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RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR

President Wilshire
Thank you Mayor. OK responses to remarks by the Mayor.
Alderman Jette

| would just like to point out that you are having your meeting in Ward 5. | just wanted to welcome everyone to
Ward 5.

President Wilshire

It’s a pleasure to be in Ward 5, Alderman Jette.

Alderman Lopez

| just want to point out that you usually have your meetings in Ward 4.

President Wilshire

I’d just like to echo the comments that the Mayor made about the City Clerk and her staff and the phenomenal
job they did yesterday. | can’t say enough about how hard those Ward workers work and the City Clerk staff
worked, yeoman’s work. They are there 24 hours, not most of them but some 18 hour days, | mean that’s a

long day. People, they show up, and they do the work, it is really awesome. So thank you Madam Clerk.

RECOGNITION PERIOD - None

READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen
meetings of January 27, 2020, January 28, 2020, and February 6, 2020 accepted, placed on file, and
the reading suspended.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From: Mary Greene, Hunt Legacy Trustee
Re: Request for a Joint Convention to Nominate Trustee

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

From: Jane Hanle-Olsson, Ira F. Harris Lecture Trustee
Re: Reappointment of Judith Cudhea

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

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President Wilshire

We have 9 people signed up to speak and we do have a 15-minute public comment period. | know a lot of
people spoke at the Public Hearing so if you could keep your comments so that other people have an
opportunity that haven’t spoken. Please give your name and address for the record please?

Jay Brooks 55 Lake Street, and | am the owner of the one of our local businesses and | believe that the
Performing Arts Center is something that we do need for our City. | believe that will help not only my
business, but our children’s and basically turn this into a City that people want to come to, to come to our
downtown. Our downtown needs work. If you are going to compete with Manchester, if we are going to
compete with Boston, if we are going to bring cultural aspects into our City, we need to have a place to do
those things. The Performing Arts Center is one of those places to do that. So | don’t have a lot more to
say other than, thank you very much.

Deb Novotny 65 McKenna Drive, I’m here on behalf of the Capital Campaign Committee | am in support of
the amendment we heard at the Budget Committee. This extra time will give us the extra time to obtain our
goal. Thank you.

Karen Bill Hi Karen Bill, Nashua, New Hampshire, 95 Parnell Place. | am not a business that is going to
benefit from the Arts Center, I’m not a restaurant that is going to benefit from the Arts Center. | have no
stake in downtown and | have no stake in the Arts Center bringing any revenue into my pocket whatsoever.
It Kind of made me wonder since the last meeting about the monetary benefit that the establishment that’s
running or who is set to be hired to run the event center what they bring or what Nashua gets out of it. |
don’t know what Nashua as a town gets out of it, what benefits, monetary benefits. | know that that building
brought in $47,000.00 worth of taxes per year in 2012 and in 2017, $50,000.00 worth of taxes. So that’s
$100,000.00 lost in the last two years and again the next two years going forward, so that’s $200,000.00 of
tax money that we are not getting.

| assume that since it will be a non-profit that we will get zero tax dollars going forward, correct me if I’m
wrong. Also, | was looking at the Tupelo Center. The Tupelo Music Hall in Derry now, it was in
Londonderry, it was born in 2004 with 200 seats. It took them 13 years until 2017 to move venue location
and have it be a 700 seat arena, 13 years of growth. So although the plan for the Performing Center calls
for an increase from 500 to 750 seats, you can say we are going to put 2,000 seats in some place, but it
doesn’t means you are going to have butts in those seats. And when it all comes down to it, it’s butts in
seats because that’s dollars in the kitty, ok?

So | know that there is a recommendation to go forward with this, | am not in favor of the recommendation; |
thin that the promises have not been kept from the original vote that the voters of this City entrusted the
people to do. The costs have gone up, they are going to go up more, mark my word they will go up more.
Because it’s a year and a half out. So | am very concerned that the $15.5 bond, somewhere along the line,
| mean if in your decision-making process you go forward with this that there is a — you know — you can’t
just keep, again, extending and you know extending the deadline or extending a monetary amount because
it would be wrong to those voters that voted for it. Remember 155 people more voted for it but remember
again as | mentioned last week 551 people did not even answer the question which begs the ... you have
to wonder why. | have the actual ballot with me. The question is this long. So you have to wonder why
551 people didn’t even vote for it if they were confused or just didn’t want it. But | am not in favor of moving
forward and if you do, please keep in mind all these statistics that | have brought to your attention. Thank
you very much.

Mary Theresa Freund My name is Mary Theresa Freund, 3 Masefield Road in Nashua. A Performing Arts
Center would not only be a cultural boon for the City but would be a source of revenue for local businesses
who in turn I’m supposing would pay more in taxes. Whenever Great American Downtown sponsors a
cultural event, there is an influx of visitors from surrounding communities; from paid events like Taste of
Downtown to free events like the Nu Muse. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the winter like the Holiday Stroll or
temperate seasons like the Nu Muse, the Roots Festival.

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For practical reasons, however, very few events are held in the colder seasons. The Performing Arts
Center would be a venue to attract local and not-so-local patrons in all seasons benefiting Nashua
Restaurants and Shops.

While Nashua is a town with many advantages, one think we lack is a regionally recognized Performing
Arts Center which could attract both local performers and bigger names. My family personally travels to
Boston, Lowell, Worcester, Hampton Beach, Concord, NH, Littleton, Massachusetts and even Porchester,
New York to attend music performances and cultural events. Even many smaller towns in our area and our
State have public or private cultural centers like just mentioned Tupelos in Derry, Bull Run in Shirley,
Massachusetts and the Monadnock Center in Peterboro. These venues draw audiences from local and
distant areas and shows are routinely sold out. | was recently at a concert at Tupelos and spoke to a
woman who drove up from Beverly, Massachusetts which was over an hour away from Derry and that’s
when it is not rush hour.

Nashua is strategically placed so a Performing Arts Center here will surely be successful. | for one would
appreciate not having to drive to the Capital Center for the Arts or into Boston. A Nashua Performing Arts
Center will be a source of pride as well as a source of revenue for our community. It is my understanding
that the architectural plans have already been drawn up and a significant portion of the required private
fund for this project have been raised, including a recent $250,000.00 pledge from Bank of America.
Please not let the Performing Arts Center so far along in its planning and supported by so many people,
crash and fall. Please vote to approve the 18 month extension of the deadline for private fundraising.

The next phase of the fundraising from small business owners and the public has not even yet begun.
Thank you for your opportunity to speak.

Michael O’Connor Yeah Good Evening, Michael O’Connor, 42 Berkeley Street, in Ward 3. | unfortunately
could not attend the Hearing the other day but | am here also speaking as this lady against the approval of
the amendment. My reason, it is mixed feelings, | also enjoy Arts, I’ve been to many of the places that the
lady just mentioned. | just think the issues to me are basically affordability, the fact that you know as the
Mayor said, and I’m taking an excerpt from the minutes back in February 13, 2018, “the voters voted on the
version that is before you. There are many ways that we can raise funds towards the project. | think we
should just vote on the version of the Resolution that we put to the voters and which they approved”.

| don’t Know these individuals, but when | was reading through the minutes, it was a very lengthy
presentation by Tyler Gouveia, | may not be presenting the name correct, a 19 year old college student
who went through his projections on the financing. Some pretty strong arguments were in there. Dick
lannacone, who said it was contingent on raising the $4 million. In those same minutes, Alderman Klee, my
Alderman from Ward, she talked about driving many people crazy including today. | visited a few people,
asking questions, I’ve gone all the way up to Manchester and spoke with Mr. Ramsey to get questions
answered about fundraising and how it affects the community.

Alderman Caron said one of the reasons that she was going to support it was the stipulation in there that
the $4 million had to come from the private sector before we put nail to hammer, to wood. So there seems
to be, | think, an understanding for most of the — | shouldn’t say “most” | will anecdotally | talked to a lot of
you know tax payers here and there seems to be concern that you are really going against what was voted
on several years ago.

On the website | will draw your attention to something | realize this in the Capital Campaign Feasibility
Study, that was presented by Betsy McNamara back in September 2018 and where they were looking at,
and of course these are just excerpts, but reasons for the opposition to the project which she boiled down
into terms of concerns about the project. Two themes rose immediately to the top during the interview
process. There is a deep distrust of the City’s ability to manage this project and this has to be done right or
it will fail.

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So it’s quite a lengthy presentation but there’s a lot of concerns. | think people are just basically concerned
about the runaway costs and | think again it somewhat of a trust that you had to meet that deadline, sort of
a sunset deadline of 2 years. You didn’t meet it and | think there’s a very strong message in that. So |
think you are really kind of ignoring the will of the voters on this one. And | think you should really take that
into consideration on your vote tonight.

Rich Lannan Good evening, Rich Lannan, 11 McGrath Road in Pelham, with offices here in Nashua. As
the Mayor said, | am going to try to be brief. | have a couple different topics because | spoke a couple times
last week and | won’t be repetitive. | think one of the things that | hear in social media is about how this is
really about downtown Nashua and that’s the only benefactors. There has been a lot of testimony from
different people and even in the study how that’s really not the case. How this is really a Performing Arts
Center, not just for downtown, but the City as a whole and the whole area.

And two quick examples that just happened; Deb Novotny and myself were very recently in Nashua at the
Milford Rotary at noon today at their weekly meeting. We were invited to go there because they were
interested in hearing about this Performing Arts Center. They had about maybe 40 or 50 people. Deb and
| both spoke, kind of an update, similar to what we did here a week ago, showed a form and asked
questions. They had some great questions. But while we were having lunch, Deb and | were having lunch
with a couple people and the conversation just was about, “yeah that would be great”. And Milford Rotary
is like Milford, Amherst, Mount Vernon, Wilton, sorry if | missed a town so it is from that area. And they
talked about you know sometimes they would come down to Nashua and hit you know MT’s, Martha’s,
whatever, but a lot of times people on their way will stop because those places might be busy the night
before a performance so they are still going to maybe eating in Milford. If you are coming from Hudson
maybe eat somewhere in Hudson. So it’s not just Nashua.

There was a lot of discussion about the fact about how the surrounding towns and Milford and was a very
positive, a lot of great questions and answers. We were literally approached by a couple people at the end
of the meeting who said, “We'd like to get together with you”. We don’t know if that means dollars and
cents, we hope so. But they wanted to know more about because | know one of them has a business in
Nashua but they are up in Milford. So it shows that even Rotary out of Nashua has an interest in this.
There was also talk about a lot of the donors, probably downtown businesses; well a lot of them are. But
as an example, and | know Deb at the last presentation talked about 30 plus lead donors. We are not just
talking downtown businesses; we literally — one of those 30 people is a restaurant on Daniel Webster
Highway and they really saw it and myself and another gentleman on our Committee met with them. One
meeting, a couple of follow up e-mails and they have committed to be a donor because they want their
name and be part of the building because they are part of Nashua even though they are very close to the
Massachusetts line and it is a national chain.

So it just shows that this is not just about downtown. And one last thing that kind of threw me back,
because | looked some minutes too. And a couple years ago, more than that, when we were talking about
this, we actually had 2 different gentlemen that came kind of unexpectedly to talk to the Board of Aldermen.
One was the head of the Currier Museum that has, there’s nothing in Nashua they are in Manchester and |
remember him quoting that they consider themselves the State Museum, they represent the whole State.
He talked a lot about the fact of how important this should be to Nashua. And Peter Ramsey, the Palace
Theater, who was mentioned a few minutes ago, he not only came and showed up, he talked passionately
and may look at him as a competitor but he talked passionately about if Nashua doesn’t do this, they are
missing out on maybe a once in a lifetime thing. I’m not quoting him but those are the words, and then he
invited about 8 of us and | believe 1 or 2 Aldermen that came. Alderman Klee came and there might have
been another Alderman that at the time came as well. He invited us to tour and brought us through and
told us, you know, “you guys shouldn’t do this” or maybe, “you should do this and think about this and that”.
He was giving us a lot of great ideas, volunteered, “Call me anytime, gave us his card”. And this is
somebody, they are more theater oriented obviously than we are, so itis a little different but it just shows
that people even outside the region that have no gain to this whatsoever can see.

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Even from Manchester and throughout the State and even a restaurant that is a very large regional
restaurant chain thinks this is great for Nashua. So I'd like you to consider that and we support obviously
what the Budget Committee recommendation is thank you.

Judith Carlson 15 Manchester Street, Ward 3. I’ve lived in Nashua since 1973 and brought my daughter
up here. And after working in high tech, advertising and public relations for a number of years, I’ve been
doing mostly volunteer work for the past 10 and been very involved in the Arts and in this project since it
started. But what | wanted to say today, is like some of the previous speakers, our family goes, my
husband and | go to Portsmouth a lot. We go to Portland, Maine. We go to a lot of entertainment in other
cities and since we are both of that age where we are supposed to be retired, we run into a lot of people
our age who have moved to Portland or to Portsmouth because from New York City and other large cities
because they love the idea that they are in a smaller city, very affordable with wonderful things to do and
good entertainment and excellent restaurants. And | think that is something that Nashua is going to see
that we have been talking about. It is not just that having the Performing Arts Center would be a boon for
recruiting workers, that we all Know as part of the whole economic development reason for doing this. But |
think there’s a lot of empty nesters and retired people who live in big cities who would love to come to
Nashua as Nashua evolves and the things we are doing on the waterfront as well as what we are doing
with the Performing Arts Center.

Then on a personal note, | said I’d brought my daughter up here in Nashua. She and her husband, her
husband is a Colonel in the Air Force, they’ve been traveling all over the world and they are in Belgium now
and he’s about to retire. They were thinking for a long of moving to Portsmouth, Portland, maybe even up
into one of the nicer cities in Vermont until they heard about this project. And they said, “wow, this coming
to Nashua, that’s going to make such a huge distance”. Now they are looking around and | would love to
have them come back home. Thank you.

Paul Shea Hi my name is Paul Shea, | live at 102 Toll Street, I’m a resident of Ward 3. | am also the
Executive Director for Great American Downtown. | just wanted to touch on the breadth of public support
for this project independent of the timeline that you are considering extending tonight. In 2017 when this
Ordinance was first considered, the timeline was not included. During that period of time, we did some
public outreach to determine the scope of support among people in the public and we had 510 commit and
sign their name up on-line that lived in Nashua or had a business in Nashua to reflect their support. 190 of
those people, because we wanted to ensure that we were showing authenticity in these as opposed to an
on-line thing which can be gamed, we had 190 people physically come to sign a notarized petitions and
their address was certified to indicate that they are a Nashua Resident or someone that was a business
owner.

We continue to support this project, we believe that there is a breadth of public support for the project
independent of the timeline. But we also recognize that having the timeline in place is a good thing and
now that we know what we know, extending the timeline is also a good thing. Thank you.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Awarding a Multi-Year Contract for Portable Toilets with United Site Services in the amount of
$32,140

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AWARD
THE CONTRACT FOR PORTABLE TOILETS TO UNITED SITE SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT OF
$32,140 BY ROLL CALL

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ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Lopez

Just a comment, we should vet some of these services. | know I’ve used United Site Services for a number
of events. I’ve also used other competing vendors and in the past United Site Services has not always
been the most cost effective one. However, they have a huge amount of heritage with our City, we’ve been
working with them; for a long time. So | don’t necessarily have an objection this year, but | would just say
we should probably look at that every now and then and make sure they are still the best vendor.

MOTION CARRIED

PETITIONS

A Petition for Street Discontinuance: A Portion of Palm Street

There being no objection, President Lori Wilshire accepted the Petition for Street Discontinuance,
referred it to the Committee on Infrastructure, the Nashua City Planning Board, the City Engineer,

and scheduled a public hearing for Wednesday, March 25, 2020 in the Auditorium at City Hall

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

Joint Convention with Hunt Legacy Trustees

There being no objection, President Lori Wilshire declared that the Board of Aldermen meet in joint

convention with the Hunt Legacy Trustees for the purpose of electing a trustee and called fora

nomination.

Trustee Mary Greene nominated Nadine Parker for a two-year term to expire on December 31, 2021

There being no objection, President Wilshire closed the nomination.

A viva voce roll call was taken on the appointment of Nadine Parker which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette,
Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws, Alderman Cleaver, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman
Wilshire, Trustee Mary Greene, Mayor Donchess

Yea: 17

Nay: 0

MOTION CARRIED

President Wilshire declared Nadine Parker duly appointed to the Hunt Legacy Trustees for a term to expire
December 31, 2021.

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared that the Joint Convention now arise.

Joint Convention with Ira F. Harris Lecture Trustees

There being no objection, President Lori Wilshire declared that the Board of Aldermen meet in joint

convention with the Ira F. Harris Lecture Trustees for the purpose of re-electing a trustee and called

for a nomination.

Trustee Jane Hanle-Olsson nominated Judith Cudhea for a two-year term to expire on December 31, 2021

There being no objection, President Wilshire closed the nomination.

A viva voce roll call was taken on the re-election of Jane Hanle-Olsson which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette,
Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws, Alderman Cleaver, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman
Wilshire, Trustee Mary Greene, Mayor Donchess

Yea: 17

Nay: 0

MOTION CARRIED

President Wilshire declared Judith Cudhea duly appointed to the Ira F. Harris Lecture Trustees for a term to
expire December 31, 2021.

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel.
There being no objection, President Wilshire declared that the Joint Convention now arise.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the January 22, 2020, Committee on
Infrastructure accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the February 3, 2020,
Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the February 5, 2020, Finance
Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the February 6, 2020, Budget Review
Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire suspended the rules to allow for the oral report of the
Human Affairs Committee meeting held Monday night regarding proposed Resolution R-20-005.

Alderwoman Kelly gave an oral report of the Human Affairs Committee meeting of February 10, 2020 with
respect to Resolution R-20-005.

Alderwoman Kelly

Thank you Madam President; so the Human Affairs Committee met on Monday evening. We heard from Mr.
Slottery regarding the 10 Paxton Terrace. It is a duplex that would be available to Veterans who are also
eligible from an income perspective based on the Habitat for Humanity Program. They can make that
accessible. In terms of the cost of the project, it is in line with projects that they have done in the past,
there’s a little bit extra in there because they have to bring the elevation But he did a wonderful job of
explaining what was going to happen there and obviously Habitat does a great for affordable housing in our
City.

President Wilshire
Thank you Alderwoman Kelly.

CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS

Animal and Dog Park Advisory Committee

There being no objection, President Wilshire confirmed the appointment of Megan Villacis,

76 Beauview Avenue, Nashua, to the Animal and Dog Park Advisory Committee with a term to
expire January 31, 2023.

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel.

Conservation Commission

There being no objection, President Wilshire confirmed the appointment of Joel Ackerman,

13 Woodcrest Drive, Nashua, to the Conservation Commission with a term to expire December 31,
2020.

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel.

Downtown Improvement Committee

There being no objection, President Wilshire confirmed the reappointments of the following to the
Downtown Improvement Committee: James Tobin, 36 Dogwood Drive, Nashua, with a term to
expire November 22, 2022; Edward Hayes, 137 Main Street, Nashua; Steve Saxe, 74 Musket Drive,
Nashua; and Amanda Schneck, 26 Chester Street, Nashua, with terms to expire December 31, 2022.

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel will be administered at a later date.

Exhibit A
NASHUA 16314 — East Hollis & Bridge Street Intersection Improvement Project
Scope of Work and Task Descriptions
Amendment 1
September 30, 2021

The objective of the East Hollis & Bridge Street Intersection Improvement Project in the City of
Nashua, New Hampshire is to improve mobility and access at this location that serves as a vital
link to the City’s downtown core and is a major commuter road for communities to the east. The
project area encompasses the intersection of Bridge Street and East Hollis Street between C
Street and the bridges over the Merrimack River.

The following scope of work outlines the tasks to be undertaken by McFarland-Johnson (MJ)
and its sub-consultants to advance the design of the preferred alternative to construction
documents and bidding. The project has been separated into four specific phases to take the
project from planning through to construction. Phase 1 was recently completed with Alternative
4 being selected as the recommended preferred alternative. This scope of services covers
Phase 2 - Preliminary Design, Phase 3 — Final Design, and Phase 4 — Bidding Services with the
details on the following pages. The estimated construction value for this project is
approximately 2.7 million dollars.

Phase 2 — Preliminary Design

2A Preliminary Plans and Estimate

2B Geotechnical Investigations

2C Environmental Documentation (NEPA Milestone)
2D Right-of-Way Plans

2E Public Involvement

2F Utility Coordination

2G _ Project Meetings

Phase 3 — Final Design

3A Environmental Permitting
3B -~ Plans, Specifications, and Estimate (PS&E)
3C_ Final Plans/Contract Documents
3D Steering Committee Meetings
3E Project Meetings
Phase 4 — Bidding Services
4A Bid Services

This scope of work assumes the preferred alternative is Alternative 4, which is attached for
reference.

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Historic District Commission

There being no objection, President Wilshire confirmed the reappointment of Mariellen MacKay,

9 Webster Street, Nashua, to the Historic District Commission with a term to expire December 371,
2020.

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel will be administered at a later date.

Nashua Housing and Redevelopment Authority

There being no objection, President Wilshire confirmed the reappointments of the following to the
Nashua Housing and Redevelopment Authority: James Tollner, 1 Sequoia Circle, Nashua, with a
term to expire October 14, 2021; and Eric Wilson, 60 Indian Rock Road, Nashua, with a term to
expire October 14, 2022.

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel will be administered at a later date.

Alderman Jette

Before we move on to Unfinished Business, | would like to move that the rules be suspended, there were
various communications that we sent to the Board of Aldermen by e-mail and | would move that they be
accepted and placed on file. They were both in favor and against the upcoming Resolution. | remember
Joseph Olefirowicz is the latest one that | saw but there were others before that.

President Wilshire

We don’t have those with us to accept and place on file, we can do that a later date, Aldermen Jette, but
there’s nothing here for us to accept.

Aldermen Jette

| thought we had talked about this before. When Communications are sent to the Full Board of Aldermen
by e-mail, that they somehow find their way into the record. | can’t remember what the issue was before,

one of the other Aldermen, | think it was Alderman Lopez that brought that up. So anything we can do to
correct that situation | would appreciate.

President Wilshire

We will thank you very much Alderman Jette.

Alderman Lopez

If | may add, just for posterity? None of the letters that were sent to the Board of Aldermen on the Smoking
Ordinance never did make it to the record.

Alderman Clemons

| will just say | think we should maybe and hopefully this will end the conversation tonight on this debate.
But maybe we can think about that and we can amend the agendas at a later Board of Aldermen and add
these things to where they are appropriate.

President Wilshire

Thank you.