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Nashua doesn't own that. But what are we doing saying to the people who do oversee that site? Look, you're in our city
clean it up.

Next slide. Here's another bone of contention. Many cities - Bedford just did a beautiful remake of their highway like
around Bedford Village Inn - that strip there. Took out the old median strips, like this ugly thing that has weeds all the
time all summer. This is a fall seen and put beautiful native grasses in, something that's nice to look at instead of slabs
of cement. Look at the next slide. This is what's possible. | look at that and I'm like, wow, people really care about this
town. | want to see what else is here. Wow look at the entryway in from their highways. This is what | am hoping for for
us, for more examples of an economic development that is inviting in ways that beckoned us in. Bill Parker who did the
roundabout in front of Nashua High North and the one on Manchester Street. He's ready to go. He wants to do more
things with our city come next year and | say let's invite him.

Next slide. This is Broad Street Parkway going in and going out. | think this is our responsibility. | think this is Nashua’s
responsibility if I'm correct and this is what we're looking at. Beautiful. Our latest roadway in beautiful bridge, beautiful
water to look at, our beautiful historic mill yard, all the lovely... What's intriguing to me is that we in the Planning
Department expect so much from the builders, and the permits that we give, and then we turn around and we are not
upholding the bargain ourselves. It's a shame.

Next slide. This is that island right in front of the Pink Palace right on Court Street. Many of those are invasive species.
It's been looking like this - | worked very hard on this island week in and week out when | work with Public Works. This is
the way it looks recently. People I'm sure all of us drive by it every day and if not, my invitation to you is look around
when you drive around our city. You are our eyes and ears for this community. We look to you to guide us, be a part of
what | have been doing. Sorry Donna that | didn't have this ready for you because | was supposed to get all this
paperwork in. But | was diagnosed with cancer, again, last week and | couldn't get everything together. But this is a list
from 2019 of 20 properties that | personally had spearheaded for change commercial, city, and residential. If | if one
person can do all this, surely we can as a group accomplished much.

Next slide. Now, as an example you know where this mural is right here. Now, it took me about one hour. There's the
before and there's the after. Voila. Next slide. I'm hoping that the changes that we're seeing with the downtown
transportation department, these are islands of greenery. These are islands of weedery behind Fortin Gage, behind the
garage. People come to our city and look for parking and they're going to park in these locks back there and these are
the things they see. Obviously, you know, it's not something that maybe some of us see every day but somebody is
going to see them and they're most likely going to be visitors. This is not what we want them to see. These are
opportunities for beauty. This the City of Newton, which I'll leave with you, they have developed opportunities in the
town. It's called Newton pride and what an incredible beautification aspect they have in Newton. Just look up
beautification on Google and you'll see thousands of towns with very active beautification projects. In fact in Newton,
they have only four places in all of Massachusetts have all American selection display gardens that work in cohort with
their garden clubs. Our garden clubs would jump at the opportunity but we all know why. This is not available at times
or the opportunity. | want us to work in cohort with our unions.

Next slide. Now here we have beautiful sculptures from our sculpture symposium. This is the kind of respect we're
showing to our sculptures. Those are all weeds at the base of them and | do hope that we can have a new and
improved space at the library. But this is what we're looking like typically in the meantime and | hope we can straighten it
out. | really do because that is our cultural hub our library. It was one of the most progressive libraries probably in all of
New England and it's still a great point of pride. | want the outside to be as wonderful as it is inside. Next slide. This
next to the fence was actually someone who had trimmed all of the trees that needed trimming and just took all the
refuge and just thrown it against the fence. Unacceptable.

Next slide. So thank you for your time. There's so much that we can do together and my hero in life is Lady Bird
Johnson. | hope we all remember her and she said, there is much the government can do and should do to improve the
environment but even more important is the individual who plants a tree, or cleans a corner of neglect for it is the
individual who himself benefits and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations. | thank you
so much for your time and | look forward to working with each and every one of you. If anyone has any questions, |
would be more than happy to answer them.

President Wilshire

Thank you, Carolyn. That was pretty interesting. Does anyone have any questions?

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Alderman Klee

Thank you, Madam President and thank you very much. It is eye opening. | do have like four constituents that people
have complained about as well as they have contacted me. | Know in one particular case, much like you said, there's a
health issue in the family. The spouse cannot take care of it and there's a prideful thing. So sometimes when you kind
of approach people, | would be very interested in the knock and talk kind of things that you were taught because | think
that might help some of the community too to help their neighbors without embarrassing them.

One other constituent purposely grew the weeds, greenery, whatever you want to call it way out of control for butterflies,
and critters, and things like that. She felt that that was her way of taking care of that. So we have to be cognizant that
people have, well, you may have a very beautifully landscaped property, your neighbor may have a more organic kind of
feel. So | think we just need to be careful.

Carolyn Choate

Balance.
Alderman Klee
Yes we need to balance and we need to be careful when we're speaking to our neighbors in that respect.

| also want to commend you for the weeding that you did. Over the spring and early summer, | worked with a number of
different groups and we cleaned up trash, and we did a lot of weeding, and we even helped people with their yards as
such. We worked with businesses and we worked with other people. The Tolles Street Mission actually did planting and
things like that and all around. Are you finding that you have groups that are coming forward that would be willing to do
things like that?

Carolyn Choate

Yes, we are but we're also finding frustration in as much as many groups will come together to do a specific cleaning
effort but then feels that one of the things missing in the dynamic is we would prefer a policy of long term maintenance.
Not this reactive once in a while until another situation occurs where it's so bad everyone feels so compelled to clean up.
We are hoping for a long term maintenance plan from the city on many of the projects that groups work on. That is the
best case scenario.

Alderman Klee

Thank you so much. | appreciate the clarification on it and | do understand. When you work really hard to help clean
something up and then you see later on a month later it's back to where it was, you feel like you've kind of wasted your
time. So | appreciate it and | understand what you're saying. Are you looking for changing in zoning? Are you looking for
more gardens such as what we see on Manchester Street, or Henry Bourque, or something of that nature where
independent garden groups do those things? This was a beautiful presentation. I’m just not quite sure what it is specific.

Carolyn Choate

The one example of - it would be nice to see maybe laws in place for the commercial aspect, seeing that, you know,
there are no laws in place for commercial aesthetic properties. Maybe it's time we did have something in place for them.
There's no law. There's a law against no snow being snow blown in the inner road. There's a law against no leaves
being raked or blown into a road. There's no law against grass being mowed into a road. | had people call me and say
my neighbor is dumping like huge clods of grass every week. He moves his yard and the grass is in front of his house
every week. That's dangerous for motorcycles for one thing, but again, it's aesthetically displeasing. He will never pick it
up. The neighbor has complained to him to no avail. So | called Code Enforcement. There's no law for that. So maybe
some things need to be tweaked.

Alderman Klee
Thank you.

Alderman Tencza

Just for the record as you said that Ma'am, we actually do have an ordinance on yard debris. So maybe that's something

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we can counsel on placing yard debris, and snow, and everything into the street that we passed within the last four
years. So maybe that's something just education that we could work on with Lisa. Low hanging fruit to get that moving.

President Wilshire

Anyone else?

Alderwoman Lu

Thank you. I'm sorry, Carolyn | didn't catch your last name.
Carolyn Choate

Choate.

Alderwoman Lu

Thank you. Are you an employee of the city?

Carolyn Choate

No. | was the one summer.

Alderwoman Lu

Is this a volunteer...?

Carolyn Choate

Oh absolutely.

Alderwoman Lu

And where does the Beautification Committee receive its funding?
Carolyn Choate

We don't have any funding.

Alderwoman Lu

Okay so it's all comes out of your pocket? Anything that...

Carolyn Choate

We don't spend any money. We just clean up things. | take that back in one regard. We pick a project each season and
two seasons ago we picked the girls home at that time. The girls home on Concord Street. When we do raise money, it
all goes into the city coffer and is not to be used on any private property matter only city property. So that was a private
property issue obviously. So we went to the neighbors. | did a fundraiser and neighbors were so generous. We raised
$2,100 and we had three large trees removed. | got a discount for replacement plantings from Country Brook Farm in
Hudson. I'm a Rotarian and my Rotarian friends own a landscape company. He gave his things for free. We got
plantings and there's still some money, | believe, left in that kitty for maybe some lawn work, etc. We don't need money.
We just do projects out of the goodness of our heart and we work with commercial property owners.

When complaints come to us and | typically go to the business owners myself and say hey someone called about a
property that you have. Didn't know if you were aware that you have three dead trees on the property that would really
look great if you replace them? Oh, | had no idea. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Alderwoman Lu

Thank you. So it sounds like you do some fundraising.

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Carolyn Choate

Well my husband built an all-purpose potting shed table and we raised $1,000 at the farmers market.

Carolyn Choate

Wow that’s great. | wasn't aware there was a Beautification Committee. How do you get the word out? | don't see it on
the city website or?

Carolyn Choate

Well it started out pretty large and | was enjoying an early retirement at the time before | started working full time and
overtime at Southern New Hampshire University. So since that time, it's been ad hoc as we get together once in a while
and then | work with an esteemed designer, Lorraine Proust, who is a retired certified designer and we work on projects
she and | at need.

Alderwoman Lu

Thank you.

President Wilshire

I'd like to say when we were talking about the property on Concord Street that they have done a wonderful job and it's a
labor of love. It really is. They do it out of the kindness of their hearts because they want to do it not because they have
to do it.

Carolyn Choate

Okay. My husband's bringing up to me to make clear that I'm not here to ask for money or funding, if that's true. I'm not
here for funding. I'm hear saying | just wanted to let you aware of who we are, what we do, and that you might avail
some funding perhaps for maybe some more code enforcement people. It would help in the long run and just your
support knowing that aesthetics are important to the economic vitality of our city and we need to raise the bar.

President Wilshire

Thank you very much. Appreciate everything you do.

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE DECEMBER 14, 2021, SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED, BY ROLL CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken to adjourn the Special Board of Aldermen meeting 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 Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 14
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 7:32 p.m.

Attest: Susan Lovering, City Clerk

Nashua Beautification
Advisory Committee

The mission of the NBAC is to identify and develop
opportunities that can enhance the visual
attractiveness of the City of Nashua. Towards this
mission, the committee is committed to working in
conjunction with City resources, residents, and
organizations to maximize its efforts.

Board of Aldermen October 25, 2016

| want to make a final point. There are those of you that really want a railroad built between Lowell and
Concord. With this assumption of ownership, the city actually will own, | think it’s the only ownership they
have, a railroad track 58 feet long. You could put a standard passenger car on there or a standard
railroad car on there. Fifty eight feet. Just don’t tell anyone where it is going. Thank you.

PETITIONS — None
NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS — None

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

Committee on Infrastructure ... 200... e cee eee cee eenceeueneeeeee es, 10/12/16

There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the report of the October 12, 2016,
Committee on Infrastructure accepted and placed on file.

WRITTEN REPORTS FROM LIAISONS — None
CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS — None

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-16-060
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large David W. Deane
Alderman Tom Lopez
AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT TO DEED COVENANTS RELATIVE TO LAND SOLD
TO PROPERTY OWNERS ALONG RADCLIFF DRIVE AND SHORE DRIVE
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN LOPEZ FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-16-060
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-16-060 declared duly adopted.

R-16-069
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large David W. Deane
Alderman Ben Clemons
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NASHUA TO ENTER INTO A TEMPORARY SKATEPARK
EASEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE DAVID W. DEANE SKATEBOARD PARK
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DEANE FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-16-069
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-16-069 declared duly adopted.

(8) Installed over 500°’ of CAT6 Ethernet cable. Installed hundreds of feet of RCA. 1/4inch and
3.5mm cables. Installed, and set up Windows 10/11 Computers and Monitors.

(9) Purchased, setup and installed licenses for adobe cool edit software, OBS Video software,
service manager FTP software, Primacast video streaming software, Streamguys audio streaming
software, Studio playlist creator and cditing software.

(10) Set up and built automation Station playlist for 24/7 365 day broadcasting.

(11) Installed 4 mixing consoles, 2 Behringer 16 channel digital mixers, 1 Mackie 24 channel digital
mixer and 1 Arrakis 16 Channel Bluctooth mixer.

Ill. Corporate Qualifications

BRBTV, LLC was specifically created for this proposal/RFP. We cannot therefore offer a history of
corporate financials and previous corporate contracting experience. The strength for successfully
managing and operating the city’s public access channel lies not in corporate history, but in the breadth
of expcricnce of those assigned to accomplish the job.

BRB TV, LLC is a two-member limited liability for-profit company formed in 2022 and is in good
standing with the secretary of state for NH. Its two members are Bob Bartis and George Russell, who
also own and operate Bartis-Russell Broadcasting, LLC (BRB) since Sept 2016.

BRB TV, LLC was created as a separate legal entity from its affiliate BRB for the same reason Nashua’s
Public Access Channel is contracted instead of being staffed by city employees like the G- Channel and
the E-Channel, to limit mutual exposure to liability.

The BRB entity operates WSMN radio since acquiring ownership of the station in March 2017. Since
that time, BRB has expanded their radio broadcasting footprint, created a new studio, added an FM
platform and has fully functioned as a self-funded, private radio station through the pandemic including
producing relevant and timely broadcasts surrounding, physical & mental health, economy, politics,
veterans’ affairs, old time radio shows and quality and contemporary music shows.

We have since the formation of the BRB radio entity completely, effectively and efficiently complied
with all FCC reporting requirement whether it be Annual Reporting, Quarterly logs, Programs and
Issues Lists, Engineering reports for the tower and frequency, along with all licensing reports/fees and
annual broadcasting fees paid to the FCC.

Attorney Dan J. Alpert of Arlington Dan has been FCC counsel to BRB since 2016. Atty Alpert will
advise and assist BRBTV, LLC in this project. Attorney Alpert’s resume is attached to our proposal.

Mark Feraco of the CPA firm Brayman, Houle, Keating & Albright (BHKA, PLLC) in Nashua, NH has
been preparing our BRB corporate tax records and filings for both state and federal reports since 2017. ,
BRB TV, LLC will continue to utilize that firm to provide CPA services for this project. BHKA’s
qualifications and contacts can be found under www.bhka.com