Thank you for your kind attention to this matter. I look forward to providing you with an additional update
next month.
Kindest regards,
Tim Cummings
Director of Economic Development
B\ THE CITY OF NASHUA “The Cate City’
Financial Services
Purchasing Department
June 13, 2019
Memo #19-160
TO: MAYOR DONCHESS
FINANCE COMMITTEE
SUBJECT: | CONTRACT FOR APPRAISAL FOR LISTED UTILITIES FOR TAX YEARS 2019-2024
(5 YEAR) (VALUE: NOT-TO-EXCEED $39,000)
DEPARTMENT: 132 ASSESSING; FUND: GENERAL FUND - OVERLAY
Please see the attached communication from Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services Director, dated June
12, 2019 for information related to this purchase.
Pursuant to NRO § 5-83 Professional Services (A) In the purchase of accounting, architectural, auditing,
engineering, legal, medical and ambulance services and purchases of independent professional
consultant services for personnel, data processing, actuarial, planning, management and other
comparable purchases competitive bidding shall not be required.
The Administrative Services Director and the Purchasing Department recommend the award of this
contract in an amount not-to-exceed $39,000 per year to George E. Sansoucy, PE, LLC of Portsmouth,
NH.
Respectfully,
Dan Kooken
Purchasing Manager
Coc: J. Duhamel J. Griffin
229 Main Street * Nashua, New Hampshire 03061 © Phone (603) 589-3330 e Fax (603) 589-3233
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single company for a specific set period of time, under a specific set of rules. Or it managed through a
permitting system where you just are issued a permit for a specific time period and operate under the rules of
that permit; and renew it as the period comes up.
President Wilshire
| am going to take one more question, we are way over on our time and we another presentation. So Alderman
Lopez, since you haven't had the chance to speak.
Alderman Lopez
| was just curious and this is a question to Attorney Bolton, how are seated scooters treated under motor vehicle
licenses?
Attorney Bolton
How are what treated?
Alderman Lopez
Seated scooters, like elderly people driving motorized?
Attorney Bolton
| guess things like a Vespa scooter has to be registered like a motor vehicle has to be registered, if we are
talking about something different?
Alderman Lopez
| was thinking more like electronic wheelchair kind of devices?
Attorney Bolton
| don’t think wheelchairs have any registration requirements. | guess the fair answer is I’ve never looked at that
issue.
President Wilshire
| have a member of the public if the Board would be so inclined to allow one member of the public to ask a
question? Feel free to come forward sir, give your name and address for the record.
Peter Schafer, | live at 15 E Street and | own both an E Bike and a Segway Mini. So | have some idea, this is
actually a big concern of mine because you can start deciding something is a bicycle or it (inaudible) it is going
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to impact a lot people. Years ago when the Segway’s came out there was a big deal about whether it is going
to be motor vehicle or non-motor vehicle and was specifically designed to go on sidewalks like a car goes on the
road. | have a Segway Mini which is not quite the same thing as a Segway, it’s a smaller version of it, the
wheels are maybe about that size. And the other thing is | have an E-Bike, it’s just a regular bicycle, | can ride
like a regular bicycle, | can push a button and it will assist me, give me a boost when I’m going up a hill, I’m 69
years old and | had a heart attack a few years ago, | need a bike that when | have an issue, | need a little boost,
ok? | don’t want someone saying | can’t ride my bike because it is a motor vehicle. So there are a lot of issues
and they haven't been resolved in the country as far as | know. So | really think that it would be in our best
interest, all the different kinds of things that are available, they are all over the place and they are used for
different things. And the thing is, it’s not just about VeoRide, people are going to buy them, they are starting to
buy them a lot OK? So you are going to have to discuss the issue.
The other thing | wanted to say about this particular device is it has got pretty small wheels, it'll work, like you
could take it Mine Falls Park, and fall off the sink holes (inaudible). But the main item, critical item, is at night
this thing gets thrown out into the street, I’m going to run over it. There is no way | am going to see it. So you
need to put lights or whatever on it so it’s reflecting. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you sir. Ok what | would ask is that if anybody has any questions or concerns that they please forward
them to me and Sue Lovering and we will get them to the gentleman and get all your questions addressed as
best we can, ok?
Alderman Laws
I’m sorry but they are saying that the program might launch tomorrow. Is it still going to launch tomorrow before
the concerns are addressed?
President Wilshire
I’d have to ask the Mayor that question.
Mayor Donchess
Well | think tomorrow morning Ms. Chizmas and | and the Legal Department should meet to talk about these
legal issues. But we were, as Mr. Shafer just said, | mean these things are in a category and maybe technically
they would be categorized as a motor vehicle but you know they are slower than a bicycle and not that much
faster than an electric wheelchair. We really hadn’t thought of should this be treated as a motor vehicle, | mean
we were thinking it certainly would not be. So it would be relatively unrestricted in its use like bicycles.
Technically bicycles, you can’t drive them on the sidewalk but as we were talking about that issues, when they
first brought this in, we were riding around the plaza, like 3 or 4 bicycles go by in like 4 minutes, right? So there
are all kinds of bicycles on the downtown ... at least on Main Street because of the heavy traffic volume. People
off Main Street are riding in the road but on Main Street mostly it is often people riding on the sidewalk. So |
would suggest that we meet on this tomorrow and see what we can come up with.
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| don’t think we should categorize this as a motor vehicle. Otherwise, what about all the stuff that Mr. Shafer has
raised, the Segway, the E-Bike, the Electric Wheelchair, | mean how is that different from this. What if it goes 10
and this goes 15 and we are going to say well they can’t? So | think it requires a little more discussion.
President Wilshire
| think it doesn’t require any more discussion.
Mayor Donchess
Later, | meant later, not right now.
President Wilshire
No | understand Mayor. But we have two other meetings and we need to move on. Thank you Mr. Briggs for
your presentation this evening and we look forward to a really good resolution to have these out there. Thank
you so much.
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ADJOURN
MOTION CARRIED
The meeting was declared adjourned at 7:26 p.m.
Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk
VeoRide — Nashua, NH Scooter Introduction
6/25/2019
VeoRide eScooter: Parking and Safety Enhancements
Parking Enhancements
Actively Managed No Park Zones
VeoRide enforces no park zones
Scooter Display Parking Indicator
Displays no-parking zone or a
preferred parking zone on
350W REAR-DRIVE
scooter and app MOTOR
Allows for rideability up
Horizontal Detection Sensor 10% grade incline
Notifies the User if scooter is
lying on its side; local staff if
scooter is on its side, blocking
walkway
Integrated Chassis Lighting System
Rewards Active safety measure for low-light
pedestrian and automotive awareness
“Carrot and Stick” Parking
Provides incentives, warnings and
fines for Users to park properly
Safety Enhancements
10-inch wheels; Larger Platform
Bigger wheels and platform provide
more stable control
No-Ride Zone Shutdown
Shuts off electric power if ridden ina
no-ride zone
Dual Braking System
Equipped with brakes for both front
and rear wheels
Swapping Extended Battery
Battery maintenance by VeoRide staff;
higher low-end torque for hills
Quality and Safety Tested
eScooters have passed the most
stringent US consumer products testing
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Complement to Existing System
The existing service area will remain the same, bikes and scoot
will operate under the same rules. Please practice safe and
proper riding and parking practices.
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Special Thanks to Mayor Jim Donchess and
Julie Chizmas for their ongoing support.
Questions?
A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Monday, June 24, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
Vice President Michael O’Brien presided; City Clerk Patricia Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia Piecuch; Alderman June M. Caron led in the Pledge to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with 10 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Gidge,
Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Jette and Alderman Clemons were recorded absent
His Honor, Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
President Wilshire turned the meeting over to Alderman Dowd, Chair of the Budget Review Committee,
to conduct the public hearing.
PUBLIC HEARING
R-19-142
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY TREASURER TO ISSUE BONDS
NOT TO EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF SIX MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($6,200,000) FOR VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS TO THE JACKSON MILLS
AND MINE FALLS HYDROELECTRIC FACILITIES
Vice President O’Brien
So that the rest of the Board knows | did hear from Alderman Wilshire and Alderman Gidge, both are on
excused absences due to illness. Tonight’s meeting will be a Public Hearing on R-19-142. | am going to call
on Sarah Marchant to give us a brief overview of R-19-142. There is a little presentation to hopefully explain it
better. Would you like to come up, however you can see best, my seat is available.
Sarah Marchant, Director Community Development gave a brief overview of R-19-142 before the Board heard
public testimony.
Ms. Marchant
Good evening, thank you very much. | have just a few slides and | will go through them quickly. If you have
questions, I’m more than happy to answer them. | have more information but | didn’t want to overload with
data. | am here to talk to you about our two hydroelectric facilities. A very, very brief history is that we, the
Jackson Mills Hydroelectric facility which is part of the Margarita’s Restaurant, you can actually enjoy a
beverage on the deck that is directly about our hydro plant was returned to the City’s ownership as of January
of 2015, it was December 30" or something like that. So we didn’t pay anything for it; there was originally a
lease. The City was part of the original construction, the hydro, the entity who was running it had a lease for
30 years. The lease ended it and suddenly we had a dam. And so that one we didn’t pay anything for. But we
have a 35 year old facility that is in need of some upgrades.
The second dam was the Mine Falls Dam, that was built about the same time. During the early ‘80’s there was
a lot of money through FERC who put in hydro facilities and that one was built at the same time. That had a
buyout provision so that the City had the opportunity to buy it out at a preset rate which we did exercise in April
of 2017. We paid just over $4 million dollars for the Mine Falls Dam at that time. We did a lot of studies, a lot
of work on it. We did a complete evaluation before we purchased that dam, we have a whole lot of, somewhat
of a mini-CIP if you will of wnat we knew needs to be invested, how we need to, what things needed to be
upgraded, what things don’t and how we can move forward with that one.
Another big different between the two dams is Jackson Mills is one megawatt and it is actually has an
exemption from Federal Licensing, from the FERC Licensing Process. So we can operate that without having
to get a license from FERC that has to be renewed every so often. The Mine Falls Dam is a 3 megawatt
