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Fred S. Teeboom
24 Cheyenne Drive
Nashua, NH 03063

March 3, 2022

Mayor Jim Donchess
President and Members, Nashua Board of Aldermen

Copy: --City Attorney Steve Bolton
--Tom Dolan, Chairman NH House Municipal and County Government Committee

Listening to the NH House Municipal and County Government Committee’s discussion on HB1342 on
1 March I was struck by the gross misrepresentation by a member of that committee, Representative
Patricia Klee, who is also Nashua’s Ward 3 alderman.

Representative Klee, quoting from a 2019 NH Supreme Court decision, stated that Nashua has no
override provision in its Spending Cap. Nothing is farther from the truth. The override of the cap on
spending in the Nashua Charter reads in part:

§ 56-d. Exception to budget limitation (adopted 1993)

The total or any part of principal and interest payments of any municipal bond, whether established for
school or municipal purposes, may be exempted from the limitation defined in paragraph 56-c
upon an affirmative vote of at least ten (10) aldermen. This decision shall be made annually.

The language of this override differs from the NH 2011 laws that enshrined tax and spending caps, but
that difference was “grandfathered” with the language of RSA B:13, II (a), and further clarified with SB-
52 enacted last year, to now read:

RSA 49-B: 13. Il-a (revised 2021)

Notwithstanding RSA 49-B: 1, all town or city charters which have been adopted, revised, or
amended before July 5, 2011 to include a tax or spending cap of any kind and all charter
commissions which have been properly established and elected; all elections properly held; and all
actions properly taken related to the tax or spending cap in such charters are hereby endorsed,
ratified, validated, and legalized and are fully enforceable.

SB52 unambiguously grandfathers all tax and spending caps of any kind and supersedes, with the
highlighted text, an earlier 2019 NH Supreme Court 3:2 decision which (in a highly convoluted analysis)
ignored the NH 2011 “grandfather” clause and thereby ruled the Nashua override invalid.

Representative Klee read from the 2019 NH Supreme Court decision, but as a Nashua alderman was or
should have been, briefed by city counsel and is, or should be, fully aware that the NH Supreme Court
case she quoted has been negated and superseded with SB52.

Ms. Klee pretends to “save” the Nashua override, when in fact, by removing the language inserted in year
2021 (with SB52) through HB1342 she aims to restore the 2019 NH Supreme Court decision. Thereby
she not only “kills” the Nashua spending cap, but “kills” the tax and spending caps of seven (7) NH cities
and towns that passed tax or spending caps before 5 July 2011.

I find Ms. Klee’s e misrepresentation contemptible.

Fred §. Seekwuni ~~,

Former alderman-at-/ar
Author of Nashua’s

Graham, Donna

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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2022 3:52 PM

To: boa@nashuanh.gov <boa@nashuanh.gov>
Subject: Nashua Downtown, Barriers or no Barriers

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This is my opinion on the barrieres. Personally, | am against them and this is why!

I love outdoor dining, but I did not like Nashua’s. It was too distracting and took much longer to get from one end of
Main Street to the other (I live off of South Maine so it’s Main Street or hop on highway to get to Broad Street) Not
all restaurants used it! I also found it horrible to be seated near the barriers when dining down town only to consume
car fumes between each sip of my drink. I really liked the art idea and love some of the art featured but, they didn’t
necessarily match the restaurants vibes giving our Main Street a disconnect between something we may have been
going for. We will never stop eating down town regardless...we support our local businesses!

] also agree with what another poster mentioned that it did a really great job serving its purpose helping restaurants
keep their doors open during the worst time!

Thank you for listening.
Theresa Lucier

38 Revere Street
Nashua, NH 03060

Graham, Donna

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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2022 3:54 PM
To: Board of Aldermen

Subject: Main Street Barriers

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To the Board of Alderman,

We are not in support of having the barriers put back up on Main Street. They are a safety hazard and they
inhibit more businesses than they help. They disenfranchise the elderly and disabled from having easy
walkability and access to the merchants along Main Street. These may have been helpful and supportive when
the pandemic began however that is not the case today; businesses can be fully open and operational.

We would ask the board to vote against having the barriers put back on Main Street in downtown Nashua.

Thank you,

Vernon MacKay
Mariellen MacKay
Alexandria MacKay
9 Webster Street
Nashua, NH 03064
Ward 3

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Graham, Donna

From: Colleen Ward-Scott EE,

Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2022 4:10 PM
To: Board of Aldermen
Subject: Barriers

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Dear Sirs and Madams

lam writing to discourage you from continuing barriers in the downtown area of Nashua.

As a lifelong citizen | applaud that you want to bring more business to our area but not in this way. The barriers are
dangerous, non appealing despite your efforts and those designing them to be so.

It would be better to route traffic totally away from the downtown and make it a walking city at least in the summer.
The smell of the streets, the pollution from the cars and the dust that gets on your food should be enough for ALL the
people to vote against this.

You all were afraid of Covid, you should all be more afraid of this.

My lungs don’t need this, | never eat outside downtown. And neither should any of you.

Colleen Ward-Scott

16 Wellman Ave

Nashua, NH

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Graham, Donna

From: craig webster

Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2022 4:52 PM
To: Board of Aldermen

Subject: Lane blockage and no parking problem

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I'm craig at 400 e Dunstable rd and supporting the lane blockage problem at top of him at the park at spitbrook
rd and e Dunstable rd. There are no parking signs and everyone parks there when it snows and nobody cares
about the sights. The city of nashua needs to fix this and one solution is if your gonna put a disc golf set up in
you need more parking as well . And parking could be such as angle parking along east Dunstable where the
golf course is set to be or more parking to the left of the parking area now. Course it would have to be
constructed and since the city likes to waste money and taxes keep going up you might as well waste more
money on that. Who gave the ok for this anyway I hate the idea but if it goes in whatever well see how many
people use it and if hardly anyone does then you've done a good job wasting all our money. So again you need
to address this and not 3 years from now.

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Graham, Donna

From: Jennifer Neveu

Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2022 11:23 PM
To: Board of Aldermen

Subject: Expanded outdoor dining

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Hello,

| would like to express my support for expanded outdoor dining in Nashua.
Thank you,

Jennifer Neveu

100 Dublin Ave

Nashua NH 03063

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Graham, Donna

From: cbrox20
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2022 9:42 AM
To: Board of Aldermen

Subject: Nashua Main Street summer dining

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I would like to express my opinion that we should continue with the summer dining program on Main Street in
Nashua. The program in previous years has made the area extremely vibrant and inviting for people to enjoy the
lovely ambience of our downtown.

I understand that there were some concerns from some of the merchants about not having enough parking space
and if this can be mitigated to everyone's satisfaction that would be the best outcome.

Please vote to keep this program which is added so much to our community.
Sincerely,
Christina Brown

67 Cadogan Way
Nashua NH 03062

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From: Danielle Mackie

Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2022 11:48 AM
To: Board of Aldermen

Subject: End the concrete barriers

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To the Board of Alderman-

I’m emailing you today in opposition of continuing the installation of concrete barriers in downtown Nashua. This
shouldn't even be up for discussion since Nashua PD, Nashua Fire Rescue, and AMR have expressed their safety concerns
regarding the barriers. Please don’t ignore their concerns! There is absolutely no need to continue this for another 3
years. The extra outdoor dining was put in place for restaurants during Covid restrictions and we don’t need that lifeline
anymore.

Please vote to end the barriers!

Thank you,
Danielle Mackie
29 Palisade Dr,

Graham, Donna

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From: LYNN E. VINCENT
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 5:03 PM
To: Board of Aldermen
Subject: regarding board meeting tonite

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To who it may concern,
please do not allow those ugly barriers to go up for this summer. Covid is over.
It makes our downtown look dumpy.

Lynn DeGagne
92 Prescott st
Nashua,N.H. 03064