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Board of Aldermen 12-23-2019 Page 17
Alderman Dowd

We have numerous, numerous times that as we did this one year study, we talked to many groups of
people who have input into this process. That continues throughout the detailed design phase, that is also
at Fairgrounds and Pennichuck, not just the new school. Whether it is teachers, school administrators,
neighbors, Police Department, Fire Department, Department of Public Works, they will all be involved in the
detailed design. All we have now like for the new school is a conceptual design and that could change
based on all of those inputs. The idea is to make a school that’s extremely beneficial to Nashua; meets
the needs of the students and the School Department and has the least impact on the neighborhood.

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Ald. O’Brien, Ald. Gidge, Ald. Harriott-Gathright, Ald. Dowd
Ald. Klee, Ald. Laws, Ald. Lopez, Ald. Caron, Ald. Kelly,
Ald. Jette, Ald. Melizzi-Golja, Ald. Tencza, Ald. Schmidt, Ald. Clemons
Ald. Wilshire 15

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-19-191 declared duly adopted.
R-19-192
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NASHUA TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH FUEL MEDIA
HOLDINGS FOR ADVERTISING SERVICES
Given its second reading;
MOTION BY ALDERMAN TENCZA FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-19-192 BY ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Jette
| would just like for people who are watching and just to explain, this is the company that sells the
advertising that you see on the busses. So this is a company that we contract with that sells that
advertising and arranges to get it put on the busses. That’s what this is for.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Ald. O’Brien, Ald. Gidge, Ald. Harriott-Gathright, Ald. Dowd
Ald. Klee, Ald. Laws, Ald. Lopez, Ald. Caron, Ald. Kelly,
Ald. Jette, Ald. Melizzi-Golja, Ald. Tencza, Ald. Schmidt, Ald. Clemons
Ald. Wilshire 15
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-19-192 declared duly adopted.

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R-19-193
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $3,250 FROM DEPARTMENT #194 “CONTINGENCY”,
ACCOUNT #70100 “GENERAL CONTINGENCY” TO THE NASHUA AIRPORT FOR THE
PURPOSE OF FUNDING A PORTION OF THE COST OF SNOW REMOVAL EQUIPMENT
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-19-193 BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Ald. O’Brien, Ald. Gidge, Ald. Harriott-Gathright, Ald. Dowd
Ald. Klee, Ald. Laws, Ald. Lopez, Ald. Caron, Ald. Kelly,
Ald. Jette, Ald. Melizzi-Golja, Ald. Tencza, Ald. Schmidt, Ald. Clemons
Ald. Wilshire 15

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-19-193 declared duly adopted.

R-19-194
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
APPROVING THE COST ITEMS OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
NASHUA POLICE COMMISSION AND THE NASHUA POLICE SUPERVISORS ASSOCIATION
FROM JULY 1, 2020 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2023 AND AUTHORIZING RELATED TRANSFERS
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-19-194 BY ROLL
CALL

ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Tencza

Thank you Madam President. | know that there has been a lot of discussion about this contract.
Throughout the last couple of years we’ve talked about the issue with the health insurance and | am glad it
is being addressed. This contract like the other contract we voted on today, | am not sure we should hold
it up over this issue with the healthcare or future budget cycles. | think Alderman Clemons said earlier
every year there are difficulties, we need to make difficult decisions here. | don’t see this contract as adding
to those difficult decisions, given the bargaining unit and the amount of the contract. Deputy Chief
Testaverde also talked about the difficulties in retaining people now within the Police Department which is
not just a problem for Nashua. | would think the Department of Nashua actually probably does a better job
of retaining but nevertheless, it is a competitive market. | think these benefits, or the costs associated with
this goes towards letting the Sergeants and the Lieutenants know that we value the work that they do and
we want them to stay in Nashua. So! am hoping that the Board supports this tonight.

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Alderman Lopez

| just want to express my sympathy for Mayor Donchess for having to take the position that he is taking. |
appreciate that you are doing your job and you are looking at the whole City. | am sure you love being
Scrooge tonight and telling people that no you don’t think the money that they want is there. | know you
don’t necessarily want to take that position because you do appreciate Fire and Police. It is a tough job to
be in but | mean at the end of the day, so is theirs. So | think both sides have made very good points; both
sides have advocated very strongly for their constitutes. And | think as Board of Aldermen we are going to
have to take a hit on this when it comes to budget season because it is going to have to come out of
somewhere.

Alderman Laws

| couldn’t agree more. | think Police is certainly a Division of City Government that you want to be able to
hire at their leisure and not out of desperation and this is something that we are absolutely going to need to
do to make it so they can staff with good officers, which we have. We can’t put a feather in our cap about
how great the Police Department and then not support them when they are coming to us for help. So |
support this.

Alderman Dowd

I'll start out by saying that | am going to support this but | did have an extensive conversation with the
Mayor and | understand his concerns relative to these costs and health costs. | have asked the Mayor right
after the first of the year to have us sit down with the health insurance people and give us a full explanation
on what is going on and possible ways we can mitigate some of this going forward. Also, we need to have
a discussion as a full group on the budget pressures for this upcoming year and look at what we might have
to do as a group going forward to ensure that the tax rate doesn’t get out of hand. | look forward to having
those discussions after the New Year.

Alderman Lopez
Mayor if you are visited by three ghosts this evening, you should call the Police and see what they can do.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Ald. O’Brien, Ald. Gidge, Ald. Harriott-Gathright, Ald. Dowd
Ald. Klee, Ald. Laws, Ald. Lopez, Ald. Caron, Ald. Kelly,
Ald. Jette, Ald. Melizzi-Golja, Ald. Tencza, Ald. Schmidt, Ald. Clemons
Ald. Wilshire 15
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-19-194 declared duly adopted.

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R-19-195
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $63,790 FROM THE STATE OF
NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “FY2020
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT (VAWA) GRANT PROGRAM” AND TO AUTHORIZE THE
TRANSFER OF MATCHING FUNDS
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-19-195 BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Ald. O’Brien, Ald. Gidge, Ald. Harriott-Gathright, Ald. Dowd,
Ald. Klee, Ald. Laws, Ald. Lopez, Ald. Caron, Ald. Kelly,
Ald. Jette, Ald. Melizzi-Golja, Ald. Tencza, Ald. Schmidt, Ald. Clemons
Ald. Wilshire 15
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-19-195 declared duly adopted.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-19-062
Endorsers: Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Thomas Lopez
PROHIBITING THE USE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS NEAR CITY OWNED BUILDINGS AND IN
CITY PARKS
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN SCHMIDT FOR INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT O-19-062 COMMITTEE BY
ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Schmidt

I'd like to speak to my proposal. First I’d like to apologize to the two folks that worked very hard with me to
build this Ordinance. After speaking with members of the City Departments, the Police and many folks who
live in the City, | find that it is a little to broad and it is a little indistinct. | would like to indefinitely postpone
this and start again in January, my apologies. Thank you.

Alderman Clemons

| completely respect that position and as I’ve said before, | am happy to work with you Alderman Schmidt

because | think that if we can narrow this down to certain and particular areas, | think that we can come up
with a pretty good Ordinance that satisfies what we are trying to do. So | appreciate that thank you.

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Alderman Lopez

I’m obviously not a huge fan of smoking in public parks and I’ve pointed to fire danger issue. But it had
occurred to me and | felt like | could address this if the legislation had passed, that potentially with an
increase in the number of homeless encampments in the City and in those parks, this could be used as a
way to move people along. So! mean! am glad we are looking at it a little bit more carefully because the
parks get a lot of different usage. | do think it’s important on making sure that Number One — we are
keeping smoking away from children’s play areas wherever possible. But Number Two — we craft the
legislation that allows Parks & Recreation to figure out how to do that, like whether it is with signage or
whatever. Because some of the conversation that we had regarding this and the expense of signs was
alarming and particularly it is important that whatever legislation we come up with is understandable as a
change in policy for the City of Nashua so that people aren’t wondering which parks they can smoke in and
which ones they can’t. So whatever we craft, | think we need a lot of interaction with Public Works and
Parks & Recreation and | agree that we can work a little more on this.

Alderman Jette
| was looking forward to voting for this. | respect the reasons for withdrawing it at this time or postponing at

this time so that we end up with a better crafted law that accomplishes its purpose. So | will agree with
Alderman Schmidt to indefinitely postpone.

Alderman Lopez
If somebody is walking around in Mine Falls smoking in 20 degrees of weather, our Public Health
Department can probably point you towards some smoking cessation programs.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Ald. O’Brien, Ald. Gidge, Ald. Harriott-Gathright, Ald. Dowd,
Ald. Klee, Ald. Laws, Ald. Lopez, Ald. Caron, Ald. Kelly,
Ald. Jette, Ald. Melizzi-Golja, Ald. Tencza, Ald. Schmidt, Ald. Clemons
Ald. Wilshire 15
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA TO REMOVE FROM THE TABLE O-19-064 BY ROLL
CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Ald. O’Brien, Ald. Gidge, Ald. Harriott-Gathright, Ald. Dowd,

Ald. Klee, Ald. Laws, Ald. Lopez, Ald. Caron, Ald. Kelly,

Ald. Jette, Ald. Melizzi-Golja, Ald. Tencza, Ald. Schmidt, Ald. Clemons

Ald. Wilshire 15
Nay: 0

MOTION CARRIED

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O-19-064
Endorsers: | Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michel B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Ken Gidge
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
ADDING ADDITIONAL PARCELS TO THE NASHUA RIVERFRONT TAX INCREMENT FINANCING
DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
Given its fourth reading;

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-19-064 BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Ald. O’Brien, Ald. Gidge, Ald. Harriott-Gathright, Ald. Dowd,
Ald. Klee, Ald. Laws, Ald. Lopez, Ald. Caron, Ald. Kelly,
Ald. Jette, Ald. Melizzi-Golja, Ald. Tencza, Ald. Schmidt, Ald. Clemons
Ald. Wilshire 15

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-19-064 declared duly adopted.

NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS - None

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES - None

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

Laurie Ortolano 41 Berkeley Street. | just wanted to talk to you for a couple minutes about some Right to
Know issues. | had put in, and | am concerned about this because of the legislation that is being proposed
to charge residents for time being used by administrators when you exceed a certain amount each month.
You all know | put in plenty of Right to Know requests. One of the Right to Know requests | put in was on
August 13" and | took this specific contract language from the KRT Contract and requested their returned
documentation. The City took the position that all of that language, all of those requests were going to be
denied with the exception of one piece on the basis that anything that KRT returned was considered “draft
material’. And as “draft material” it wasn’t available for public viewing. That’s going to be something we
challenge in Court soon here | think. Because the way the City works right now an assessor will take a
property card and go out to a home and mark it up “draft form” but that is stapled to the changed card and it
is in the file and the public can review that. Basically KRT took all these forms and returned them. We
didn’t ask them to staple them to all of our property cards because it probably would have taken too much
time.

Anyway the City said what they said but they said that there was one thing they would deliver and it was
the Hearing sheets. It kept getting stalled and the reason | found out about Hearing Sheets, | didn’t know
these Hearing Sheets existed and we met with the president of KRT: was because as | was gathering
property files, record files over at City Hall | was finding Hearing Sheets in the files from people who went to
the second hearing.

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So | requested my file and my sheet wasn’t in there. It was interesting because ;through a series of Right
to Knows, in those e-mail exchanges by the administration, they were talking about my Hearing Sheet. So |
wanted to see it. So when | put that Right to Know out there and the City said, “We will let you see the
Hearing Sheets, those we will make pubic”. Great. | specifically asked, and they said, “It’s going to take a
little while, we need like 6 weeks”. And | said, “Well could | see my own Hearing Sheet”. And they said,
“No we are not going to be able to find it, you’re going to have to wait”. Well it kept getting stalled and
finally in the middle of December they delivered on the first batch. What was interesting was there was a
resident who went and got their property file and found their Hearing Sheet and called me and said, “I found
the Hearing Sheet”. And | said, “Well send me a copy” and this was their Hearing Sheet when they went to
talk to KRT and it said, the taxpayer is requesting a second review, bla, bla, bla. Well this individual, | said,
“Well | put in a Right To Know for my Hearing Sheet because it wasn’t in my file” and they said before they
went and found theirs, they said, well can | put in a Right to Know for mine and | said, “yes, put one in and
see what you get”.

Well the day they got the response back from the City they had gone to City Hall to check if there was a
note in their file that they requested be in there. That’s when they called me up and said, “Hey my Hearing
Sheet is right in my file and here it is”. And | said, “well that’s cool yours happens to be there”. But the City
responded that day and delivered their Hearing Sheet and this is what they gave them, fully redacted,
completely black claiming that all of this is confidential information and you can’t see it. And the person was
irate, like | already got a copy. So the next day | get the response from the City on the first batch. They
send me 62 pages like this. So obviously the City after four months, decided that they weren’t going to
allow these Hearing Sheets to be Public Documents. Hey that’s alright, the City gets to change their mind.
But why would you have your staff and the Legal people in the Department go through and cull through
pulling all of these sheets? They pulled them all and now they are just going to black out, | don’t know how
many there are, there could be 600, there could be 800, there could be 1,000,nobody knows. The whole
interesting part of it is | received notification that they lost mine. So | don’t even get mine.

But this is what concerns me, why didn’t the Legal Department say to me, “Mrs. Ortolano, we’ve changed
our position and we are treating this as confidential information”. | have about 10 of these that | happened
to find in people’s files that | printed to see how they were recorded and what was on them. They are
public in the files down in Assessing that are there. Then somehow Legal said, “Nope it is not going to be
information you can see”. And instead of letting me know and saying, “Mrs. Ortolano we changed our
position, if we give this to you it is going to be all black”. | ended up after the first 62 sending an e-mail
saying, “Please stop, you don’t have to send me a whole bunch of black pages, you’ve obviously changed
your mind”. But | clarified and said, “Is my sheet available” and then | received a letter back that seems to
indicate, couldn’t fully understand it that there was not sheet for me. You know? This is what concerns me.
| don’t want to pay for this. | just feel like it’s not right. And had there been open communication it wouldn’t
have happened.

| didn’t go to the last Board of Assessor’s Meeting but | did read that the City has hired back David Cornell
to work on a dashboard to do some development for reporting systems for the City. | think it is awesome, |
think that’s great. The one thing | would put out there is that there is still a huge resistance on the part of
the City to allow any public input or any public discussion about what’s going on. We saw what happened
with KRT; Kim Kleiner and the Administration that you know we are going to let KRT come in and you folks
in the public can talk to them and meet with them and it got cancelled and it got cancelled and the City
decided they weren’t going to allow that, never really telling us it didn’t happen. Then there was the policy
manual. | tried to give input to the policy manual and the manual comes out and everything that | had
suggested was just thrown into the trash.

President Wilshire
Mrs. Ortolano there are other speakers signed up.
Ms. Ortolano So this David Cornell coming is great, but | would like the City to think about letting the public

have some input as to what this dashboard is going to look like and more importantly what the reports are
going to look like because | can tell you that the compatibility of what | want to see in a report so it is useful

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to me as a member of the public may not be what the administration is looking for. | don’t care if you say no
rll wait until it is all done and I'll give my whole list. It just seems inefficient to do it that way. | know you
don’t owe that to me, but | think there’s a lot of lack of transparency that continues in this City and this
experience was just dreadful. Thank you.

Mr. Seidel Carl Seidel, 39 Pilgrim Circle. Thank you for paying attention to my questions. | think that the
questions came up because these are important parts. | am glad to hear that you did pay attention to the
objection, but | think you ought to come out and promote when you publicize your response you should
have something that is available. | didn’t see it at the one meeting that | went to, there wasn’t this type of
information. Was there discussion on expansion, because I’ve talked to the superintendent and he said
that he said some expansion plans in the new school. Was that necessary or could that have been delayed
to some other time in the future. They also have a special room that’s going to be for your handicapped
people | think which you thought might return some money on your investment. Is that analyzed, was that
an accurate statement or not? | mean that’s easy to figure out whether it is going to pay back over the
period of time. And a 30-year usage for that? I’ve seen schools with 50/60 years built, why are we only
getting a 30 year? Those are questions that kept coming up but the ones | asked were ones that | thought
could be done fairly quickly and should be presented whenever you are selling this capital project.

| spend four years up there in Concord or four terms in Public Works. When we asked these questions, this
is the answers that we expected, this is the things that we looked for in analyzing any capital project. But |
thank you for your response and | think we ought to put in a better audio system because | can’t hear
anything back there, what you are saying, it magnifies by almost a factor of 100 when | get up here but |
still, some of you have very low voices and | know, I’ve interviewed you on my show. | couldn’t hear you up
here in the first row. So | really would appreciate you putting better speakers in the back.

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
President Wilshire

| am going to take the first remark. | am going to ask Alderman Gidge to come forward, please. Alderman
Gidge, thank you for you years of service on the Board. We would like to present you with this plaque.
Alderman Ken Gidge December 23" 2019 in grateful recognition of your service to the City. Ward 6
Alderman 2018 to 2019, your commitment and dedication is greatly appreciated.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja. Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja we present this to you December 23” 2019 in
grateful recognition of your service to the City of Nashua, Ward 8 Alderwoman from 2010 to 2019. Your
commitment and dedication have been greatly appreciated. Very much so, thank you very much.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

That will leave Alderman Caron and Alderman Dowd will now become the longest serving Aldermen.
Alderman Dowd

Alderman Caron has the longest City service.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you Madam President. | too would like to say | congratulate Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja. We are
good friends, we will see you around and everything, but it has been my pleasure to serve with you on the
Board and we are definitely going to miss your expertise.

| would like to say to Alderman Gidge the same thing. | know this year you had a pretty tough time with

your illness and | know we did practically drag you out of your death bed on one vote and you did come and
that told me exactly your commitment to public service. | know | serve with you up in Concord up there on

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the Board and it’s been good and | wish you the best as we move on. Again, another good friend and we
will be seeing you around.

Alderman Gidge
Thank you.

Alderman Harriott-Gathright

| just want to say the same thing | serve with you in the House and everything and you will be missed. |
thank you for your wisdom, Mary. | just want to say Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy Kwanza to my
colleagues as well as the City.

Alderman Dowd

Yes very quickly, | just want to wish Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone on the Board and
their entire families and a safe Holiday Season. Ken and Mary Ann | have known both of you for many,
many years. Ken and | go back all the way to high school at least. So I’ve known him a couple days. And
of course Mary Ann | am sure we will be seeing you lots as we normally do. Congratulations for all of your
service and Mary Ann was also on the Board of Education with me, and served the City well for a number
of years.

The other thing I’d like to do is I’d like to thank everyone for their support and the vote for the School Bond.
It’s well appreciated by me and when this whole process started it was Alderman McCarthy and myself and
he was leading the charge at that time. | have taken that over for him and it is my intent to make sure that

the project is finished, on-time, under-budget and meets everybody’s expectations.

Alderman Klee

Yes thank you | want to echo the sentiments that it has been great working with Alderman Gidge and
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja. Alderman Gidge and | do serve up in Concord. Two years ago he was my
seatmate and | was like his wife. | nagged him constantly; probably worse than his wife was. But you will
be missed here though | will still see you up in Concord.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, | often talk about Corporation knowledge; you’ve been amazing, to be able to
learn from you and to hear from you | really appreciate and thank you.

| also want to wish everybody Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and Happy Kwanza and
all the other ones | am forgetting. | want to echo Alderman Dowd about the School Bond. There has been
a lot of work hard work going and | appreciate everybody’s support on that. It’s also a lot of money so |
understand people’s anxiety on it.

To my Ward, | usually send out a weekly newsletter and for the past two | have been remiss on it between
the Holidays, my computer not working and being a little under the weather, it’s been delayed. It will go out
tonight, | promise. Thank you very much.

Alderman Laws

| just wanted to say the same thing. Ken, your passion is inspirational to me, when | started on the board, |
really appreciate you. Mary Ann, your guidance and wisdom is been invaluable to me and | am going to
miss both of you. | wish everybody on the Board Happy Holidays, have safe ones, thank you.

Alderman Laws

| want to start by announcing | guess that we had our Veteran’s Christmas over at Delaney House, it went
really well, they decorated their hallways as usual with creativity and gusto. | wanted to thank Alderman

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Klee for supporting that project: donating Christmas trees, donating her time being very engaging with
Veterans | think it sure meant a lot to them and they appreciated having you there. Also Alderman Jette for
helping, me and him were in that venture to start that program.

| want to thank all the Aldermen who came to the Homeless Memorial and especially the Mayor for his
comments and support with the Proclamation. | know the Mayor has written a Proclamation for many years
but no one ever made it quite so convenient as to stick it underneath his window that he could like definitely
attend the ceremony. | think having your presence there was very much appreciated by many people. So |
wanted to thank you for that.

| also wanted, very grateful today, | wanted to thank Alderman Melizzi-Golja who is one of the first
Alderman that | worked through the Cultural Connections Committee. You are a great mentor, you are a
great leader and | am going to miss you on the Board. | am sure | will see you out in the community. And
then Alderman Gidge it was a pleasure to serve with you for a term. | appreciate your passion for arts and |
look forward to seeing you in the community as well. And Happy Holidays.

Alderman Caron

This is the day. So Alderman Gidge, you and | started in politics together up in the State House and all he
did was pick on me because my hat was smaller than the ladies on the other side of the room. She was a
Republican, she used to have big hats. It was great serving with you, we always had a good time unlike
Alderman Dowd, because he’s older so he would have known you longer in school than | did.

And Alderman Melizzi-Golja we have been working since | was on Parks & Recs when Nashua Goes Back
to School started. One of the agreements was that even though she’s off this Board she is still Chairing
that Committee next year.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

From my grave | will be on that Committee.
Alderman Caron

Sometimes these things happen, right? So just a reminder since we are on break until after the 1° of the
year, the public should be aware that the inauguration for the 110 Ceremony is Sunday, January 5" at
noontime at Nashua High School North. Our new City Clerk, Sue Lovering, has been working very
diligently with the three-member committee and we got everything just about done. Just a matter of printing
the program; | did remind the Mayor he couldn’t have more than a page for his bio. So everybody has a
little piece of the action. It is going to be a great day so don’t forget to send out your invitations but it is
open to the public.

On that note, | want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, Happy Hanukah, Happy
Kwanza and please be safe, healthy and have a great year. Thank you.

Alderwoman Kelly

Thank you. | just wanted to thank the outgoing Aldermen for their time and commitment. It has been a
pleasure to serve with you and | will keep short and just say Happy Holidays. Thank you.

Alderman Jette

| too wish to wish everyone Happy Holidays and say goodbye to Alderman Gidge and Alderwoman Melizzi-
Golja, although | understand there are some people happy to see you go so they won’t have to pronounce

your name anymore. | would also like to make note that the President signed a $1.4 Trillion Dollar Budget

recently, hopefully we will get some of that money. It also included raising the tobacco age to 21.