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R-19-153
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
RELATIVE TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF $200,000 OF UNANTICIPATED
REVENUE FROM DEPARTMENT #170 “HYDROELECTRIC OPERATIONS”, ACCOUNT #44900
“HYDROELECTRIC POWER GENERATION” INTO FUND #7064 “HYDROPOWER RESERVE
FUND”
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-19-153 BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Gidge, Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Dowd, Alderman Klee, Alderman Laws, Alderman Lopez
Alderman Caron, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Jette, Alderwoman Melizzi-
Golja, Alderman Teneza, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Clemons
Alderman Wilshire 15

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-19-153 declared duly adopted.

R-19-156
Endorser: Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Jan Schmidt
RELATIVE TO AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF UP TO $140,925 FROM FUND #7073
“SCHOOL CAPITAL RESERVE FUND” INTO SCHOOL GRANT ACTIVITY “SCHOOL
INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT FUNDS”
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-19-156

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ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Dowd

I'd like to speak to it. This is a grant from the state which they fund 80% of the project and the City has to
do 20%. This is for security issues relative to the safety of schools here in Nashua, extremely important
and | hope that everyone will support it.

MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-19-156 declared duly adopted.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-19-047
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
ESTABLISHING AN ANIMAL AND DOG PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN LOPEZ FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-19-047
MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-19-047 declared duly adopted.
NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-19-157
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Ken Gidge
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
CHANGING THE “AGENT TO EXPEND” ON CERTAIN EXPENDABLE TRUST FUNDS
ADMINISTERED BY THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT
Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE and the BOARD OF PUBLIC
WORKS by President Wilshire

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R-19-158
Endorser: Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Ken Gidge
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
APPROVING THE COST ITEMS OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
THE NASHUA BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE NASHUA ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATORS AND SUPERVISORS, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATORS, AFL-CIO FROM JULY 1, 2019 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2020 AND RELATED
TRANSFERS
Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President Wilshire

R-19-159

Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Ken Gidge
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire

AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY TREASURER TO ISSUE BONDS NOT TO EXCEED
THE AMOUNT OF ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,300,000) FOR
PROPERTY REVALUATION SERVICES

Given its first reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD TO ACCEPT THE FIRST READING OF R-19-159 BY ROLL CALL,
REFER IT TO THE BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE AND THAT A PUBLIC HEARING BE SCHEDULED
FOR MONDAY, JULY 22, 2019, AT 7:00 PM IN THE ALDERMANIC CHAMBER

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Gidge, Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Dowd, Alderman Klee, Alderman Laws, Alderman Lopez
Alderman Caron, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Jette, Alderwoman Melizzi-
Golja, Alderman Teneza, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Clemons
Alderman Wilshire 15
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES - None

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PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

Chris Griffin Chris Griffin 56 Tyler Street, Apartment 202, Nashua. I’ve come and spoken in front of you a
couple of times before and | am getting tired of it. For some reason the City of Nashua doesn’t understand
what the Americans With Disabilities Act is and what your responsibilities are thereof. | went to the Mayor’s
Office on June 4" and told him of two problem areas that needed to be taken care for the safety of the
people walking around. Unfortunately only 90% of one of those was taken care of and the other one been
ignored. Last year | talked to you guys before | filed a complaint on the bridge. | had to file a complaint. |
was also talking to your Risk Manager last year about the problems with having snow cleared on certain
sidewalks and cross walks. Instead she accused me of falsifying my disabilities. So | filed a complaint this
Winter, submitted 78 pictures for the Department of Justice to look at, on sidewalks that hadn’t been
cleared properly after 72 hours which is the required time for them to be done and crosswalks which also
had not been maintained at all. The street in question hadn’t been done at all this winter, not at all.

What is the problem? Does the City not understand what the Americans Disability Act is a Law? It’s not
just a thought, something you think about. | mean | go down the streets and there are bushes growing into
the sidewalks and when people put their trash cans there | have nowhere to walk but out in the street
again. | am tired of it; | am sick and tired of it. | will be probably filing a third complaint unless somebody
wants to call me and discuss these problems. And when | file that third complaint, I'll also ask them to look
into whether or not there is a culture of discrimination in the City of Nashua. Because | have experienced
so many other problems through a number of your Departments. And | am tired of it, | am tired of it. You
have my name, my phone number, you’ve got my address. If somebody wants to talk to me before | file
next week; please get in touch with me because | would love to work this out with the City instead of you
having getting fines again. Nobody wants to talk to me | have to assume that you all just don’t care, OK?

| Know a number of you are coming up for election. Is this really what you want the public to know that you
don’t care about your elderly and disabled being able to get around the City safely on the sidewalks?
That’s enough have a great night everybody.

Lori Ortolano Lori Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. | wanted to talk to you a little bit tonight about the Right to
Know Reports that | have been requesting. It is apparent that some of you in the Aldermen level are pretty
upset that | have made the requests that I’ve made to the administration based on e-mails and text
messages. And these reports really served a purpose. | have gleaned some pretty amazing stuff from the
reports that I’ve been able to get from the administration. They were fairly extensive, | asked for an audit
log, which | know the Director didn’t really Know that they could run it, but they did and that was enormously
helpful. It is an accounting measure, an audit measure to look at how each individual is changing property
valuations or working or going into the calculated data to make property evaluation changes; very
interesting piece of information.

| have requested the permit reports and the permit reports were a big disappointment and you know back
from September | was all about permits not being captured and being concerned that we weren't getting
permits captured and valuing them appropriately. Well the permit report really shows me that problem is
still going on and is a problem. The report was wholly disappointing because | received 22 pages of 6.
Print in a PDF file of every permit pulled that had to do with non-value items, including non-value items like
mechanical, electrical and plumbing, which don’t count in the assessments. It was a totally useless report
for me, and | was frustrated by that. But then it made me realize that the Director must’ve sent me the data
the way she gets it. If the data is in this form to her, it is as useless to her as it is to me. It would be very
difficult to account for how your permits are being captured.

Subsequent to getting this report another lady in the neighborhood has been active in this and went to the
Building Permit area, Building Department and asked the gentleman there if they could create a permit
report that would be more useful. He was super helpful, went to IT, knew exactly what we were looking for
and is trying now to help us get a report that we can actually work with and get in a readable form. Just so
we can understand what is happening with permits, but | also went down and spoke to a staff person in
Assessing. | asked what do you run for permits reports that they said monthly we run a report that is given

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to the assessors each month. And yearly we run a single report; and one of them | can’t remember which
one is excel format. So then | scratch my head learning that last week and saying why don’t | get an XL
formatted report. I’ve sort of complained to you guys that these PDF files are brutal to work with and you
can’t do anything with the data. So if the administration has data in Excel form, send it to us that way. Don’t
lock us down with data that is useless.

| received an AssessPro Activity report that was able to show me what was happening with visits to
property, permits, abatements, all that kind of stuff, super helpful. | was able to get work logs and mileage
reimbursement reports. Last week | had been trying to figure out what happened when KRT had the
meeting and all these people came out in their Wards to say we want you to come see our house again. So
we all got our letters at the end of August with the initial re-evaluation data. Then KRT set up these little
meetings to allow people to come up to express concerns and you could ask for them to send somebody
else out. | wanted to know how values were changed the second time around but with our contract with
KRT we never asked for that data and we never captured what happened the second time around. | was
interested in that and | was led to believe that there were really not many changes that there were you
know 300 people who came to those meetings in total. There weren’t that many changes. So | wrote a
Right to Know to ask, what | figured is they must’ve sent a second letter out after the first letter when they
did a final change, because | got one. | was one of those people who went and said look at my house
again. In October | got a letter, so | said OH anyone who went out got a new letter in October. Well sure
enough they did so | did a Right to Know request and | said send me all the letters you sent out in October
for the second look. It was 1,252; that was a lot more than | thought, that’s a lot of data in the second
review.

Now granted for all the parcels we have maybe that’s only about 5% but it was a lot of data. | will tell you
what concerns me about this data having gone through it is that KRT used 2017 values that must’ve been
given to them by the City. When | take these 1,252 letters and put them into a spread sheet that is
workable and | combined it with a data disc, data spread sheet data in City Hall, the 2017 values that we
have on our records do not match the data that we gave KRT. And it really concerns me; something went
awry for some of these properties. | don’t know why. And out of the 1,252, 12% of the data was not correct,
that’s a lot. So now | am sitting here looking at data where the baseline given to KRT does not match our
records. What | did observe for sure was that properties that were MLS corrected, let’s say a property sold
in 2017 and it was corrected by MLS data for the December tax bill of 2017. That was never put into the
KRT Assessment, re-evaluation, it didn’t get in there. So properties that may have had, some of them had
changes they had sold, they had been valued at $150 and they sold for $275. So when the Assessor
corrected it, they made a more aggressive correction because the property had had a lot of upgrades.
That’s great: but that never got put into the KRT data and to me that is a significant issue.

| have typed a question into assessing, the General Help Line to ask you know how did this happen and
why is this so confusing where is the mix up? But to me there is a question there. That’s pretty important.
So the reports have all served a purpose and they served a purpose because some of you here really felt
that this whole issue with a certain assessor was my responsibility to find the data, to establish proof, to
look at work performance and to grab it all. | don’t feel that was ever correct; | feel the City had a
responsibility and | don’t think the City followed its responsibility the way it should have. | think the
investigation going on right now is far too narrow. But these requests gleaned a lot. And | came to you a
few meetings ago and | spoke pretty directly about abatements not getting done; certain people not
carrying their load. | can tell you after that meeting that individual did 20 abatements in a month. Imagine if
they had done that for the five other months what we would have had. Hey that is impressive, light a fire,
get a response. You shouldn’t have to light a fire, but it got a response.

The work logs, the reason | pulled work logs and | pulled the e-mails of this assessor, because the work
logs which were not well documented relative to other assessors. The work logs were really incomplete;
but the one thing noted in the work logs repeatedly was that they respond to taxpayer e-mails often. |
thought how many taxpayer e-mails come in. | checked with the Assess Help E-mail and | was told hardly
any. But then each assessor has their own personal business e-mail address that they can give out so
they could have their own business e-mails. So what did | do? | did a Right to Know for the e-mails. Do

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you know what | found in 3 months? That assessor had to respond to 13 e-mails in 90 days. That is not
that many. When | see it on a work log over and over again for half a day’s work? That’s not that many. |
chuckled, | have to tell you, when | saw those e-mails. One of the e-mails was sent by a former chief and
the question in the topic was “Ortolano” and the question was, “Does anyone know what she really wants,
can anyone figure out what is going on”. This was the beginning of November. This has gone on way too
long. Can anyone figure out? And one of our assessors, the one | was looking at, these e-mails
responded, “| think she’s got an ax to grind and | can tell you even if she wins her abatement, she’s not
going away”. | have to chuckle at that, what makes me chuckle at that is here is our chief sending an e-
mail to his four assessors to say “Does anyone know what this lady wants? She’s been done here for 2
months”. But he never invited me into his office to speak to me nor would he even come out of his office to
speak to me when | had a question, very hard to get him. Imagine how different this might have been had
he tried to figure out himself, what does this lady want? What is the problem here and what is she looking
at? Things might have been quite a lot different.

So | asked for this data and | look at these reports very carefully and | do a lot with it and | work very hard
with it because it tells a story. And I’m learning a lot about our permits, I’m learning a lot about missed
data, you know? I’m learning a lot about these values that we gave KRT that are not correct. Something is
wrong in our data capture and that’s happening through the IT Department and those are big flags to me.
I’m concerned, | am really concerned that there is an over-reach going on in the Board of Assessors that
through the City, through our City Government and our leadership that does not allow our Board to operate
independently. There are two things that bother me, back two or three months ago the Mayor had
announced at this meeting that all Board of Assessors meetings would be verbatim minutes and televised.

The Board of Assessors had no idea that was happening. They did not want verbatim minutes. When |
looked at the Charter and | called a few other city officials, former people, | said, “Can the Mayor just vote
and make a mandate that the minutes have to be changed or done a certain way” and the answer was “no”.
They said, “look in the Charter’. | did look in the Charter and from my understanding it is up to each Board
to determine how they are going to keep their public record; they have to keep a public record per the RSA
no question. But it doesn’t have to be verbatim. The reason that they didn’t want it verbatim is that they
don’t have the staff. They have got 4 clerical people, one is a supervisor, you know, everyone has said
they are up to their eyeballs in work and now you put verbatim minutes on top of them.

So when the order was given, at that point, in the meeting on a Tuesday night the clerical person had
already done the minutes not verbatim, had to go back and do them verbatim, they were 47 pages long.
And they are not used to doing that. | couldn’t understand when it was voted here why we weren’t using
another resource to outsource or have somebody else do them not within the office like we do with other
city minutes. Why were we pushing this in on the staff? We pay $800.00 to $1,000.00 to have those
minutes typed up verbatim down there. It’s really not a good use of money or resources. | just came out of
a meeting last Tuesday, it is 107 pages of minutes because it was the final go on the abatements, it was a
3-hour meeting, over 3 hours. That’s ridiculous. And when | went after the first meeting, after the vote
here, or after the Mayor said this is going to happen. | went to the Board of Assessors meeting and | talked
to one of them before the meeting began, we don’t want these. And another clerical staff said the Board
Members don’t want this, they don’t want these verbatim minutes. It is an awful lot of work for them to have
to read it and make certain 100 pages are correct as well. But that got forced into there without any vote of
the Board.

Recently in the last maybe | don’t know 2 or 3 weeks we set up an e-mail address for our Board of
Assessors, so we now have a way for the public to reach the Board. That has never happened before and
it was something | complained about because other cities like Keene, Manchester, the Board of Assessors
has addresses that you can e-mail them directly.

We don’t have phone numbers and we don’t have addresses for ours. So all of a sudden on the web site
an address appears, BOASSESS@NASHUANH.GOV. They got a web site, that’s great. | send an e-mail
in to address an issue and address a concern | have with what is going on in management in there and
within 3 minutes | get an e-mail fired back at me, very angry, from the Director; she is bull at my e-mail. |

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wrote back “Well Hello, | didn’t know you were on this address”. The address is actually screened by the
Director, the Board of Assessors is her boss. So then | called all the other cities and towns that have these
addresses and | said, “Is your chief or your manager on those addresses or is solely your Board of
Assessors”. Every one of them it is solely their Board, not Nashua. It was inappropriate, it was
inappropriate for me to have to take a blasting e-mail from somebody that | didn’t even know was on the e-
mail chain that was blindly copied or hidden, and the public doesn’t know they are sending it to this
individual.

President Wilshire
Ms. Ortolano is running out. Wrap it up.
Ms. Ortolano

OK Ill just end it with this, it came to my attention just yesterday that there was a Facebook post put up by
our new director that absolutely flabbergasted me on Facebook. It said by Kim Smith Kleiner “It is not my
normal process to respond to Facebook posts, but | feel residents have the right to hear both sides and
then | respect the conclusions they come to. The Assessing Department has received multiple detailed
requests and | am being continually insulted for not responding to two residents’ numerous questions.
When we did investigate, and | respond | am attacked that they were blindsided. Here’s the truth, we had
90 remaining abatements to respond to.

Residents who deserved to have their abatements heard from the deadline of July 1° | asked our
assessors to work as hard as possible to process all these abatements. Everything else was secondary
priority. If a resident feels my decision was wrong, | am happy to sit down and discuss it with you. My
priority has always been to serve the people of the City always”. This was a reply to an April 27" post that
popped up over the weekend from 3 months ago. | am just flabbergasted we don’t have a policy in here
whereby our directors or to management don’t respond on Facebook. You know if you folks all sit here and
think it is a one way street, that | am the problem and you are all the right people it’s more than that, so |

would ask you to consider a policy to stop this. And there was one Alderman that gave a thumbs up to this.
| didn’t respond because | think it is inappropriate to use Facebook to air the dirty laundry like this.

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Alderman Clemons

| just want to welcome Alderman Gidge back, it’s my first meeting with him here so hello my friend | am
glad to see you are in good health and | look forward to working with you.

Alderman Schmidt

Welcome back Ken.

Alderman Gidge

Thank you.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

Yes, | too would just like to welcome Alderman Gidge back, it is good to have you back in the Chamber,

good to see you.

Alderman Caron

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Welcome back Alderman Gidge and | love your scooter.

Alderman Lopez

So first | just wanted to make a public disclosure, | have accepted a position at Greater Nashua Mental
Health, in the past | worked at Harbor Homes. | abstained from any votes that would represent anything like
a conflict of interest. So | just figured | would announce; pretty happy with my position now so that’s
awesome. In addition to that | would like to thank the Board for supporting the Animal Advisory Board, |
think it’s a great example of a public and private partnership. When people in Nashua step forward to
volunteer and they want to help address situations in our community to make them better, | think it is
something we need to support. | Know in Ward 4 in the more urban areas we have had an ongoing issue
with exactly what the role is with animals downtown, whether they are eating in restaurants, whether they
are doing their business on sidewalks, whatever they are doing. So | appreciate having a venue for public
input to that effect.

| want to thank everybody who helped out with the Fourth of July event at Riverside Barbeque. | want to
wish Dave, the owner, a Happy Birthday as well. And then | just wanted to remind the public who might be
watching that Dancing in the Streets is coming up. Alderman Laws is going to lead the break dancing, so |
invite everybody here. Thank you.

Alderman Laws

| too would like to welcome back Alderman Gidge it is good to see you. |’d like to personally thank Amber
and Cole to help make this Dog Advisory dog thing a reality, Animal Advisory and that’s it thank you.

Alderman Klee

Yes, I'd also like to welcome Alderman Gidge back. Then | have a couple of other items. First is I’d like to
thank Amber and Cole and especially Amber for all of the work that she’s done. | know you’ve done a lot of
work with DES and CDC etc. | do think that this Advisory Board is going to be very good. |’d like to thank
Alderman Lopez for all his work with and the Riverside Barbeque for the veteran’s event that you did on the
Fourth of July, thank you so much for all of that.

And then I'd like to address something, and | am sorry | am blanking on the gentleman’s name that was
here from Tyler Street and who spoke about the ADA issues and so on. What I'd like to talk about is the
bushes and the sidewalks. I’ve called DPW and Code Enforcement and so on and especially Code
Enforcement they do go in, many of these bushes that are hanging over onto the sidewalk that are blocking
our children’s way, people with disabilities and so on are from private owners. The City can only do so
much, if it is City property, we should be right on it and taking care of it | agree with that. It is the private
property owners that are letting the shrubs and so on go over. I’ve called a number of times, | just recently
called on Hills Ferry because the children trying to walk to school had to go out into the streets and so on
and they got, I’m sorry Ferry Road not Hills Ferry, and Code Enforcement got right on it talked to the
owners of the home and if they don’t do it | believe that the City does take care of things like that.

So | think in that respect | do think we take care of it when it is brought up. But is the private ownerships
responsibility to also keep your bushes trimmed for sidewalks and so on. We need to think about our
neighbors. Thank you.

Alderman Dowd

I'd like to welcome my friend and fellow classmate back, Alderman Gidge, got to keep the fires going here.
The other thing I’d like to congratulate Nick Caggiano and his staff for the Fourth of July Fireworks and the
entire day. As Alderman Caron well knows they go and start early, early in the morning and they are there
sometimes until midnight, that’s along day. | heard numerous people tell me just how great they thought

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the fireworks were this year and everything seemed to run very smoothly. So a shout out to Nick and his
staff. And also the Spartans who also put on a fantastic show and are going to be performing ina
competition in Manchester later in the month. Thank you.

Alderman Harriott-Gathright

I'd like to welcome my fellow colleague back, it’s good seeing you.

Alderman Gidge

Yes, | have been a little ill and the Mayor and a few other people have always known I’ve been a little ill but
what I’ve noticed as watching TV I’ve noticed this, | play an intricate part because of Ward 6 and Mr.
Clemons. But when I’m not here it’s amazing how everyone goes just a little bit more, little work, little more
organizing so the circle gets a little smaller, but it really works well and to sit back and watch and say, “Well
they really don’t need me”. We really don’t need to anybody to a degree because it’s been that good; a
little arguing but not much compared to some other times. But thank you very much | do appreciate it and |
probably have one more as they call it a procedure and then | should be mentally well. But thank you very
much glad to be back.

Alderman O’Brien

| too would like to welcome you back Ken; I'll miss the extra storage space but welcome back. It is good to
see you in good health and joining us again. | just want to take a brief moment as we all know the
Corporate Counsel led a group up to the Supreme Court and they won a decision that was hard fought, and
| would like to congratulate you on that case on behalf of the City. | think it will really go good, | would like
to congratulate the Board as well too for the dog park, you know, establishing the Advisory Committee. |’m
sure there is a tail wagging at home in the O’Brien household who will probably be sure and glad | voted for
it. So | think this is a good thing and I’m glad everybody had a good and hopefully safe Fourth; they’ve got
all their digits so that’s a good thing. Thank you.

President Wilshire

| would also like to thank Amber Logue for all her work in the Animal Advisory Committee. Thank you for
that. The fireworks Mayor were the best I’ve seen, | say that every year, but they just keep getting better.
So thank you to you and your staff for all the work they put into that. And kudos to the Legal Department
on their success.

Committee announcements:

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

Yes PEDC next Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. in the Chamber. We anticipate that there may be a quorum of the
Planning Board here. Thank you.

Alderman O’Brien

Yes July 24", 7:00 at the Aldermanic Chamber will be Infrastructure. Usually they are a lot of fun so please
come if you’re available.

ADJOURNMENT
MOTION BY ALDERMAN LOPEZ THAT THE JULY 9, 2019, MEETING OF THE BOARD

OF ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED
MOTION CARRIED

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The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:25 p.m.

Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk