Board of Aldermen 08-09-2022 Page 32
Thank you, Madam President. | thought about going but my daughter is now almost 20. We had my son's graduation so
we decided not to go but | don't think she would have let me take her anyway.
The one thing I'm going to miss about the Zoom and | am going to - | Know | spoke up harshly against it earlier but there is
some good that does come out of it occasionally. It's not just the public comment piece of it but Scott. He is always,
always, always positive. We don't always hear the positivity hardly. We don't always hear when people think we're doing
good. So it's great. | saw him pumped his fist when Alderman Dowd said the school was ahead of schedule. He's out
there pumping and | could see it. So it's great to see that and | hope we see Scott in here from time to time.
| wanted to respond to Ms. Muccioli but she’s already gone. A couple of things there. It's not an ADA issue with public
comment because the public is able to comment. Even when they don't come here, they can send an email. She did.
She sent a long email, which | actually thought was probably let her soeak more about her views than the three minutes
did that she was in here. So public comment is still there in multiple ways. So | didn't respond to her, quite frankly,
because the disc golf course are now is still being held. They're still looking into it. | actually talked to Director Sullivan
last week at the Planning Board and | asked him that exact question. He said it's still being held up. So there's really
nothing to do until the review is gone through to determine if we're doing the right thing, if we're not doing the right thing, if
something else needs to be done. So | didn't really have a new response to stuff I've already talked to her about early on
when | thought disc golf might be minds instead of Alderman Sullivan is over there. It's still important because it's right off
my Ward so obviously | have a Ward that would be using that park. So it's important to me as well.
Lastly, you know, we talked a little bit, you know, Mr. Gouthro is also gone. He said very particular that we're eliminating
public comment. He's been saying that on social media. I've seen it before and it came again into our email box.
Anybody who voted no — Alderman Clemons has already said it. We're not eliminating public comment. | hope that's
what everybody that voted no feels that we're not eliminating public comment. That's not what we're doing here. There's
plenty of ways they can reach out to us. They can come here. They can send us an email, speak to us in person, call us,
anything. Like | said about Ms. Muccioli, sometimes the emails are longer than the three minutes they get. So | think they
have the ability to do that. It's not the fact that we can't or can operate Zoom - maybe some of us can, maybe some of us
can. | think we all can. It's somebody moderating it. It’s somebody's using it. It’s not us. We're trying to work on the
people's business. It's not us. So that has nothing to do with it either.
Saying we are not having an open government. I've heard other emails say secret meetings. That's illegal. Right? Right,
right Attorney Bolton. It's illegal to have a secret meeting. We cannot have a secret meeting. So if anybody out there
catches us, please put us away because it's illegal, please.
And lastly, the BOE has lots, of lots, of lots of parents that are concerned about the stuff that the Board of Education votes
on. Probably more so than stuff we do. A lot of people, as we could tell, most often don't care about what we do but
Board of Education parents care. They find ways to be there at the meetings that they need to be at. Like | said, it's
packed. So people can always find ways to get to meetings that are important to them where they want to put public
comment whether, again, whether it's an email or not. They get emails as well that they either put into record, or read, or
whatnot. So | just want to make sure that because what's going to happen now and | think it was Alderman Moran that
said it people are going to go out now and say we've eliminated public comment, we've closed our government, we're
doing whatever we want, everything illegal, and that's just not the case. People are going to believe that without listening
to any of these meetings. If you just want to watch the meeting, it's not even that you can watch it publicly on Channel 16.
You can watch it the next couple of days on Zoom or you go to our website, Nashua website, and you can watch it. If you
just want to know what we're doing, you can watch that and you can send us an email. | read every single one just like a
lot of you have said. | read every single one as long as they are, as nasty sometimes they are, but sometimes we get
good ones. | read them all. So we're not doing the things that people are saying. | hope that the Aldermen that did vote
against it are out there supporting the fact that even though there was a vote to get rid of it, that we're not eliminating that.
If you guys believe that, that's fine say it but | hope you don't allow that to fester out there in the world because it's not
what we're doing. What it does is it stops us from trying to do the really good things for our Wards whether it's fixing a
park, or putting through mental health legislation, or whatever the things we do to make the city a better city. It gets in the
way when people are saying things that aren't false. To Alderman Mora’s point, that's the part | have to go let them talk.
There’s 70,000 other people in the city that don't believe that, but that's my problem. So thank you.
Alderwoman Timmons
Thank you, Madam President. Now | know what flew out of my head Alderman Klee. It was the secret meeting that |
wasn't invited. | wanted to say that before it flies out of head again but | asked her what secret meeting. You know I’m
not invited to the secret meetings and | was concerned about it. So thank you. Thank you.
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