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Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 7/25/2022 - P8

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President Wilshire

Thank you. Anyone have questions?

Alderman Thibeault

Thank you, Madam President. Hello Mr. Sennott. So you answered a couple of my questions in your opening speech
so thank you for that without Knowing what they were. But I'll throw the same question out as | threw out Alderman
Caron. The Keefe - what do you think about the Keefe Auditorium?

Tim Sennott

Resident Tim thinks that the Keefe Auditorium is a gem to this city. I've had many opportunities to take in performances
there as a high school student, as a young adult. | wanted to go see the Symphony once and that's where | went. We
have a very vibrant arts community in this city and | feel that the Keefe Auditorium and it's a long-term capacity could be
a very adequate complement to the Performing Arts Center just as the theater at Court Street can be a complement to
the Keefe Auditorium. The performances that take place the Court Street Theatre are not going to take place at Keefe.
The performances that take place at the Keefe are not necessarily going to take place at the new performing arts
center.

That being said, this Board is in place to assess the details of that. | know that that's still at least a year off as we as we
move on with the new McCarthy Middle School and we assess what needs to be done with the Elm Street site. I'd still
like to See more community meetings to see what is to be done with that site but | do believe that there is a large bit of
community support for keeping the Keefe Auditorium. We certainly would want to take a look at what the costs are
associated with that. I've heard numbers high. I've heard numbers low. I've heard numbers in the middle but standing
here today, | am a proponent of keeping the Keefe Auditorium but | certainly would take into account any of the factors
that come into play in now.

Alderman Thibeault

Follow up. How do you plan on communicating with your constituents if you're in this role?
Tim Sennott

Well | am a millennial so | am on Facebook for better or for worse. These are the things you think about at night when
you know you're coming to one of these meetings and you're not getting a whole lot of sleep. | certainly would make an
effort to have a central social media presence where folks could reach me. | think that's the first place a lot of people
go. My phone number is available. It's no secret to anybody who wants to find it. | have plenty of access. | have an
employer who's very forgiving with time so if the need arises to step aside from my desk for a moment to take a phone
call, I'm certainly able to do that. | also work from home two days a week so I'm in Nashua two days a week and
accessible to anybody that needs to reach me. | answer all my emails whether people want me to or not. Yes | think it
would be very accessible.

Alderman Thibeault

Thank you.

Alderwoman Timmons

Thank you, Madam President. | do have a question. Crown Hill area is very diverse and you know you have a
community center over there. I’m there quite a lot. | wanted to know if you visit the community center and if you
haven't, why not?

Tim Sennott

| have visited the community center. | appreciate a lot of the work that is done there. I've been to a number of events
that were held there. My wife and | have taken very ill-fated dancing lessons there. My son loves going to the seasonal
parties that are hosted there at Halloween and at the holiday season for Christmas. We've been to tie dyeing events
there. Once or twice, I've even signed up to volunteer there. | don't think | had any services at the time that they
needed for me to offer and unfortunately since, my time has become a little more constricted in that respect. | certainly
love having the community center. | think it's a wonderful use of a historic building. It's centrally located right in front of

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Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 7/25/2022 - P9

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my son's elementary school. I'd love to see more done with it. | think it's wonderful. I've basically been there since the
beginning of it and I've been able to watch it grow and thrive.

Alderwoman Timmons

Thank you. That's good to know.

Alderman Sullivan

Thank you, Madam President. Mr. Sennott very good to meet you. | read your letter of intent and | appreciate your
service to the Ward. Questions | have pretty simple, pretty broad. Why you and why now?

Tim Sennott

Well as many of you know, | was present for a lot of the discussion with the expanded outdoor dining. That sort of lita
fire under me. | alluded earlier that I've decided to dedicate more of my time to this community. | could go into a long
winded spiel about how since moving to Crown Hill I've sort of found my home. I’ve been in Nashua for 28 years but
this is the first time | felt that you know that childhood sense of home. But | see an opportunity to give back to the
community in greater capacity. Currently, | am able to serve 14 hours a day, maybe once to twice a year when we're
hosting elections. | simply want to do more. | spend a lot of time following the happenings here at City Hall. That's
nothing particularly new. I've spent more time coming here in person this year but staying abreast of the happenings
here at City Hall whether it's by watching the meetings on YouTube or following along with the meeting minutes when
they were a little more verbatim at atime. It’s something I've done for a long, long time.

| told a few folks here that the first time | ever set foot in this chamber was when | was roughly 13 or 14 years old when
the project for the original David Deane skate park was taking place over on Bridge Street. It's unfortunately no longer
located but since then, I've had a great interest in municipal politics for lack of a better word. The work that's done here
is the work that affects our neighborhoods and | have come to unwaveringly love the neighborhood that I've landed in
and | want to be able to give everything to it. So that in turn where it's a neighborhood that my wife's family group grew
up in decades before | was even a thought, it can be a neighborhood that maybe my son would want to settle in one
day.

Alderman Sullivan

Thank you.

Tim Sennott

Thank you.

Alderman Dowd

One question. How do you feel about spending city money to keep Court Street up to date or even improve?

Tim Sennott

| think Court Street is another gem just like the Keefe Auditorium. | know that it's suffering lately. | believe Alderman
O’Brien used the phrase “tired” when it was first discussed. That being said, | have a great appreciation for the Court
Street Theater. | attended presentations there when it was the American Stage Festival. As a kid, developed my love
of musical theater there after seeing a production of Godspell when | was in the ninth grade. | think it's a great service
to the youth to have a theatre of that size and to look at the opportunities for the city to help bolster that building and
bring it to something similar to what it once was. | think would be a very worthwhile endeavor.

Alderman Klee

Thank you, Madam President. I'm going to be rather boring. I'm going to ask you the same question that | asked
Aldermen Caron and that is your opinion on the asphalt manufacturing.

Tim Sennott

| don't find it boring. Oh, come on, that's the fun stuff. | do have a great deal of concern about the proposals being put

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through the Planning Board at the moment for the subdivision of the Temple Street property there. You had asked
earlier whether we had spoken to any residents about that. That is something that I've done. One of the most pressing
concerns that | learned in my discussions with residents at Crown Hill is that they were unaware. This is something
that's right around the corner and many folks that I've spoken to are unaware. | have met more concern than | have
support for it in speaking with my neighbors. | did speak with one individual who, you Know, made the very valid point
of jobs that would be coming from western Massachusetts to Nashua, New Hampshire. That's not an invalid point at all
but my bigger concern is how this facility would fit into the character of that neighborhood. | don't think it would be an
adequate fit for that neighborhood. We have more residential space surrounding that area now than | believe we do
industrial. We have a new apartment facility that's in the process of being developed. They've already begun gutting
through the Henry Hangar building.

To share something a little anecdotally, | grew up in or three on the north end of Nashua about three miles from the
Anheuser Busch plant. If | could be three miles from the Anheuser Busch plant, step out every morning and smell
malted barley in the air, then | have no doubt in my mind that somebody residing in the workforce housing that's going
into the Henry Hanger building is going to be able to wake up and smell asphalt being produced in their backyard.

Additionally, Commercial Street runs right behind that and | don't think a lot of people put much thought into
Commercial Street because it's a not a particularly dotted street to drive down. But what a lot of people may not realize
is that on the other side of that stone wall are residences whose addresses are listed as Commercial Street. My wife
lived there when | first met her and | believe it was a granite production or gravel production of some sort there that had
a garage at the time. | heard that from the living room window. If we heard, the folks that are living there are absolutely
gonna smell asphalt and | think it's a great concern to put that there. We have many properties in Nashua that were
unable to develop because of highly chemical production over the years. We have the Mohawk Tannery, the old - |
can't recall the name at the moment but it’s at the backside of the Hills Ferry Road.

Alderman Klee

Beazer.

Tim Sennott

Beazer. Thank you. Coppers - that's the one | know it as. These are coppers. In Ward 7, we have the rubber
manufacturing plant that took years to clean up after it shuttered in 2001 before they were finally able to open those
Marshall Street apartments. So that being an area that we hope to one day develop for a rail plan that they eventually
want to place right in Crown Hill, | think that's a very ill advised plan and it's my hope that just speaking with folks in
Ward 7 that there might be enough tailwind to come out and voice their concerns.

Alderman Klee

Thank you. For you or any other that are running on August 4" Planning Board.

Tim Sennott

Thank you.

Alderman Moran S

Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Moderator Sennott. So | heard a lot of things that you would support,
however, would cost, dissuade you on some of the projects that you've said you would support tonight whether it the
Keefe, Court Street.

Tim Sennott

| always have an eye for cost. If you had the opportunity to read the resume that | provided, in my professional life, | do
work in finance and accounting, budgets, cost estimates are all a daily part of my life. So it's only natural that my
inclination tilts that way. However, | also understand that in order to progress as a city, to grow as a city, to thrive asa
city that sometimes comes at a cost. It's not going to be my first deterrent when looking at a project. It's something that
I'd want to Know about. | want to be conscious of how we are spending the residents’ money because it is their money.
They pay their property taxes and they have their concerns about how it's spent. | just want to make sure that we're
spending wisely. | feel that growth, prosperity, these are all wise and worthwhile endeavors that we shouldn't just shy
away from due to the notion of not spending.

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Alderman Moran

Thank you.
Tim Sennott
Thank you.

Alderman Moran

Thank you, Madam President.

Alderman Thibeault

Thank you, Madam President. So want to know what the most important thing or | should say, what do you think is the
most important thing - well, most important issue in Nashua currently and something that you care about? So lining up,
right most important issue you care about the most?

Tim Sennott

Well, that's a good one. Most important issue | think facing Nashua is the most important issue that faces Nashua
every day and that's providing services that best serve our residences. | think that starts at the core of any municipality
- good schools, well supported police, well provided firefighters. We place a great deal of emphasis on the Fire
Department. My family, my wife's grandfather is a retired Fire Captain who built the house that’s three doors down from
ours. We all have that reminder every day but the services that we provide to the residents need to be first and
foremost. In doing so, we need to always approach issues that affect those departments whether it's fire, police,
streets, roads, schools with a mind for bolstering the folks that make those work whether it's our Department of Public
Works having the tools and the funding that they need to make our roads safe, keep our roads from damaging our
vehicles. We need to attract and retain the best teachers that we can. I've said in this chamber before that we cannot
expect to always kick the notion of attracting and retaining the best teachers down the road and expect to keep and
retain the best teachers. Teachers approach their careers just like any of us do. When I'm looking for a job in
accounting, I'm looking for I'm looking to get the most bang for my buck. Teachers the same way. We need to start
treating them like the smart and educated folks that they are if we want to keep them retain them here and see them
here for the long term. The best teachers that | had growing up, they've all moved away.

We need to support our Police Departments. We have in Nashua, | believe, a very adequate Police Department. |
know they've bolstered at the request of the residents in Ward 7 their presence significantly In Crown Hill at least over
the past few years. They're very responsive to even the silly, little pithy neighborhood concerns that we have
somebody speeding down my road. We can get an officer out within five minutes. That's the sort of community
oriented policing that | like. | just feel that bolstering those services that we have, putting them up, and continuing to
ensure that they thrive should be the most pressing thing for our city. Everything else can come on after.

Alderman Thibeault

That’s a lot of issues. Great, thank you.

President Wilshire

Anyone else? Thank you very much. We will take up nominations after we're done interviewing all four candidates.
Tim Sennott
Thank you all for your consideration.

President Wilshire

Thank you very much for yours.

e Bob Resch
114 East Glenwood Street

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Nashua, NH 03060

President Wilshire

Okay. Next we have Bob Resch. Bob is joining us via Zoom tonight. So Mr. Resch, you have five minutes.
Bob Resch
Thank you. Thank you to the Board. My knee thanks you for allowing me to do this through Zoom.

As the saying goes, | wasn't born in New Hampshire but | couldn't wait to get here. | was born in New York City and
spent the first 39 years of my life there. | had New Yorker’s view of the world. New York, Hudson River, vast
wasteland, Pacific Ocean. | went to school in the New York City school system. | graduated with a Bachelor's Degree
in Political Science from the city college. Through a twist of fate, of course, | ended up in the medical profession.

In 2003, | had a job offer from an MRI company in Maryland and | decided to leave the City and find out

what life was like beyond the Hudson. What | found stunned me. | found a place where | could move in a very
comfortable way without paying a fortune and rent and taxes. After several years, | left that company for a new position
in New England. At first, | lived in Massachusetts and when my wife and | decided to stop renting and buy a home, we
found Nashua. We found it a very friendly City and State. Not just friendly towards people but friendly towards
business as well. In the years we have lived in Nashua, my wife and | have seen numerous new businesses open and
new housing being built. A few months ago, my wife and | went to the movies just over the border in Tyngsboro. We
saw a shopping mall that had once been filled now had over half of its stores vacant due to the economic restrictions
imposed by Massachusetts. In driving home, we saw two new stores being built in Nashua. The difference is striking.

Our nation is currently experiencing an economic downturn. Although Nashua hasn't been hit as hard as some other
places, we are still feeling the crunch. | see the best way to ease the crisis is with careful government spending and
incentives for new businesses. When we grow our economy, we grow our community. The New Hampshire advantage
is real. We are informed the Gate City just (inaudible) location as the entry in New Hampshire. We are a gateway for a
freer way of life and if you choose me to be Alderman for Ward 7 maintaining that freedom for our citizens and our
State's advantage will consistently be at the forefront of my decisions. Thank you for your time.

President Wilshire

Thank you. Anyone have any questions for Mr. Resch?
Alderman Klee

Thank you, Madam President. Mr. Resch thank you for applying. | have actually two questions. I'll start with the one
that I've asked everybody else so far. What are your views on the asphalt manufacturing company?

Bob Resch

Well although | do feel that there is a necessity for new business to be brought into our city, | don't feel that the location
for the asphalt manufacturing facility is the proper location for it. As was pointed out before, the speaker who preceded
me, it's not something that the residents there want to wake up to smelling every day. | think that we can find a better
use for that property, a better way to bring jobs in then to have something like that which can ultimately be toxic to the
residents in the long run.

Alderman Klee

Thank you very much. | do have one other question for you. You're very thoughtful in discussing the economic
downturn, and careful government spending, and etc. | don't know how long you've been here in New Hampshire but
are you aware that New Hampshire is a Dillon State and sometimes as Board of Aldermen although we may want to do
something, we can't do it unless we've had legislation approval from the State of New Hampshire as we are a Dillon
State?

Bob Resch

Yes, |am aware of that. I've been in Nashua for eight years now.

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Alderman Klee
Thank you very much.

Alderman Thibeault

Thank you, Madam President. Thank you for applying Mr. Resch. We have not met at all. | don't know you

at all so I'm trying to find a little bit more out about you. I'm going to start with the question | asked the other two just
because | want to be very consistent in questioning each person. What do you think about keeping or not keeping the
Keefe Auditorium at Elm Street?

Bob Resch
| don't believe it's absolutely a necessity at this point. | figure | feel that with the Court Street auditorium and with a new
art center that's opening up, we can find a better use for that space or even to sell that space and to use that money in

conjunction with private funds to enhance the Court Street auditorium.

Alderman Thibeault

Thank you.

President Wilshire

Anyone else have questions for Mr. Resch?

Alderman Sullivan

Thank you, Madam President. Same questions as | asked her Mr. Sennott. Why you, why now?
Bob Resch

As Alderman Moran pointed out not only do we require people who have been on the Board for a long time for their
knowledge, their wisdom, their experience, we also require fresh eyes, fresh perspective, fresh blood. | have not
served in government in New Hampshire or Nashua and | feel that | do have, although | do have experience serving in
local government and school government, and | feel that a new fresh set of eyes, a new way of looking at things,
someone who is not beholden to anyone, and be a very good boost to the drawing board.

Alderman Sullivan

Thank you.

Alderman Lopez

Mr. Resch thank you for putting your name forward. | just wanted to get an idea of what your experiences in the
neighborhood you'd be representing are. Do you have - have you spoken to any of the other candidates in any of the
capacities that they served in? Have you volunteered with any organizations? Anything like that?

Bob Resch
No. To be honest with you, | have not spoken with any of the other candidates. Due to my past workload which has
now been alleviated quite a bit since | work from home now, | will | will have much more time than | would have in the

past which is why I'm actually putting my name in now and have not done so before.

Alderman Lopez

Okay. Thank you for your answer and your willingness to get more involved.

President Wilshire

Anyone else have questions for Mr. Resch? Okay. So we're gonna take up nominations after we interview
our last candidate so stay with us. Mr. Guarino.

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e Ray Guarino
59 Elgin Street
Nashua, NH 03060

Ray Guarino

Thank you, thank you very much and thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here. | live on Elgin Street. I've
been a resident of Ward 7 since 2002. Many of those years June Caron has been my representative on the Board and
| always voted for her because | believe she did a great job.

| also Know Tim Sennott and he has always been a very hard worker, very dedicated at Ward 7. So you have some
great candidates for Ward 7. | think they they'll do a great job. They both believe in good government and even though
we have changes, | want to speak a little bit about what Alderman Moran said about how having changes. June Caron
has about 10 years’ experience but some of these new people in these new changes, change is sometimes not good
because you don't have people who actually believe in government that are in government. But you do have people
like Tim Sennott who do believe in government and do a good job. So | think is very careful about change. Some
change is good, some change is not good.

| actually want to remove my name from consideration because | think June has done a good job. | would urge you to
vote for June. | know Tim. Tim is also very good candidate too. So | hope that helps you get closer - it makes your job
easier choosing a candidate. Whoever you choose, you know, I'm going to help them at Ward 7 because we do have a
team down there at Ward 7, especially on Election Day and everybody works together. So thank you very much.

President Wilshire

Thank you, Mr. Guarino. We appreciate you coming. Okay.
Alderman Dowd
Yes. I'd like to nominate June Caron to fill the Ward 7...

President Wilshire

Alderman Dowd, I'd like to open up the floor for nominations. Okay. I'm going to open up the floor for nominations.

Alderman Comeau

If | may before you do that, just a quick question. | noticed there's a hefty sized audience on Zoom and | wondered if it
would be appropriate for us to allow a period of public comment before we decide to vote.

President Wilshire

We don't have public comment at this meeting this evening.

Alderman Comeau

Could | make a motion to allow public comment?

President Wilshire

You can make a motion.

Alderman Comeau

Then | would like to do so please.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN COMEAU TO ALLOW PUBLIC COMMENT, BY ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION

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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

This MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING is made effective on , 2022 by and
between the City of Nashua, New Hampshire, a municipal corporation, (hereafter "Nashua") of 229
Main Street, Nashua, New Hampshire 03253, and the City of Manchester, New Hampshire, a
municipal corporation, (hereafter "Manchester") of 1 City Hall Plaza, Manchester, New Hampshire
03101. Nashua, and Manchester are sometimes individually referred to as "Party" and collectively
referred to as the "Parties."

WHEREAS, Nashua has developed a Welfare Application (developed using Microsoft .NET
framework. Language used is VB.NET. Reports and forms were created with Crystal Report 2008 and
use the Crystal Report 2008 runtime for operation in the application, The backend is an SQL database)
which provides local welfare staff with means to retain client data, providing for case notations, voucher
creation based on local vendors, case decisions, and detailed reporting (“Welfare Application”); and

WHEREAS, in exchange for valuable consideration, Manchester desires to purchase the Welfare
Application for its own uses;

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of mutual covenants and conditions contained herein, Nashua,
and Manchester hereby agree as follows:

TERMS

1. Price. In developing the Welfare Application, it cost Nashua Twenty Seven Thousand Dollars
($27,000.00). In exchange for receiving the Welfare Application, Manchester agrees to pay Nashua
Fifty Percent (50°) of that cost or Thirteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($13,500.00). It is further
understood that Manchester will not re-sell or transfer in any manner the Welfare Application or any
iteration or derivative of the Welfare Application.

2. Product Only. It is understood and agreed between the Parties that Nashua is only providing
Manchester with the Welfare Application and backend SQL Database. The backend SQL database will
contain no data. No support services will be provided by Nashua.

3. Product Modification. Manchester may, at its sole discretion, make any modifications to the
Welfare Application as it sees fit, at any time and for any reason. Nashua may, with Manchester’s
assent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, have access, at no charge, to any such
modifications.

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Alderman Lopez

| generally like to be the sole agent of chaos But in this particular case, | would find it helpful to hear what members of
the public who live in the neighborhoods that we would be appointing someone for because | find this to be a very
unusual circumstance where there was an election, they voted, and now because of the resignation of Alderman
Cathey, we're in a position to make a decision for people whose personally | don't live in that neighborhood so | would
be supportive just to kind of understand what the sentiment is there.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you, Madam President. Aldermen Comeau beat me to it. That's all | had to say.
Alderman Klee

Thank you Madam President. | usually do vote for public comment and | do think it's a good idea to get some input
from Ward 7. My only concern is that when we put out the agenda, it did not have public comment. So some of the
candidates that are here won't have necessarily representation. | still want to hear from the public but | want to make
that very clear that it wasn't on the agenda. So there may be some people that just didn't bother to come. They may
have come if they knew it was on the agenda and | think that needs to be taken into consideration when we place our
vote so thank you.

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you, Madam Chair. | just wanted to say that I will not be entertain the thought of public comment. | usually want
to hear exactly what the public has to say but in this particular case, we have. This meeting was to nominate
candidates. | have great fear if we open it up for public comment, we will hear much more not so much about the
candidates but perhaps other different things that could be better addressed at a full Board of Aldermen meeting when
those particular subject matters are taken up at the particular Board. I'll go by the wishes of the Board but keep that in
mind in your vote that unless somebody wants to make an amendment to the motion that the comments must be on to
the specific nominations. Thank you, Madam President.

Alderman Dowd
Yes, again, | would favor a lot of time public comment but in this instance since we're selecting a Ward 7 Alderman, |
think, the only people that we should hear input from are people who live in Ward 7. Otherwise, | think we're going to

get into personality and conflicts that are only leading to elongate this meeting without due cause.

Alderman Thibeault

Thank you, Madam President. Usually I'm for public comment as well. Last week, | made a comment that we should
have had public comment on the Franklin Street issue but in this case, people did not know that they were going to be
able to speak tonight so someone may not have come. They've had opportunities to send us stuff and some people
have. | mean that's just as good as any public comment. So thank you.

Alderman Moran

Just to be safe, I'd like to amend the motion to allow for public comment restricted just to this topic and only from Ward
7 residents.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN MORAN TO AMEND TO ALLOW FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RESTRICTED JUST TO THIS
TOPIC AND ONLY FROM WARD 7 RESIDENTS, BY ROLL CALL

ON THE QUESTION

President Wilshire

Okay, so you've heard the amended motion. Discussion on that?

Alderman Gouveia

Thank you, Madam President. Just a question. How are we vetting public comment? Are we asking for addresses
and checking to make sure they live in the Ward?

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Alderman Comeau

Thank you, Madam President. | would support an amendment to restrict comment to just the item before us. | don't
know how, you know, unless we're sitting here with Google maps open that we're going to verify by the time people
start talking whether they live in the Ward or not. So | would prefer that the amendment just restrict the topic and not so
much the geography.

There's an argument to be made also that even though it is a Ward 7 Alderman, decisions that that Alderman is going
to make affect everyone who lives in the city. So I'd still like to hear an opinion if somebody has one from a different
Ward as long as it's on this topic only.

Alderman Moran

I’m going to withdraw my amendment and offer the amendment of only on this topic of Ward 7 candidates.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN COMEAU TO ALLOW PUBLIC COMMENT ONLY ON THE TOPIC BEFORE US RIGHT
NOW, BY ROLL CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Sullivan, Alderman Klee, Alderman Moran, Alderman Lopez,
Alderman Jette, Alderman Clemons, Alderwoman Kelly,

Alderman Comeau, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Gouveia, Alderman Wilshire 11

Nay: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Thibeault, Alderwoman Timmons 3

MOTION CARRIED

PUBLIC COMMENT

Lou Juris

Good evening. Lou Juris here. 56 Haines Street in Nashua. This is maybe for me a difficult, | guess, discussion. A
difficult choice and | know both candidates very well. It was good testimony tonight. Good questioning and | would
support Mr. Sennott at this point to carry the remainder of the term. Thank you for your time and | want to thank all the
candidates - June, Ray, Mr. Resch, and Tim for putting their names forward. Thank you.

Sonia Prince

Hi. My name is Sonia Prince, 49 Tufts Drive. | do hope that you support either Mr. Sennott or Ray Guarino. | think
they're both very qualified, very involved in the community, they know their stuff, and it's refreshing to see people who
are that excited about coming to our Aldermen meetings. So | hope you consider those candidates. Thank you.

Beth Scaer

Beth Scaer, 111 East Hobart Street. | wanted to say | really miss John Cathey on the Board. I'm sorry that we lost him.
He did a great job and | think Tim and June are, you Know, I'm happy that they're running. | have really good
relationships with both of them but | would really love to see you appoint Bob Resch. | loved hearing about his fiscal
conservative outlook. The city's going to be in deep trouble with property taxes shooting up as the commercial values
fall and residential property values go up. We need a lifeline here. So please consider appointing Bob. Thanks.

President Wilshire

Thank you.

Matthew _Gouthro

Thank you. Matthew Gouthro, 104 Fawn Lane here in Nashua. | wouldn't be as presumptuous to assume that my
comments would sway anyone from voting for the candidate in which you've met this evening. | believe all the

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