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favorable treatment with respect to the awarding or amending or making of any
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determines that such gratuities were or offered or given, it may terminate the contract at
will or for cause in accordance with paragraph 8.

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or at law.

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including any of their respective agents or employees, shall not be liable to third parties for
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provisions were omitted, and the parties may renegotiate the invalid or unenforceable
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EXHIBIT B

PREJERVATION COMPANY

9 November 2021

John C. Vancor, via email: jvancor@hayner-swanson.com
Hayner/Swanson, Inc.

3 Congress Street

Nashua, NH 03062

(603) 883-2057 ext 137

(603) 204-4535 (cell)

Ms. Lisa Fauteux

City of Nashua

Director of Public Works
9 Riverside Street
Nashua, NH 03062

RE: Nashua Signs — Mitigation for Broad Street Parkway Project

Dear John:

As you requested, here is our proposal to help the City of Nashua with the design and installation of
interpretive signs at two locations within the area of the Millyard.

For your interest, I have also included some discussion on the idea of starting a program of interpretive
signs for the City of Nashua. Many cities have such programs and Nashua seems a good candidate for
such an effort as the revitalization of the downtown is going so well. There are many areas in the City
that offer possibility, Main Street, Library Hill and the Court House spring to mind. If that is of interest,
these two signs could be designed so that they would fit with that effort in the future. I look forward to
the conversation!

Respectfully submitted,

Preservation Company

Sunny Knoll

5 Hobbs Road

Kensington, NH 03833
603-778-1799
PreservationCompany@comcast.net

www.PreservationCompany.com

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Project Understanding

Nashua Millyard

Plan showing proposed locations of signs, one adjacent to the Nashua Canal (“Waste House
sign location”) and the other in a city park within the French Village district

French Village sign: Rather than focus specifically on the Charles Gordon house at 40 Pine Street,
removed for the Parkway project, the sign will interpret French Village as a whole. The sign will
be located in the public park located on the site of the Labine Building that burned in February
2010. It was a Romanesque Revival style flatiron type commercial block with a store on the first
floor and a French-Canadian social hall upstairs. The Gordon House was a mixed commercial and
residential building with a first-floor storefront. Both buildings were contributors to the National
Register eligibility of the French Village Historic District.

French Village Historic District was documented on a NHDHR Area Form by VHB and
determined eligible for the National Register in 2008. It is a mill-related working-class
neighborhood associated with French Canadians and other ethnic groups over time. The form was
a combination project/district area form that defined the boundaries of a district but focused on the
project area on Pine and Palm streets. It contains historical information and description of
individual properties but little overall summary of the historic significance of the area and little
text that could be directly excerpted for use in a sign. The form includes copies of reconnaissance-
level inventory forms completed in 1988 by Boston Affiliates. There are no historic photographs.
Historic maps are included but not of high enough quality to be extracted for use. The current
photographs in the form are black and white. Individual inventory forms were also completed in
2008-09 for buildings including the Labine Block.

Mill yard and canal sign: The interpretive sign is mitigation for demolition of a mill yard waste
house, a contributing building in the National Register listed Nashua Manufacturing Company
Historic District. The sign will be located off Pine Street at Storehouse Number 2 near the former
waste house site, adjacent to the Nashua canal and the railroad. The sign is expected to include

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information about the canal and its surroundings including the storehouse and waste house on the
railroad spur. Some history of the company and the operation of the larger industrial complex will
be included for context.

There is considerable information about the mill district and its buildings. The historic district was
listed on the National Register in 1987. The Broad Street Parkway EIS from 1996 includes
additional information. In 2012 Lisa Mausolf completed an area form updating the district
discussion and focusing on a specific part of the Nashua company district. Richard Casella
recently completed NH Historic Property Documentation for the storehouse, waste house, and the
canal. These include many historic maps and images.

Interestingly, the Millyard was the focus of an exemplary effort by students at the Fairgrounds
Middle School in 1998 when they formed a Student Historic Preservation Team to save the historic
Gate House. Their effort received an award from the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance in
2009. This could be included in the text of this sign. Information regarding the Mine Falls ‘Nashua
Manufacturing Company 1886 Gatehouse is attached.

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Scope Of Work
Preservation Company will work with the designers to make sure that the final interpretation is
logical and accurate. Preservation Company efforts will include:
e Research, writing and provision of illustrations and text for the sign and permission to
use selected images.
e Consultation/meetings with NHDHR and the City of Nashua as necessary to finalize the
narrative and resources to be used for the sign.
e Sign manufacturing services to provide outdoor interpretive signs and installation
hardware according to the attached specification.

Estimate

Labor

Category Rate* Hours Total
Principal $109.00 50.0 $5,450.00
Project Manager $98.00 30.0 $2,940.00
Architectural Historian II $87.00 65.0 $5,655.00

145.00
Total Labor $14,045.00
*Includes direct rate plus overhead (98%) and profit (10%)

Costs
Direct expenses will be billed at cost; mileage to be rermbursed at 56 cents/mile

Sign Design and Fabrication** $20,000.00

+Admunistration of sub-contract, 8% $1,600.00
Mileage 100 miles $56.00
Postage $30.00

Total Costs $21,686.00

Total Project Estimate $35,731.00

**BaileyDonovan — see separate proposal

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Signs Program Discussion

With the creation of two signs, we suggest that the City of Nashua give consideration to developing
an interpretive sign program for the City. The two signs for this project could then be designed as
part of that program. BaileyDonovan has considerable experience creating branding and designs
that could be used for such a program and has included information in their project proposal.

Several other cities in New Hampshire have interpretive sign programs. Two have web sites.
These links will illustrate some possibilities. (Portsmouth has a short discussion about their
“program”’).

Portsmouth: http://files.cityofportsmouth.com/community/hmrp.htm

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Here are some examples of interpretive signs made by Preservation Company working with
BaileyDonovan for the former Souhegan Falls Dam in Merrimack, NH:

Souhegan Falls Power 2

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DIRECTING LOCAL POWER & TRAFFIC
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Preservation Company with BaileyDonovan created a group of three interpretive signs for Mount

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the United States in 1863, the railroad
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Mine Falls /Nashua Manufacturing Company 1886 Gatehouse

Mine Falls Park consists of 325 acres of primarily undeveloped land in the center of Nashua, NH,
located primarily between the Nashua River and a canal system. In 1823, the Nashua
Manufacturing Company purchased the land (that is now the park) in order to construct a canal
and gate system to power a mill complex that would manufacture textiles. In 1824, the Nashua
Canal and Mill Pond were hand dug in order to convey the Nashua River water to the
manufacturing facilities. In 1886, the gatehouse was constructed as part of this canal system. The
Nashua Canal, Mill Pond and the gatehouse are on the list of National Register of Historic Places.
The gatehouse was in disrepair and, in part due to the interest of the Fairgrounds Middle School
Historic Preservation Team, federal grant money was awarded to partially restore the building and
surrounding area.

A Historic Preservation Study of the gatehouse, completed in January 2006, was conducted to
obtain an inventory of both the interior and exterior of the building, to summarize the physical
evolution of the building and evaluate the importance of the architectural, structural, mechanical,
and archaeological components of the gatehouse. Recommendations for the historic preservation
and physical restoration of the structure were made and prioritized as part of the study. Based on
the available funding, the design of Phase I of the restoration and preservation of the gatehouse
began in January 2007 by the Louis Berger Group of Manchester, NH and in March 2008
construction of the improvements began by Engelwood Construction Company of Bedford, NH.
Improvements included interior and exterior cleaning, roof replacement, pointing and replacement
of bricks; replacing windows and doors; installation of railings; replacing wooden stairs to the
sluice area, updating the electrical supply while preserving the old components; installation of
safety and emergency systems, and rehabilitating the mechanical furnishings in the gatehouse.

The gatehouse is significant for its unique and refined construction methods, integrity of design
and materials and surviving mechanical equipment integral to the design and function of the
building. The surviving components represent the evolution of the operation of sluice gates from
manual power through early and later electrical systems and therefore provide insight into the
changing technologies and equipment associated with such specialized structures. The gatehouse
is located at one of the main entrances to Mine Falls Park. Now that the gatehouse has been
partially restored and with its location in a highly used and well-maintained area in the park, the
gatehouse can be a focal point to Nashua’s past.

Since 1998 when the Fairgrounds Middle School Student Historic Preservation Team (SHPT)
showed an interest in preserving the gatehouse, the project became an entity in the community that
many within the City and outside the City could embrace. Mary Coe Foran, teacher advisor and
the SHPT (over one hundred students through the 10-year process) led the charge to get interest in
the project and provide comment and input at all stages. Funding of the work was provided by a
HUD grants spearheaded by Sen. Judd Gregg. Dr. James Garvin gave wonderful direction to the
student group in the early stages Nashua and was an avid supporter through the completion of the
project. Dean Shallop and others at the Nashua Telegraph wrote articles throughout the ten years
it took to complete the project. City leaders- three mayors, alderman, staff of the Parks,
Engineering, Community development (Others) took necessary action through the different phases
to get the project done.