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AMENDED AGENDA MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN FEBRUARY 8, 2022

7:30 PM Aldermanic Chamber and by Zoom

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1. PRESIDENT LORI WILSHIRE CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER

2. PRAYER OFFERED BY CITY CLERK SUSAN K. LOVERING

3. PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERWOMAN-AT-LARGE GLORIA TIMMONS
4. ROLL CALL

5. REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

6. RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR

7. RECOGNITIONS

8. READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

9. COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From: Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
Re: Communications Received from the Public

9(a). PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS
EVENING

9(b). COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Multi-Year Contract Award — Software Licensing: Benefits Administration

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: TIF Contract Award — Environmental Permitting for the Riverfront

PETITIONS
Petition for Authorization for Issuance of Building Permits for a Building on a Private Road - 19 Roby Street

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

Appointments by the Mayor
REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

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10. CONFIRMATION OF BOARD OF ALDERMEN AND MAYOR’S APPOINTMENTS

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-22-002
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Ernest A. Jette
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Alex Comeau
Alderman Tyler Gouveia
AUTHORIZING THE EXPENDITURE OF $1,810 FROM THE CONSERVATION FUND
e Budget Review Committee with recommendation for final passage

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-22-008
Endorser: Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
ESTABLISHING AN EXPENDABLE TRUST FUND FOR 14 COURT STREET EXPENSES, FUNDED BY
APPROPRIATIONS

R-22-009
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
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, 2022 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2026

R-22-010
Endorser: Alderman Richard A. Dowd
APPROVING THE COST ITEMS OF SIDEBAR AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE NASHUA BOARD OF
POLICE COMMISSIONERS AND THE FIVE NASHUA POLICE DEPARTMENT UNIONS REGARDING A
POLICE DEPARTMENT RECRUITING INCENTIVE

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-22-004
Endorser: Alderman Derek Thibeault
PROHIBITING A RIGHT TURN ON RED FROM ADVENTURE WAY ONTO DANIEL WEBSTER HIGHWAY

O-22-005
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
UPDATING THE FINANCIAL STANDARDS FOR THE CITY’S WELFARE GUIDELINES

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Committee announcements:

POSSIBLE NON-PUBLIC SESSION

ADJOURNMENT

Board of Aldermen

City of Nashua
229 Main Street
Nashua, NH 03061-2019

(603) 589-3030
TO: Board of Aldermen

FROM: Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
DATE: February 3, 2022

SUBJ: Communications Received from the Public

Attached please find communications received from the public as follows:

From: Jeff Locke
Re: eliminate mask mandate

From: Dana M. Correia
Re: mask ordinance

From: Julia Bartlett
Re: Main Street Barriers

From: Chris Thibodeau
Re: Mask mandates

From: Diane Lothrop
Re: Mask ordinance

From: Representative Jan Schmidt
Re: mask mandate

From: Edward Decatur
Re: Mask ordinance

From: Laura Telerski
Re: Support Mask Mandate

From: Cassie Plummer
Re: Public Input and Mask mandate

From: Tom Bulluck
Re: Mask Mandate

From: Chris Thibodeau
Re: mask mandate

From:

Re:

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Kathryn Peterson
No Mask ordinance

Lee Atkins
Mask Mandate

Mary Theresa
mask mandate

David Trow
Covid mask mandate

Tara Canaway
mask mandate

Fred S. Teeboom
HB1342

Graham, Donna

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From: Alderman Alex Comeau - Nashua Ward 6 Qian?

Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 3:59 PM

To: Graham, Donna

Subject: Fwd: Adobe Portfolio Contact Form Submission From ‘Let's Talk’ Page

CAUTION: This email came from outside of the organization. Do not click links/open attachments if source is
unknown,

Hi Donna,

Please add this to the packet.

Regards,

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Alderman Alex Comeau
Nashua, NH Ward 6
www.Comeau4Nashua.com

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From: Adobe Portfolio <noreply-behance@behance.com>

Date: Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 1:14 PM

Subject: Adobe Portfolio Contact Form Submission From ‘Let's Talk’ Page

To: info itr

Name:
Jeff Locke

Address:
120 Coliseum Ave, Nashua

Email Address:

Message:
Please eliminate the stupid mask mandate as your first order of business. Thanks

Submitted From:
https://comeau4nashua.com

If you believe this is spam, please avoid clicking links or replying with personal information.
Learn more about protecting yourself from scams here

Graham, Donna

From: Alderman Alex Comeau - Nashua Ward 6 Ges

Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 3:57 PM
To: Graham, Donna
Subject: Fwd: Adobe Portfolio Contact Form Submission From ‘Let's Talk’ Page

CAUTION: This email came from outside of the organization. Do not click links/open attachments if source is
unknown.

Hi Donna, please add to the packet if you can.

Regards,

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Alderman Alex Comeau
Nashua, NH Ward 6
www. Comeau4Nashua.com

From: Alex Comeau 4 ee

Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:27 AM Oe

Subject: Adobe Portfolio Contact Form Submission From 'Let's Talk’ Page
To: <alexcomeaualderman@gmail.com>

Name:
Dana M Correia

Address:
33 Donna Street

Email Address:

Message:
I love your positions on things and thank you for running. Please fight the Covid tyrrany. This
starts with resisting the mask ordinance. This was never about anyone's health.

Feel free to text or email if you'd like. I just wanted to pass that along and say keep up the good
fight!

Submitted From:
hitps://comeau4nashua.com

Graham, Donna

From: Julia

Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 12:44 PM
To: Wilshire, Lori; Graham, Donna
Cec: Cathey, Johnathan; Clemons, Benjamin; Comeau, Alexander, Dowd, Richard; Gouveia,

Tyler; Graham, Donna; Jette, Ernest; Kelly, Shoshanna; Klee, Patricia; Lopez, Thomas;
Moran, Melbourne; O'Brien, Michae! (Alderman); Sullivan, John; Thibeault, Derek;
Timmons, Gloria; Wilshire, Lori

Subject: Main Street Barriers

CAUTION: This email came from outside of the organization. Do not click links/open attachments if source is
unknown.

To the Nashua Board of Alderman:

Charron Medical Equipment is an essential business and has been on the frontlines of
the Covid19 pandemic. Our employees have worked through the worst of the
lockdowns. We were here on Main Street in 2020 when the barricades were installed to
help the restaurants reopen with expanded outdoor dining. We believed this was
important to get people back to work and to help restore our community with a small
amount of normalcy.

That was in 2020. Now comes 2021 with barricades again. We sincerely believe that
ALL businesses on Main Street should be permitted the opportunity to succeed and
thrive. That was not the case in 2021. Many of our customers are elderly or disabled
and had difficulty finding parking near our store because of the barricades on Main
Street. So, they chose not to come in for their much-needed medical equipment. This
has broad and deep implications for the health of our community.

Our employees travel to work from out of town and the elimination of two lanes means it
takes 2-3 times as long to travel Main Street getting to work. Our delivery truck must
plan extra time for the traffic on Main Street when there are just two lanes. The effect
has been fewer patients served because of the barricades.

Therefore, we DO NOT support the use of barricades for expanded outdoor dining. We
DO support outdoor dining and our local restaurant businesses. In fact, we support
them as customers; we are frequent patrons of all the restaurants on Main Street. But
even our staff has found that with the barricades it takes too long to order take-out from
a restaurant on the other side of Main Street. We cannot pick up the food and get back
to the south end of Main Street with enough time to eat.

The proposed ordinance will effectively cause economic hardship for certain businesses
on Main Street in favor of other businesses on Main Street. We think this is unfair and
wrong. The proposed ordinance will effectively support and promote customer activity
for some shoppers while impeding the ability of other customers (i.e., elderly and
disabled) from shopping on Main Street. We have seen this firsthand in our store during
2020 and 2021. We cannot tolerate another year of this unfair and unwarranted
preference for some businesses and customers over others.

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In 2022, Main Street should be open for business for all customers and all businesses;
Covid19 protective measures like mask wearing and social distancing can continue to
occur without the barricades on Main Street. Outdoor dining will continue to occur
without the barricades. We believe the overreaching ordinance for expanded outdoor
dining and barricades on Main Street should not be adopted because it is restrictive to
general commerce, discriminates against certain shoppers, and promotes economic
preference for some businesses over others.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. Please place this email/letter in the Next
Board of Aldermen Meeting Packet.

Sincerely,

Julia Bartlett, Treasurer
Charron Medical Equipment
222 Main Street, Nashua
603-889-7220

Sincerely,

Julia Bartlett, Treasurer

CHARRON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
222 Main Street

Nashua, NH 03060

(603) 889-7220

E: julia@charronmed.com

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11. Contractor shall maintain all records required under this Agreement for three years following
the termination of this Agreement, or until the conclusion of any audit or legal proceeding
regarding this Agreement, whichever is later.

12. Contractor shall design and implement internal controls to provide reasonable assurance of
compliance with contractual obligations, to safeguard assets of the Contractor and assets of the
City, and to ensure that processes and reports are in compliance with generally accepted
accounting principles. Such controls should be implemented in a cost effective manner.

C. Production Training and Programming

1. Contractor shall educate/train requesting individuals, institutions, non-profit and community
based organizations in the production of non-commercial television programs. To this end,
Contractor shall:

a.

b.

create and provide training curriculum for various levels of television production
proficiency;

make training available to financially and physically disadvantaged citizens, including the
use of fee discounts, if applicable;

enter industry and community awards competitions as appropriate and feasible.

further to the Contractor’s training activities, Contractor understands and agrees it is the
responsibility of the individual producers to use the training received to produce their own
programs, and although the Contractor provides training, the Contractor is not responsible
for providing technical assistance to individual third party producers in their actual
production of programming, as said producers will be responsible for generating their own
programming.

2. Curricula and other training programs and training activities mentioned above shall be
described in the annual Work Plan and identify measurable criteria that are agreed upon by the
parties and that insures the work in these areas meets or exceeds current standards and
practices generally accepted in the field of public access television.

3. Contractor Production of Programming

a.

In addition to training volunteer producers and members to produce their own public access
programming, the Contractor staff shall produce a reasonable amount of staff-produced
local programming about important Nashua events. The Contractor may exercise
reasonable judgement regarding the selection of material for Contractor coverage and/or
production, however, the Contractor shall develop criteria consistent with such
programming informing the Nashua community about matters relating to Nashua
community, historic and cultural events, Nashua organizations, businesses and individuals,
including but not limited to coverage of the following Nashua special events, subject to
availability of resources, such as:

Nashua Memorial Day Parade

Fourth of July
Summer Fun

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