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Board of Aldermen 11-09-2021 Page 26

and they're working to do that for the State. But then as a city, we want to make sure that when people are coming here
for, you know, the recognition and the support that they need, that we're also able to welcome them and help them find
their link in our community and in our neighborhoods. So little meals like Veteran Day thing go a long way towards that
and it's great to see the community supporting that.

President Wilshire

Is there anyone else? No. Okay.

Committee announcements:

Alderman Dowd

Yes. Thursday the 18th at 7pm, Joint Special School Building Committee at Nashua High School North.

Alderman Caron

Yes, thank you. Special Personnel meeting will be held on Monday, November 15", at 7 pm and we will be discussing the
appointment of CFO Griffin to Tax Collector.

President Wilshire

Any other committee announcements?

| guess | forgot to weigh in on remarks. I'd like to thank the City Clerk and her staff for all the work they did this last
election. They work hard. They work long hours. It's much appreciated.

And congratulations to everyone who ran during this election and to those who won and to those who didn't win. Thank
you for putting yourself out there for that.

| also would like to wish all Veterans especially those here in the chamber, a Happy Veterans Day.

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE NOVEMBER 9, 2021, MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN BE
ADJOURNED, BY ROLL CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd,

Alderman Caron, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,

Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Laws, Alderman Cleaver,

Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 14
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 9:09 p.m.

Attest: Susan K. Lovering, City Clerk

UNOFFICIAL RESULTS OF NOVEMBER 2, 2021 MUNICIPAL ELECTION

Record of Returns - Municipal Election -- Nashua, NH -- November 2, 2021
Charter sec. 23: The Board of Aldermen “on the Tuesday next following such election...shall canvass the returns and declare the result.”

["] denotes winner(s)

Wards 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
Regular Ballots Cast 2231 1493 1699 633 1937 1125 4188 = 1513 1783 13602
Absentee Ballots Cast 98 60 81 21 68 36 64 97 73 598
Total Ballots Cast 2329 1553 1780 654 2005 1161 1252 1610 1856 14200
Beginning Voter Registration 6446 5519 5441 3827 6503 4585 4751 6012 6075 49159
New Voter Registration 57 35 61 31 43 31 44 52 61 415
Total Election Day Reg. 6503 5554 5502 3858 6546 4616 4795 6064 6136 49574
Turnout Percentage 35.8% 28.0% 32.4% 17.0% 30.6% 25.2% 26.1% 26.6% 30.2% 28.6%
|Alderman-at-Large 3) sf
Gloria J. Timmons* 874 664 718 284 723 443 471 688 733 5598
Kristin Wilson 887 479 §12 167 550 336 314 429 481 4155
Laura Colquhoun 659 449 547 1790 600 305 420 488 564 4202
Paula Johnson 709 456 501 183 763 362 467 486 623 4550
Shoshanna Kelly* 938 712 796 308 836 484 512 751 798 6135
Melbourne Moran, Jr.* 859 657 733 269 747 465 522 730 727 5709
Donald Whalen 813 545 6138 180 719 386 496 486 606 4849
(Board of Education (4) j
Robert Johnson 412 266 324 127 352 259 215 298 471 2724
Caitlyn Fahey-Pearl 493 227 228 109 345 174 149° = 269 324 2318
Allison Dyer 716 516 557 182 636 335 445 481 530 4398
Heather Raymond* 965 659 708 246 751 458 494 699 740 §720
Christina Dariing* 751 562 650 240 654 391 474 = 636 562 4920
Rosmery Torres 496 221 231 128 318 209 197 223 306 2329
Alicia Houston 660 443 532 176 616 315 435 443 524 4144
Neil Claffey* 1039 785 862 275 857 483 501 793 874 6469
Kristie Hart 637 432 520 150 605 290 392 454 488 3968
Regan Lamphier* 774 580 613 228 638 386 403 639 625 4886
Lynn D. L'Heureux 662 507 538 179 731 365 432 484 661 4559

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UNOFFICIAL RESULTS OF NOVEMBER 2, 2021 MUNICIPAL ELECTION

Record of Returns ~ Municipal Election -- Nashua, NH -- November 2, 2021

[*] denotes winner(s)

Wards 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
[Fire Commission - 4 Year (2)]
Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja* 1013 680 749 304 865 536 568 916 B46 6477
John S. Steere* 873 643 893 292 853 491 529 630 764 5968
Anthony 8. Patti Ill 861 448 511 209 661 385 448 432 575 4530
[Fire Commission - 2 Year (1)]
Sherry Dutzy 810 558 686 257 672 422 429 637 618 5089
Gary Lambert* 1179 763 909 303. 1024 572 682 705 910 7047
{Public Works (2)
June Lemen* 870 595 773 260 736 445 480 683 685 §527
Laurie Ortolano 869 630 686 207 803 418 509 581 649 5352
Paul Shea” 1028 693 814 325 870 563 560 759 848 6460
Tracy Pappas 888 562 685 218 746 388 480 523 672 5162
Question 1 - Sports Book Retail Operations
YES* 7218 754 883 368 1015 702 691.757 1013 7401
NO 1004 732 §29 252 918 415 528 761 777 6216
{Question 2 - Police Commission Charter Question
YES 778 565 663 265 612 402 401 625 633 4944
NO* 1498 964 1088 365 1362 736 840 925 1182 8960
Ward One | Ward Two | Ward Three
Alderman (1) Alderman (1) Alderman (1)
Jan Schmidt 1089 Donald Scott 647 Patricia Klee* 934
Tyler Gouveia* 1137 Richard A. Dowd* 786 Daniel Richardson 757
Moderator (1) Moderator (1) Moderator (1)
William E. Bordy* 1518 Sheri Macpherson* 1033 Jared Holland* 1189
Clerk (1) Clerk (1) Clerk (1)
Mary A. Brundage* 1542 Maureen Lund* 1044 Diane J. Griffith” 1159
Selectmen (3) Selectmen (3) Selectmen (3)
Jaclyn Leonardi* 1280 Teresa Moler* 804 Paula Smith* 926
Andrew Vaughan* 1154 Bevin Mahoney Anderson* 763 Elizabeth C. Lewis* 946
John Longan* 1195 Julie Norris* > HORT Steven B. Lionel* 876

UNOFFICIAL RESULTS OF NOVEMBER 2, 2021 MUNICIPAL ELECTION

Record of Returns — Municipal Election -- Nashua, NH -- November 2, 2021

("] denotes winner(s)

Ward Four | Ward Five | Ward Six
Alderman (1) Alderman (1) Alderman (1)
Peter Lajoie 239 Ermest Jette* 1015 Alexander R. Comeau* §35
Thomas Lopez* 355 Charles Lothrop 793 Jordan M. Thompson 472
Elizabeth Lu 83
Moderator (1) Moderator (1) Moderator (1)
Fred Davis* 451 Albertina “Tina” Clark* 1266 Write-in: Edward Cieary* 2
Clerk (1) Clerk (1) Clerk (1)
Barry Cardin* 458 Paula D. Dobens* 1298 Write-in: James Nendza* 2
Selectmen (3) Selectmen (3) Selectmen (3)
Ronald B. Hayden* 433 Frank Clark* 1056 Write-in: Paul Wiele* 5
Write-in: Arthur Craffey* 8 Charles Hafemann* 949 Write-in: Dennis Rose* 2
Lua aoe ae 6 Write-in: Catherine Ackerm: 79 Write-in: Robert Fleming*
Laughton 2
Ward Seven | Ward Eight ] Ward Nine
Alderman (1) Alderman (1) Alderman (1)
Johnathan Cathey* 584 Derek Thibeault* 817 Linda Harriott-Gathright 755
Raymond Guarino 532 Patrick C. Parks 669 John Sullivan* 996
Moderator (1} Moderator (1) Moderator (1)
Timothy J. Sennott* 850 Robert Scheifele* 960 Eric Brown" 1185
Clerk (1) Clerk (1) Clerk (1)
Judith Blachek* 869 Jonathan "Jack" M. Currier” 960 Emily Adasczik* 1201
Selectmen (3) Selectmen (3) Selectmen (3)
Elizabeth H. Forney* 699 Franklin Bolmarcich* 929 Modhumeta Vornehm* 1107
Louis C. Juris* 647 Write-in: Tina Gray* 15 Write-in: Paula Moran* 22
Write-in: Dee Hogan” 43 Write-in: Mary Daly* 13 Write-in: Debra Jolicoeur* 10

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Office of the City Clerk

City of Nashua

229 Main Street Susan Lovering

Nashua, NH 03061-2019 City Clerk

(603) 589-3010, Option #5 Allison Waite

CityClerkDept@NashuanH.Gov Deputy City Clerk
Memorandum

To: Board of Aldermen
From: Susan K. Lovering, City cient
Date: November 9, 2021

Re: Proposed Rules of Procedure Relative to the Recount of Ballots Cast

Ward 1 Alderman Race — November 2, 2021 Municipal General Election

Charter Section 26 sets forth the recount procedures for city elections, but is silent as to
the specific steps for the actual recount. Since 2003, the Board of Aldermen has closely
modeled the Rules of Procedure for Recounts used by the NH Secretary of State under
RSA 660:5, Conduct of Recount. That procedure authorizes the use of such assistants
as may be required and states that the recount teams “shail visually inspect each baliot.”
Election officials, from wards other than Ward 1, and City Clerk personnel will be available
on Saturday to assist with the recount of the ballot cast

| respectfully request that the Board of Aldermen adopt the following Rules of Procedure
for the recount for the votes cast in the Ward 1 Alderman race to be held on November
13, 2021, beginning at 9 a.m. in the City Hall Auditorium.

Thank you.

Under Charter section 26, the Mayor is assigned the responsibility for opening the sealed
boxes of ballots returned by Ward Election Officials the night of the election.

The Rules of Procedure for Recounts previously approved by the Board of Aldermen, are
as follows:

1.
2.
3.

RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR RECOUNTS
The City Clerk will operate with two-person recount teams.
For each two-person team, each candidate may have one observer.

Each candidate will be informed as to how many two-person teams will be
conducting his/her particular recount.
a. The candidate or designee shail be responsible for identifying, organizing,
instructing, and supervising the candidate’s observers.
b. The City Clerk will conduct the recount as scheduled. The recount will not
be delayed by the absence of a candidate or of a candidate’s observers.
c. It is the sole responsibility of the candidate or his/her designee to ensure
that the candidate has an observer at each counting team

Each candidate, directly or through his or her observers, will control the pace of
the recount and bear responsibility for the accuracy of the recount.

a. The procedures set forth below allow the candidate or his/her observers to
slow or stop the process at any point should doubt arise about how a ballot
is being counted or the accuracy of the counting.

b. However, only one opportunity will exist to challenge the count of each ballot
and only one opportunity will exist to challenge the accuracy of each step
of the counting process.

c. When a candidate or his/her observer fails to make a challenge when that
one opportunity arises, the candidate waives his or her privitege to contest
the manner in which a ballot is counted or the accuracy of that step in the
counting process.

Observers shall not have any writing instrument in their hands at any time while
observing or while sitting at the recount table.

Observers are prohibited from touching the ballots.
Observers shall not have any food or drink at the recount table.

No cell phones may be used in the recount area.

Much of the recount process requires that counters and observers maintain
concentration and keep their focus on the ballot before them. Loud or interfering
conversations among bystanders will not be tolerated and bystanders may be
directed into the hallway so that their conversations do not interfere with the
recount process.

10. The Mayor shall unseal the boxes containing the ballots which are to be counted

11.

and the City Clerk will distribute all ballots to the counting teams. A counting
team member will be designated to hold up a ballot and declare for whom the
vote was cast. The counting team member shall afford the observers an
opportunity to view each ballot. The moment when a ballot is presented for
viewing by the observer is the one and only opportunity for the observer to
challenge how the counting team intends to count the ballot.

In a recount for a single seat office, counted ballots will be stacked as follows:
ballots for candidate A, ballots for candidate B, no-vote ballots (blank or overvotes),
write-in ballots, and challenged ballots.

12. If an observer challenges how a ballot is being counted, the counting team may

agree that the ballot was inadvertently being sorted into the wrong stack and if the
counting team and all observers agree, the ballot may be added to the correct
stack.

13. If the counting team and any observer disagree on how to count a ballot, the ballot

will be set aside into the challenged ballot stack. The Board of Aldermen will later
rule on and count the ballots in the protest stack.

14. After the sorting process is complete, one counting team member shall count the

ballots from each stack into groups of 25 ballots.

a. The second counting team member shall recount each stack to verify that
there are 25 ballots in each group.

b. Observers shall be afforded an opportunity to observe the counting in a
manner that permits the observer to verify that the count is accurate. The
moment when the second counting team declares that a group contains
exactly 25 ballots is the last moment when an observer can protest the
accuracy of the count of that group.

15. The counting team shall count the number of stacks of 25 and any remaining

ballots and enter the total number of ballots containing votes for each candidate

on a tally sheet.
a. The counting team shall count in a manner that allows the observer to verify

the accuracy of the count.

b. The counting team shall show each observer the completed tally sheet
before the team takes the sheet to the City Clerk who will add the results of
each counting team on a master tally sheet. Observers are encouraged to
document the tally sheet result for their candidate and to verify that the team
count is accurately entered on the master tally sheet.

16.When all teams counting ballots from the same polling place have completed their
counts, the Board of Aldermen will rule on all challenged ballots from that polling
place. If the Board’s decision is protested, the City Clerk will attach on the
protested ballot a statement of fact. Protested ballots shall be separately
preserved.

17. The candidate who requested the recount may cancel same at any time during the
procedure, at which time the City Clerk will publicly announce the candidate’s
request to cancel the recount and that particular recount will cease at once. The
official results for the election shall be those results announced immediately after

the election.

18. The City Clerk will maintain a tally sheet showing the old and new figures and at
the completion of a recount will present the Board of Aldermen with those figures.
The Board of Aldermen shall then dectare the results of such recount or contest.

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appreciate you being people of honor to take this under consideration. All of those in favor, you know how | feel about
you. Thank you for your service.

Bob Keating

My name is Bob Keating, 5 Coburn Woods. I’m a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church, and Social Justice
Committee, and Granite State Organizing Project. Coming here today, | feel some sense to speaking to the choir
because the process on this inclusionary zoning I'm asking for your support on that has been to me a wonderful example
of a positive process. There was research done to demonstrate what was needed - a second research there. The Board
of Aldermen was actively engaged, Matt Sullivan, Tim Cummings, and Sarah Marchant | think educated the public.

What | think is created here is what we've been wanting to do is to increase more affordable housing. For every 10 unit
development, more units will be created or at least money set aside for it. It will also be done in such a way that will not
be a burden to the city or taxpayers. It will not be a burden to the developers because of the set asides. So it's really to
me it's sort of like a civics lesson and about how government can work and how a community can move through a
particular process. We know this doesn't create, you know, staggering amounts but it is one more method and it also
sends us an extremely positive message about we were willing to tackle an issue to move things along of it. Really what
we're doing is that we're going to reduce the burden of housing costs for some families and hopefully that in our upcoming
legislation with opera money, we'll be able to do more of that. I’m here. | didn't think a message needed to be said but |
wanted to continue the message that for GSOP and many others feel, this is good what has occurred and | wanted to be
part of what | believe will be a yes vote on this all the way through. So thanks again and Happy New Year to all of you
and we'll miss Linda and Alderman Caron for next year. With Skip up there, | don't see him, but I'll miss him too. And Jan
obviously from my Ward Alderman. Take care. So thanks again.

Rabbi John Spira-Savett

Good evening. | want to say I'm Jonathan Spira-Savett. | live at 39 Coburn Avenue. My best wishes to those of you who
are sick and healing, and my thanks to those of you finishing your terms of service, and all of you really for this intense
period of service you have been in. | served as Rabbi of Temple Beth Abraham on Raymond Street. I'm one of the
leaders of the Greater Nashua Interfaith Housing Justice Group and | represented Ward 1 on the Imagine Nashua Master
Plan Steering Committee.

I'm speaking in support like Bob of O-21-073 amending the inclusionary zoning supplementary use regulations to speak
as part of a group of religious leaders who meet every two weeks on affordable housing. For two years, we have been
working closely with the Community Development Department formerly Director Marchant, Manager Sullivan, as well as
Director Cummings, and other staff members of this Board, and Mayor Donchess. We've been there to advocate at the
Statehouse for affordable housing policies that you have sought to help the city innovate and collaborate with developers
and secured funding sources. We've been networking within our congregations, finding members of different connections
to housing issues and networking has cleared profit of real estate and business communities.

There are more of us speaking regularly at your meetings and communicating regularly with you about affordable housing
policies when they were a couple of years ago. Behind us are many more in our congregations. You can know that going
forward the work of adding more affordable housing with many more hands with new skills and perspectives to build not
just homes, more vibrant neighborhoods, and to find and carry through the creative and effective approaches that a city
like Nashua is uniquely poised to execute. Your city staff and your committees have set up this end of year victory for one
step among more than common to make our city a tighter community where fewer people spend more than they can
afford on rent and mortgage where we are less divided by how much we earn. The people who teach our kids, and take
care of our sick, and fight our fires and keep us safe, their whole lives here as resident would have to just commute here.
Because of a more interwoven way of living, we can all see the picture of the city and (inaudible) and bring better eyes to
the solutions, the challenges that we can see better because we'll see them together.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.

Bob Keating

The proposal in front of you O-21-073 responds to a moral necessity for housing in a way that is practical financially.
When you have those opportunities, you have to take them. Next year we'll work together on the harder parts and we'll
build on tonight's votes, and the values you affirm, and the partner standing behind it with you eager to work together with
you. Thank you.

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John Sullivan

Good evening. John Sullivan, 30 Holbrook Drive in Nashua. I'm speaking out tonight urging the Board to reject
Resolution 21-202 and 203. Nashua doesn't have an open space problem. We have a housing problem. Reading the
city's Master Plan under the parks and natural areas goal section, nowhere under the five action items listed does it
recommend the expansion of Greeley Park. In fact, Greeley Park isn't even mentioned in that portion of the plan.
Nashua’s Master Plan advises the following: protect Pennichuck Brook corridor, expand planning for Salmon Brook by
extending conservation land protection - which is in Ward 9. We sold Camp Doucette to a private developer. So | guess
we missed the mark on that. Review park inventory to determine how accessible parks are for all residents, seek funding
and build neighborhood parks in areas of the city and | quote, “that are park deficient”. This part of town certainly is not
park deficient.

Nashua’s 2020 housing study calls for all levels of housing and puts a number out there 5,000 units for the city. Thanks to
the Planning Department, I’ve come upon some numbers. We have 40 units of housing that have either been constructed
or underway, another 800 new units of housing in various stages of construction, and there are about 500 more in very
early stages of approval but there is no guarantees that those will all be built. Add those altogether conservatively, we are
still a long way away from the 5,000 units that we need.

If we move forward on this, then we sit around in five years and still wonder why we have a housing problem. You can
draw a line from the decisions that we make today as to why we still have that problem. We pay to come up with these
studies. Let's follow the guidance and the studies and stay true to it. Thank you.

Lela Spira-Savett

Hello, my name is Lela Spira-Savett. | live at 39 Coburn Avenue. I'm a recent graduate of Nashua High School North and
a first year student at Barnard College. During my last three semesters at North, | served as a researcher for the greater
Nashua Interfaith Housing Justice Group. | learned about housing policy both in the US and in our State and city. In
response to the requests the group got from the city, | created a briefing about affordable housing trust funds that some of
you on the Board have heard me present. | took part in other meetings in the city and statewide addressing the impact of
the pandemic on renters and landlords. As you know, more than 40% of Nashua renters are cost burdened spending
more than 30% of their income on housing and almost a third of those who work here cannot afford to live here. The
existing State and federal programs for affordable housing are beginning but we do not have nearly enough funding
sources right now at the scale of our need.

Inclusionary zoning, which | found in my research to be a widely used and successful way to increase affordable housing,
is one way for city policy, city leaders, and developers to work together in a way that will make more of an impact without
financial burdens on the builder, the landlord, or the city. It is important for some of my peers who will move back to
Nashua after college as well as other young people looking for a place to live as they start their careers to have affordable
options for housing. It is also important for any community striving to be dynamic and diverse to not have the cost of
housing the barrier to living here. | hope tonight you will pass O-21-073 and keep the momentum going for more
affordable housing. Thank you.

Paul Metzgar

Thank you. Paul Metzgar, 25 Columbia Ave., Ward 3 speaking in favor of R-21-202 and R-21-203. First, I'd like to thank
all of you, Board of Aldermen, Mr. Mayor for your service to the city. Even if you don't agree with my position, | respect
you and | appreciate what you do. But why do you do it? Why did you agreed to serve the city? | expected to not
because you enjoy seeing the underbelly of human nature, hearing all the complaints receiving threats so why do it? |
expect that part of it is you feel a need to represent your constituents. Part of it may be that you're drawn to fulfilling your
civic duty to serve the city. Part of it may be that you feel a sense of stewardship. You want to keep the city going down
the right path, fix a few things along the way, and leave it in a better position than you found it for your children and their
children.

It's the sense of stewardship that I'd like to address tonight. Now, | know that anything | say tonight is unlikely to change
the minds of those of you who are opposed to these resolutions but I'm going to try anyway. So regarding the property at
15 Bartlett Ave. if someone wants to take the front part of the property where the house and lawn is subdivided that and
build a few houses, | don't think that any of us, myself included, would be opposed to that. The part I'm concerned about
is the back part of the property - the old growth forest and wetlands. That forest is surrounded on three sides by city
property. Look at a map. The Barker forest is essentially a peninsula that juts into Greeley Park. Yes, technically it abuts
the park but | challenge anyone who looks at a map to tell me with a straight face that that property doesn't look like it's
already part of the park. Cutting down that forest will forever change the look and feel of the west side of Greeley.