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outdoor dining plan was to help the downtown businesses because of the COVID restrictions did not allow indoor dining.
So to help save the restaurants, we came up with this plan for increasing the outdoor dining by the use of the barriers.
The retail people downtown and the professional people all went along with that because they're all looking out for each
other. In our December meeting, that's the feeling | got that these people they all know each other. They're all friends.
They're not trying to hurt each other. | was hoping that they would have an opportunity to come up with a plan. So
hopefully that will that will still happen.

The introduction of this proposed ordinance that has come before us tonight has been referred to the Infrastructure
Committee. We haven't met as a new Infrastructure Committee yet. We haven't looked at it regarding that issue. I’ve
talked to the Mayor and Director Cummings saying why are you pushing this forward? What happened to the committee
that was Supposed to come up with an agreed upon plan. They said that this was just to stop the ball or get the ball rolling
just to start the conversation. Director Cummings has said in his memo, the language that you pointed out is a mystery to
me what he meant by that as far as no one coming up with a plan. But also in the memo he says, this is the start of the
conversation. He says, and | take him at his word, and the Mayor because the Mayor says the same thing. | take him at
his word that they're looking for, you Know, a plan that's going to be agreed upon by all the downtown businesses that will
be a benefit to everyone downtown. So thank you.

Alderman Lopez

As mentioned a couple of times, mental health acuity and particularly suicide. So | thought this would be a good time to
mention that Nashua has a mobile crisis response team. Their number is 1-833-710-6477. If you are watching this and
you are struggling, you do feel unsafe, you Know somebody who's feeling unsafe, and they're struggling, please have
them talk to somebody have them reach out. Mobile crisis is available 24/7. They're there to listen. One of the nice things
about them is they're not quite as intimidating as calling 911. You can engage mobile crisis. You're going to get a
master's level clinician. That person will assess over the phone and, if necessary, they'll come and meet you. We're
talking about a therapist in a minivan not like flashing lights or anything. When you're feeling unsafe, and you're feeling in
crisis, and you're feeling overwhelmed, a lot of people push away too dramatic a solution. They don't want to comment
911. Either force somebody else or for themselves. This is at least a step before that. There's other alternatives but
ultimately if you're struggling, you should seek help. If there's a crisis and somebody is in danger, then you definitely
should call 911 but if it’s a mental health crisis, then there's the opportunity to maybe forestall that. Don't hesitate to call
mobile crisis.

The rhetoric that we've been seeing is as much a problem as the physical sensation of mask wearing. Children are being
overwhelmed because they're being told many different things. They're being asked to side on many different issues.
While the adults don't exactly know what side they're on yet or don't have a consensus on their facts and information and
often the conversation breaks down into tribalism where my side versus your side is going to win. We'll do whatever we
need to. We'll use whatever tactics we want and that's communication breaking down. It has not made last couple of
years any better for anybody, hasn't improved the conversation either.

| want to echo the statements made that we should be forming a steering committee or a working group of some kind to
oversee the development of the downtown project - the outdoor dining and extended seating. As was pointed out, |
understood the presentation or the proposal that Director Cummings the first | saw was last Friday. | am the alternate
liaison for the Downtown Improvement Committee. | finally went to my first meeting and of course, it turns out to be a
controversial one. But it was an initial presentation. As far as I'm concerned, no action can be taken without legislative
support and it's not appropriate to present anything as final before the Board has even seen it whether it's a vote on
whether we're going to rescind the mask ordinance or whether it's the detailed workings of where we're going to allow 15
minute parking versus, you know, outdoor dining and all that kind of stuff. It's you have to start somewhere. You have to
have at least a rough framework.

| don't think Director Cummings is wrong in that | have not seen anybody present a map with different plans or anything
like that and ultimately, it does have to start somewhere and that really starts tonight. | think with this referrals to the
committee, we can vet it further. As far as | know, there's no plan to introduce it any earlier than May, which is a relief
because | think St. Patrick's Day last year was a little bit of a bust. But that means we have to do our job as Aldermen and
we have to actually vet this issue. We have to listen to public comment. The public has to have equal access to that
comment too. It needs to be on formal meetings, the committee meetings, the aldermanic meetings. They have to have
the representation in the form of their local Ward Aldermen, their at-large Aldermen. If we as Aldermen are stepping on
each other's toes and trying to support the causes we believe are true, or encourage certain people to speak their voice
by giving them special access to information, we need to look at our roles because we're not going to improve the
situation. We're going to increase the tribalism.

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At the end of the day, this is not a battle to fight. Both the retail and the restaurant industries are necessary to Nashua’s
downtown. You need businesses operating until 5 pm. You need businesses operating after 5 pm. Either side being a
problem is a problem for both sides. So we need to figure out how to use our space. We need to figure out how to share
our space. We do have to take into account the safety considerations in the strategic planning that Fire and DPW are
gonna to require and that means we're going to have to have some open dialogue. There's going to have to be a lot of
work done on this. So I'm looking forward to that part of this. | am not encouraged by all of the, | guess, prebaked
opinions before people have really gotten to see what we can do, how we can change, what everybody side is. I'm seeing
words thrown around like “I'm feeling discriminated against’, or “I'm feeling that there's underhanded planning going on”,
and all of this stuff which is extremely premature. Everybody does have a voice. Everybody does have their
representatives. If your constituents call you and they have an opinion you don’t like, you do still have to talk to them, and
you just have to accept that.

So it's a challenge doing that but it's going to be important because this year is very important for our downtown
particularly because we don't have Great American Downtown running huge events as we always have. We don't have a
solid history of restaurants that have always been there and are doing the same thing. We have a lot of new restaurants
that don't necessarily know the lay of the land and we have a pretty vulnerable downtown. So | encourage everybody to
focus on the goal here and it's a shared goal. We want downtown to thrive. We don't want to just subscribe to our
opinions of what a thriving downtown looks like because when we focus only on our side versus the other persons, we're
only going to get half of the view.

With respect to what Alderman Jette said about masking, | want to encourage that as well. Masking is very important. As
a health care professional, | Know that. | was working in the ER for much of last year and the year before in the height of
the epidemic and was fine. | practiced the mitigation measures of practicing social distancing. | am anticipating going to
on a trip to Honduras this weekend and | say anticipating because if I'm COVID positive, I'm not going regardless of
whether that country tests or not, | can't expose a population that has limited health care. So that's a decision | have to
make. When I'm in country, there's no mandate making me wear a mask there but I'm gonna wear a mask any time I'm
indoors unless I'm literally stuffing a hamburger in my mouth, which actually came up over the weekend. If it's feasible to
protect people around me by keeping my distance or my facial covering intact, I'm going to do that. So | encourage
anybody who is willing to do it as a matter of conscience to do that. Regardless of the stigma or the finger pointing if you
believe it's the right thing to do, then do it on behalf of other people.

Finally with regard to the comments that were made two weeks prior, | don't recall Director Kleiner making accusations
about a member of the public. | believe she read a statement from a vendor who expressed concerns about that. | think
that was important information for us to know because as Aldermen if we try to contact that vendor ourselves, we need to
know why they're saying no and why they're suddenly circling the wagon and why they're asking us for identifying
information. There are some things that we need to know. Should it have been read in public? | don't think it was that
urgent. | think it should have been sent as a communication. The use of non-public session is a little bit debatable
because in my opinion, and I'm not a lawyer, but | feel like if we have a non-public session about a member of the public,
that member of the public may have a right to attend that. They may have a right to bring representation and that
becomes very complicated. So | would prefer that we handle situations like that with a little more deliberation and
foresight.

| would also encourage members of the public to remember that when they're talking about city staff members week, after
week, after week and they're criticizing their work, they're criticizing their effort, they're criticizing their performance, those
can be construed as personal attacks too and the staff don't like it. There is a long history over the past several years of
staff being identified, shamed, called out in public meetings, and | don't like it. | don't like the public comment can be used
to attack somebody who's just paid to work here and is trying to do what they can.

At times specific Aldermen have been called out, and identified, and described unflatteringly. | believe the Mayor was
perhaps referenced a couple of times as well. At least we can choose that. We're elected to fulfill that role and we know
we're going to get knocked around a little bit. So | recognize the sensitivity towards members of the public and the rights
that they have, | ask that the public recognize the rights to privacy that our employees have. | believe | just heard an
employee being chased out of this meeting who did not wish to speak to somebody and | really would appreciate it if
everybody could focus on what their roles are, and what their boundaries are, and try to restore that décor because we
don't want to be fighting over how the city is run. That turns it into a war zone. We want to be working collaboratively over
what possibilities and what opportunities our city can achieve. Thank you.

Alderman Moran

Thank you, Madam President. One - | want to continue to encourage people to voluntarily wear masks. | do think it's the
right thing to do. | think at this point, like | said earlier, you've been educated enough. It's your choice to do so now.

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| want to echo what my colleagues have said. When | did reach out to Alderman Cathey regarding this ordinance, 1)
because he's a decent guy | presumed; 2) he's my neighbor. We both live in Ward 7. If you come to Ward 7 and you've
heard another member of the public from Ward 7 Beth Scaer speak, we have radically different opinions. We hardly ever
agree on anything but you can come down my street when I'm running for election and you can see my sign next to
someone else's sign that's not relatable to me. You would say “wow”, why is that person’s sign on that lawn? | can tell
you why - because | have conversations with my neighbors. When a nor'easter hits, we shovel each other out. We talk
about our kids. We go to football parties together. These are things that neighbors do. These are things that citizens do
together. Like what Alderman Lopez was saying, tribalism will destroy us. It will destroy this country. It will destroy the
city. We have to be able to reach across the aisle. We have to have an olive branch to each other. We have to live our
lives like Americans. Discourse is great. Personal attack is not. I'm prepared for personal attack. | got elected. City
staff, they're just doing their job.

| think, at least for me, you'll see more of this throughout my four years here. Who knows if I'm going past that but | think
whatever happened in the previous boards, whatever grievances there are, you gotta let it go. I'll tell you what | tell my
patients. You let this stuff stew in your brain, it starts to smell. What do you have to do with junk that's running in your
brain, you got to take it out just like take out the trash. You got to hit the reset button. You have to move forward. We
have to move the City of Nashua forward. We cannot get stuck in turf wars. It’s the best thing to do for everyone.

We talked a little bit about mental health. You know when Governor Sununu said shut down the State, he called for
healthcare workers to volunteer. | volunteer for DBAR - the disaster response for crisis clinicians to respond throughout
the State for the mental health needs. It truly is a major part of this pandemic that is overlooked. Some people will say
this is rhetoric from a certain side that you're aligning with but it's true. I've had so many patients kill themselves. That's
just me and my small agency here in Nashua. We don't get the numbers from the State. Why don't we get the numbers
from the State? | can tell you why because I've learned this working in the city. It brings down property values. That's
what the response I've gotten from the State several times. There are so many people be in treatment for depression
right now - kids and adults. | have a waiting list of over 300 people to come to my practice. The Mental Health Center has
a six to eight month waitlist. The majority of those people waiting right now due to COVID isolation and other COVID
factors and we already had a pandemic of mental health and addiction prior to this.

We have to address those secondary concerns. | do respect everyone on the Board of Health but there's one type of
doctor that's not on that Board of Health - a psychiatrist. If there was, we'd be able to hear this perspective more. I'm
literally an expert in mental health. My colleague, Tom, is an expert in mental health. We disagree on certain things but
what we're saying is true. This is happening in the city and it has to be talked about. The crisis team, | used to run it. |
was the Clinical Director. Call them. Call them when you're struggling.

We passed the mask. Hoping to keep that in the past.

The barriers - they're coming to the Infrastructure and the Planning and Economic Development Committee through a joint
committee that both Alderman O'Brien and | will Co-Chair. | promise you we will shine the light of day on all your
concerns. We will take input and | hope city staff that come have a pencil and paper and that they can respond
appropriately talking about steering committees and such.

| also would like to congratulate Chief Rhodes on his retirement. Talk about a class act. | worked with him with the Safe
Station Program to move the crisis there. He really did put in his dues. He is going to be a very missed and valued figure
in the city.

The Downtown Improvement Committee. | would just ask that everything is posted publicly so everyone can have their
input. | think that's all | have.

Oh, yes. There was a conversation about that communication from Ms. Kleiner. | would say my comments regarding that
particular meeting were about the vendor. | don't Know who hashes out who's impersonating who. That's not my job.
That's not something the Board does but the vendor admitted that they were duped. We have to have processes in place
so citizen’s information isn't readily shared. We've already been duped with a cyber-hack with a vendor. Let's just make
sure that vendors know who they're talking to and who the point of contact is.

Alderman Klee
Thank you, Madam Chair and | have to say | feel honored to have to my right here two very good mental health

practitioners. | know I've gone to Alderman Lopez when I've had constituents that have had need and so on and he's
helped me and such.

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|, too, would like to congratulate Chief Rhodes on his retirement. He is also one of my constituents and | have called on
him many times as | do with so many other of our leaders in the city, so he will be missed.

I'm not going to talk about the mask mandate. | think we beat that horse dead and buried.

But | do want to address something. One of the people that spoke as she left, she pointed to me and said tax credit $250.
I'm not really sure what she was talking about other than the fact that in the State House I'm on Municipal and County.
Today there were a number of bills that came in front of my committee and the executive to increase exemptions, and
credits, and so on. I'd kind of like to just address that a little bit. Originally, they were voted to pass and then we did
reconsideration and we (inaudible) them, which is the same thing here what we - so they basically recommend to kill
those Bills. The reason for doing that is that the State refers to it as “lost taxes”. Those are taxes that go from one group
of people. They don't pay them and they get spread amongst another group of people who don''t follow into these
qualified groups of elderly, disabled, deaf, blind or veterans. The State has $57,711,862 2020 of what they call “loss
taxes”. Nashua has $4,844,546 in what we call “loss taxes”, meaning that that shift that tax burden has been shifted to
the groups that don't fall within these categories. That's quite a bit and if you look through the entire State, Nashua is
number one in what is called “loss taxes”, meaning that we shift the burden from one group. It doesn't affect our pot of
gold as | would call it. It's not affecting the budget for Nashua. It's affecting the taxpayers.

| think the comment that was thrown out $250 may have been in reference to the veteran’s tax credit. We give $500.
$750 is the max at this point that can be given. If Nashua was to increase theirs, we have 2,729 veterans that are getting
the tax credit. That would be an additional $682,250, which would bring us right up to $5.5 million in what is called “lost
taxes”. Before we would just take that up and into consideration. We need to know what these numbers are and so on. |
don't know if that's what the citizen was referencing but | thought | would address it seeing that it's fresh and new from my
committee today. And having said that, I’m done.

Alderman Sullivan

Thank you, Madam President. A few comments. First off, | would like to thank the great residents of Ward 9 they came
out on Saturday morning — 9 am to 11 am to talk and be heard by the developer who bought Camp Doucette. They’re
going to put 94 condominiums up there. And all those folks came out on a Saturday in February, listened, asked
questions, and brought up their concerns. So | just want to say, you know, | say this all the time. As citizens, we have a
duty to stay informed of what's going on in our city. So a shout out to the Ward Yers that came out to talk about that.

Second regarding the situation that happened a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, we cannot unring the bell.
Everything had happened is in the public record. | think it's fair to say now to also put in the public record that the police
did conduct their investigation and found that there was no wrongdoing. | Know that that has been said many times
around the horseshoe. | just wanted to echo it one last time that | just think that that's fair. As a new Alderman, | will keep
my head on a swivel and make sure that, you know, we kind of maybe pump the brakes next time.

On masks - | was happy the way it went tonight. | think it's time that we start to turn the page. | said that a month ago. |
still believe it today. If | walk into a business be it Market Basket or wherever and they asked me to put a mask on, I'll do it
because | respect the rights of a private business to do what they want.

| think that as far as the tribalism that we've had over the last almost two years now and since yesterday was Presidents
Day, I'll echo the words of Abe Lincoln — “A house divided against itself cannot stand” and | fear that this pandemic has
done many things. | just hope that we start healing, and we start moving forward, and that we don't go backwards, and
we don't have peaks, and valleys, and whatnot. | hope that we can move forward and | hope tonight as a Board we wrote
that chapter.

Finally some congratulations. First of all, Chief Rhodes thank you for your service. Second of all, Deputy Chief Buxton, a
Ward 9 resident, | look forward to working with him as Nashua's new Fire Chief. Also in the realm of high school athletics
here in the city, Nashua’s own Tom Cassidy was named Cross Country Coach of the Year by the State of New
Hampshire. He's a Bishop Guertin cross country coach. He's coached at Elm Street. He's coached for Nashua PAL.
Now he's at BG and his great assistant Mike Dunham has helped him along the way in his career. So congratulations to
Tom Cassidy. And then also same school, congratulations to the BG girls basketball team. They won the State title on
Sunday.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you, Madam President. Keep the comments brief because it is a late hour. Kind of comically we put one thing to

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bed but just like the movies, remember the Jaws series? Just when you thought it was good to get one the water, they
come out with Jaws 2. Okay.

Well we put the masks to bed and now we're going to run right into the barriers. No pun intended. | did hear the public
speak. | got every single e-mail. | read every single e-mail. I’ve even seen some things on Facebook. Believe it or not at
the age of 67, | do look at Facebook mostly see what the grandkids look like. But the thing is one thing I'd have seen is a
lot of friction and lack of fact. | thank Alderman Clemons for pointing out that the Downtown Improvement Committee is
an advisory committee where Infrastructure and PEDC, the committee that is going to, is called “a policy committee”.
They will determine what to do. But what are they got to determine? | think we need to have something in front of us.
How is somebody going to eat dinner on an empty plate? | would like to see a steak, and mashed potatoes, and a good
vegetable.

Working with Tim Cummings, who | think is unfortunately being misrepresented and mistreated with this. He is our
downtown representative to boast of the downtown. He's doing his job but plans were made up. True. Some Aldermen
said we never heard anything. You got the same e-mails | did. Nothing came in. So we have, believe it or not, in the City
of Nashua we have traffic engineers and people that do the studies for us. This is how this packet came out.

Now, we've heard testimony in the past. One gentleman who is somewhat leading the charge brought up compromise.
The word “compromise”. Well, we'll see if that's a legitimate discussion because | think compromises have been made. If
we look at this presentation, so therefore folks if you want to decide which book you want to read between the facts and
the fiction, it's a perfect segway into the committee meetings but I'll hold until that particular section. | will give the dates
on when the barriers, and | put it on one night, is going to be discussed. And then we're gonna hear from all those people
that say that they want to speak. So the end result is the same. No magic. You got to keep in mind when we took this
office, we all took an oath. We're different than other people on the other side of the rail. We can't misrepresent the facts.
It's not worth it. So we put a good thing together because you’ve got to remember if somebody says, Oh, I'm losing
business. Well somebody else is telling me, I'm losing business too. How do you decide? Good Solomon had difficulty in
cutting the baby in half. So we’re gonna have to listen. I'm going to have an open mind as we read through this and we'll
see where it basically goes.

| would like to end on that and just say congratulation to Chief Rhodes. | remember when he was a Private and | was a
Company Officer. It was good to see him and wish him the best of luck. But somebody else is retiring and that is Deputy
Chief Glen MacDonald. | served as Deputy Chief and I'd like to recognize him because the Deputy Chiefs are the nuts
and bolts. They're the ones out there working nights, weekends, holidays, Christmases, all the rest of it. | did it for 15
years, every single fire, and Glen has done a good job and good service to the city. So | wish him the best of luck in his
retirement and as well to Chief Rhodes and congratulations to Chief Buxton.

President Wilshire

Thank you. So | just want to let my colleagues know, the public know that regarding the situation that happens, | heard
what you had to say, and I'm hoping that doesn't repeat, and I'll do my part. So | just want to make it clear to everyone
that | heard you.

So tonight | would like to offer my condolences to the family of Adam Gureckis, Jr. Adam’s father was a Ward 7 Alderman
for many, many years. Really, really super guy and his son - the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Adam Gureckis was a
high school athlete, really good at basketball. | think he played all the sports, but he will be missed.

Also Bill Marcoux. | went to school with Bill Marcoux. In fact, he and | were top in our sixth grade class. He was one
point ahead of me and | remember feeling | gotta do something about that. He was a great guy, really great guy and he
served on the Board of the Housing Authority for a number of years too. He will definitely be missed.

Also | want to thank Chief Rhodes for his service to the city. He's done a great job here and he leaves a legacy. My
congratulations to Steve Buxton for taking over the role of Chief. | think it’s well deserved. That’s all | have.

Committee announcements:
Alderman Dowd
Thursday, 7 o'clock, Joint Special School Building Committee at Nashua High North. It should be a fairly light agenda.

The other thing is that Alderman Sullivan went on a tour of Fairgrounds Middle School. That was the first one completed
in the middle school project and we've set that up for three o'clock on Thursday. If any other Alderman would like to join

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us, feel free to show up at 3 o'clock at Fairgrounds and it's only for Aldermen at this point. | got the Harvey Construction
and the Principal are going to provide the tour.

President Wilshire

Other committee announcements?

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you, Madam Chair. Tomorrow night, February 23%, at 7 pm right here in the aldermanic chamber will be the
Infrastructure Committee meeting. If you think we're going to discuss barriers, | hate to disappoint you. They’re not on
the agenda. Okay.

So with that in mind because barriers needs to be discussed, we're going to have a second meeting of the Infrastructure
and joint PEDC Committee and that's going to be held tentatively right now, | think, in the chamber. We're gonna have to
discuss whether | don't know what the potential of people attending, so we're going to need to hone in on that. So I'll give
that fair warning. But anyway, that’s going to be March 9" at 7pm and the presentation will be formally made for all those
to digest and come up with the opinion. | encourage you all to come. That would probably would limit some of the debate
as the information is presented when we get into the full chamber. So you're all welcome. So thank you, Madam
President.

Alderwoman Timmons

Thank you President Wilshire. Tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. | know I'm gonna be sleeping as soon as | get out of
here but we have a meeting at the Cultural Connection tomorrow in Room 208. | invite the Aldermen to come to that
meeting to see somebody that don't look like you or me. Okay. It's important to Know the city and know all your
constituents. So tomorrow morning, the Cultural Connection. Please visit that one. | know some of you guys work but I'll
be here.

Alderman Dowd

The Budget Committee is going to start as soon as the Mayor has had an opportunity to meet with all the department
heads and we actually have a budget to talk about. There will be approximately 10 meetings with no more than three
wrap up sessions. Usually get done in one. When those go out, | usually let the department heads see if they're available
first and then | sent it out to the Aldermen so that they have an opportunity to put it in their schedules. It's very difficult.
Donna and | are trying to squeeze these meetings in. We don't have a start date yet and we have an end date of July 1%.
So we'll let you know.

Alderman O’Brien

Madam President through you to the question of Alderman Dowd. | have on my calendar February 28" budget. Am |
mistaken?

Alderman Dowd
That's a regular budget, yeah.

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE FEBRUARY 22, 2022, MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN BE
ADJOURNED

MOTION CARRIED
The meeting was declared adjourned at 10:59 p.m.

Attest: Allison Waite, Deputy City Clerk

A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Monday, August 22, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. in the aldermanic
chamber.

President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Dan Healey recorded.

Prayer was offered by City Clerk Dan Healey; Alderman June M. Caron led in the Pledge to the Flag.

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.

City Clerk Healey called the roll.

The roll call was taken with 11 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Sullivan, Alderman Klee,
Alderman Lopez, Alderman Clemons, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Gouveia, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Thibeault, Alderwoman Timmons, Alderman Wilshire.

Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Moran, Alderman Jette, and Alderman Comeau were recorded absent.

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

President Wilshire to turn the meeting over to Chairman of Budget Review Committee Richard A. Dowd.

Chairman Dowd

Yes tonight we have a public hearing on two pieces of Resolution R-22-055 relative to the supplemental appropriation
of $300,000 of FY2022 unanticipated food service related revenue into fund number 2100 Food Services fund and
also R-22-056 relative to the transfer of Coronavirus, State and local fiscal recovery funds established by the
American Rescue Plan “ARPA” and FY2022 supplemental appropriations in the amount of $14,500,000. We will start
with R-22-055.

PUBLIC HEARINGS

R-22-055
RELATIVE TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF $300,000 OF FY2022 UNANTICIPATED FOOD
SERVICES RELATED REVENUE INTO FUND #2100 “FOOD SERVICES FUND”

John Griffin, CFO/Treasurer/Tax Collector

Thank you Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. John Griffin, CFO/Treasurer/Tax Collector. I'm here on
behalf of the School District to gain a favorable approval of the movement of $300,000 from unanticipated revenue in
the Food Services Fund to the Food Services Fund as an appropriation to true up the amount spent on food services
this year versus the amount budgeted. As you may know, food services had a great year with regard to preparing and
distributing food as the free and reduced lunch program became a free lunch program. Thank you.

Chairman Dowd
Is there anyone that has any questions about this legislation for Mr. Griffin?

Alderman Sullivan

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My only question is the $300,000 in unanticipated revenue. Are those federal funds?

John Griffin, CFO/Treasurer/Tax Collector

Mr. Chairman, if | may. The total amount of federal funds was $6 million, which was $4 million more than the amount
budgeted. So | would definitely say that it's due to the reimbursements from the federal government to equalize that
$300,000 appropriation. Thank you.

Alderman Sullivan

2. WORK TO BE PERFORMED Except as otherwise provided in this contract, designLAB shall
furnish all services, equipment, and materials and shall perform all operations necessary and
required to carry out and perform in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract the
work described.

DESCRIPTIONOF WORK; Complete a full assessement of the Nashua Public Library
building, grounds and systems as outlined in the scope of work in RFP0357-100421

. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE. designLAB shall perform and complete all work by September
30,2022 which date shall only be altered by mutually approved written agreement to extend the period of
performance or by termination in accordance with the terms of the contract. designLAB shall begin
performance upon receipt of an Executed Contract and a valid Purchase Order issued from the City of
Nashua.

4. COMPENSATION. DesignLAB agrees to perform the work for a total cost not to exceed
Eighty eight thousand, eight hundred and thirty dollars. ($88,830 )

The Contract Sum shall include all items and services necessary for the proper execution and
completion of the Work.

Unless DesignLAB has received a written exemption from the City of Nashua, DesignLAB shall
submit monthly requests for payment for services performed under this agreement in accordance
with the values stated in the Agreement. Such requests shall be supported by such data
substantiating the DesignLAB’s right to payment as the City of Nashua may reasonably require.
DesignLAB shall submit monthly requests for payment for services performed under this
agreement shall be submitted as follows:

€® Electronically via email to VendorAPInvoices@NashuaNH.gov
OR

€® Paper Copies via US Mail to:

City of Nashua, City Hall
Accounts Payable

229 Main Street

Nashua, NH 03060

Please do not submit invoices both electronically and paper copy.

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Thank you.

Alderwoman Timmons

Mr. Griffin | just want clarification. It was just the lunch program or was it lunch and breakfast programs? You said
lunch.

John Griffin, CFO/Treasurer/Tax Collector

I'm sorry. This is the complete food services so it would definitely include any and all food prepared by the District to
distribute whether it's in the morning or during lunch. Thank you.

Alderwoman Timmons

Thank you.
Chairman Dowd
Any other questions? Okay if not, I'll open it up the testimony in favor of R-22-055.

TESTIMONY IN FAVOR- None

TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION - None

TESTIMONY IN FAVOR - None

TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION - None

Chairman Dowd closed the public hearing on Resolution R-22-055 at 7:06 p.m.
Chairman Dowd opened the public hearing on Resolution R-22-056 at 7:06 p.m.
R-22-056
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS
ESTABLISHED BY THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT “ARPA” AND FY2022 SUPPLEMENTAL
APPROPRIATIONS IN THE AMOUNT OF $14,500,000”

John Griffin, CFO/Treasurer/Tax Collector

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee. John Griffin, CFO/ Treasurer/Tax Collector. If we look at
Resolution R-22-056, this is more or less the financial housekeeping required to get the funds as noted into the areas
where it can be spent. For example or as you know, we brought the monies in several years ago. We put them ina
grant fund. What this does is this gets these monies into the general fund so they can be transferred into the various
capital improvement accounts that you see in the Resolution.

We worked with this company called |Parametrics who are experts in this area of ARPA funding. They recommended
to us, and we endorsed the recommendation, to use revenue replacement as a way of taking in the funds and
spending them on things that we felt were important going forward. What | mean by that is once we go through these
mechanics, we will essentially take the $14.5 million dollar value put that - | selected the Police Departments for lack
of a better choice - we basically put those monies into the Police Department budget for a second and then we
transferred them to these areas that you see on the Resolution. The reason why we can do that is with the revenue of
replacements as authorized by the United States Treasury, we will not have to go through what could be a painstaking
process of using the Treasury portal to track and promote these various expenditures. What will happen is probably in
the next reporting period, the city will be ready to essentially explain to the Treasury via the portal that we spent the
$14.5 million on police salaries, which are an eligible use because they're general governmental services.

So a little bit a little bit tricky but the objective, as we all know from the US Treasury and the administration is to get
these funds out into the public as expeditiously and appropriately as possible. So we feel comfortable with this
particular Resolution. It's a Fiscal 22 supplemental appropriation. So it won't affect, it won't impact Fiscal 23 that
you've already approved that budget. Thank you.

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Chairman Dowd

Any questions for Mr. Griffin?

Alderman Klee

The question that | have Mr. Griffin is relative to putting it in the PD. | know you say just you’re kind of putting in there
for a second. It was for lack of a better do we do that because they had expenses that the city kind of reimbursed

them for so we put into that account and then put it into the other account? Is that why we do that or is it just...?

John Griffin, CFO/Treasurer/Tax Collector

Mr. Chairman if | may, that's a great question. My objective was to, you know, make it simple and also we have
excellent tracking mechanisms on payroll. So when my objective was to not have several reporting periods with
several different departments and divisions. All will be acceptable as long as they were general governmental
services. But in this case, | think within three months to a six month period Alderwoman Klee we'll be able to fully
report our spend to the US Treasury and wrap this up.

Alderman Klee
Just a comment. | just want to say that | appreciate them doing it as quickly as possible so thank you.

Alderman Clemons

So I'm gonna follow up on that and Mr. Griffin correct me if I'm wrong. The salaries in the in the Police Department, |
assume, are more than $14.5 million and so therefore by doing this and putting this into the Police Department
budget, the salaries that we can then essentially move out funding, the equivalent sum of money from that's already
been budgeted to the police, out into these things that we already approved. Is that what we're doing here?

John Griffin, CFO/Treasurer/Tax Collector

That's a great question Alderman Clemons. The beauty of this ARPA funding is we can go back to March of 2020.

So the reason why we selected Fiscal 22 is we've already spent those monies. So really what's going to happen is
we're going to put for a split second, we're going to put $14,500,000 into the available budget of the Police
Department and subsequently move into these areas that you'll see on the on the Resolution. So there's no impact on
the Fiscal 23 budget for police. There's no impact on Fiscal 22 because we've already concluded the year. So it’s
more. It's truly it's an accounting exercise that's totally appropriate per the rules of the US Treasury.

Alderman Clemons

Well no, | mean, | guess my question is are we doing that to get around a rule or that that's my question? In other
words, are we doing this because some of the things that we would have to spend this money on the reporting
requirements are arcane or archaic and this is just an easy...?

John Griffin, CFO/Treasurer/Tax Collector

Yeah | would say getting around the rule. | would say this particular approach was developed over several comment
periods where cities and towns such as ours were commenting of how onerous it would be if we had to take more of —
Alderman Clemons more of a traditional federal grant approach where you have all kinds of rules and regulations on
supplanting of salaries, grantors, loans that we were just really handcuffed if we if we went down that road. So itis a
workaround that many of our fellow towns and cities are using and totally, totally legal and totally endorsed by the US
Treasury.

Alderman Clemons

Yeah, just a quick comment. | appreciate the answer and no | understand what we're doing here. So | will support
this, thank you.

Alderman Sullivan