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City of Nashua Welfare Department
General Assistance Financial Standards
Effective Upon Passage by City of Nashua Board of Aldermen

RENTAL COST STANDARDS
Based on 2021 NHHFA Residential Rental Cost Trends data
# of Bedrooms All util. included One util. included No util. included

0 / Studio $1,244.00 $1,132.04 $1030.16 Monthly
$287.30 $261.44 $237.91 Weekly
I $1,402.00 $1,275.82 $1,161.00 Monthly
$323.79 $294.65 $268.13 Weekly
2 $1,742.00 $1,585.22 $1,442.55 Monthly
$402.31 $366.10 $333.15 Weekly
3 $1,877.00 $1,708.07 $1,554.34 Monthly
$433.49 $394.47 $358.97 Weekly
4+ $1,789.00 $1,627.99 $1,481.47 Monthly
$413.16 $375.98 $342.14 Weekly

*Shared household allowance with landlord consent: $100.00/week until alternative shelter
can be acquired.

FOOD ALLOTMENT STANDARD
Based on FY2022 USDA Food Stamps Allotment figures

Household size Daily Weekly Monthly
1 $8.33 $58.33 $250
2 $15.30 $107.10 $459
3 $21.93 $153.53 $658
4 $27.83 $194.83 $835
5 $33.07 $231.47 $992
6 $39.67 $277.67 $1,190
7 $43.87 $307.07 $1,316
8 $50.13 $350.93 $1,504
Add $188 per month for each additional household member beyond 8 persons.

MAINTENANCE ALLOTEMENT STANDARD
Based on cost of living increase of 7% from previous standard
based on 2027 CPI caiculator

Household size Weekly Monthly
1 $15.31 $66.29
2 $18.94 $82.01
3 $22.45 $97.2]
4 $25.98 $112.49
5 $29.50 $127.74
6 $34.33 $148.65
7 $37.84 $163.85
8 $41.38 $179.18

Add $3.50 per week for each additional household member beyond
& persons.

UTILITY and OTHER ALLOWANCES

Nashua City Welfare will consider the actual cost of current monthly utility expenses and
payment arrangements with utility companies to the extent the applicant is making
payments. Nashua City Welfare will consider out-of-pocket medical expenses and non-
reimbursed childcare expenses. Diaper allowance will be equal to maintenance allowance
for the corresponding number of children. Travel allowance will be calculated at $83.34/mo.
or $19.38/wk. and may be adjusted accordingly to individual case circumstances. All
expenses considered when determining Standard of Need shall be done so in accordance
with the current City of Nashua Welfare Department General Assistance Guidelines.

A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. in the aldermanic chamber
and via Zoom teleconference which meeting link can be found on the agenda and on the City’s website calendar.

President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Susan Lovering recorded.

Prayer was offered by City Clerk Susan Lovering; Alderwoman-at-Large Gloria Timmons led in the Pledge to the Flag.

Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance.

The roll call was taken with 15 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Sullivan,
Alderman Klee, Alderman Moran, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Jette, Alderman Clemons, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman
Comeau, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Gouveia, Alderman Cathey, Alderman Thibeault, Alderwoman Timmons, Alderman
Wilshire.

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

President Wilshire

I'd just like to take a second to send my condolences and I’m sure that of the Board to Donna Graham who lost her father
this past week. Donna’s really done a terrific job for us. She’s a great person and my condolences to her and her family.

REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

Mayor Donchess

First | wanted to update you, again, on the COVID situation. Currently there are two basic measurements that are used to
determine the amount of transmission within the community. First, the number of new cases that have arisen per
100,000...

President Wilshire

Mayor can | interject. Gentlemen in the back you need to keep your masks on or leave the chamber please. Thank you.
Sorry Mayor.

Mayor Donchess

So the measurements 1) the number of new cases per 100,000 people over the last 14 days — for Nashua that number is
3,237. Significantly higher than we met two weeks ago. The (inaudible) cases right now is 1,092 and the positivity rate
that is the number of people who test who come up with the virus. It’s actually gone down a little bit since the last time we
met. It’s now 24.8 percent but still that is a very high number. Again, the projections seem to be bearing out. The
projections from the University of Washington where a lot of expertise of the projections come from said that we would be
rising in January and we'd each a peak in February. The good news is hopefully they're correct in projecting that the
number of cases would rapidly decline sometime after February by spring time. | know that the Board of Health and | see
members here tonight have recommended we continue the mask requirement in public places that was adopted for one
month. The Board of Heath has recommended for one more month. | believe that’s necessary given the public health,
problems, crisis that we face although there is some talk that the Omicron is not as serious. Ten people have died in
Nashua since the last time we met for a total of 130 people. As of yesterday, there were 60 people in the two hospitals
with COVID. Still they are very stressed in terms of their ability to meet the health needs of those with COVID and all their
other patients with the typical serious health conditions — heart, cancer, strokes, and all the other things that hospitals see
on a routine basis.

| wanted to turn to something else Madam President. There are two projects that | hope you will drive by and take a look
at that have gotten a good start. The School Street housing 150 units on School Street between School and High has
begun in earnest now. That represents about a $40 million investment of private capital. The first time that we’ve had
from the ground up construction of apartments in the downtown in more than a century. So that is a very significant
investment. The Monahan Manor — the redevelopment of Bronstein which will transform 48 units of affordable housing
into over 200. That has also begun in earnest. | just wanted to stress that on that project the Housing Authority has
worked with the tenants to ensure that all tenants who wish to return to that location — they've all been placed elsewhere
but if they wish to return, they will be guaranteed an apartment of equal or better size. It seems that the Housing Authority
did a very good job of making sure that everybody was taken care of. So that was an important step in terms of trying to
make sure that we treat the people, the tenants properly, fairly, and in a way that we would hope to be treated ourselves.

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Finally, | wanted to mention a couple of ceremonies that were annual but very nice. The two Martin Luther King Day
celebrations that take place annual, again, occurred this year but virtually rather than in person. The First Baptist Church
for decades now has held a Martin Luther King ceremony on Saturday night of the Martin Luther King Day weekend. |
have been participating for a long time. That went very well. They had a lot of music. It was really good and | just want to
thank the First Baptist Church for doing that every year. OBU held their annual Martin Luther King Day celebration on
Monday morning which is what they do annually. Again, they've been doing this for decades. That was virtual as well. A
lot of music, some good speakers, a youth speaker or a young man from Nashua South who is the School Board Rep. He
did a very good job. So | just wanted to thank them and congratulate them on again holding those very important
ceremonies. With that Madam President, | will conclude.

RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR

Alderman Comeau

Thank you Madam President. Mr. Mayor | just a quick question if you could clarify on the COVID numbers. You
mentioned that there are 60 people in the two hospitals. Do your numbers break down how many of those people are in
there because of COVID versus just with it along with something else? Also on the positivity rate and the new cases, do
we know how many of those people are A symptomatic?

Mayor Donchess

The first question, we get this information from the hospital and | think the report to us the people who are there with a
primary diagnosis of COVID. So that would be 60.

Also in terms of your second question was the number that are a symptomatic. We do not have that breakdown but
typically people test when they are symptomatic. | don’t have a breakdown as symptomatic versus non-symptomatic.

President Wilshire

| understand they’re not hospitalized if they're not symptomatic. Anyone else? Seeing none.

RECOGNITION PERIOD — None

READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the special, organizational, and regular
Board of Aldermen meetings of December 28, 2021, January 9 and January 11, 2022 be accepted, placed on file,
and the reading suspended.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From: Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
Re: Communications Received from the Public

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

PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS EVENING

President Wilshire

| will let the public Know that we do expect to be acting on the mask mandate this evening. So we will allow public
comment on that. What I'd like to ask is that we don’t repeat everything the first person, second, third, fourth, fifth person
has said. If someone gets up and ten people have spoken and you're just going to get up and repeat the same thing, |
would ask that you just come to the microphone and say | agree with so and so said. |’m for it or against it. We could be
here four hours taking testimony. If you don’t have to be redundant, please don’t.

Lou Juris

Good evening. Lou Juris, 56 Haines Street. The mandate should be extended for at least a month. You talked earlier
about the cases in the hospitals and the very least this is going to help protect those who've done quite a great job for us

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in the healthcare system here in Nashua for the past two years. This includes the hospitals, long-term care facilities, and
nursing facilities. We've got staff that’s — this is like a (inaudible) and they're getting sick from it and even if we can just
stop one or two cases — one or two people from going into the hospital over the next month is going to give them the relief
and the respite that they need to keep moving forward and hopefully not leave the healthcare field. Right now we’ve had
ten people pass away the past week. I’m sure by tomorrow or the next day there will be a couple more from this. Again if
we can stem the virus from circulating in the area whether you're inside or wherever you are inside, again, save one, or
two, or just a few people from going in to relieve some of the pressure from the system, that’s important and it could also
help somebody from getting ill as well. Thank you for your time this evening. I’m glad this is being brought up for
consideration.

Laurie Ortolano

Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. Please end this mask mandate on January 31°. First of all, I’d like to know can you
provide the legal authority the Board is relying on that permits New Hampshire cities and towns to require face coverings.
Does the City of Nashua need to require or mandate face coverings because of grant money you're receiving by the
federal government. Given the way these ordinance are written, they’re call out as an emergency act. Can you identify
the emergency you're relying on for these face covering ordinances and State law Chapter 31, Section 5, requires that
cities and towns obtain permission from the courts to spend money in a city emergency and have we done that?

| take objection to the Mayor’s comments. His information to Alderman Comeau was not correct. The hospitals do not
break out incidental cases. They're reporting incidental and COVID admissions and they are admitted. People go to the
hospital to have their gall bladder out. They get there, they get COVID tested and their positive. They're admitted.
They’re counted as COVID but they're there to have their gall bladder removed. Two weeks ago | checked on those
numbers. There were 30 something cases in the hospital. Twelve were incidental. Massachusetts has requested that
hospitals break out all incidental cases. We're not doing that in New Hampshire. The doctors who came to the Board of
Health meeting last week and spoke to the Board of Health, they were surprised visitors who were given public comment
and the few members of the public were there were not given public comment. That is not correct. They were not on the
agenda. It was a very disingenuous meeting for those of us in the public that wanted information. Those doctors came
with one data point.

| had written a letter to the Board of Health and asked them to gather data and show us the whole pictures and in come
doctors with one day’s data point. Southern had 46 patients. A record high on Wednesday. Sunday it was 14. They
changed dramatically and we need running data. I’d like to know when the first ordinance where you came up with all the
statistics that our local hospitals are reporting 60 to 80 percent of the patients are unvaccinated and ill. If you’re following
the data now, more of these patients going into the hospital are vaccinated. In fact, the Board of Heath doctors who came
- the two hospital doctors said that Director Bagley asked them if more of the patients in the hospital are unvaccinated,
she said no it’s 50/50. They both said that.

Alderman O’Brien

30 seconds.
Laurie Ortolano

And they both said the booster makes no difference. So | do not think we need this legislation. The Mayor said a 14 day
average data he gave me, that’s bad data. Get the seven day data, that’s what’s posted on the New Hampshire
dashboard. Look at the fall. It has come down dramatically and this is yesterday. Today it’s down another — | just
checked it. It just clicked in and it’s down another five percent. Please go another week, lift the mask, peel them off
everyone and be done (inaudible) this mask forever and it’s time to take it off. Thank you.

Laura Colquhoun

Laura Colquhoun at 30 Greenwood Drive. I’m requesting that the Board vote against the extended mask ordinance for
the City of Nashua. The real science is now telling citizens’ masks are useless however, the City of Nashua Board of
Health still wants the residents to wear masks. All of the City of Nashua is doing is hurting both the residents and the
small businesses within Nashua. It is unbelievable that within the City of Nashua you can go to a bar, restaurant, or a
casino and not wear a mask. However, if you go to any other store you need a mask. Can anybody tell me the science
that states that the virus does not enter the bars, restaurants, or casinos because I’ve been researching it and | cannot
find anything the science of this? If the Board of Aldermen will have — get the Nashua residents have had enough and
they now want to live their lives. I’m asking the Board of Aldermen not to extend the mask ordinance within the City of
Nashua. Thank you.

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Matthew Gouthru

Matthew Gouthru, 104 Fawn Lane. Good evening Mayor, Madam President, and Aldermen. My comments this evening
are concerning the extension of city-wide mandate on your agenda this evening. If you recall, | brought up at a previous
meeting my disappointment on how this mandate was passed in the first place without any public comment and | told the
Board of Health meeting or with this body. Emergency powers were used to get this legislation passed with a first and
second reading within minutes of each other without any public input and it’s almost unheard of the comments that you did
hear came from members of the Board of Health who opined about how necessary this was. One member of that body
said that a child died of COVID in New Hampshire that week and boldly stated that one child was too many. Later that
evening, Dr. Chan our own State’s epidemiologist on WMUR stated that the rumor of the child’s death here in New
Hampshire due to COVID was untrue.

| think the same size that you’re looking for occurs right here in Nashua in our public schools where everyone has been
masked since the school year starting in August of 2021. During that time the level of public spread which never dipped
below substantial according to Ms. Bagley’s dashboards. With all of that masking, have we seen a decrease in cases in
our public schools? No. In fact, we had to close our schools for two days because of staff and teachers were out sick
with COVID-19. This was during the time in which you implemented a city-wide mask mandate. Fortunately this variant is
not as deadly as the one we first experienced two years ago and people can recover from its mild symptoms. The
science tells us that cloth masks do not work against the Omicron variant. The CDC Director who is from New England
describes cloth masks as facial decorations and compares their effectiveness as keeping out mosquitos with a chain link
fence. So why are we going out of our way to mandate that everyone wears them.

In conclusion, why are decisions made with false or misleading information and no public input? If this were a true public
health emergency, why isn’t Bobbie Bagley and her team handing out N95 masks to protect the public health like they do
with needles and syringes to recreational drug users in this city. Stop the insanity, vote no on extending the mask
mandate on this agenda this evening and trust in the...

Alderman O’Brien

30 seconds

Matthew Gouthru

...together we can get through this without any unnecessary and get through this tumultuous time without unnecessary
ambiguous mandates. Thank you.

Sonia Prince

Hi. Sonia Prince, 49 Tufts Drive. This is about the spread. Over 200 new cases in our schools, there were 400 the week
before, 400 the week before that, it’s ridiculous. For a perspective example of the Province of New Brunswick is in a two
week shutdown because of 400 new cases and they have 700,070 people. So yes we need the mask order and yes even
cloth masks are better than nothing. What’s better is if we don’t gather indoors in groups. That would be the best thing
especially if you can’t open windows but really cloth masks is better than nothing. You might gain a foot but whatever.
Yes the N95s are much better especially for teachers who are stuck in these classrooms are for herding 100 to 300 kids in
agym or a library at school, which my son has experienced and I’ve kept him home after that. So really | do hope you
vote for the mask order. It’s a no brainer. It’s protecting our community and our health workers. Thank you.

Beth Scaer

Hi. Beth Scaer, 111 East Hobart Street. Yeah I’m talking here about the mask ordinance. | think it should be not
extended because nearby towns don’t have mask mandates. It’s very easy for people to drive out of town and show
somewhere else and because of that, our small businesses are suffering. | think it’s especially cruel to force parents to
put masks on their 2 year olds, 3 year olds. | think it’s completely inhumane.

| wanted to thank Alderman Comeau for surveying public input on Facebook. | think there’s way too little inquiry as to
what the public thinks in Nashua and way too much ancillary discussion. Thanks. That's it.

Julie Smith

Thank you. Julie Smith, 19 Bangor Street. | want you to end this egregious government overreach now. | agree with
everything that Laurie, Laura, Matthew, and Beth have said and | have nothing more to add. Thank you.

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Allison Dyer

Hi. Allison Dyer, 9 (inaudible) Drive. | also my comment is just in regard to the mask mandate or the mask ordinance for
Nashua. As | expressed to you all in my e-mails at various points, Nashua is not an island. Our hospitals are regional.
They feed all the other surrounding towns and we’re two years into this. We do all have an idea of how to protect
ourselves and others. We are capable to make those decisions for ourselves and | would just like to see us go forward
and try to quell and calm a little bit more of this city-wide divisiveness that we have going on and the mask ordinance and
let’s all move forward to better times. Thank you.

Justin Rosenberg

Hi, Justin Rosenberg, 30 Kessler Farm Drive. It said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results and that’s a perfect way to describe what the Board of Health is overcome with — insanity. This
Board is completely divorced from reality. The real virus in this community and it has been for a long time is the delusion
that masks and the recommendations from this deluded group can prevent you from getting an (inaudible) virus. This
Board still says to this day that cloth masks provide protection which even the most fervent mask proponents says it’s
useless like Dr. Leana Wen likened them recently to mere facial decorations. The Board says it wants to (inaudible)
information. I’m here to tell the public and the Aldermen misinformation is coming from inside the house.

Here’s the life cycle of a Board of Health recommendation. They put forth a policy proposal that’s passed by the
Aldermen and it doesn’t work at all. They blame everybody but themselves and then it’s back to square one. The Board
of Health is the epitome of a self-fulfilling prophecy. They justify their continued relevance with policies that don’t work so
we just run the same playbook over and over again as if it will magically work despite all evidence of the past few years
showing the opposite. The Board of Health speaks towards those in the public by differing and often superior evidence
with the level of scorn and distain. It begs the question how the Aldermen keep listening to them. It’s like an abusive
relationship. Their mask manics don’t work and their response is you made me mask you. The Aldermen here tonight
are not totally given over to this (inaudible) show and you will vote no on the mandate extension. If you do, | will continue
to not follow it in any capacity and will encourage as many people as possible to do so as well. If all of the Board is
capable of doing is parroting CDC and big pharma talking points without even a shred of doubt or questioning, then what
use do we have for you? The fact that the simple questions like Laurie had cannot be answered definitively at these
meetings in 2022 is absurd. That is alll have to say. This mandate should be needed. The Board of Health’s (inaudible)
is over. We're done.

Joann St. John

Good evening. | just would like to say that | definitely would like our Board of Aldermen to vote to maintain the mask

mandate here in Nashua. | don’t want to repeat what others have said. I’m hoping that going forward throughout the
night though it’s not one repetitive insult against our Boards and science after another. Thank you very much for your
time. | hope that you all vote sensibly this evening. Thank you.

Chris Parks

Chris Parks 24 Bolic Street here in Nashua. Just wanted to comment this evening and tell you a story. One of the
greatest jobs ever had in the Marine Corps. was training and teaching newly commissioned second Lieutenants. |
remember a time where we were doing some urban warfare training and | sat there and watched Lieutenant send one of
his squads into a building and as they were coming up to the building, they all got killed — simulated — from one window.
So his next thing was to send another squad at the same window. Guess what happened, they all got killed again. So his
third option he’s just going to send another squad. They all get killed again. The lesson with this was that he kept
reinforcing failure and that’s exactly what this mask mandate is and let’s talk about the mask.

Since COVID started over two years ago, we’ve been told hey no one needs to wear a mask — and this was from Fauci
back in the day — no one needs to wear a mask. You only need one if you’re a healthcare worker. You only need one if
you're sick. Then we need to wear two masks. Then Fauci wants us to wear three. As everyone has stated tonight, it’s
been proven that they don’t work. The cloth masks don’t do anything to stop the spread and it’s a great opportunity for
people like me to sit here and look at people like the Board of Health and say | told you so. Maybe we can also — well I'll
leave that for another day.

I'd like to say congratulations to the returning Aldermen and Alderwomen. You've legislated yourself into insignificance.
There’s a (inaudible) and shop in Nashua never wearing masks. | can tell you that no one has asked me to leave and
store owners really aren't complying. Congratulations to the new Aldermen. Perhaps you'll not follow the same process
as your predecessors and think for yourselves and disregard the Board of Health who have now not only made the

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recommendation to continue wearing masks will still work but remember about a year ago when they also recommended
curfew because COVID only comes out at 9:30 at night. Hopefully you’ll continue to disregard the Mayor. He is the guy
who brought us question 2. We saw what a roaring success that was.

As someone who has lead over 200 marines in combat situations across multiple continents and multiple countries, got
shot at multiple countries, | can tell you that | won't let fear shake my decision making. | would hope the rest of our so
called leaders would understand what that title means and do the same.

Alderman O’Brien

30 seconds

Representative Linda Harriott-Gathright

Hello President Wilshire, and Mayor Donchess, and to the Board of Aldermen. | am truly appreciative of our Health
Department and ...

President Wilshire

Linda we need your name and address for the record please.

Representative Linda Harriott-Gathright

I’m sorry. Linda Gathright, 28 Marion Lane, Nashua, NH. Thank you. So as | said, | appreciate the work that the Board
of Health has done and as well as the Board of Aldermen. | am definitely in for the mask continuing at least another
month or so until hopefully things get much better than where we are today. | do believe in the work that the Board of
Health is doing to keep us abreast of what’s happening here in Nashua. Thank you.

Alicia Houston

Aldermen and Mayor, | appreciate the time. Alicia Houston, 139 Westwood Drive. | would just like to echo the sentiments
of Ms. Ortolano, Ms. Colquhoun, Mr. Gouthru, Ms. Scaer, Ms. Smith, Mr. Rosenberg, Mr. Parks, Ms. Dyer, and | also
would like to remind everyone that New York City actually just lifted their mask mandate. So if they’re able to do that,
there’s no reason why we can’t do that in a smaller city like Nashua. Thank you.

Brady Owens

Hello, my name is Brady Owens. I’m live at 16 Danbury Road in Nashua, NH. | just wanted to also support that | am not
for extending this mask mandate. | am thankful for the Board of Aldermen and President Wilshire for allowing public
comment this time. It was very upsetting the last about a month ago we were here and we weren't allowed to talk. So I’m
not going to take a long time but what Laurie Ortolano said, and Colquhoun, Chris Parks, and everybody else | support
everything they said. | just want to remind the Board of Aldermen you know one of you all’s job is to represent us. We're
here talking. We're telling you we don’t want this.

| was very disappointed when at the last meeting Alderman Dowd who represents me started the meeting by saying hey
I’ve heard from a lot of businesses. I’ve heard from a lot of people. Nobody wants this but yet you voted for it anyway.

We've heard the Board of Health. You can’t go anywhere without hearing that stuff. We're done with it. We're here
telling you the people we don’t want this. As many people have already said, we’re not paying attention to anyway. |
haven’t worn a mask yet and I’m not going to and there’s a lot of businesses around town that aren't willing to enforce it. |
can’t blame them. This needs to be over. Thank you for your time.

Don Whalen

My name is Don Whalen, 12 Lincoln Ave., Nashua. I’m against the mask mandate in Nashua. Mask mandates have
always been more about showing compliance than keeping people safe. The CDCs latest embarrassing disclosure
further proves it. As outline in a recent New York Times article, the CDC concedes that cloth masks do not protect
against the virus, especially Omicron, as effectively as other masks. This, again, proves that the CDC is continuing to
change course on mask messaging as well as other COVID related items. What’s next for Nashua N95 or KN95 mask
mandates? Don’t laugh, this is actually happening in California. Just this week the Los Angeles Times noted “a big push
for California’s to switch to N95 or KN95 masks as an updated county health order” that went into effect this past Monday.
Requires employers to provide not just masks for their employees but a well-fitting medical grade mask, surgical mask, or

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higher level respirator such as N95 filtering face piece, respirator, or KN95. What’s happening in California is real and not
a TV show or movie. In other news just yesterday, the New York Supreme Court struck down the Governor’s mask
mandate for schools and public areas ruling that the Governor overstepped her authority. It’s hard to believe that when it
comes to masks, Nashua, New Hampshire, is more restrictive than the State of New York.

As everybody probably knows, the Omicron variant is extremely contagious. As early as December 20, 2021, the CDC
warned that anyone with Omicron infection can spread the virus to others even if they are vaccinated or don’t have
symptoms which means that vaccinated Nashua citizens can not only catch the new variant but spread it too. Unless you
never leave your house, you will probably either get COVID now or later. Most experts predict that COVID-19 will become
an endemic disease after the pandemic phase. Once enough people have developed immunity to COVID-19 either
through vaccination or infection. In other words, COVID-19 is expected to become a recurring disease like the flu. Masks
have been largely political theater from the start. Back when Dr. Fauci and team promised we didn’t need masks and
then flip flopped and promised we did need masks. If you want to wear a mask, wear one. If you don’t want to wear a
mask, don’t wear one. If businesses require masks for entry into their establishment, then that is their choice and people
can choose to wear a mask or to go elsewhere. Masks should not be mandated. It should be an individual choice.

President Wilshire

It looks like the end of our public comment period. Mr. Sewell.
Al Sewell

Al Sewell, 5 Lincoln Avenue, Nashua. | am gratefully impressed and blessed to see that our elected officials have offered
public comment at this point in time. I’m actually appalled and embarrassed and | think if you take a look at in all honesty
the mistakes that we’ve made in the recent past of what you did not allow in recent history for public comment. | think you
would take a look at that and honestly maybe perhaps admit that that’s why you were elected in the first place. You’re
elected by the residents and citizens of Nashua to represent our interests. Clearly overwhelmingly if you look at the
Facebook poll, or talked to people in the city that we live and that we all love, you would know and realize that people can
make smart decisions and they typically do. If you follow the science and follow the numbers, the numbers are going
downward and trending in the right direction. People can make the right decisions and my belief it’s their personal
decision of whether or not they want to wear a mask or not. We should not mandate it. Absolutely should not mandate it.
Thank you for your time.

Barbara Villandry

Good evening. Barbara Villandry, 127 Peele Road. | am in favor of extending the mask mandate as people are talking
about the scientific statistics and what they know from scientists but not quoting the scientist. That doesn’t match
anything I’ve heard and | have watched a lot of news and a lot of medical people talking about this. It seems to me that
the masks in fact do work and an extension for another month should reduce our rates and get us into summer when we
can get out without the masks. So | urge you to vote in favor of extending the mandate. Thank you.

Tim Sennott

Thank you. I’m sorry to drag out your time. Tim Sennott, 62 Underhill Street here in Nashua. I'd be remiss If | didn’t
come before you and speak to those of us you're hearing a lot of opposition tonight. You’re hearing a lot of stories of
people who will leave the city and do their business elsewhere. I'd just like to remind you that there are those of us
whether they're here to speak or not that we'll continue to do business in the city regardless of whether or not this
mandate is extended or not. | am one of those people. My family is as well. | live in this city and | care for this city. |
care for the businesses here. Whether a mask mandate exists, | will continue to do my business here. | think there are
many that are like me.

I'd also just like to speak to comments that | heard earlier regarding the effect on children. | care for my 7 year old son
very deeply. As you know since the beginning of the school year masks have been mandated in our public schools. I’ve
not heard one peep out of my son about wearing a mask during the day. Yes it’s natural that we’ve had spread in the
schools. They can’t stay on all day. Children can’t eat wearing a mask. There are other things they can’t do wearing a
mask. They can’t drink water wearing a mask. Those are opportunities for spread but to date | have not heard my son
make a peep out of it other than when | asked him if it bothers him to wear a mask. He told me Dad it’s really not that big
a deal. I’m going to continue wearing mine and I’m going to continue doing business here in Nashua. Thank you for your
time this evening.

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Tyler Ramrath

My name is Tyler Ramrath. | live at 34 Tufts Drive. A component to many government mandates is enforcement. If you
vote for a continued mandate what you’re saying to the citizenry is that you think it is moral for you all to dispatch armed
men and women from the government who is trying to force or force a mandate to only protects those who choose not to
be vaccinated or choose not to mitigate in other ways (inaudible) threatened by government agents over the wear of such
a garment. | very well may defend myself for the means of lesser than or equal to that which is being used to threaten
me. Thank you.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel
Re: Confidential Attorney/Client Communication

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO AUTHORIZE MAYOR DONCHESS TO EXECUTE THE SETTLEMENT
AGREEMENT FOR THE PURPOSES THEREIN CONTAINED
MOTION CARRIED

From: Lori Wilshire, President Board of Aldermen
Re: Amendment to Aldermanic Committees 2022-2023

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS TO APPROVE THE AMENDED ALDERMANIC COMMITTEES 2022-2023

ON THE QUESTION

President Wilshire

I'd like to explain what happened here. When | was putting the committee assignments together, | didn’t realize that three
at-large members had to be on the Finance Committee and three Ward members. | didn’t set it up that way. It was my
error and so | spoke with the individuals that were affected by it and all agreeably to move this forward. It was my error
and | appreciate both of you who were willing to accept the changes so | appreciate it.

Alderman Cathey

Thank you Madam Chairman. | would just like to echo your sentiments that | was one of the people that was asked to
step down from the Finance Committee and it was completely voluntary and | was happy to do so so that we were
complying with the affected ordinances. Thank you.

Alderman Lopez

| just want to observe for the public and for any just so the new Aldermen know, we can go to all the committees and
some of us do. As an Alderman you definitely have a seat at the table. The Chairs are typically very respectful of people
because the committee’s function is to recommend things that in most cases the Board itself will vote on. The Finance
Committee is a little bit different in that it has more of a workload but you can always attend. You can always pitch in if
you need to.

Alderwoman Kelly

| actually just wanted to add on to that that you can attend but as a non-committee member you can’t make motions or
changes. You can only make recommendations or comments.

President Wilshire

Most committees will allow a non-voting member to ask a voting member to make a motion for them and that’s acceptable
as well.

Alderman Klee
Thank you Madam President. As a person who attends almost every meeting, | truly find it just helps me get all those

because as they say, the work happens in committee and it makes me a little bit more knowledgeable when we sit
through the horseshoe but not everybody has that time.