baseball. It’s just a pickup game. Any youth that wants to come to the field, wants to be chosen its sandlot
style, and it’s under the lights. They keep score. It’s a wonderful, wonderful event. They’ve been doing it the
last couple of Tuesday nights. I’ve had the opportunity to go. I’ve taken my daughter. We've enjoyed watching
the game. The youth are pitching to themselves. The coaches are just coaching and the children are pitching
to themselves. It’s fantastic ball. If you get the opportunity to go out and you enjoy baseball, these volunteers
and these children are doing it right. They’re really coming together on a Tuesday night and just enjoying the
game. It’s a lot of fun. | encourage you all to come visit.

Also with regard to the library, | had a constituent call and Mr. Mayor you might be able to help with this
especially in light of this big event that we’re going to have at the end of the month for back to school. A
constituent had raised concern about the outside appearance, the upkeep of the building. So if there’s the
opportunity to — again | don’t know whether it would be grounds keeping, whether it be power washing,
cleaning, just making — and | know that the library has aged but if we can do something to keep up with the
upkeep of it. | think it would be more welcoming to the community especially as we’re expecting a tremendous

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amount of people coming to the library that evening for backpacks and such and supplies. This might be a
great opportunity to really just put that extra effort right there at the library. | would encourage that. Lastly I’d
like to say Alderman Siegel it’s good to see your chair filled. Thank you.

Alderman Deane

Welcome back Ken. | have one other question. Do you have an update of the Fred Teeboom, Daniel T.
Moriarty lawsuit?

Attorney Bolton

A motion to dismiss will be heard on Friday. It’s scheduled for 10.

President McCarthy

Welcome back Alderman Siegel.

Committee announcements: - None

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE AUGUST 8, 2017 MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED

MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 3:49 p.m.

Attest: Patricia Piecuch, City Clerk

SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN
AUGUST 8, 2017

7:00 PM Aldermanic Chamber
PRESIDENT BRIAN S. MCCARTHY CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER
PRAYER OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA D. PIECUCH
PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERMAN-AT-LARGE MARK S. COOKSON
ROLL CALL
COMMUNICATIONS

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

ADJOURNMENT

Board of Aldermen
City of Nashua

229 Main Street

Nashua, NH 03061-2019

(603) 589-3030

Brian S. McCarthy

President, Board of Aldermen

July 17, 2017

Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk
City of Nashua

229 Main Street

Nashua, NH 03061-2019

Dear Ms. Piecuch:

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Please be advised | am hereby calling a Special Meeting of the Board of Aldermen for Tuesday, August
8, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. in the Aldermanic Chamber. Charles Mcintyre, Director of the New Hampshire
Lottery Commission will be in attendance to discuss the keno component of Senate Bill 191, Establishing
Keno and Relative to Funding for Kindergarten.

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Brian McCarthy, President

cc: Mayor Jim Donchess

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2017 SESSION
17-0138
04/06
SENATE BILL 191-FN
AN ACT establishing keno and relative to funding for kindergarten.
SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Feltes, Dist 15; Sen.

Hennessey, Dist 5; Sen. Kahn, Dist 10; Sen. Lasky, Dist 13; Sen. McGilvray, Dist
16; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Ward, Dist 8; Sen. Woodburn,
Dist 1; Rep. Gile, Merr. 27; Rep. Grenier, Sull. 7; Rep. Bates, Rock. 7

COMMITTEE: Education

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill establishes keno in New Hampshire and establishes a program to provide grants to
kindergarten students.

Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT establishing keno and relative to funding for kindergarten. .

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

229:1 New Subdivision; Keno. Amend RSA 284 by inserting after section 40 the following new

subdivision:
Keno

284:41 Definition. In this subdivision, “keno” means any game where a player purchases a
ticket from a field of 80 numbers and selects a specific amount of numbers. A random number
generator employed by the lottery commission chooses 20 numbers at random and the player is paid
out against his or her original wager.

284:42 Administration and Enforcement. The lottery commission shall administer and enforce
this subdivision in any town or city that has voted to allow such gaming.

284:43 Rulemaking. The lottery commission shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative
to:

I. The application procedure for keno licenses.

II. Information to be required on license applications.

III. Procedures for a hearing following the revocation of a license.

IV. The operation of keno games, including types and amounts of wagers.

V. Information required and forms for submission of financial reports.

VI. Guidelines for licensees under this subdivision to set transaction limits for daily,
weekly, and monthly play of keno for individual keno players.

284:44 License Fees.

I. The license fee for a commercial premises keno license issued under RSA 284:46 shall be
$500 per year. Such fee shall be submitted to the lottery commission at the time the application is
made and shall be refunded if the application is denied.

II. All net proceeds collected by the lottery commission under this section shall be deposited
in the education trust fund established in RSA 198:39.

284:45 License Applications.

I. Applications shall be submitted to the lottery commission by the licensee. Proof of

authority to submit the application on behalf of the licensee may be required.

II. Applications shall be made only on the forms supplied to the licensee by the lottery

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commission.
III. The application form shall be fully completed by the licensee.
IV. Applicants for commercial premises keno licenses shall be submitted at least 30 days
before the first game date.
V. The applicant shall certify under oath that:
(a) The information provided on the application is accurate.
(b) Neither the applicant nor any employee will operate keno games if such person has
been convicted of a felony within the previous 10 years which has not been annulled by a court, or a
misdemeanor involving falsehood or dishonesty within the previous 5 years which has not been
annulled by a court, or has violated the statutes or rules governing charitable gaming in this or any
state.
(c) The applicant and any employee who will be participating in the operation of the
keno games is aware of all statutes and rules applicable to the operation of keno games.
VI. To be eligible for licensure under this subdivision an applicant shall:
(a) Document that it is one of the following:
(1) A restaurant or hotel holding a valid liquor license under RSA 178:20, II,
RSA 178:21, II(a) or (b), or RSA 178:22, V(q).
(2) A brew pub holding a valid liquor license under RSA 178:13.
(3) A ballroom holding a valid liquor license under RSA 178:22, V(c).
(4) A veterans’ club, private club, or social club holding a valid liquor license under
RSA 178:22, V(h).
(5) A convention center holding a valid liquor license under RSA 178:22, V(i).
(6) A hotel holding a valid liquor license under RSA 178:22, V(k).
(7) A racetrack holding a valid liquor license under RSA 178:22, V(n).
(8) A sports recreation facility holding a valid liquor license under RSA 178:22, V(v).
(b) Document that the keno games will only be operated in towns and cities that have
voted to allow the operation of keno games pursuant to RSA 284:51.
(c) Maintain a current list of employees.
(d) Document that no minor under the age of 18 shall be allowed to purchase or redeem
a keno ticket.
VII. A suspension or revocation of a liquor license shall result in the immediate suspension
of the keno license issued under this chapter.
284:46 License; Issuance.
I. Upon receipt of an application under RSA 284:45 the lottery commission shall review the
application and shall, in writing, grant or deny the application within 45 days of receipt.
II. The lottery commission shall deny a license application for any one of the following

reasons:

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(a) The license of the applicant has been previously revoked by the commission.

(b) The applicant has been convicted of a crime provided for in this chapter or in any
other chapter for any gaming offense.

(c) The applicant loses his or her liquor license after submitting the application.

III. No person who has been convicted of a felony or class A misdemeanor within the
previous 10 years which has not been annulled by a court, or a class B misdemeanor within the past
5 years which has not been annulled by a court, or who has violated any of the statutes or rules
governing charitable gambling in the past in this or in any other state shall be licensed under this
subdivision, or rent, lease, sublease, or otherwise provide any hall or keno paraphernalia for the
conduct of keno licensed under this subdivision.

IV. The lottery commission shall only issue a license for an eligible location where keno
tickets shall be sold and the game played within the area apportioned to distribute beverages
pursuant to RSA 284:45. The lottery commission shall control the installation of the keno ticket
terminals and ensure that the sale of the tickets is limited to the area apportioned to distribute
beverages pursuant to RSA 284:45.

284:47 Operation of Keno Games.

I. A licensee may operate keno games at its business between the hours of 11 a.m. and 11

II. A licensee may retain 8 percent of the proceeds from keno games. Of the remaining 92
percent:

(a) One percent shall be paid to the department of health and human services to
support research, prevention, intervention, and treatment services for problem gamblers.

(b) The remainder, less the administrative costs of the lottery commission and prize
payouts, shall be deposited in the education trust fund established in RSA 198:39.

II. No person who has been convicted of a felony or class A misdemeanor within the
previous 10 years which has not been annulled by a court, or a class B misdemeanor within the past
5 years which has not been annulled by a court, or who has violated any of the statutes or rules
governing charitable gambling in the past in this or any other state shall operate a keno game
licensed under this subdivision, or rent, lease, sublease, or otherwise provide any hall or keno
paraphernalia for the conduct of keno licensed under this subdivision.

IV. No one under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase or redeem a keno ticket.

284:48 Financial Reports and Inspection Required.

I. Any person which has been licensed to conduct keno games shall submit a complete
financial report to the lottery commission for each license issued under RSA 284:46 within 15 days
after the expiration of each license, provided, however, a complete monthly financial report shall be
submitted in a timely fashion to the commission for each month covered by a license issued under

RSA 284:46 on a form to be approved by the lottery commission.