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Board of Aldermen 3-10-2020 Page 15
O-20-005, Amended
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
RELATIVE TO TITLES OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS TO AMEND O-20-005 BY REPLACING IT WITHTH EPROPOSED
GOLDEN ROD AMENDMENT MADE AT THE PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Clemons

Thank you. | would move to amend Ordinance 20-005 by replacing it with the proposed Golden Rod
amendment made at the Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS TO AMEND O-20-005 WITH THE GOLDEN ROD COPY

ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Clemons

The amendment that was made at the Committee strikes the last sentence of this which is “whenever
possible Members of the Board of Aldermen will be known collectively as Alderpersons”. So instead the
Ordinance would just read, “Members of the Board of Aldermen may choose to be referred to as Alderman,
Alderwoman, or Alderperson.

President Wilshire

Further discussion on the amendment.

Alderman Lopez

Couldn’t we just collectively all ourselves “The Board’ as well?

Unidentified Speaker

There are other boards.

Alderman Lopez

That was my comment.

Alderwoman Kelly

Is that a motion? That was actually going to be my comment too, either “The Board” or “Alderboard”. We
were careful about titles so that it still worked, but since | have the floor | will quickly say what | was going to
say as well. | thought a lot about this after the meeting, this was talked about a lot as well, it does not
harm, it does no harm, we are doing it now. The only thing that it does it opens it up and it allows people
who might feel that they are not included to feel included. So we are clearly stating it.

Alderman Dowd

| think that discussion was not involving the amendment, it was the full motion.

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Alderwoman Kelly

Sorry | thought we already moved on.

Alderman Dowd

So | just wanted to point that out. We haven’t voted on the amendment.

President Wilshire

Further discussion on the amendment?

MOTION CARRIED

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-20-005 AS AMENDED
ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Clemons

Thank you. | brought this forward to really start a discussion in this City about what we can do to start
making things more equal. As my colleague has stated before me, this is really something that is pretty
simple for us to be able to do. It just gives the individual the opportunity to be referred to as something that
they deem to be respectful. Unfortunately, you know, our State Law does not allow us to have a Charter
change to become a City Council because we have a strong form of government in so far as the Mayor is
concerned. | believe in that government, | don’t propose changing that government. What! would hope is
that some of the folks around this horseshoe can work to try to allow the State to differentiate between a
City Council that is a weak City Council and a City Council that is a strong City Council and simply have us
change the title. Since that was not able to be done, this is the furthest that | believe we can go. And |
think we should do it. So with that, obviously | will be supporting this.

Alderman Klee

| agree with a couple of statements. We do currently call ourselves Aldermen and Alderwomen,, if it was
someone who was binary, | would hope we would all accept Alderperson. Having said that, | don’t see the
harm in putting this in writing and making it official so if someone would feel welcome ... | don’t have a
problem with that. I’m glad that it was struck where it said “whenever possible the Board of Alderperson”
because | think that kind of leaves a gray area. | disagree with this being a prime example of political
correctness, | think we do want to be all inclusive. And | think we do make a statement, because we do
have Alderwomen here tonight that prefer to be called Alderman. So | think we allow ourselves to choose
what we want but this would make it official. But an aside, | spoke to the Deputy Secretary of State
because one of the conversations that came up was our ballot, it says “Alderman” is that going to be
confusing? He said, as long we leave as Aldermen there is no issue. He also said that there was not going
to be a problem if we decided to be the Board of Alderpersons, he said he felt it would be confusing but we
could do it and that wouldn’t require a Charter change but anything else would. | am going to support this, |
don’t think it is necessary but | do think if it makes people feel that they would be more welcome, | will
support that. But | think we are already doing it.

Alderman Schmidt

Thank you, | too did a little research up in Concord and | found out that in 2008, | think, that they changed
the low to allow Selectman as government of towns were allowed to change it so that they were
selectwoman, selectperson. So they didn’t change the name of the Board itself, but they just simply
allowed it.

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So it is passed into law, why they didn’t do the Board of Aldermen at the same time, | have no idea but we
can certainly do this. We can take care of this next year. So | see absolutely no problem with this, in
preparation for the change that we see coming. | will vote yes.

Alderman Dowd

| don’t have any ... two years ago when people wanted to be called Alderwoman, | had no problem
changing that, making the name tags and | have under the circumstances, calling someone an
Alderperson. | just don’t think we need Legislation to do it, because if you have Legislation and somebody
slips are they breaking the law? | think that in another two years somebody can come on and change it. |
think we have more Legislation already that we don’t need. So | think if the Board is amendable we use
those titles for anybody that wants them on their tag, that’s fine. | just don’t think we need the Legislation.

Alderman Clemons

Thank you. The reason that we need the Legislation is because we have people in our community who
have served in this position before, attacking this very Legislation. And if people of that mind were to get
elected to this Board simultaneously with somebody who would prefer to be called an “Alderperson”,
passing this now would require them to go through the rigmarole of rescinding the Ordinance, which would
be embarrassing for them. So that’s why it is important that we pass this now. Because if a future Board
decides that this is too politically correct for them, they can be more than happy to submit Legislation to
rescind the Ordinance but they would have to go through that process and the public would be made aware
of it. And so that’s why it is important that we pass this tonight.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you. | think it was Shakespeare who said, “a rose by any other name would still be a rose”. And the
thing is, when you come down to it, what are we really doing here? We are changing a name, OK? So up
at the State House we had a really big issue. What the big issue is what do people really want to call
themselves. So when it came down to licenses, now when you do your driver’s license, you have to clarify
your sex. You could either be a male or female, were the traditional choices. But we, in my Committee,
approved a non-binary that you could be X if you so choose, OK? That was doing something. Changing
the name is not doing much. Coming out with a statement from this particular Board that says, “We as
Aldermen do not support any discrimination based on race, color, sex, or creed or sexual orientation” that
would be making a statement, not changing a name. | am not going to support this because it’s just a
name change. But! would definitely support and | throw myself right behind trying to, | don’t care what
people call, but let’s be unified as a Board and say we are a welcoming City and we want to support that
everybody from all walks in the City, feel welcome to serve on this Board, regardless of what your title — the
title means nothing. Again a rose is just a rose by any other name. When you come here non-
discriminatory.

Alderwoman Kelly

Thank you. So! am going to start by clarifying one thing. There was a comment that there was in
discussion at the Committee that we wanted it to be City Council and we realized that was how it was set
up at the State, it’s not feasible. There was discussion that City Councilor is non-gender specific and |
really appreciate that from that perspective but also because people know what a City Councilor is. | tell
people I’m an Alderman or Alderwoman and people’s eyes glaze over. | think they pointed out that two
cities in the whole State are Board of Aldermen.

| appreciate the perspectives of everyone on this Board. But! would like to remind people that the Board
didn’t always look like this. One of the things | talk about when | talk about our Board is how proud | am
that we are a true representation of our City; we have 7 women. We have 4 or 5 people under age 40; we
have 2 people of color.

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The Board didn’t always look like this and there is a reason why my sign says Alderwoman. Because if
there’s a little girl in Nashua who wants to be on our Board, | want her to know that she can be. So it’s not
just a name change.

Alderman Lopez

While | understand and appreciate the eloquence of Alderman Mc’Brien’s comments regarding names, |
think they do make a difference. | know we’ve already had a debate and half of us were on the Board when
we decided whether or not to remove the word “man” from the end of “chair’ on the Committee roles. And
the apparently persuasive argument was that if we lose the word “man” from it, people might think we are
talking about furniture in the minutes. | think whatever gymnastics we go through to justify continuing to do
things the way they always are, flies in the face of progress. | think this does no harm, it just enables and
empowers somebody to feel a little bit more welcome. And | would argue that if it makes someone feel
more welcome than it is needed. To Alderman Clemons’ point, we do set up a standard and a precedent
for future Boards, and they do have the authority to remove it if they feel passionately enough and if they
can persuade their fellow Board members to do so, then they can do so. But that would be a very intrusive
argument. And | hate to say it, but | think this is a pretty intrusive argument for people who are non-binary
or not of equal gender privilege because we are talking about their right to be called what they want to be
called, a right that many of us have already and they don’t. | mean | agree with Alderman O’Brien and |
was kind of poking fun when | called him “McBrien” before, but | do think we should make a statement of
equality; but at the same time | do think people can be very sensitive to names and how they are
presented. Given that the word “alder” means older, | would just argue that anybody who thinks there is no
sensitive issue here, would you prefer to be called “senior” or “elder”.

Alderman Tencza

So | may be the fifth person that Alderwoman Kelly referred to as being under 40 for a couple more months.
You know, | did a little research too just to see around the country who else or where else the Board of
Alderpersons is found. And where | found the areas where this is used in the Midwest, do not strike me as
being you know in a progressive period or that it used in a way that’s meant to be anything other than
respectful to the people who are serving on the Board. Just a quick Google search shows that Burnsville,
Missouri, Crystal Lake, Missouri, a number of towns in Wisconsin, all refer to their Board as either
Alderpersons or the Board of Alderpersons. So | think this is kind of bringing us up with the times. And as
Alderwoman Kelly stated before and Alderman Clemons stated, it makes it more inclusive for anyone who
wants to think about serving on the Board.

Alderman Laws

So there is nothing that | can contribute that is as eloquent or well said as some of my colleagues here. But
just simply, the reason | am going to support this is that for the people that it is important to, it is part of their
identity. And for the people who are against this it is just a matter of their personal opinion. And for me,
when you weigh those two things out, you want to support the person. You want to support someone’s
identity, more than you want to support someone’s opinion. So thank you.

Alderman Jette

So as someone who is neither under 40 nor a woman, | still feel part of this Board. You know | kind of,
since I’m not a woman, although | am a person, but you know right now we allow people to be referred to
as Alderman or Alderwoman, and | am sure that is someone wanted to be called Alderperson we would
allow that also. You know, | agree with whoever said that this this Legislation | don’t think is really
necessary but | am going to support it because this is what we are doing now and | am sensitive to the
people who feel that it is necessary to do so. But! also share Alderman Kelly’s observation that people
who aren’t from Nashua, even people who are from Nashua, have trouble understanding what an Alderman
means, what it is.

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| Know when | ran for Alderman and | told people | was running for Alderman, they looked at me quizzically,
not knowing exactly what that job was. The way | explained it was, “it’s really like being a member of a City
Council’. So | would support efforts to move us in that direction. | know that we can’t do it by ourselves, that
we have to get the Legislature to assist us in moving in that direction, but | would support that. But | will
also support this Ordinance.

Alderman Harriott-Gathright

Initially | was not in favor of it, | like the idea that he did remove the last part of it. But! think back to when |
came to the Board and Brian was here. And | remember he went around and he asked each one of us
what we would choose and some said “Alderman” and some said “Alderwoman”. But what | liked was the
fact that he as the Chairperson or the President, you know, really took the time to talk to us about what we
wanted. It wasn’t a male telling us about these things, he was asking what or how did you feel about it. For
example, when | ran, | ran to serve on the Board of Aldermen and that’s the way my conversation was with
people that | am running for the Board of Aldermen to serve on that Board. So | never had a problem with
whether it was Alderwoman or Aldermale, or whatever. | went pretty much by what was in the books. And
it never bothered me because | knew who | was. As far as the little girls out there, they know who each one
of us are without a doubt in their mind. They don’t need to be, a name is definitely going to tell them it’s
(inaudible) but | will support it. But | really didn’t think we need Legislation for that because | think that
everyone on this Board would never have a problem of someone being called Alderperson just as we didn’t
have a problem with people who wanted to be called Alderwoman.

Alderman Dowd

Again, | really don’t think we need Legislation to do this and we could very easily call people like we did
with Alderwoman. But because of the feelings associated behind the movement of to be all inclusive and
because | do support the fact that if they want to be called Alderwoman or Alderperson, | didn’t have a
problem with that, | just didn’t think we needed the Legislation. But |! will support the Legislation.
President Wilshire

So | just want to chime in on this, as Alderwoman Kelly did say, that this Board hasn’t always looked this

way. | mean one term | was the only woman on the Board. And it was all middle aged and older white
males.

Alderman Lopez

Alderbro’s?

President Wilshire

Alderbros. They weren’t really bro’s though. And | appreciate this coming forward. Does it need
Legislation? Maybe not, but | am going to support it. | think it’s a good idea, | think we should move
forward with this. But | have to say that this Board did not always look like this and | am very happy that it
does right now.

Alderman O’Brien

Yes being definitely afraid of sensitivity training, | think I'll change my vote. It’s come to that now.
Alderwoman Lu

| just wanted to, a couple things, | feel as though | never had any thought that | couldn’t be Alderwoman, it

never occurred to me. It only gave me the impression that it was a surprise and | guess | feel as though
since already its in effect and taking place and | guess | kind of sense that we don’t enact Ordinances

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unless there’s a need. I’m under the impression that’s a no, an overriding idea. But | don’t see a problem, |
mean, | do think it should be somewhere a little bit different in the code because | don’t understand how
putting it in with Legislative assistant makes it easy to reference. | looked, it’s 10.2 right, Section Five, 10.2
and that references legislative assistant | think. So | think 15 or 14 would make more sense. That's all.
Alderman Clemons

You’d have to talk to Corporation Counsel.

Attorney Bolton

Is there a question?

President Wilshire

Is there a question?

Alderwoman Lu

If you wanted to be, | don’t know, if you want it to be visible or final or at least don’t tuck into Legislative
Assistant information.

Alderman Clemons

I’m not sure | understand because it says it’s in the Chapter that pertains to the Board of Aldermen, Article
Il General Provisions. So it’s just a provision of the Board.

President Wilshire
Are you all set Alderwoman Lu?
Alderwoman Lu
I’m fine.
President Wilshire
OK so the motion before us is for final passage of Ordinance 20-005 as amended.
MOTION CARRIED
Ordinance O-20-005 as amended is declared duly adopted.
O-20-007
Endorsers: Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderwoman Linda Harriott-Gathright
REMOVING THE HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACE IN FRONT OF 7-9 LEMON STREET

Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN KLEE FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-20-007

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ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Klee

May | speak to it? The reason that | brought this forward was because there was a handicap parking space
that has not been used for a very long time. Parking went and checked to make sure that this was, in fact,
that the neighbors aren’t able to use this parking space because it doesn’t have a handicapped person
there that it had been awarded for. This was kind of the concern that | had when | asked for another place
to get a handicap parking space is because when they no longer need it, we have no way of knowing. And
| keep bringing this forward and we do have to something on it, finding a way of being able to put a sunset
on it, these type of legislation or that every year they have to come in and re-app for it or make it a sunset
for one year or something. But anyways, in light of that, that we don’t have that, | am asking to remove the
handicap parking space in front of 7 — 9 Lemon Street

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you. As the Chairman of Infrastructure, I’d like to thank Alderman Klee for mentioning that.
Throughout the City and it’s going to really depend upon the good people if they see it, such as is the
situation where there may have been a disabled child and that sign went up in the neighborhood and now
the child has moved out of the City and has children of their own. The sign is still there. There is no real
record right now. | mean perhaps maybe we should have, as was suggested, a sunset clause to visit it, but
it would take somebody to do that and right now it doesn’t exist. So | am going to rely and make the public
service announcement to the good people out there, if you see an old sign that is no longer germane to the
situation that it was well intended to be put up to please call the Public Works Department. | think that’s a
good start right there and we can start taking some of these down. Then it might increase the effectiveness
for the ones we do need.

Alderman Lopez

| guess just a question to Alderman O’Brien, wouldn’t this be something we could ask the Parking Study to
do while they are studying parking? | assumed they were going to do an inventory of parking spaces?

Alderman O’Brien

| can’t tell you, without seeing a complete parameters, but | think we could bring this up, but | think it can be
done. | will see if we can definitely work towards that goal.

Alderman Lopez

If you would prefer | could represent Alderman O’Brien on March 17".
Alderman O’Brien

| unfortunately had to cancel one cultural event to attend the meeting.
MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-20-007 is declared duly adopted.

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NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-20-018
Endorser:

Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman Tom Lopez

Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt

Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire

RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $25,000 FROM DEPARTMENT 194 “CONTINGENCY”,
ACCOUNT 70100 “GENERAL CONTINGENCY” TO DEPARTMENT 109 “CIVIC & COMMUNITY
ACTIVITIES”, ACCOUNTING CLASSIFICATION 56 “OUTSIDE AGENCIES” FOR THE PURPOSE
OF PROVIDING FUNDING TO THE NASHUA ASSOCIATION FOR THE ELDERLY

Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President Wilshire

R-20-019
Endorser:

Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman Tom Lopez

Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire

AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NASHUA TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH NASHUA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE, RIVIER UNIVERSITY, TOWN OF HUDSON, TOWN OF MERRIMACK
AND THE PLUS COMPANY FOR TRANSIT SERVICES

Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President Wilshire

R-20-020
Endorser:

Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee

Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman June M. Caron

Alderman Tom Lopez

Alderman Jan Schmidt

Alderman Skip Cleaver

Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright

RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $69,566 FROM THE STATE OF
NEW HAMPSHIRE, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION INTO TRANSIT GRANT ACTIVITY
“FEDERAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY (“FTA”) OPERATING GRANT”

Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President Wilshire

Board of Aldermen 3-10-2020 Page 23

R-20-021
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
ESTABLISHING AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STUDY COMMITTEE
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by
President Wilshire

President Wilshire

| am going to suspend the rules to allow for a second reading of Resolution 20-022. As the Mayor
indicated, this money is much needed for preventing, hopefully, some of the coronavirus spread that might
go through the City.

President Wilshire suspended the rules for a second reading of R-20-002.

Second Reading of R-20-022
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $50,000 FROM DEPARTMENT 194 “CONTINGENCY”,
ACCOUNT 70100 “GENERAL CONTINGENCY” INTO FUND 6500 “PROPERTY AND CASUALTY
FUND”, ACCOUNT 68360 “LOSS PREVENTION”

President Wilshire
Do | have a motion?

Alderman Lopez

| was going to ask should vote on that or is it implied because of “without objection” | think we should
probably vote on it. Suspending the rules to allow for a second reading?

President Wilshire

So “without objection” no one objected.
Alderman Lopez

OK.

Alderman Jette

Point or order. Did you mean to have a second reading of O-22 or were you talking about suspending the
rules to allow the introduction of 0-23?

CONTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

TITLE
A CONTRACT BETWEEN
THE CITY OF NASHUA, 229 MAIN STREET, CITY HALL, NASHUA, NH 03060
AND

McFarland-Johnson
and its successors, transferees and assignees (together “Professional Consultant”)
NAME AND TITLE OF PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANT

53 Regional Drive, Concord, NH 03301-8500
ADDRESS OF PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANT

WHEREAS, the City of Nashua, a political subdivision of the State of New Hampshire, from time
to time requires the services of a Professional Consultant; and

WHEREAS, it is deemed that the services of a Professional Consultant herein specified are both
necessary and desirable and in the best interests of the City of Nashua; and

WHEREAS, Professional Consultant represents they are duly qualified, equipped, staffed, ready,
willing and able to perform and render the services hereinafter described;

Now, THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements herein made, the parties mutually agree as
follows:

1. DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED. The following exhibits are by this reference incorporated herein and
are made part of this contract:

Exhibit A — General Conditions for Contracts
Exhibit B — Scope of Work and Task Descriptions
Exhibit C — McFarland-Johnson Team Fee Detail
Exhibit D — RFQ0274-051917

The Contract represents the entire and integrated agreement between the parties and supersedes prior
negotiations, proposals, representations or agreements, either written or oral. Any other documents which
are not listed in this Article are not part of the Contract.

In the event of a conflict between the terms of the Proposal and the terms of this Agreement, a written
change order and/or fully executed City of Nashua Purchase Order, the terms of this Agreement, the
written change order or the fully executed City of Nashua Purchase Order shall control over the terms of
the Proposal.

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