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Leila Melon Hello. Thank you very much for having us and thanks for moving us out of order.
Unfortunately you moved us of order so that the children from the Boys & Girls Club could come and
present, but you notice that they are not here. It turned out we didn’t get that notice until it was too late
and they, between shortage of staff, given that it was close to Thanksgiving and transporting the kids
here, it was just too much for them. So unfortunately you get me and my colleague here. So forgive
us.

My name is Leila Melon. | work for the National Park Service, a program called the River’s Trails &
Conservation Assistance Program. Cindy Heath, who is here with me, works for GP RED a non-profit.
We have worked on this project since this summer with Foundation for Health Communities and then of
course the Boys & Girls Club here. The point was to have them join a cadre of four other communities
around the State with what was originally a healthy eating active living program of the State where we
worked with children to have their voices heard for what they wanted to see for getting or transporting
themselves, walking biking from where they were to places that they liked to play; so City parks, ball
fields, etc.

We did two projects with them, we did PhotoVoice and UMap. PhotoVoice has also been done for 4
years here in the City of Nashua. Your Health Department has performed it with the Boys & Girls Club.
The kids were used to that. It’s where you take both of these programs are done nationally for a
number of years. PhotoVoice they take cameras around with the question of “how do | get myself from
my home, my school, wherever | am to places | like to play and recreate; and what’s good about the
places | go and what doesn’t work”. So what could be improved? So they take pictures of these things
that they like in their communities and then we had those pictures printed and mounted for them. We
had a display down here in your rotunda for the last month. We had it up on display at the City Library
also.

Then the second part of the program is we do UMap which is we look at a map with the kids and they
tell us where they want to go. They map those routes, then we look at them and analyze them and say,
“OK what were the nexus of projects that we could try to work on and bring to your policy makers to
have your voice be heard”. So that is the synopsis of what we did with them. Cindy is going to go
through the actual work that they have done and come up with our signature projects and our action
steps that we’ve done.

Cindy Heath It probably won’t be hard for you to imagine me as a ten-year-old, but | hope you can. So
thank you so much for giving us some time to share the work of the students that we worked with at the
Boys & Girls Club. So | am Cindy Heath as Leila said with GP RED which is a National Non-Profit that
has a project that supports children’s’ voices in community planning. So this was a project that was
supported by the Foundation for Healthy Communities. As Leila said, this was the 5" community that
we’ve worked in in the State, so we are really pleased to be able to work with the folks here in Nashua
which has a history of supporting the youth voice. So we are really pleased to be able to enhance that.

What | thought I’d do is just share the photos and give you a brief summary of the project and give you
an idea of what the students saw in their work. Then we will summarize at the end and Leila will come
back and share about next steps for us. So here we go, so if we can go back to big screen, | think I’ve
got the clicker working now. There should be a slide show icon on the very top. OK thank you very
much.

So starting with the conclusion, this project is all on-line so at the end we will have a link to that so we
can show you how that actually works. But we plotted the data that we collected between the
photographs and the mapping project where we had conversations with the students about where they
felt they liked to go in the City, where they felt they were safe going in the City and where they felt a
little bit unsafe or maybe had some concerns. So what you are seeing on this map, this is a screenshot
of the on-line version of this project. Ve have these data points; the red points represent the places
that the students they might be a little unsafe or fearful. The data we collected is all available for

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looking at and making decisions about and communicating further with the students about some
improvements that they think might be made.

The green points are those positive areas where they felt that they could walk safely or could access
their recreation and places for leisure safely. So there are probably about 50 data points, we had about
15 students that we worked with. So we collected a lot of information that helped and form the
signature projects that you'll be hearing about in just a little bit.

All of the photos and formed the signature projects and the action steps that we are proposing that the
Boys & Girls Club work with the City on and | do want to acknowledge several of the Department Heads
that we’ve communicated with, some of them only briefly, wno have been super-supportive about how
to implement some of the suggestions that the students have come up with. Many of the suggestions
were around beautification and the students felt very positive and supportive and were very pleased
with how much beauty there is in the City, so there were a lot of pictures of flowers as a result. Each
student was asked to choose out of their 40 or 50 photos that they took, one photo that represented the
positive aspects of the City and one photo that represented where they thought improvements could be
made. So this is an example of where they thought improvements could be made and safety in the
trails by having the trails have a clean surface.

Again beautification and managing graffiti in the City was one thing that was pointed out. They thought
the Bike Share program was fantastic and that it was well used. One theme that seemed to emerge
was trash, concern about trash and keeping the City beautiful. We did meet this afternoon with the
students and with Nick from the Parks & Recreation Department so there is going to be an action step
of including some of the Boys & Girls Club Members in the regular monthly clean-ups that take place at
Mine Falls Park.

Art & Sculpture was one of the things that the students thought was a positive aspect. Again more
flowers, they seemed to really like the color and the flowers and how it makes the City look beautiful
and they want to see more of that. There was a concern about homelessness; so there seemed to be
some interest in taking some action about that somehow and supporting the City’s efforts on the
homelessness issue. Again, trash was a theme.

| want to point out the quality of these photos, as | am sure you’ve seen in the other photos, but it is just
fantastic what the students come up with. With very little instruction they were able to focus and write
these captions that were | think very effective. So again, more flowers, more trash, more flowers. This
was an interesting point of view where the perception of the student was that roads are narrow so
people getting out of the cars when they’ve been parked might have some concerns as the cars were
driving by them.

So that is a summary, that’s kind of an example of the photographs; all of the photographs are located
in the report that you received as well. So one of the points of this project was to have exhibits, similar
to the PhotoVoice that has already been done. So we did have exhibits at the Nashua Public Library
and a reception for the students as well as here in the City Hall Rotunda, so we want to acknowledge
Donna Graham’s support in helping us achieve the City Hall Rotunda Exhibit which was up for just
about a month which was fantastic. So that got a lot of exposure. We are going to be having further
meetings. The students will be having further meetings at the Boys & Girls Club with the Library
Director. One of the suggestions was a pop-up library, the students wanted to see more libraries in the
City. The Library Director has been very supportive in talking about bringing the pop-up program to the
Boys & Girls Club to meet that need. Both the Police Department and the Public Health Department
Community Services have been very supportive about meeting those students. Those meetings have
not taken place yet, but we are going to be facilitating those in the future.

Tonight's presentation was intended to have the students which is part of the point of them
communicating their vision to you all. They are certainly open and Shea down at the Boys & Girls Club

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who worked with us is open if any of you wish to meet with these students to hear their thoughts, they
are certainly open to facilitating that with you.

All of this work and all of the data that we collected resulted in a conversation with the students about
what we call “Signature Projects”. So Leila is handing a one-pager that gives you a sense of what they
thought would be projects to focus on. Mine Falls Park was the first one; because the Boys & Girls
Club is so close to Mine Falls Park, a lot of them walk through it, a lot of them play in it. They felt very
strongly about having that be a park that was safe for them and lighting seemed to be a theme in the
park. So in talking with Nick this afternoon, we brainstormed that perhaps some kind of a solar lighting
installation might support that suggestion and one of the advantages of Nashua participating in this
project is the connection with the Foundation for Health Communities which has access to funding
throughout the year so that we can begin to support having some of these initiatives actually come into
play. So that is an advantage of having the City participate.

The Rail Trail and Central Street was another focal area and when we looked at the data on the maps
these were kind of where clusters of places where both the students felt they could go and like to go but
they had some concerns about going. So those helped us to find these Signature Projects, so more
beautification. Another theme was more Police Patrols and Nick did explain this afternoon that there
are bike patrols on Mine Falls Trails so that was a positive.

Then finally the Ash Street and Ledge Street Pathway, again more Police presence and then picking up
trash. So the Police presence, the trash theme, the beautification those seemed to emerge as we
talked with the students more and more. And then one of the things that struck us was that they
wanted to see more field trios to Nashua areas so that they could have peaceful outdoor experiences.
That was significant to us because nationally there is a great concern that children don’t get enough
outdoor time, they have too much screen time. The average number of hours spent at a screen is
between 6 and 7 hours for children. That is a big concern to everybody across the sector of psychology
and educators and community leaders.

So that was really positive, and the Boys & Girls Club and the Recreation Department can certainly
work together, and we will work together to try to make that happen.

So moving down from the Signature Projects we have these Action Steps that we have shared with
Nick and the Boys & Girls Club Staff. These emerged from all of us talking together about what next
steps to take and so the meeting is coming up and then collaborating on the cleanups and the pop-up
library. These kinds of specific field trips and grant writing opportunities to try to implement all of these
ideas. What we find in doing this around the country is that children at this age, mostly it is the Middle
School, Upper Elementary Age that participates in this program. They tend to point out things that are
fairly easy to accomplish. Sometimes they involve just collaboration between departments or agencies.
Sometimes they involve a little bit of money but there’s not much expenditure or effort that needs to go
into making these things happen to help them feel like their voice has been heard.

We just want to make sure we acknowledge, before | turn it back over to Leila, Shay and Janail at the
Boys & Girls Clubs who were very supportive and helped us work with the students. The staff of the
Nashua Board of Alderman, Donna — super helpful; Library, Parks & Rec, Public Health and the Police
Community Service Departments. The National Park Service provided funding for the project. GP
RED provided technical assistance and the Foundation for Health Communities, Healthy People,
Health Places Plan and the Active Recreation Work Group are the overarching sponsors of this work.
So I'll turn it back over to Leila for the final “where we go from here” and then we’d be happy to answer
any questions.

Leila Melon So this just brief, just the “what do we do from here” “where do we go”. A couple of these
meetings that we still hope to have with the kids at the Boys & Girls Club, we will organize that to
happen. Being in this cadre of four other communities around the State with Foundation for Healthy
Communities, it is a link for each other, they are linked via e-mail, a lot of funding opportunities go out
via that way and they can talk to each other and ask questions and get support since they have all now

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gone through this. Those communities, if it wasn’t clear, Manchester, Haverhill, Berlin, Franklin and
Nashua. So these were the communities around the State that the Active Recreation Workgroup a few
years ago identified as having socioeconomic indicators that showed that they were a little bit more
vulnerable for these classic indicators of not a thriving wealthy community.

That pretty much wraps up our presentation. | am sorry again that we are not the children from the
Boys & Girls Club. But if you’ve got questions, we’d be happy to answer them.

President Wilshire

Well you did a wonderful presentation. So we thank you and the students who couldn't be here, but we
appreciate the work, this is awesome, really good stuff. Thank you so much.

Alderman Lopez

| actually have a question for the President, but | guess also the presenters, because this is about
hearing children’s voice, could we as a Board make an effort to go to where they are? Because we
have had Aldermanic meetings in other locations before, we are planning a special meeting. So if they
are willing to host us, why wouldn’t we just have a special meeting there so that they could present to
us directly without them having to transport themselves?

President Wilshire

That sounds like a great idea. Maybe we can work that out. Anyone else? Thank you very much. We
really appreciate you coming before us this evening.

e Alexis Durant update on her volunteer work with the homeless
President Wilshire to recognize Alexis Durant
President Wilshire

Lexie came before us last November and did a presentation on her volunteer work with the homeless.
She is here tonight to give us an update on what she has been doing since them. So welcome.

Alexis Durant Thank you. Hi, | am Alexis Durant as Lori has told. | just wanted to kind of update the
Aldermen on what we have done since the last time we met in November of last was we have had three
fundraisers. One was at Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Massachusetts. The other was at Life
Care Center in Auburn also in Massachusetts. This year we have decided to not only help out Harbor
Homes two group homes but also Marguerites Place and Bridges.

We have fundraising happening now actually at Jenny the Groomers on Amherst Street. We also have
a fundraiser on December 7" from noon to 6 at Palm Square. The details will be on the fliers we are
passing out. At that we will have a silent auction, with the silent auction will be two Bruins Tickets, A
Ride Along for 2 people with Nashua Police and Breakfast with the Fire Chief and breakfast with our
Mayor. There are many things happening, we are sure to please everyone, young and young at heart.
There’s also a fundraiser happening December 14" and 21° at Life Care Center of Auburn in
Massachusetts. We hope you all can attend on December 7" at Palm Square.

President Wilshire
That’s exciting with everything you have been doing, that is really impressive.

Ms. Durant Thank you. Are there any questions?

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Unknown Speaker Can | just mention one added thing? Alexis has been very vocal about wanting to
support Women & Children’s issues. It was her idea that we increase our fundraising efforts to also
include Margarete’s Place and Bridges. To be able to do that successfully, as she mentioned, our big
fundraiser is December 7" at Palm Square. We have a lot more activities going on that date. Last year
we had basket raffle and a straw raffle. This year, as Alexis mentioned we have the Silent Auction, we
have over 100 baskets that we are going to be raffling, we have the straw raffle which you’ve got to
come in to see what it is, because it is a fun thing. It doesn’t raise a lot of money, but it is addictive.
Then we have adopt a stuffed animal; so there’s a lot of new activities going on. We have some people
who have agreed to be banner sponsors and have paid a fee so that they can promote their products
on that day. So there is a lot of activities going on on that day and | hope you will be able to attend that.
And thank you for your time.

RECOGNITION PERIOD - None
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen
meetings of November 12, 2019, accepted, placed on file, and the reading suspended.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From: Lisa Fauteux, Director of Public Works
Re: Supporting Ordinances O-19-58, O-19-59, O-19-60 & O-19-61

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

PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS
EVENING

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Dorothy Clarke, Esquire
Re: Proposed amendments to R-18-102

There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication, placed it on file and
referred it to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE.

PETITIONS - None
NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS
Appointments by the Mayor

Board of Registrars

Adriana Lopera, Member (New Appointment) Term to Expire: December 31, 2021
137 Chestnut Street, Apt. 2
Nashua, NH 03060

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Zoning Board

Efstathia Booras (Reappointment) Term to Expire: October 1, 2021
44 Balcom Street
Nashua, NH 03062

Jean-Paul G. Boucher (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 11, 2021
8 Foxmeadow Road
Nashua, NH 03060

Jonathan Currier (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 11, 2022
6 New Searles Road

Nashua, NH 03062

Steve Lionel (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 31, 2022

19 Cabot Drive

Nashua, NH 03064

Mariellen MacKay (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 11, 2021
9 Webster Street

Nashua, New Hampshire 03064

Rob Shaw (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 11, 2021
14 Sweet William Circle

Nashua, New Hampshire 03062

There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the Appointments by the Mayor as read
and referred them to the Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE
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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the November 13, 2079,
Human Affairs Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the November 18, 2079,
Committee on Infrastructure accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the November 19, 2079,
Planning and Economic Development Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the November 20, 2079,
Finance Committee accepted and placed on file.

There being no objection, President Wilshire suspended the rules to allow for the oral report of
the Budget Review Committee meeting held last night regarding proposed Resolution R-19-189.

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Alderman Richard A. Dowd gave an oral report of the Budget Review Committee of November 25, 2019
regarding proposed Resolution R-19-189.

Alderman Dowd

At the Budget Meeting we had discussion on the electric car and the backup server. There was some
discussion about alternatives to the backup server and it was discussed by IT that those were far more
expensive that what we are proposing. This is critical to the safeguard of the City of Nashua’s IT
Infrastructure. So it was passed unanimously by the Budget Committee.

CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS - None
UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-18-102
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Jan Schmidt
APPROVING THE COST ITEMS OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
THE NASHUA BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS AND UFPO LOCAL 645
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES OF THE NASHUA POLICE DEPARTMENT FROM JULY 1, 2018
THROUGH JUNE 30, 2022 AND AUTHORIZING RELATED TRANSFERS
e Tabled at BOA meeting 09/24/19 with approved amendments

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD TO TAKE R-18-102 FROM THE TABLE AND REFER IT TO THE
BUDGET COMMITTEE
MOTION CARRIED

R-19-182
Endorsers: Mayor James Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael O’Brien
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Laws
Alderman Richard Dowd
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman June Caron
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Jan Schmidt
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $25,000 FROM JSI
RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE INTO PUBLIC HEALTH AND COMMUNITY
SERVICES GRANT ACTIVITY “FY20 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRACKING”
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-19-182
ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Lopez

| realize as the alternate for the Health Department | should know this, but what does this do in

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general? It gives us money for the Health Department. | didn’t mean to stump everybody sorry.
Alderman O’Brien

If | may, you did, it is on my docket to be read but basically what it is relative to the acceptance of
appropriation $25,000.00 from JSI Research and Training Institute into the Public Health and
Community Services Grant Activity, Fiscal year20 Environmental Health Tracking. So! am sure it helps

the Health Department in their community work, unless somebody has a better explanation.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

| believe at our Human Affairs Committee meeting and Alderman Caron may be able to help me, this is
a continuation of the money that the Health Department has been receiving to follow specifically lead
poisoning and looking at the tracking of where incidents are and the cleanup and providing blood lead
testing for members of the community. | believe they are not only doing outreach by then also the
blood lead testing they are doing in the clinic.

Alderman Lopez

Thank you.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

You're welcome.

MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-19-182 declared duly adopted.

R-19-189
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michel B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Ken Gidge
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Jan Schmidt
RELATIVE TO THE APPROVAL OF THE PURCHASE OF ONE ELECTRIC CAR AND
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BACKUP SERVERS FROM THE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT
RESERVE FUND (CERF) DURING FY2020
e Budget Committee Recommendation: Final Passage
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-19-189

ON THE QUESTION

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

| just have to say | think it’s great we are purchasing a Leaf, even if it is used. | remember many years
ago going to the car show in New York and the prototype was there and the whole body was see-

through so you could see how it worked. And | thought it was a great car, so | am glad we are going to
be owning one.

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Alderman Laws

| would like to respectfully disagree with my colleague, and | say that I’ll support this but | wish we were
getting a cybertruck. I’ve been watching videos on YouTube for the last week.

Alderman Lopez

| have two questions to the Chair to the Mayor. The first one | guess is will this be see-through.

Mayor Donchess

Unfortunately no.

Alderman Lopez

And the second one is it was my understanding from the conversation that we had that this is to be
used by you for transportation?

Mayor Donchess

Correct.

Alderman Lopez

Do you already have a vehicle and is it also an electric car?

Mayor Donchess

No what | drive now is a Ford Hybrid so-called Fusion and that gets OK mileage but not like this will.

Alderman Lopez

So we would ultimately be reducing impact, other than having the Mayor ride around on a bike.

Alderwoman Kelly

Thank you just to comment on the electric car since everyone is | am happy to see the City move
forward with our energy reduction efforts. While a Leaf for the Mayor is small, it's a move that shows
we are committed to that and hopefully we can keep expanding.

President Wilshire

It’s a start, right?

Alderwoman Kelly

It’s a start.

MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-19-189 declared duly adopted.

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-19-058
Endorsers: Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Ken Gidge
Alderman Tom Lopez
AUTHORIZING STOP SIGNS ON DINSMORE STREET AT ITS INTERSECTION WITH
DOUGLAS STREET
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-19-058
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Dowd

I'd like to talk to it. Yes, the stop signs are actually on Douglas Street; Alderman Jette pointed that out
the way it was written was probably confusing but the reason they are not on Dinsmore Street is it is a
hill. The reason for the stop signs on Douglas is because it is a blind entrance into Dinsmore Street.
Dinsmore Street comes down from the school; so this is to prevent accidents.

MOTION CARRIED
Ordinance O-19-058 declared duly adopted.

O-19-059
Endorsers: Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman-at-Large Michael O’Brien
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large David Tencza

AUTHORIZING STOP SIGNS ON CHARLOTTE STREET AT ITS INTERSECTION WITH
CHARLOTTE AVENUE
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-19-059
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Dowd

I'd like to speak to it. Yes, | don’t know if anybody has been at the intersection of Charlotte Street and
Charlotte Ave. lately, but the BPW has painted a red squaring curve that some people just ignore, but |
found out today, at the State it looks like it is approved, our plan that we submitted 5 years ago, putting
in a new sidewalk on the opposite side from the school on Charlotte. They will also make that a more
permanent squared corner. This 3-way stop is part of that. Earlier this year we had a car go around
that corner, hit a car that had stopped for kids crossing in the crosswalk. So we are trying to prevent
children from getting hurt.

MOTION CARRIED