Finance Committee - Minutes - 11/20/2019 - P14
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roads. We will be doing the sign package. Basically the company, Northeast Mechanics will be doing, is the
actual ramp itself and the knee walls that will be alongside it.
Alderman Klee
OK thank you very much appreciate it.
Alderman Caron
| Know this has been a project in the works for 100 years. Were the neighbors involved in any way especially
because it is going to be a lot bigger and different than it has been over the last 30 or 40 years.
Mr. Caggiano
Yes there were, there were two public meetings. There was a charrette up in the auditorium where the
neighbors came in and gave us some feedback. It also has gone through Infrastructure, Zoning Board, The
Conservation Committee and The Planning Board, which all those times the public could have commented and
it was passed by the Board of Aldermen almost a year ago.
Alderman Caron
Yeah it is a long time coming.
Mr. Caggiano
It is a long time coming and one of the things that wasn’t mentioned and Police & Fire aren’t here anymore
right now. It is also going to improve the safety of the area, you know, that long loop when somebody is in
distress takes time and it is hard to maintain that long loop where this way it'll be a straight shot. Emergency
vehicles can get down there if they need to, much quicker.
Alderman Caron
Thank you.
Chairman O’Brien
If | may, you are absolutely right. | was the former executive officer of the Dive Team for Nahua Fire Rescue
and they come with engine companies, ladder companies, the tools and equipment that are needed. The Dive
Truck that carries the air tanks and the equipment and everything; it was very tight quarters, turn around large
pieces of apparatus and everything else. Always the boats went in OK but it definitely needed some TLC. And
besides the emergency point, our river, in my opinion, has been under-utilized you know. You do see a lot of
boats coming up from Lowell but we don’t see the good folks from Nashua going. So maybe this might afford a
new opportunity to make a little quality of life issue better for the citizens.
Alderman Klee
Yeah and | want to echo what you just said. That is one of the kudos of it, it will bring people to Nashua
stopping there and there were other activities that they talked about. The other thing that | like about this is it is
going to create safety within that area where we have a lot of transient people kind of going in there. This will
give more, I’ve personally walked into it, it is my Ward, so | have personally walked into that area and it is really
a lovely wooded area. But there are all kinds of things going on in through this area and this is going to make it
safer and it is going to make it safer for those neighbors, like at Tuffs and so on, that is their backyard.
