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Addressing Committee GIS Department
229 Main Street Nashua Police Department
Nashua, New Hampshire 03061-2019 Legal Department

Street Re-Numbering Petition

To: Aldermen, Alderwomen and Mayor

From: A. Pouliot, Fire Marshal; Captain Kerry Baxter; P. Andruskevich, GIS Tech.;
Sarah Marchant, CDD Director; M. Wilkins, Planner I; Celia Leonard, Esquire.

RE: Address change petition for Sheet 87 Lot 18, 13 Second St, Nashua NH

In Accordance with RSA 231:133-a and NRO 190-213, the Board of Alderman have the
sole authority to assign or alter address numbers of buildings and other property along
any public or private way in the municipality. The New Hampshire Addressing Standards
Guide developed by NH E91 1defines the universal safety standards for addressing in NH.
The City of Nashua has been notified by the Division of Emergency Services and
Communications that collection of data has begun in the City in March of this year.

The request before you is not compliant with the current NH E911 Standards; the
Standard states that one primary structure requires one number addressing. If there are
multiple primary structures each building will require its own number. Further in small
multi-unit structures including duplexes and townhouses, the subaddress should be
alphabetical.

It is this Committee’s recommendation to continue moving forward in a way that will
not create a noncompliant situation for future residents. We recommend that this petition
be denied for the reason above.

Respectfully submitted,
Addressing Committee

April 10, 2019

Petitioners:
John Theiler & Paul Theiler
PO Box 3041
Nashua, NH 03061
(603) 888-0151

RE: Petitioning the Nashua Board of Alderman for address changes

This petition is to officially change the individual apartment addresses of a four unit apartment

building owned by John Theiler and Paul Theiler which is located on the corner of Second Street and
North Groton Street.

City records list the address of this four unit apartment building as 13 Second Street, apartments

A, B, Cand D. Our petition is to officially change the addresses to the ones which have been used for
over thirty years.

Listed below are the address changes:

City Records Address New address

13 Second St, AptA....... 11 Second Street

13 Second St, AptB....... 13 Second Street

13 Second St, AptC. ...... 7 North Groton Street
13 Second St, AptD....... 9 North Groton Street

The streets, Second Street and North Groton Street both exist now and changing the address as
requested should not impact any other property owners.

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A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, June 11, 2019, at 7:02 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.

President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Patricia Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia Piecuch; Alderman Patricia Klee led in the Pledge to the Flag.

The roll call was taken with 14 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Lopez arrived after roll call at
7:04 p.m. and Alderman Gidge was recorded absent.

His Honor, Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
NON-PUBLIC SESSION

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN GO INTO NON-PUBLIC SESSION
BY ROLL CALL PURSUANT TO RSA 91-A:3,II(d) FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE ACQUISITION,
SALE, OR LEASE OF REAL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY, WHICH, IF DISCUSSED IN PUBLIC, WOULD
LIKELY BENEFIT A PARTY OR PARTIES WHOSE INTERESTS ARE ADVERSE TO THOSE OF THE
GENERAL COMMUNITY

SECONDED BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA
A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Dowd
Alderman Klee, Alderman Laws, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Caron,
Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Jette, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Tencza, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Clemons
Alderman Wilshire 14

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

The Board of Aldermen went into non-public session at 7:04 p.m.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO COME OUT OF THE NON-PUBLIC SESSION AND RETURN TO
THE SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEETING
MOTION CARRIED

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN SEAL THE MINUTES OF THE
NON-PUBLIC SESSION BY ROLL CALL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE MAJORITY OF THE BOARD VOTES
THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE CONFIDENTIALITY WOULD NO LONGER BE SERVED

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Dowd
Alderman Klee, Alderman Laws, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Caron,
Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Jette, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Tencza, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Clemons
Alderman Wilshire 14

Nay: 0

Special Bd. of Aldermen — 06/11/2019 Page 2
MOTION CARRIED

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ADJOURN
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:00 p.m.

Attest: Patricia Piecuch, City Clerk

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READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen
meeting of May 28, 2019, accepted, placed on file, and the reading suspended.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From: Paula Johnson
Re: 0©-19-044

There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on file.

From: Patricia D. Piecuch
Re: Proposed City Charter Amendments — R-18-073

There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on file.

From: Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services Division Director
Re: Email sent to the Board, June 4, 2019, L. Ortolano

City Clerk Piecuch

“Dear Members of the Board,

| am writing to correct some of the inaccurate statements which have been sent to the Board of
Aldermen and Board of Assessors in the past week.

Attorney Mark Broth is conducting an independent investigation regarding the allegations against Mr.
Turgiss. | am not seeking to influence that investigation in any way. | am seeking to correct
misinformation. Accordingly, we respectfully request this communication be read into the record and
placed on file.

We continue to receive multiple Right to Know requests, almost daily, from a member of the public
regarding this matter. In an email dated June 4, 2019 Ms. Laurie Ortolano stated, "Greg [Turgiss]
visited 3 properties in January, 3 in February... and 1 in March. The email then asks how Mr.
Turgiss could have driven 660 miles in those 3 months.

Ms. Ortolano cites an AssessPro report as authority for the statement. This report was given in
response to a Right to Know request, its intended use and the data it collects were not discussed.

Ms. Ortolano's statement is inaccurate because the AssessPro report in no way captures all of the
work, or all of the properties visited, by any assessor in a given time. The report only indicates that
during a certain time period the assessor used AssessPro to make corrections with respect to the
listed property. An assessor typically performs a great deal more work and makes a great deal more
property visits than are captured on this report. For one example, a visit may be in order for the
investigation of a charitable exemption, where the assessor needs to evaluate if the building is being
used for a qualified charitable purpose by the applicant. This would not warrant a change to the
property card captured in this report.

The email from Ms. Ortolano also infers that Mr. Turgiss is checking work within the assessor's
office. Mr. Turgiss is not in any supervisory role over other assessors or their work. The assessors
are using a peer review approach where their work is reviewed by at least one or more other

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assessors within the department. They often confer with each other on different cases, this results in
a more equitable and consistent application on subjective items such as the condition of a property.”

There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on file.

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

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Contract for Neopost IN700DS Mailing Solution

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE THE PURCHASE
ORDER LEASE WITH MAILFINANCE, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $20,231
MOTION CARRIED

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Contract for Long Term Management of Wastewater Biosolids

MOTION BY ALDERMAN JETTE TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT
TO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, INC., INAN AMOUNT NOT-TO-EXCEED $1,507,050
MOTION CARRIED

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Contract Award for Emergency Notification System

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT
TO ONSOLVE, LLC, IN THE AMOUNT OF $66,000

MOTION CARRIED

PETITIONS

The following Petition was read into the record:

Petition to Release Facade Easement

There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the petition as read and referred it to the
Committee on Infrastructure

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

Appointment by the Mayor

The following appointment by the Mayor was read into the record:

Board of Assessors

Paul R. Bergeron (New Appointment) For an Indefinite Term at the Pleasure of the Mayor
15 Stanstead Place

Nashua, NH 03063

There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the appointment as read and referred it to
the Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee

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REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

Budget Review Committee... 0.2.0.0... ett ttt ttteeeees 05/29/2019
There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the May 29, 2019, Budget
Review Committee accepted and placed on file.

Finance Commiittee............ 0... tieeess 06/05/2019

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the June 5, 2019, Finance
Committee accepted and placed on file.

Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee... .......0. 0.0.00. cece eee cee eee eee 06/03/2019

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the June 3, 2019, Personnel/
Administrative Affairs Committee accepted and placed on file.

CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS

Downtown Improvements Committee

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared Phillip Scontsas, 169 Main Street, Nashua,
duly appointed as an alternate member to the Downtown Improvements Committee for a term to
expire December 1, 2021

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel.

Environment and Energy Committee

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared Bob Hayden, 84 Dutton Road,
Lyndeborough, duly appointed to the Environment and Energy Committee for a term to expire
January 21, 2020.

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-18-073, Amended
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY CHARTER RELATIVE TO FILLING VACANCIES
ON ELECTED BOARDS BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THAT
BOARD
Given its eighth reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CARON THAT R-18-073, AS AMENDED, IS NECESSARY AND THAT IT BE
SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS BY PLACING IT ON THE NOVEMBER 5, 2019, MUNICIPAL GENERAL
ELECTION BALLOT

MOTION CARRIED

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Resolution R-18-073 declared duly adopted as amended.
R-19-123
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
RELATIVE TO THE ADOPTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2020 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR

THE CITY OF NASHUA GENERAL, ENTERPRISE, AND SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD TO AMEND R-19-123 IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REPLACING IT WITH
THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS MADE BY THE BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE BY ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Dowd
Just to clarify what the amendment is, when the budget was presented, an amendment was made by

Alderman Kelly and the motion was to increase the Mayor’s budget by $65K to address the cost of two
school paras? Correct?

Alderwoman Kelly
And a counselor.
Alderman Dowd

And a counselor if they can squeeze that in, in that amount of money. It passed and it now requires 10
votes to amend the Mayor’s budget.

Alderwoman Kelly

Thank you | just wanted to follow up on that. The conversation for people who weren’t at the Budget
Meeting, | personally looked at the line items that they were looking at and wanted to see what we could
do for them. The two line items that they didn’t have any sort of plan for that they had pulled out of their
budget was the paras and the school counselor, which still Keeps us at 3% but allows us to give them a
little bit more support. And I’m sorry, we actually voted to put that into contingency so that the money
wouldn't be used unless we hired those people. So it will go into the same contingency with the
$200,000.00 for the other paras.

Alderman Jette

Just a point of clarification, didn’t the Mayor add something for the grant writer?

Alderman Dowd

Yes but the Mayor added to his budget and we allowed that to go through but we didn’t alter the Mayor’s
budget, that’s part of the Mayor’s budget. So we don’t need to vote on that separately.

Attorney Bolton
You do but as long as it is captured in this amendment you'll be fine.
Alderman Dowd

It is.

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Alderman Klee

Yeah while | want to give the school as much as much as we possibly can, | have concerns that we could
actually hire 2 school paras, a school counselor for $65K and it would not include any of the benefits. And
then who pays for the benefits. And | have the same issue with the contingency plan and this. If we add
to their budget, does that mean next year their budget is at least $265,000.00 more because we can’t ask
these people to leave their jobs? Just a concern that having to bring everything forward; | know this is this
year’s budget but we have to think forward.

Alderwoman Kelly

| believe, and I'll ask Alderman Dowd, but that discussion came up as well in budget and we were told that
if we put this aside, they are going to have to handle the benefit part of it, including the $200,000.00. And |
think the paras are part-time that are in there, and this was exactly what they brought to us, there was a
Memo that was brought to us after we met with them that was sent through from Sue Lovering and that’s
where | got the numbers from. So | trust that they know that they know what they would pay somebody for
those jobs.

Alderman Klee

Again | am looking forward. And | understand that they are going to have to take the costs of the benefits
and part-time doesn’t have the same benefit. | do respect that and | do understand that. But! am still
looking at the $200,000.00 and so on that next year they are going to have these bodies and whether they
pay for them, the City pays for them, or however it is worked, | am just a little worried about the following
year.

Alderwoman Kelly

No | apologize. | hear your concerns but when they were sitting here | asked them specifically what is
really on your mind? And | believe the Board President said, “I'd love to hire 12 paras”. So the need is
there, whether we fund it this year or next year. This is the thing that | brought up in our meeting that they
need to start thinking about hiring now. So it is not something we can “OH maybe we'll have some
contingency later on” — they have to hire them this summer for the fall.

Alderman Clemons

Alderman Kelly did a great job on this because | think you know when you look at what is being proposed
here, it’s another school psychologist in a time when you know kids are facing a lot of things at home. We
are a growing City, we are having more problems; and of course para-professional’s go right in hand with
that. You are talking about on the average $300,000.00 house, $3.00; $3.00 more a year is what we are
asking people to pay for these positions. | don’t think it is too much to ask.

Alderman Dowd

Just so we stick at the moment to the amendment. The $200K and the $65K will be in contingency. It is
part of the budget if it gets approved and therefore will become part of the School Budget when they come
up with a person to hire. They will come to us and ask us to release the money from contingency to do
that hire. But as far as the entire City Budget it’s in there now, well it’s in there if we pass the amendment
and pass the budget. So another thing | want to point out is after we had our meeting and you will recall at
the Budget Meeting | asked the CFO what the percentage increase was and he said 3%. | went to see
him the very next day or the day after and we sat down with a spread sheet and it is actually 2.997% so it
is under 3% for those that were concerned. | know that’s not a heck of a lot under, but when | asked about
the other changes, you’d have to do a lot more to get it any lower anyway. But it is 2.997% and right now
we are looking at the amended budget.