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President Wilshire

The first person is Kathy Lodi. You have a three minute period. Would you please give your name and address for the
record when you begin. Thank you.

Kathy Lodi

My name is Kathy Lodi, 12 Bartlett Avenue. Good evening Mayor Donchess, President Wilshire, and the rest of the Board
of Aldermen. We've been here for weeks now in front of you talking about this resolution and how important it is to the
citizens in the city. We've been bullied and harassed and people have hurled the word “NIMBY” at us over and over again
like some sort of verbal dagger. | never heard the term before | moved here. My Alderman had to explain it to me and
even then | thought, shouldn't we all care what gets blown up or developed in our backyards? Again, against our green
space that we pay for? We're not here because we're against any kind of development. My husband and | are privileged
to have our own backyard space.

We're here for the people like | grew up in a mill town a few hours from here. People who live in apartments, and condos,
and duplexes that don't have a lot of green space and that need a place to escape once in a while. They need a place to
walk and clear their head. They need a place to get some physical activity. We want this resolution a favorable passage
of this resolution so that people like a 14 year old kid who just spent the entire day in school in a mask has a trail to walk
through between Manchester and Concord Street. When you encroach in this space, and develop up against it, and
blasted to smithereens, it does affect the park and it does affect the people who use it.

We'll never have this opportunity again. There aren't undeveloped parcels up against the park. This is it and for your last
meeting, you have this amazing opportunity to vote on this and see how you can add this 13 acre parcel to Greeley Park
to be used by all citizens, not just one neighborhood. When acreage is going to be a million dollars an acre very soon,
they're going to look like geniuses when this gets added to the park because you won't have the opportunity. Thank you
to those who have supported this resolution. Thank you to people like Matt Sullivan, and Tim Cummings, and all the
people who helped us understand really what some of the laws were around this. For those who've been opposed, thank
you for giving us the opportunity to talk over your concerns and talk about mitigating a lot of those concerns

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

Your time is up.

Kathy Lodi

| urge you to reconsider and vote yes, thank you.
Robert Lodi

Robert Lodi, 12 Bartlett Avenue. That's going to be a tough act to follow. Madam President, members of the Board of
Aldermen, Mayor, and other esteemed guests, thank you for the opportunity to come and speak with you today. I'm here
to speak in favor of you passing Resolution R-21-202 and R-21-203. This is a unique and singular opportunity that will
never present itself again. You're heard from Alderman Klee tell us the park was originally 160 acres. It's now 125. A
death of 1,000 cuts. We have an opportunity here once in a lifetime to expand the park by over 10% - a 13 acre addition
to the park. There is no other lot like this.

Now there's many reasons | can give you and you've heard them before on why this park is important, but it is an
economic engine for the city. People are drawn to it. Here it was and in one of them Money Magazine 2018 voted
Nashua the best place to live in New Hampshire. One of the reasons for that were recreation options. So people come
here for the recreation options. TripAdvisor lists Greeley Park is the number two thing to do in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Number two! You know what number one was? Mine Falls. So these outdoor things are things people see. TripAdvisor
and other websites like this, that's our welcome mat. This is what people look at when they're coming here. So this is a
singular opportunity. This is a great opportunity to do something that will echo down through history. You're not just
looking at the people that use the park today. Think over the next 125 years who will use that how valuable greenspace
will be as we continue to develop and grow the city.

And the last bit the wooded trail that was out there. You're heard former Marine Captain Mark Barrigan speak about how
he trained while he was an ROTC. This is an Iraqi War Veteran, a true war hero who grew up and lived in this
neighborhood and chose to return home to take care of his family, cares about this place, uses that park. Think about that
as you take the vote and for all of you even if you may be in opposition, | appreciate your dedication to the city and |

Cost Details

-- Year 1 ---
Rate
Item Name Hours Cost Notes
($/hour)
Project Manager Mike Hemeon** 35 570 |$ 15,000 Key personnel
Engagement Manager Bob Bartis* 45 1000 | $ 45,000 Sharescheduled ins
Technical Services Manager George Russell* 45 1000 | $ 45,000 studio presence
Studio Control Room and Camera Mike Hemeon Managers and staff
Operators Bob Bartis (not separately priced) will be trained on all
Field operations George Russell studio equipment.
Content Review Art Colvin 20 700 $ 14,000 studio presence
_ i Carolyn Choate 30 83 $ 2,500
Training and Training Manual Compliant with RFP
Gordon Jackson 30 83 $ 2,500
Corporate, Activity & Financial . :
Reporting Bob Bartis (not separately priced) Compliant with RFP
Financial Audit CPA -- $ 1,500 Compliant with RFP
ili Spex Oscar Villacis 20 455 $ 14,000
Bilingual and Diversity Services; Compliant with REP
Social Media, Public Hearing. Jasmine Torres Allen (not separately priced)
Policy and Procedures Manual. Bob Bartis (not separately priced) Compliant with RFP
(coordination with _ ‘ '
Annual Survey Comcast) $ 5,000 Compliant with RFP
Legal Services Dan Alpert -- $ 3,500 as needed
Fees -- $ 3,000 Music licensing, etc.
Insurance -- - $ 5,000 Compliant with RFP
Utilities and Janitorial/Custodial
Seiicee -- -- $ 2,000 Per RFP Addendum 1.
Equipment -- -- $ 2,000 as needed
Reimbursable Expenses -- = $ 1,000 supplies, mileage, etc.
Total $ 175,000

Notes

*

Bob Bartis and George Russell are members of BRBTV, LLC. All others are independent contractors.

*“ Mike Hemeon will be project manager until George Russell is fully trained and thereafter George will be Project Manager

A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, December 21, 2021, at 7:01 p.m. in the aldermanic
chamber as well as via Zoom teleconference.

President Lori Wilshire presided; Deputy City Clerk Allison Waite recorded.

Prayer was offered by Deputy City Clerk Allison Waite; Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright led in the Pledge to the
Flag.

President Wilshire

I’m not going to tolerate outbursts from the audience. You will have to leave. We will have everyone removed from
the audience if | don’t get cooperation. Thank you.

To join by Zoom — please refer to the agenda or the website for the meeting link and telephone number.

Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance. When each member states their presence, please indicate if
participating via Zoom state why you are not meeting in person and whether there is anyone in the room with you during
this meeting which is required under the Right-To-Know Law.

Deputy City Clerk Waite called the roll and asked them to state the reason he or she could not attend, confirmed that
they could hear the proceedings, and stated who was present with him or her.

The roll call was taken with 10 in attendance and 3 via Zoom members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman
Michael B. O’Brien, Sr., Alderman Patricia Klee, Alderman Richard A. Dowd, Alderman June M. Caron, Alderman
Benjamin Clemons (via Zoom), Alderman Thomas Lopez, Alderman David C. Tencza, Alderwoman Elizabeth Lu (via
Zoom), Alderman Ernest Jette, Alderman Jan Schmidt, Alderman Skip Cleaver (via Zoom), Alderman Linda Harriott-
Gathright, Alderman Wilshire.

Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly and Alderman Brandon Michael Laws were recorded absent.

Mayor James W. Donchess, Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.

President Wilshire

As is customary, I’m going to turn the meeting over to the Chairman of Planning and Economic Development
Committee Alderman Tencza.

PUBLIC HEARING

O-21-073
AMENDING THE INCLUSIONARY ZONING SUPPLEMENTAL USE REGULATIONS

Alderman Tencza

The first item on the agenda tonight is a public hearing for O-21-073 Amending the Inclusionary Zoning Supplemental
Use Regulations. | believe that Mr. Cummings and Mr. Sullivan are here. They’re going to make a brief presentation
and then we'll hear testimony in favor and against this Ordinance.

Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. For the record, Tim Cummings. I'm the Director of Economic Development for the City.

I'm going to just quickly pull up my screen here. Joining me this evening in the chamber we have Matt Sullivan, who is
our Planning Director as you may know and then also participating remotely we have the consultant who's been
working with us on this project - Kyle. Kyle, can you say hello?

Kyle
Hello.

Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director

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Thank you. So Kyle is going to be available to answer any questions that may arise. So if | may, Mr. Chair?
Chairman Tencza

Please.

Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director

Thank you. So just a couple of slides to help provide an overview and an orientation to the topic we're discussing this
evening and of course, we are here to ask for your favorable recommendation on Ordinance O-21-073.

So RKG, our planning consultant, performed a housing market analysis for us identifying challenges and needs that
was done over the last over the last couple of years. With that, they identified the idea of improving our existing
inclusionary zoning bylaws that we have currently on the books just to update it to the current market needs. So they
made a recommendation that we improve our inclusionary zoning policy but to do that, we would first need to study
the financial climate and the policies that would go with it. So further study was done this past spring and into the
summer and this fall, we convened some working sessions with this body here, with the Board of Aldermen which
ultimately developed the language that got crafted and put into O-21-073.

So some of the findings that we found out in the housing study was, you know, Nashua is growing. The population is
getting more diverse. The income disparity is increasing. One and two bedroom homes are driving the growth.
Downtown should be a focus of housing and housing development to create a mixed use environment.
Predominantly, the housing stock is single family and we know that there is increasing demand, and increasing rents,
and housing costs are going up. The housing study came up with some high level identified findings to growth,
affordability, minimize displacement, try to improve housing in the downtown, and making sure we leverage the
existing resources was outlined in the study.

Then specifically, a strategy that | referenced just a second ago was the idea of updating our inclusionary zoning. We
will need to study various elements, which we did. What size of development? Do we want to apply the IZ to? Where
should the IZ be applied in the city? How many units should be set aside for the inclusionary zoning? These types of
questions we studied over the last six months or so. We've had a conversation on it. Ultimately, what ended up in the
ordinance before you this evening is what we discussed. So to do that type of study, we had to undertake the
financial feasibility process which we did some data collection to understand what the market conditions are,
developed some scenarios through in a pro forma, then looked at what type of strategies would be necessary to try to
get the policy goals that we've articulated, and then memorialize that all in a report.

So that was the work that we did to develop the inclusionary ordinance recommendations today. Of course what we
needed to do is balance the public and private interests. We wanted to make sure that we created a policy that was
revenue neutral and the biggest way to do that is to provide density bonuses for the inclusionary housing. Ultimately,
it led to this chart here - this table, which is the main thrust of the ordinance that's before you and it's what we
discussed previously. | will note that we're taking a phased approach, which if this ordinance is to be adopted,
January to June, you know, development with units less than 49 this would not take effect or be applicable. So it's
only for larger scale type of development up until July 1°". We felt that that was important to make sure we provided
some stability into the marketplace and that was a recommendation made by this body when we met with you earlier
in the fall.

So essentially what this table outlines is, you know, units that are less than 10 citywide would not have an inclusionary
component. Again when | say inclusionary mixtures so folks understand what I'm referencing, when we're talking
about setting aside a unit depending on where you are, the percentage changes, but a unit or couple units depending
on the size of the development to be dedicated as “affordable housing”. Affordable housing as we've defined it is 80%
of AMI. AMI stands for area median income and that is what we're hoping to try to do to get a mixed income approach
to development in an effort to achieve more affordability into the marketplace.

So again, units that are under 50, you would then start to see an inclusionary component. We're saying that 10%
would be set aside as “affordable” at 80% AMI. We are trying to actually have the affordable units constructed as
much as possible. We are not trying to have people pay us a payment in lieu of fee at this time under this scenario
when you're talking about ownership, but we are suggesting it through special exemption process at the rental units
starting at 10 units or more. There's a value associated of $37,000 per unit at rental and if it's an ownership model, it
would be 100,000 per unit or per lot. The density bonus is pretty much one for one. For every one affordable housing
unit you provide, you'd get an additional one housing unit to be constructed on top of what you were planning on
unless you're doing it in the downtown, then for every one affordable housing unit you'd be providing, you'd be given
the ability to construct two and a half units. So that's just a quick outline of the chart in front of you and what is

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actually captured and memorialized in the ordinance before you that we asked for your favorable recommendation on.
Thank you.

Chairman Tencza

Thank you Director Cummings. So we will be also talking about this at the Planning and Economic Development
Committee meeting following this Board of Aldermen meeting. So we'll hold any questions from the Board until then.
So right now, I'm going to open up the public hearing. As is the usual practice, we're going to take testimony in favor
of the ordinance then testimony in opposition. Again, a chance for testimony in favor and finally a chance for
testimony in opposition to the ordinance. So | will start with the people in the chamber here. Is there anyone here
who would like to offer testimony in favor of O-21-073?

TESTIMONY IN FAVOR

Bob Keating

My name is Bob Keating from 5 Coburn Woods. I’m a member of Unitarian Universalist Church and Granite State
Organizing Project. | want to speak in favor of this ordinance. I’m thankful to say a very thorough process.
Appreciate the Community Development Office and Economic Development. There was lots of opportunities for
obviously the Aldermen and the public at large for this. We think this is a step forward. Clearly the ordinance as
written currently was not providing the incentive for developers to build and | think with this being a required process,
obviously that's going to make a significant difference.

We did lobby for a period of time and advocate for rental housing at the 50 units to move to 60% but we think at this
point, we will just wholeheartedly support this and hoping as this gets passed and we move forward that we'll be able
to change some of the income targets on it. Just appreciate this. It's not going to end all and be all for, you know,
affordable housing but it is a step forward and just appreciate all the work to make this happen.

Chairman Tencza

Thank you. Anyone else in the chamber who would like to offer testimony in favor of O-21-073? Please come up to
the microphone.

Kristy Basada

Good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Kristy Basada. | live at 12 Nutmeg Drive in
Nashua. | am also Clergy serving Main Street United Methodist Church in Nashua and I'm representing the Greater
Nashua Interfaith Housing Justice Group as well as the Nashua Chapter of the Granite State Organizing Project.

| am here to throw my full weight behind the passage of this amendment to inclusionary zoning. As a former frontline
worker and program manager serving families who were struggling with housing instability in Nashua, | have
personally witnessed how the soaring housing costs in the city have contributed to the cost burdening of our families
and have also contributed to homelessness. This legislation in its current form will ensure the creation of more
housing for people who live and work in our community. What this bill actually does in real dollar figures is to support
housing that is affordable to singles making $56,000 to $80,000 a year as well as families of four earning in the
bracket of $70,000 to $110,000 a year. These households are contributing to our community. They deserve to be
able to grow and thrive in our community while supporting the local economy and they are already cost burdened by
the soaring cost of housing.

| come before you also to say that this should not be the last step in creating affordable housing in Nashua, though it
is an extremely important step and | urge you to continue to consider and approve programs that support housing for
other workforce housing projects. | congratulate you for bringing mandatory inclusionary zoning forward and | thank
you for all the work that has come from Urban Programs and Planning and Economic Development. | urge you to
continue to do this challenging good work of creating housing for the people who live, work, and play in this
community. Thank you again for the opportunity to comment.

Chairman Tencza

Thank you. Anyone else in the chamber who would like to offer testimony in favor of O-21-073?

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Laurie Ortolano

Yes. Lori Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. I'm glad to see this coming forward and a first step to add, you know,
affordable housing to the Nashua stock. | have a couple questions about the plan and I'm hoping | can get some
answers.

The inclusionary zoning policy matrix that was put up here on the screen is different than the one that's attached to
the board agenda that | just pulled up off line and | believe that one from less than 10 and 10 to 49 was excluded and
now you've added 10 to 49 is part of the program that requires affordable housing. | don't know if | saw that
differently. Was there a point where the data was different?

Matt Sullivan, Planning Manager

There are two matrices presented within the policy. The policy that was posted online actually should include both
and | believe it does include both. The first matrix is related to the policy that will exist from January 15 of 2022 to
June 30" of 2022.

Laurie Ortolano

Okay.

Matt Sullivan, Planning Manager

The second matrix that Director Cummings showed this evening is a policy that will exist | believe to be in perpetuity
belongs to the updated from July 1, 2022 until a subsequent update happens.

Laurie Ortolano
Okay.

Matt Sullivan, Planning Manager

There are two independent matrices that are intended to be a ramp up of the policy and its implementation.
Laurie Ortolano

Okay, perfect. So I'm a little bit concerned about the group that falls in the 10 to 49 when you look at bonusing, you
know, that they can get a density bonus. That's not a very high number of housing units. | went to a presentation
down in South Nashua where there's those townhomes going in - 11 blocks, 44 houses. They would fall in this thing.
They would end up with four that would be part of the inclusionary, you know, have to be affordable housing. They
get a bonus, which would allow them to put another building up but | don't know that there's the space to actually do
that and make the bonus work. So | think the bonus might work best for numbers above that. But that's just a thought
and that doesn't mean | don't support this because | do. It's something you can check out.

| was wondering if you have a mechanism in place on how you're going to monitor this and look at the success of the
program. It would be really nice when the Board adopts these things that once a year you come back - the Planning
Board or somebody with a table, a chart that shows how many affordable housing units were created, what we did
within these neighborhoods, and the benefits we saw so we can actually have some tracking. | think that would be
really helpful and that's not part of the ordinance, but | think it would be very helpful.

And I'm also wondering in Section C under terms location and size of affordable...

Alderman O’Brien

30 seconds.
Laurie Ortolano

...units. How did we pick 99 years as the timeframe for the affordability? Why did we go in such a long term?

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Matt Sullivan, Planning Manager

The initial intent was to provide a restriction in perpetuity, but obviously in the State of New Hampshire we cannot do
that. So 99 years was viewed as the best effort in that regard. | will say the existing ordinance has a range of term
within. It goes from 10 up to 30 years and how long that term actually lasts.

Laurie Ortolano

Okay.

Matt Sullivan, Planning Manager

Our intent here is to protect as long a term affordability as possible. So that's why we chose that 99 year period.
Laurie Ortolano
Thank you.

Chairman Tencza

Thank you Miss Ortolano. Anyone else in the chamber in favor of O-21-073? Okay seeing none, I'll call online. Is
there anyone online who would like to testify in favor of O-21-073? Rabbi Spira-Savett, please go ahead.

Jonathan Spira-Savett

Thank you. My name is Jonathan Spira-Savett. | am 39 Coburn Avenue in Word 1 and I'm also the Rabbi of Temple
Beth Abraham in Nashua, and member with Reverend Basada of the Greater Nashua interfaith Housing Justice
Group, and also represented Ward 1 for the Citizens Steering Committee for the Master Plan. I'm really very
appreciative of all the work that our city departments have been doing, and you the Board of Aldermen, and many,
many fellow citizens on this. I’ve spoken about this at your last meeting about it so | don't want to repeat much that
has been said and that others have said. | support myself and on behalf of the Housing Justice Group, this ordinance
for pragmatic reasons and for moral reasons.

The Master Plan in terms of pragmatic reasons sets a goal of adding several 1,000 new units of housing in our city for
all segments of the market for renters, and for owners, and reducing substantially the number of people who pay more
than they can reasonably afford for housing. Inclusionary zoning is one part of the answer to all of these goals and it's
a very, very good model for all hands on deck. The city, and private builders, and nonprofits like NeighborWorks, and
all parts in areas of our city and that's going to help us do the following things as well that we'll need to do in these
areas. That in and of itself is part of for me the moral case - meeting the needs of people. As Reverend Basada said,
“work, and learn, and play, and age here, and are part of our life in Nashua and wants to live here”. We want all to be
part of the same community.

Affordable housing as a moral issue. It’s good for all of us in the community, especially when it is everywhere. This
kind of process and what we can learn by doing this together will help us create a kind of community that's not in
segments but all together and also help us ultimately by living closer together to surface the kind of wisdom to help us
develop new approaches to affordable housing beyond this one and address other kinds of future issues that affect us
on. Sol hope very, very much that the alderman will support this new ordinance.

Chairman Tencza

Thank you. Anyone else online who would like to testify in favor of O-21-073. There's someone with their hand
raised that's just identified as “iPhone”. So please state your name and address for the record.

Tonia Isley

My name is Tonia Isley. I'm at 83 Major Drive. | am in Ward 7 right now. I'd say that | am in favor of the inclusionary
zoning law. | want to go on the record that being a resident that lives in public housing right now, | do have to say that
I'm very disappointed at the 80% AMI income base that we are going to help considering that Nashua is a very low
income city and we definitely need more support for 60% AMI and under. With that said, | am, again, in support of the
inclusionary zoning law. Thank you so much.

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Chairman Tencza

Thank you.

Representative Mangipudi

Thank you. I’m Representative Mangipudi from Ward 8, 20 Salmon Brook Drive. I'm really encouraged with the
approach that's taken the housing needs a critical need and that on a regular basis | get calls from students and
people moving in. You know, the biggest concern they have is the housing not available for all wage, affordable
workforce, low income seniors, and so this is the first step and the word “inclusionary zoning” speaks volumes. | hope
the action follows with that, that we are all included and together we can raise. | hope that the Board of Aldermen will
positively support this and we critical need for housing.

One of my colleagues talk about how home is where the jobs go to sleep. So if you're having workforce shortage, we
have to provide that home so that workers can go home and live and play and celebrate life together. So this is a very
important step. It's not the end all and be all but it's a step in the right direction. Collectively, this will make a big
impact for our community and thank you and big support of this effort and hopefully we'll see this happen in my life.

Chairman Tencza

Thank you. Anyone else online who would like to speak in favor of this? Okay, seeing none we'll turn our attention
now to anyone in the chamber here who would like to offer testimony in opposition to O-21-073.

TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION - None

TESTIMONY IN FAVOR - None

TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION - None

Alderman Tencza closed the public hearing on Ordinance O-21-073 at 7:27 p.m. and turned the meeting over to
President Wilshire.

Alderman O’Brien

Madam President if | may just a little clerk - housekeeping. Through the Chair if Mr. Cummings can give the
presentation copy to our Administrative Assistant so we can have it for the record?

Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director

Yes, | will.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you.

NEW BUSINESS - ORDINANCES

O-21-083
Endorsers: Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman Patricia Klee
RELATIVE TO REQUIRING FACE COVERINGS THROUGH JANUARY 31, 2022

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND ALLOW FOR A SECOND READING OF O-
21-083

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Cleaver,
Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 13

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Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
O-21-083
Endorsers: Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman Patricia Klee
RELATIVE TO REQUIRING FACE COVERINGS THROUGH JANUARY 31, 2022
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-21-083, BY ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you, Madam President. | wanted to give this a positive as what we should recommendation for the motion.
However, though, | am going to listen to the debate on this particular motion. I'm not 100% sure but | made a positive
motion to discuss it and I'll leave it at that and I'll listen to the debate. Thank you, Madam President.

President Wilshire

Thank you. Discussion on the motion?
Alderman Dowd

Yes, I'm still not sure I'm going to support this. | have a lot of questions and quite frankly, | was hoping that we
wouldn't take any final action on this until next Tuesday's Board of Aldermen meeting.

| have talked to a number of establishments. First of all, | fully support our Board of Health and | know that we should
be doing all we can to support the Board of Health. However, when we passed this the last time we were in the midst
of the pandemic and we had no other alternatives. We had no usable vaccine. We weren't set up for testing and
masks were one of the things that could do a great positive thing for negating the spread. Now we're in a position
where we have the vaccines and you're fully vaccinated. The chances of you having anything severe from the
variants that are currently out there is much less.

So | understand that we're in a position where mostly the inputs | got on this were do not pass it. The people that
don't want it in place are already saying that they won't pay any attention to the ordinance anyway. The people that
are for it are probably already wearing masks and will continue to wear masks. So I'm not sure what passing this
ordinance will do for trying to get the assistance that | think the Board of Health is looking for. | would prefer that we
offer more places for vaccination and more testing. That seems to be the President's position at this point. | hope that
we could get input from the Board of Health as to what they think would be the positive impact of this and why they
want to do it.

President Wilshire

I'd like to invite them to come up if you have questions for them.
Alderman Dowd

| have no problem. Director Bagley if you'd like to join us.
Alderman Dowd

If | could just continue for a second. The businesses I've talked to are almost universally against the mask mandate
for a number of reasons. One - even during the last mask mandate every time they had somebody that didn't wear a
mask it caused a confrontation. | think with what's going on in the world right now. | don't think confrontations would
turn into a fight and be a major issue, which could end up requiring police action. The places that | talked to said if
they’re going to be the ones that have to enforce this, they're going to have to hire people and they're having problems
hiring people already to stand at the door and try to enforce the mask mandate. | don't know who we would get that
wants to stand there and have a fight for these people over masks. So I'm concerned about what the Board of Health

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has for their idea how this is going to be enforced because without that, | can't support it. So | have other questions,
but I'm going to send them to Director Bagley if we don't pass this tonight and will send them to the Board of Health.

President Wilshire

Director Bagley, would you like to introduce the folks with you this evening?

Bobbie Bagley, Director of Public Health and Community Services

Yes, good evening. Bobbie Bagley, Director of the Division of Public Health and Community Services. This evening
we have our Chair of the Board of Health along with two of our board members - Dr. Chuck Cappetta and Dr.
Stephanie Wolf-Rosenblum is on Zoom. We also have our Chief Public Health Nurse, we have our Epidemiologist,
and our public health network services strategist is here.

Yes, we would like to Alderman Dowd talk a little bit about why this is important at this particular time. | am going to
have our Chair start us off and then if the Board of Aldermen will allow, we'll all do a presentation on why this is
important at this particular time to answer some of the questions that you might have with regards to the importance of
this at this particular time right now.

Tony Storace, Chairman, Board of Health

Good evening, everyone. Please interrupt me if | start mumbling

President Wilshire

Could you just identify yourself for the transcriptionist?

Tony Storace, Chairman, Board of Health

| will. My name is Tony Storace, 17 Cameron Drive and | am your Board of Health Chairperson.

I'd like to thank President Wilshire and the Board of Aldermen for calling this special meeting on face coverings and |
would also like to recognize Mayor Donchess, Attorney Bolton, and the rest of the administrative team. We appreciate
what you've done.

First, let me say that | respect everyone's point of view. We're here to educate everyone on the current state of
COVID. The Board of Health's role is to advise you on what we believe is within our power to minimize the spread
and the impact of this dreadful disease. You will hear from the hardworking and dedicated doctors of your Board of
Health and equally hard working team at the Public Health Department. | don't want to steal my colleagues thunder,
but just set the table for their expertise. You're going to hear about Delta now responsible for about 27% of new
infections and Omicron now at 73%. It has become the dominant variant in United States and continues to expand
exponentially. We will hear about infection rates, hospitalizations, increase in positivity tests, hospital beds - or lack
thereof - respirators, shortages of hospital staff, up swings in cases per day, community transmission, number of new
cases per day, and unfortunately even deaths. Changing daily are these stats and a little bit of something for
everyone I'm afraid.

Our chief concern is the spike from Thanksgiving holidays and what we and others believe will be a surge added to
the current holiday season. After listening to all this and making your head spin, what we'd like the Board and the
public to remember is this. We have a four prong defensive strategy to slow down the spread of COVID. If | may, |
would like to use my college football Coach’s Castle analogy. We have one vaccines and boosters representing the
Castles Army - thinking throwing hot water and shooting arrows from the ramparts. Social distancing - castles are
built away from other castles and other buildings high up on hills for a reason. Handwashing - think moats. Masks -
castles are built with thick walls for protection keeping the enemy out. Yes, | made this as a simplistic view.
Remember, it was for football players but an analogy that makes it easy to remember why we ask to use masks and
other protocols. We truly believe that if we can use these defensive strategies along with educating the public, we
have a fighting chance of slowing down the spread and minimizing the impact of COVID.

We also want the public to know that we were listening to them during the discussions and Attorney Bolton has written
into the ordinance a time limit. We hope to work together as a team to ensure the safety of the Nashua community.
I'd like to take this moment on the side just to wish everybody a joyous holiday season and best of luck with New
Year's resolutions. Thank you.