Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 2/8/2022 - P14
Board of Aldermen 02-08-2022 Page 14
The other thing on and at least in my Ward and someone call about the streets not being plowed. | got in touch with
Lauren Byers and the Director. One of our trucks went off the road and into a ditch. It was from Ward 2 so that slowed
them down significantly. Thank you.
Alderman Comeau
Thank you Madam President. I'll be brief. | just wanted to echo some of the comments from Alderman Thibeault from a
moment ago. South had senior night last week for the wrestling team. They had 5 seniors that the wrestling team was
sending off and there were a couple of instances where it was a — we ended getting them all in but it was hard to get all
the families in to see their senior on senior night because of the capacity limits. | would love to see that go away a well.
It’s tough when we see much larger crowds in other places to justify why they can’t come into the South gymnasium. I'd
also love to see possibly the athletes being allowed to remove them for competition like we can at gyms and other places
if they have to wear them on the benches and spectators have to wear them. | can understand that but it’s tough to see
wrestlers and (inaudible) basketball players trying to run up and down the court in a mask.
Regarding the streets, | got a lot of comments and questions from constituents about why the city is not salting. | tried to
explain to them that when the forecast is ice, and sleet, and freezing rain, salt washes off the roads. It’s not that they’re
being ignored. It’s the storm that we had last week was particularly troublesome.
Lastly, | would like to see in the future — | don’t Know procedurally whether it would be proper or not — but if we’re going to
discuss a member of the public, | think we should probably move to a nonpublic session just to respect people’s privacy.
We've done it before for other people. | would think that that should be something that we consider especially if we’re
going to be discussing a member of the public in a negative light. I’d like to see that done in nonpublic next time. That’s
alll have. Thank you.
Alderwoman Kelly
| don’t want to be redundant. Everyone has pretty much said what | was going to say but | just wanted to echo the
comments around DPW and how hard they work during the storms. We've done a lot of work in terms of making sure that
they have what they need and they’ve implemented things like doing pre-salts, brining and | think that’s done a
tremendous job but just some of these storms are ongoing and long. | live on a 10 person cul-de-sac so | know what it’s
like to feel like you want to get out there but we do live in New England so | appreciate all their hard work.
Alderman Clemons
Thank you Madam President. So | wanted to mention the news that | think most of us know of the departure of Paul Shea
from Great American Downtown. | know Paul from actually before he was involved with that when he was a nurse at
Lowell General and | think he’s going back to that career. | wanted to thank him for all of his service that he has done for
Nashua. Nashua Downtown when | became an Alderman in 2008, it was a lot different than what it is now. We didn't
have a lot of the festivals and a lot of the activities that went on. There were not as nearly as many restaurants or stores
as there is now. A lot of that success has to do directly with Paul Shea and just the energy, and the effort that he put in,
and his creativity and forward thinking. He did it with a very small budget too. The city owes him a lot of debt and
gratitude and | just wanted to mention that. Tell him thank you for all of the service that he’s given this city and wish him
well in the future. Thank you.
Alderman Jette
Thank you Madam President. | want to thank my fellow Aldermen for voting for Resolution 22-002. It’s a small amount of
money that was allocated to pay for spraying services at the Joyce Park. | don’t think a lot of people know about Joyce
Park but Salmon Brook after it crosses under Main Street and under the Market Place Plaza comes out behind Hunt
Community, crosses Allds Street, and then makes it way out to the Merrimack River. That area from Allds Street kind of
east of Fifield Street along the brook on both sides of the brook all the way to the area that we just sold at the end of
Burke Street that the property that we own. It used to be part of Improved Machinery/Ingersoll Rand and owned by the
city for a short period of time. Now we've sold it but the brook ends up in a pond right in that area. Then it goes
underneath that area out and makes it way to the Merrimack River. So that area is a conservation property under the
management of the Conservation Commission. This summer we had a contract with a student conservation group that
went in and re-established the trail along the brook. There is some stairs that go down from Ingalls Street down to the
level of the brook and makes its way along the brook. It’s a very beautiful area. Poison Ivy have grown in there so it was
kind of dangerous for people to go there. Part of this project the Conservation Commission hired a company to spray to
get rid of the Poison Ivy. This amount of money that you approved tonight was the spraying job ended up being more
than they anticipated so they had to throw in a few extra dollars to do the project. That area is a jewel in the city that a lot
