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Special Board of Aldermen 09-08-2021 Page 11
Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

To answer your questions, technically yes you can provide incentives with this type of money to incentivize or
encourage new supply or redevelopment of existing housing stock. That is absolutely one of the uses and strategies
that should be looked at. | would discourage you from offering a subsidy unless it was absolutely necessary and it
was proven. You could use the money to make loans — generous, flexible financial terms would be maybe one way.
Again to replenish the money so you're not out of the $10 million in this example or whatever that number is 5, 10
years from now. Or you could if it is of value to you to incentivize a project to try to give an infusion of capital into a
project. If you did that, | would look for you to in return get some deed restrictions. A certain percentage of the unit
should be set aside for a certain period of time. | would suggest in perpetuity and you'd look at indexing the median
area income at, again I’m talking out loud here — but 80 percent of area median income. Or maybe you look at
targeting those funds at certain areas to encourage affordable housing to be developed in certain places of the city.
There’s many different strategies we could undertake to achieve creation of more affordable housing within Nashua.

President Wilshire

Follow up?

Alderman Klee

Yes please. Thank you. Thank you for the clarification Director Cummings. Much what Alderwoman Kelly had
mentioned about the housing funding. That was one of the intent was to use it for loans. You know whether it be
large loans at low interest and flexible type of things that would help and encourage people. | agree. That’s what |
would rather see than to see subsidies. | have anxiety sometimes about deed restrictions because too many of those
ties the hands of growth of city and so on. I’m not against them when it comes to low income type of housing. Thank
you so much for that.

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

Yeah absolutely Alderman Klee. | would suggest with deed restrictions what it does is it helps starve off gentrification.

Alderman Klee

Yes and that’s what | would like to see. | think Alderman Lopez has brought issue up and | would fear that that could
happen in some of the areas like French Hill as well and downtown. So thank you.

Alderman Dowd

Yes | just want to ask Director Cummings. Does the timing on this work out so we can align what we end up spending
this money on with the new city master plan? | think there should be an aligned otherwise one of the two things is not
correct.

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

Yes you could at least to the initial stages of the master plan. The money will all need to be committed by | want to
say by the end of the calendar year of 2024. So we could absolutely use the master plan as one of the guiding litmus
tests for when selecting projects and using the master plan as, again, one of the lenses for trying to use the funds for
affordable housing. To make sure it adheres to the wishes of the community.

Alderman Dowd

| think there’s a lot of work going into the master plan and we should try to align as best as possible.

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

Director Marchant is here and she could probably speak to it better than | could.

Sarah Marchant, Community Development Director

Good evening. Thank you. So the timeline for the approval of the master plan is actually we hope to be before you
with legislation submitted today and to be before you maybe October 12" for final approval. So we do have a public

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hearing scheduled with the Planning Board for the 23" and will be at PEDC hopefully on the 20" | believe. So that
timeline would line up very nicely with this. The next steps for that can certainly dovetail with everything that Director
Cummings and Chief of Staff Lindner had discussed.

Alderwoman Kelly

| have a question before you move.
President Wilshire

Alderwoman Kelly.

Alderwoman Kelly

| actually wanted to ask about the owner occupied programs if we wanted to support that could the money be used for
that and how are they doing?

Sarah Marchant, Community Development Director

The how are we doing?

Alderwoman Kelly

Yeah like do we have lots of people interested this year?
Sarah Marchant, Community Development Director

We have an incredible amount of people interested and we have an incredible need. But what | will say is as
suggested here before you tonight, funds from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund could absolutely be used towards
those kinds of projects which is rehab of owner occupied housing or rehab of rental housing which then comes with
exchange for a deed restriction or some very low interest loans to do that work. So the money that was appropriated
this year is already almost spent. It was only about $70,000 and we have a long list of applicants that we will go
through that dollars very, very quickly. It’s a wonderful program and the Affordable Housing dollars could certainly be
programmed that way.

Alderwoman Kelly

Thank you.
Alderman Tencza

So |, too, like the idea of affordable housing trust fund. | do worry just with a timeline | think it’s a very complicated
program so it would have to be spelled out before — | think it would have to be spelled out before probably we approve
the funds and put down exactly what we want to do. | would have concerns about that.

| would also hope that part of that we can look at maybe some energy efficiency programs for existing homeowners
whether its low income or not or workforce housing or not. | think a lot of other communities and States have much
better programs that we do here in New Hampshire but maybe we could make a big impact in our city in helping with
our electric system primarily by upgrading our — or having programs so that we can allow people to access some
programs to upgrade whatever they need in their home. We know a lot of our homes in Nashua here are older and
we could certainly help out homeowners that way as well.

I'd also be curious to know we talked about how we can use this money to affect businesses particularly small
businesses. I'd be curious as to what - Mr. Cummings you may be already hearing from these small businesses but
I'd be curious to see what their need is and how we can support them because | think they support our community a
lot and going forward are important so.

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

Absolutely. Those are some great comments if | could President Wilshire. So green energy, sustainable energy
efficiency are all eligible uses. We can absolutely look at building a program along those lines. That is definitely

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something we could look at whether it’s for every resident or for low income. We could maybe target it to maybe
some disadvantaged populations that might not be able to afford it otherwise. There’s definitely a pathway forward for
that. So we can definitely look into that in closer detail.

Relative to small business assistance, so the city over the last year and half to two years has put out onto the street |
would say $1.5 million in various types of loans at very low interest rates with flexible terms deferring payments still.
Even as of now, they’ve had deferred payments for over a year now. We've been doing rounds of requests. In the
first round we got 50 applications. Second round we got 25 applications. Third round we got 5 — 10 applications. So
we’re not seeing as much interest. | think the most recent round we did | think we go three applications and that’s
because | think that the money is readily available in the marketplace through other institutions though | would note
we don’t know what’s coming up in the future. We don’t have a crystal ball. The fall is coming. Could we see some
business maybe needing some sort of assistance over the next year? Maybe but it’s just not right now I’m seeing a
dire need.

Alderwoman Lu

| just don’t understand how some of these things would qualify for revenue replacement. Could you just address how
say well housing would qualify for (inaudible).

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director
So if | may Madam President.

President Wilshire

Certainly.

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

So there are — | don’t know what it is — eight eligible categories, six eligible categories for it. So depending on the use,
you'd fall into that category. One of them is revenue replacement. Affordable housing is actually called out as an
eligible use specifically but | believe it technically falls into the economic negative impact category. I'll double check
that. It addresses negative economic impacts and if you were to look at slide 9 that we provided, it says eligible uses
assistance to households included but not limited to food assistance, rent, mortgage, utility assistance, counseling,
legal aid to prevent eviction homelessness. So under the category of addressing negative economic impacts would
be the eligible use for the category.

Alderwoman Lu

| think | misunderstood. | thought it was just the city, the government itself that had lost revenue and that’s not the
case, correct?

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director
I’m sorry I’m not sure I’m following.

Alderwoman Lu

That’s all right. Follow up?

President Wilshire

Sure.

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

So yes if a municipality loses revenue, they can use it to replace but also if an individual loss revenue in some way,
you can use these funds in those means as well.

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Alderwoman Lu
Yes that’s what | didn’t understand.

Just one other question. If somebody wanted to view this information on the city website now is it up there because |
don’t see it in Economic Development?

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

So I'll walk you through it if hopefully Jeff can get on my screen here. I’m going to share screen Jeff if | may.

Jeff Poehnert

You're good for it.

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

Thanks Jeff. | apologize President Wilshire for...

President Wilshire

You're good.

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

Under projects and then you'll see it under ARPA.

Alderwoman Lu

So if you click on projects, you don’t see it but.

Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

Yeah so hopefully everybody can see it on my screen. My screen is up and if you — my computer is frozen. So my
computer is frozen but if you go to City of Nashua and go to the link that’s right up there on the site but basically it’s
under Economic Development under projects. Under projects, there’s a dedicated ARPA page and this comes up.
Alderwoman Lu

Thank you. Just one other question. Actually a comment. | thought that the problem that we’ve experienced from the
pandemic has been childcare. The lack and need for affordable childcare. So | just wanted to bring that up. Thank
you.

President Wilshire

Anyone else?

Alderman Lopez

It’s a pretty solid point Alderman Lu just made is that a lot of people trying to return to work or repair their economic
income stream are suffering from access to childcare. So that’s definitely something we should be looking at either in
maybe offering some assistance for people who might be backed up on their childcare payments or in identifying
organizations that provide childcare that might have been crippled by lack of in person fundraising.

President Wilshire
Seeing none, thank you very much for the presentation this evening. | appreciate it and we look forward to what

comes out of this because there are a lot of good ideas and | think affordable housing to me is a win/win but I’m just
one. Thank you very much.

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Tim Cummings Economic Development Director

Thank you.

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE SEPTEMBER 8, 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 Lopez, Alderman Tencza, Alderwoman Lu,

Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Cleaver, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 12
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:03 p.m.

Attest: Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

City of Nashua

AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN
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FUNDING PRESENTATION

september 8, 2021

Tim Cummings, Director
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Cheryl Lindner, Chief of Staff

US

Background and History

On March 11, 2021, the President of the United States signed into law the American

Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Pub. L. No. 117-2. This law provides resources through the
new Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CLFRF) to local governments to respond to
the public health emergency caused by the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).

The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021 is a historic $1.9 trillion economic stimulus
bill. Within the ARPA, the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund provides $350 billion

for states, municipalities, counties, tribes, and territories, including $65.1 billion for cities
throughout the U.S.

According to those estimates, state government aid for New Hampshire totals just over
$994,555,870 with $85,981,000 for the 5 communities that receive direct Community
Development Block Grant awards and a total of nearly $112.0 million for the state's other
226 municipalities (representing approximately 99% participation in the program)

US

Background and History

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that Nashua will receive $16,138,777 in federal
funding as part of the American Rescue Plan Act.
° $1.2 million is needed for FY ‘22 revenue replacement -&- $500K for Back-Up Servers
¢ Approximately $14,438,777 available

§ In addition, Hillsborough County will receive Approximately $81.0 million indirect funding
¢ How is this money being used?
¢ Efforts Are Underway to Better understand the County’s priorities
¢ This is a very important available funding source that should be monitored

§ The U.S. Treasury also released the Interim Final Rule (IFR) for the program that sets forth
eligible uses for funding, which includes responding to acute pandemic-response needs, filling
revenue shortfalls, and supporting the communities and populations hardest-hit by COVID-
19.

Nashua Fire Rescue William B. Atkinson

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70 East Hollis Street, Nashua, NH 03060 FAX (603) 594-3654
www.nashuafire.com AtkinsonW @NashuaNH.gov

To: Steve Buxton, Chief of Department
From: William Atkinson

Date: April 26, 2022

Re: Audio/Video Upgrade Quotes

The audio and visual equipment in the Training and Safety Division classroom and library are in
need of replacement and upgrade. This issue was initially noted during COVID and has
continued to show itself as we attempt to host meetings, conduct training, and communicate our
message out to the public as needed.

Currently we do not have the capability in the classroom to do web meetings or online classes
where video conferencing is required. The projector does not meet new standards in video input
or resolution. We often host guest instructors who cannot connect to our equipment with all new
hardware being equipped with HDMI and DisplayPort not VGA connectors.

With your approval, the classroom would gain a much needed upgrade. The computer, monitors,
audio speakers, microphones and sound processors would all be reused. Two new cameras would
be installed. This will provide us with the ability to video conference, record public meetings and
broadcast the signal from this room to Nashua Community Television. Thus providing the city
with an additional location in which public meetings can be held when social distancing and the
use of the web delivery may require it.

The library upgrades are focused around reusing as much of the existing equipment as possible
while replacing and upgrading the ceiling mounted projector and upgrading to HDMI video
resolution.

The Quotes:

An RFP, 1050-022522 AV Equipment, was put out for bids with six bids submitted. After
careful review, we narrowed the bids to the three lowest bidders for additional consideration.

Access AV

Access AV quote totals starts at $32,179.00. This quote addresses all the items contained in the
RFP. Some of the specified enclosures are plastic where other vendors are quoting metal
enclosures. Access AV is the company who City Hall used for the auditorium project. Access
AV’s quote, specifies that “shipping charges will be added to the final invoice.” If we use the
shipping charges of $815.00 from the CCS quote, as the specified equipment is from the same
vendor, that would bring the bid to a total of approximately $32,994.00.

UMS
Background and History

US Treasury CLFRF Resources

Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery
Funds — US Treasury webpage
Interim Final Rule

FAQs
Fact Sheet

Quick Reference Guide
Allocation for Metropolitan Cities