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You have to represent your constituents. | get it but how many have spoken in opposition? Tens maybe 100. Earlier
today | e-mailed you the spreadsheet with the signatures from the change.org petition imploring you to purchase the
property. We currently have the overwhelming support of almost 3,000 people with 1,300 of those — 1,300 in Nashua and
majority of those being outside of Ward 3. Now Alderman Klee is estimated at the annual cost of the 20 year bond to
purchase this property is about $158,000. According to the US Census Bureau, population of Nashua is about 91,000.
So we're talking about $.175 per person. For comparison...

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.
John Sullivan

...walk up a Dunkin Donuts coffee - $2.27. So that stewardship thing, what's going to make you prouder telling your
children and your grandchildren that you saved them the cost of a small coffee or that you did the right thing and that you
personally helped save the forest for them. Thank you and again even if you choose to vote no, | thank you for your
service to the city.

Tim Root

Hi many name is Tim Root. | live at 63. Berkeley Street. A longtime resident of Nashua - my entire life. | grew up here
with my family, four brothers. Three of us still live in the city. | want to thank the Aldermen for holding this session tonight.
| Know it's a busy time of year, and | hope you all had a happy holiday, and | look forward to a new year.

| personally walk Greeley Park all the time. | actually have a plot in the garden down there as well and so really have a lot
of first-hand knowledge of the beauty of the park as well as seeing thousands and thousands of people enjoying the
space on a regular basis. If any of you have not walked the backside of the park going by the Barker land, | strongly
recommend you do that to get a feel for what we're talking about and how much of that land will change on the backside
of Greeley.

| think it's really important to see this as a short term investment but a long term opportunity for the city. There aren't
properties like this that exist anymore in Nashua. This is a lot of space where there's a lot of things a town could
potentially do with it. | think number one, though, is looking for keeping a feel of Greeley and keeping that open space.

As was mentioned earlier, really critical. It brings people to Nashua. It's highly recommended the Greeley Park for people
to go there. It's just a great experience.

So a lot of people have mentioned a lot of the reasons. | just wanted to add on to that and hope you're strongly, strongly
in favor of both of these resolutions. | think it's critical for Nashua to think long term and look at properties like this as
something that is not available. You're talking about the plan. | agree the plan probably didn't talk about expanding
Greeley because there were no options (inaudible) It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for Nashua to grab this space and
then looking to do what we want with it to enrich the city over time. So that's all | want to say. Please thank you for your
time and appreciate your recommendations that the folks on the Aldermen that are in favor of it and in hope those that are
not appreciate the time in listening to the comments.

Bob Born

Hi. I'm Bob Born, 28 Farley Street. Thank you for the time this evening. I'm speaking in favor of R-21-203 and 202 the
acquisition of the Bartlett forest property. A lot of things have happened since the last meeting all leading us tonight's
discussion and your ultimate vote. We know that developers who had the first purchase and sale agreement for the
Barker Family Trust has backed out thus giving us a little bit of time on this more of the community and | pray to your
hearts. We know that there are at least two more offers pending on this property, neither of which will be as clean and I'll
put “clean” in quotes as a city adding the acreage to Greeley Park. Please don't let this get away.

The last time | spoke, | mentioned that there will be many topics to address. There still are all germane to the community
issues, topics including traffic, water, sewer, environmental, safety, etc. all of which are critical but tonight I'm going to
address our collective responsibility to the greater good of Nashua. As parents we make decisions about and for our
children. Some decisions are difficult. Difficult because they may result in short term pain but ultimately we believe in the
positive result. As family members, we do similarly. We defend what needs to be defended, we protect what needs to be
protected, we help our families often times making those difficult decisions. As members of neighborhoods, we do the
same thing. We assist in helping our neighbors with the needs of the neighborhood. Neighborhood Watch is a great

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example of this. As community members, again, we follow suit. We assist, we contribute, we help in any way we can.
For that, we are all better off.

Greeley Park was given to a larger entity - the city. Not to the neighborhood, not to the Ward. The result has been
spectacular. Mr. Greeley did this not because it was better for him or his family but for the greater good. It didn't benefit
the Greeley children. It didn't benefit the Greeley neighbors. It didn't benefit the lessors and pieces of the Greeley Farm.
It was purely of benefit to the city, and those that enjoy the park, and those that will enjoy the park. I'm asking you to put
down your guards and your conscience and use your conscience and think about the benefits to the city as a whole.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.

Bob Born

To think bigger than just the impact on you individually, your family, your neighborhood, your Ward, your larger
community, the city wins with your decision to purchase the parcel. I've heard or you will hear about many topics that are
critical to the issue of developing the Barker property. You've been given a gift during this holiday season. The gift will
allow you to cement an enduring legacy to continue to stabilize and grow the environment in and around Greeley Park.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

Time is up.
Bob Born

Perhaps one day this park will be up against the original size in grandeur of Mr. Greeley’s selfless gift. Thank you.

Kristy Besada

Thank you. My name is Reverend Kristy Besada. | live at 12 Nutmeg Drive in Nashua, Ward 9. | am also one of the
Pastors at Main Street United Methodist Church and | represent the Nashua Interfaith Housing Justice team and also
Granite State Organizing Project this evening. | first want to say thank you. As | have said many times before for your
work on inclusionary zoning. This amendment is going to be very important in ensuring that the people who live and work
in Nashua, particularly singles starting at about $56,000 up to households of four making about $109,000, will have places
that they can afford to live. Having been a housing justice worker in this city for years, however, | am aware that there are
many other struggling households, 40% of renters in fact, as Lela has so eloquently said who are still rent burden and are
struggling to continue to live here.

The housing study was referenced by Mr. Sullivan and the 5,000 unit need is extremely strong. So | want to call the
Board of Aldermen to a moment of accountability. It is clear to me that the city government is willing to go into significant
debt to protect and enhance the experiences of our middle class to more affluent residents through debt, for performing
arts centers, for park enhancements, and I'm not here to argue with those choices at all. But | would like to ask the Board
as well as the Bartlett neighbors who speak about caring for the whole community to be accountable and to join us in
working toward housing that all Nashuans can afford.

| am here to remind you that we have $16 million of American Rescue Plan money coming into the city that has not yet
been designated for being spent and I'm asking the Board to consider being accountable to the goals of the Master Plan,
to the goals of the housing study, and to designate the majority of that money to affordable housing be it through special
projects or the Affordable Housing Trust Fund that still needs to be fleshed out. | thank you so much for hearing me this
evening and | asked you again to support inclusionary zoning in its current form fully. Thank you.

Francis Murphy

Good evening. My name is Francis Murphy and | want to make sure it can be heard. Thank you. | speak to urge the
Board to move forward on the purchase of the Barker property on Bartlett Street so it can be integrated into Greeley Park.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

Your address, please.

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Francis Murphy

72 Berkeley Street, thank you. I'm here speaking in my private capacity but I'm also the President of the Friends of
Greeley Park as well as Chairman of a group formed under State law - the Lower Merrimack River Local Advisory
Committee. Our task is to advocate for all good things related to the river. It's been referenced to the Master Plan. My
main purpose and point is to state that the purchase of the Bartlett Street property is entirely consistent with the city's
Master Plan. Indeed if the city were not to move forward with the purchase of the property, (inaudible) contrary to the
spirit and dictates of the Master Plan. I'm going to attempt to pull up portion of the Master Plan on a screen share. So
that's not working. I'm going to read from the Master Plan. On objective 2, the Master Plan states, “the goal is for open
space, scenic areas, passive recreation, the city should strive to provide all residents of the city with adequate and
accessible recreational space”. The specific recommendation b says, “is to protect and set aside open space areas in
each of the city's quadrants wherever possible”. Aspiration recommendation F is, “acquire additional open space areas”.
Then finally, for my point, recommendation G is, “to amend site plans, such that clear cutting or near clear cutting of
vegetation should be prohibited”.

The plan that was put forward was to create 40 housing units over 55.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.

Francis Murphy

That would have been involving clear cutting most of the 13 acres. So | urge the purchase of the property as it is entirely
consistent with the Master Plan. Thank you.

Laurie Ortolano

Hi. Good evening. Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. Happy almost New Year. | wanted to give my support to the
affordable housing inclusionary zoning amendment. | believe the Board is going to back that tonight. | think that's a move
in the right direction. | hope we do some good monitoring of that program and if adjustments need to be made to it that
we move accordingly to make those adjustments.

I'd also like to speak regarding the Bartlett Street property. | think there was some good points raised from individuals
John Sullivan and another individual reading the housing issue and the housing shortage. | do think that, you know,
you're looking at creating housing versus preservation of land and it's a competing issue here. | see a lot of spending
going on in the city. | see a Mayor who's very liberal (inaudible) in spending and | don't see a lot of solutions in place as to
how we're going to afford what is being spent. So that concerns me, it continues to concern me. So the Board is going to
do what the Board is going to do but I'm, you know, I'm watching what's going on here.

Also a third item you have a lot of letters in your packet regarding the mask mandate that was put in place. | asked Donna
Graham to please provide me with any additional letters that didn't make it into the packet. Your packet had, | believe 29
letters, but there were additional 33 letters that didn't go in because they were not addressed properly with a full address
to be counted. | think when you look at - | hope all Board members got all of those letters because when you look at
those letters, | was pretty surprised to see the lack of support for the mask mandate on the level that | saw.

President Wilshire

We're not going to be acting upon that this evening Ms. Ortolano. Could you stick to items we're going to be acting upon?
Laurie Ortolano

Well they are the items you read into the record and you allowed me to do this before. So they were acknowledged. So
there were 42 people who were opposed to it and 21 people in support the mandate. So | hope that one individual or
several individuals on the Board asked for a weekly update on the numbers and a weekly briefing be given to the Board. |
don't see that that's on the agenda tonight but | would like you to pay attention to that because | think you don't have that
support because people are not buying into what you're stating. | think your Board of Health was very misleading in what
they gave to the Board.

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Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.
Laurie Ortolano

We're all concerned about the load on the hospitals. However, these are regional hospitals that support patients from all
over the area. Communities that are more population in the City of Nashua, we should assume that it's only Nashuans
that are filling the hospital beds. It's a misrepresentation. | expect more from our Board of Health when it comes to data
and | think they fell woefully short. Thank you.

Penny Ferreira

Okay, thank you. My name is Penny Ferreira. I'm on John's computer and we live at 3 Birchwood Drive in Nashua, New
Hampshire. Thank you for letting me speak again and | hope all of you had a really safe and blessed holiday with your
families. Thank you for all the work that you do, because this has been a learning curve for me and God bless you all.

So | had a wonderful exchange with Mr. O'Brien this afternoon. He's not only a dapper dresser but he's a good debater
and | told him | was gonna do a pros and cons and many of my neighbors have stayed in some of the bets that | wanted
to. One of the comments though that John Sullivan stated, respectfully John, if you look on page 178 of the Master Plan,
the main goal says, “recreation and open space to expand and enhance existing open spaces to balance the protection of
Nashua’s environmental assets with the opportunities for redevelopment”. Fran Murphy spoke so eloquently about
opportunity for this. He also educated me about the spring that is underneath this property. | heard from another
neighbor too that the land - the Barker land is kind of moist because of this spring. The only thing that's keeping it from
flooding are those trees. There's also a commitment | know from Alderman Klee that you are passionate about climate
control. This is a perfect opportunity to do that - to follow the Master Plan and to check off a huge win for climate control.

Mr. O'Brien you said that there were other Wards that said they don't have the green spaces because Greeley. Well they
may not have had the opportunity because of how their area is built but the southern quadrant is it's slated for the most
opportunity for building and it's also in your Master Plan that you will work with developers coming in to develop more
green space. So they have an opportunity to get their green space. Maybe not as big as Greeley but that can also be on
the added expense of the builder. | know that our Economic Developer Tim Cummings and Matt Sullivan will do a good
job at making sure that that happens. There are other Wards like Ward 1 with Jan Schmidt. You said that you...

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.

Penny Ferreira

...you would love to save the green space but you didn't hear it from your constituents. | have friends that live in your
area. | hope you got more e-mails this year stating that there are people in your area that use Greeley and would gladly
pay a higher tax. Caron you also lost property in your area. But again, it's a city. It's a city park so you have an
opportunity to save this land for the entire city. And even though...

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

Your time is up.

Penny Ferreira

Okay. Thank you. | really appreciate it. I'll come back.

Alex Comeau

Thank you. Alex Comeau, 4 Lewis Street. I'd like to begin by thanking the seven outgoing members of the Board —
Alderwoman Caron, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Lu, Alderman Cleaver, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman

Tencza and Alderman Cleaver. Thank you for your service to City of Nashua. | speak for a lot of people in my
neighborhood and we thank you for everything you've done for us.

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I'd like to speak tonight against R-21-202 and R-21-203. | keep hearing mentions of save our park and protect our park.
Just to be clear, you Know, | love Greeley Park myself. A development of this property would not have a negative impact
on existing services (inaudible) by Greely Park. New housing would not resulting in the loss of the horseshoe pits, or
softball fields, demolition of the sensory garden. It’s not going to result in the removal of walking trails. All of these things
that everybody loves about Greeley Park will still be there whether we buy this property or not. | spend a lot of time in
Mine Falls using trails for walking and biking. I've hosted many of my kids’ birthday parties in the picnic areas of Greeley
and I'm an avid softball player that makes frequent use of the softball fields. If there was any chance that this
development would negatively impact the use of the park, I'd be the first to stand against. But the fact is, that's not really
the case.

| am very sympathetic to the people who've spoken tonight against the development of a neighborhood. | don't blame
them for that. If | lived on Bartlett Ave. or Maywood Drive, | wouldn't want a new development in my backyard either. The
difference is there is a difference in being opposed to new construction new neighborhood and demanding with the city
government fork over $2.5 million to interfere with the private land deal. We as citizens should not expect the city to go
around buying up every property that somebody wants to develop.

Every time a needed project comes up in the city, we're told that there's no funding. | recently spoke with DPW about the
possibility of sidewalks along one road, which is a very busy street that children use to walk to school at Fairgrounds
Elementary and Fairgrounds Middle School as well as Bishop Guertin High School. It was estimated that it would cost
around a million dollars to undertake such a project and | was told there's no money in the budget. So it's disappointing to
know that there isn't a million dollars to build a sidewalks for children but there are people who think we should spend
nearly three times that to protect (inaudible).

A major problem that occurs in the city far too often is that too many people think that we can pay for everything we want
to do without restriction. The sad reality is that we can't pay for everything that we want. It's unfortunate that things like a
performing arts center, boardwalks, and parks along the river...

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds.
Alex Comeau

...are potentially interference in the private land sale to protect people's backyards can be pushed forward but the cost of
multiple tens of millions of dollars while kids have to walk in the street to get this. Thank you.

Michael Viggiano

Thank you. My name is Michael Viggiano from 35 Columbia Avenue. | want to speak in favor of the two resolutions. | had
a tremendous presentation ready but my predecessors have already covered most of what | wanted to say. | do want to
thank the Mayor for his perspective on this. Thank you Mayor Donchess. That was well put and | agree with you.
Through the miracle of technology, I'm actually speaking to you tonight from just outside of Red Rock, Colorado. My wife
and | are visiting our daughter out here and anybody who's been here is amazed by the open space that's available. The
amount of people who exercise, the amount of people who get outside, the amount of people who do everything they can
to be outside almost all the time, including my daughter and husband who live here.

(inaudible) state park as well. Anything like what we're talking about here tonight — Nashua - here in Colorado would be
unheard because open space is what people want. | think we have heard a very good number of pros and cons about
this project but favoring developing this land with housing, which really by the way is not affordable housing, is really off
the mark. So thank you to those who spoke before me, very well put. Thank you.

Dan Richardson

Dan Richardson, 70 Berkeley Street. | just want to make a few points. Part of the purpose of having a city park is its relief
for mental exhaustion actually. It's just so relaxing to go out and take a walk off the trails through the park and it's a very
important part of the therapy of developing mental health. That's one of the things that hadn't been said before. So |
wanted to get that out there.

The other thing is that you'll have to pass both of these resolutions tonight for preservation of that 13 acres as part of
Greeley Park because a lot of people don't know that at the end of a legislative term, which will be in the next few days,

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that all the legislation which has not yet been approved dies where it is on the table or in committee. So there's no
second chance. Tonight is the night. It needs to be decided now. Thank you very much.

President Wilshire

That looks like the end of our speakers for the evening or for this public comment period.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Multi-Year Contract Award — Software Subscription

Laura Colquhoun

Laura Colquhoun.

President Wilshire

We've already closed public comment.

Laura Colquhoun

Well | kept on saying Laura Colquhoun and nobody picked up.

President Wilshire

No one heard you.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE A NEW THREE
YEAR SUBSCRIPTION WITH WORKDAY ADAPTIVE PLANNING FOR 20 LICENSE SEATS AND THE APPROVAL
OF A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT DURING THE FIRST YEAR TO ASSIST WITH TRAINING AND
IMPLEMENTATION IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $323,780. FUNDING WILL BE THROUGH DEPARTMENT 126
FINANCIAL SERVICES; FUND: 71228 COMPUTER SOFTWARE/ESCROW FUNDS FROM INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY ($299,140) AND ESCROW FUNDS FROM SCHOOL ($24,640), 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 Schmidt, Alderman Laws,

Alderman Cleaver, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 15
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

From: Susan K. Lovering, City Clerk
Re: NRO 5 — 6 Compensation — Alderman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly missed three regular meetings

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO RECOMMEND INDEFINTELY POSTPONE, BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,

Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,

Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Cleaver,

Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 12

Nay: Alderwoman Lu 1

Abstained: Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Laws 2

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Alderwoman Lu
Point of order. | don't believe you can abstain from a vote if you're at the meeting.

Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel

I’m aware of no such requirement.
MOTION CARRIED

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

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO AUTHORIZE MAYOR DONCHESS TO EXECUTE EXHIBIT K FOR THE
PURPOSES THEREIN CONTAINED, BY ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION

Alderwoman Lu

Yeah, | won't be able to support this. This is a contract that we received today at afternoon and I'd have to vote against it
today. It seems to me it could be sent to committee. Well re-entered next year so that it could be properly viewed. Thank
you.

President Wilshire

You heard the motion. Is there more discussion on the motion? Seeing none, I'll turn it over to Attorney Bolton.

Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel

| sent it more than a week ago. | don't know where it's been but it got sent by me to the entire Board of Aldermen more
than a week ago. The settlement of the litigation is contingent upon our giving a response by January 2". So it is just
incorrect. There's plenty of time next year to deal with it.

President Wilshire

Thank you. Further discussion? Seeing none, will the Clerk call the roll?
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,

Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws, Alderman Cleaver,

Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 14
Nay: Alderwoman Lu 1
MOTION CARRIED
PETITIONS - None

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS - None

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the December 1, 2021 Finance Committee be
accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the December 2, 2021 Work Study Group Relative to
Police Commission be accepted and placed on file.

Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee... 20.0.0... 0000 cece cece cee ee eee eae seseeeeeeveeaea aes 12/06/2021

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the December 6, 2021
Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee be accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the December 7, 2021 Budget Review Committee be
accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the December 8, 2021 Committee on Infrastructure be
accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the report of the December 13, 2021 Human Affairs Committee be
accepted and placed on file.

CONFIRMATION OF BOARD OF ALDERMEN’S APPOINTMENTS - None

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-21-202
Endorsers: Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Skip Cleaver
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY TREASURER TO ISSUE BONDS NOT TO EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF
TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,500,000) TO PURCHASE PROPERTY ABUTTING
GREELEY PARK LOCATED AT 15 BARTLETT AVENUE (MAP 57, LOT 3)
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD TO TABLE R-21-202, BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws,

Alderman Wilshire 9
Nay: Alderman Klee, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Cleaver,

Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright 5
Abstained: Alderman Tencza 1

MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-21-202 declared tabled.

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R-21-203
Endorsers: Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Skip Cleaver
AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF PROPERTY LOCATED AT 15 BARTLETT AVENUE (MAP 57,
LOT 3)
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-21-203, BY ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Clemons

Thank you. So the reason | know that we just tabled the other legislation regarding this, which | believe was the bond, but
this legislation here would allow us to authorize the purchase. So what it would do in effect is allow us to enter into a
negotiation and figure out the funding source later, which has a couple of beneficial factors to it. One of which is that we
could potentially split up that property. There is a house on it now and that house could be sold, you know, as it stands
and put back onto the tax rolls after we purchased the property. So there's a lot of different things that we can do but we
can't do them unless we authorize us to at least negotiate or purchase this property. | also think that by (inaudible) it will
allow us to look at different options for funding as well and the new Board of Aldermen would be able to have that
discussion. So | think for a lot of different reasons that's why | would recommend that we move forward with this
resolution. Thank you.

Alderman Klee

| think Alderman Clemons spoke very well and | appreciate all the things he said. | agree with him. The first one, in my
opinion, 202 was basically getting pre-qualified fora mortgage. That's what I've always been saying all along. The
second one, 203 does stand on its own and it does it gives us negotiating power. The thing that should be noted is that
the original, and | think it was stated by one of the speakers, the original developer has stepped aside. It still does not
mean that the current owners or trustees of the property are going to sell it to us but it gives us that opportunity to speak
to them to negotiate a deal to work with them. As Alderman Clemons pointed out, what it does is it gives us the vetability
and | think we should consider this.

We've all gotten the emails. We've gotten a lot of e-mails from Ward 3. We've got a lot of e-mails from other Wards. | e-
mailed why | can't say we got more from one or the other because we all got individual emails as well as collective e-
mails. Our boxes are filling with them. | do want to say is that there are things that can be done whether we save the
forest area of it, and developer put some small homes on the other, that is something that we'd have to cross that bridge
but we can't even get there without at least having authorization for the Mayor, and so on, to make the purchase, to have
this discussion, and so on. | think that this discussion is extremely important. | have a lot more than | want to say but |
think I'd like to hear from my fellow colleagues so thank you.

Alderman Dowd
You know first before | have some comments, | have a question for Corporation Counsel. The way this Resolution is
worded, it's giving the Mayor authorization to purchase the property. Can you enter into a purchase and sale or any kind

of agreement with someone if you don't have funding to get into that agreement?

Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel

The city is good for it. We would owe them money if an agreement is entered into with authorization. This provides the
authorization.

Alderman Dowd

So you're saying he has a blank check?

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Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel

I'm not saying anything. I’m saying...
Alderman Dowd
But he will have to come back to the Board...

Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel

I’m not arguing with you Sir. You asked me a question. | answered it as best | could. You want to characterize it as a
blank check. | never said that.

Alderman Clemons

Madam President, | could offer some insight.

President Wilshire

Can everyone hold on a second? I'd like to hear from the Mayor first.

Mayor Donchess

If there were an agreement, it would have to be contingent upon the Board of Aldermen providing funding. | mean I'm not
gonna commit the city to a purchase nor do | think | really legally could without the authorization to spend the money. So
as Alderman Clemons said, you know, there's a lot of things that could be worked out. There are people who are at least
looking at the house kind of interested. So who knows what could happen but | don't want to disagree with Attorney
Bolton at all but | don't know that | have authority to enter an agreement without a contingency on the funding and | would
never do so even if | did.

President Wilshire

Do you want to continue Alderman Dowd?
Alderman Dowd

Yeah. | wasn't trying to - what | was trying to say was | think the wording of the current resolution is not the wording that it
should have to be what we want to do. The reason we tabled the bond is because at the Budget Committee there are a
lot of questions still hanging out there relative to the purchase of this property. There's also a lot of questions relative to
the additional expenses that would have to be if we acquired the property, which hasn't been resolved. | think we'd like an
opportunity to do that. | also think that perhaps this kind of acquisition that we should probably wait for the new Board.

Having said that, | got a lot of communication from other people in Nashua from other Wards that there are pieces of
property being sold for development that these people don't want developed and they say if we're buying the Barker
property, why aren't we buying this property and that property, and where does it stop? | fully appreciate the people in
their respect for Greeley Park. My grandfather was involved in in a lot of the development of Greeley Park back in the day
89 years ago. So I'm not against Greeley Park or any part of Greeley Park. | just think that we have a lot of questions
that need to be resolved and we haven't resolved them yet. | think that we need to know these before we make any
commitments. So $2 million could turn into a substantially higher number. In the end, we don't know them and many of
the most serious concerns brought up by the people that are asking for us to buy the property are things that can be
resolved at the Planning Board. That's where most of these things would get ironed out - traffic, utilities, all of that stuff. |
just cannot support that property purchase as this time.

President Wilshire

Could | ask the gentleman in the back of the room to put his mask on or you'll have to leave the chamber if you continue
to be here without a mask. Thank you.

Alderman Clemons

Yes, thank you, Madam President. | just wanted to state and | apologize for interrupting | was trying to help, but what |