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R-17-100

Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja

AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF SURPLUS BROAD STREET PARKWAY PROPERTY

e Committee on Infrastructure Recommends: Final Passage

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-17-035
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Mark S. Cookson
Alderman David Schoneman
Alderman Sean M. McGuinness
Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
ADOPTING THE ALL VETERANS’ TAX CREDIT
e Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage as Amended

O-17-038
Endorsers: Alderman David Schoneman
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
ALLOWING RESIDENTS OF MORGAN STREET TO PURCHASE OVERNIGHT ON-STREET
PARKING PERMITS
e Committee on Infrastructure Recommends: Final Passage as Amended

NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-17-107
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NASHUA TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH NASHUA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE, RIVIER UNIVERSITY, SOUHEGAN VALLEY TRANSPORTATION
COLLABORATIVE, TOWN OF HUDSON, TOWN OF MERRIMACK, AND THE PLUS COMPANY
FOR TRANSIT SERVICES

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-17-040

Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
AUTHORIZING PAYMENT OF PROPERTY TAXES BY CREDIT OR DEBIT CARD

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Committee announcements:

ADJOURNMENT

AMENDED
R-16-082

RESOLUTION

RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $50,000 FROM DEPARTMENT 194 —
CONTINGENCY, ACCOUNT #70100 —- GENERAL CONTINGENCY TO
DEPARTMENT 109 —- CIVIC & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, ACCOUNTING
CLASSIFICATION 56 — OUTSIDE AGENCIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING
FUNDING TO HARBOR HOMES FOR THEIR ROLE IN THE SAFE STATIONS
PROGRAM

CITY OF NASHUA

In the Year Two Thousand and Sixteen

RESOLVED by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Nashua that $50,000 be transferred
from Department 194 — Contingency, Account #70100 — General Contingency to Department
109 — Civic & Community Activities, Accounting Classification 56 — Outside Agencies for the
purpose of providing funding to Harbor Homes for their role in the Safe Stations program. As a
condition of this funding, three months after the Safe Stations Program has been initiated, Harbor

Homes will provide the city with a report detailing activities and outcomes under the Safe
Stations program.

R-17-098
AMENDED

RESOLUTION

RELATIVE TO THE ADOPTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2018 PROPOSED BUDGET
FOR THE CITY OF NASHUA GENERAL, ENTERPRISE, AND SPECIAL REVENUE
FUNDS

CITY OF NASHUA

In the Year Two Thousand and Seventeen

RESOLVED by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Nashua that the Fiscal Year 2018
Proposed Budget for the General Fund of the City of Nashua be and is hereby adopted, and that
the following amounts are hereby appropriated for the several accounts and for other needs of the
City of Nashua General Fund for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30,
2018, and for the purpose of Section 50-a et seq. of the Nashua Revised City Charter, as
amended, each item of this budget shall be considered as a separate appropriation. The proposed
General Fund appropriation amount is $258,685,932 with estimated General Fund Revenues of
$62,219,210 including estimated state funding for education in the amount of $35,213,896.

That the Fiscal Year 2018 Proposed Budget for the Enterprise Funds of the City of
Nashua be and is hereby adopted, and that the following amounts are hereby appropriated for the
several accounts and for other needs of the City of Nashua Enterprise Funds for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2017 and ending June 30, 2018, and the purpose of Section 50-a et seq. of the
Nashua Revised City Charter, as amended, each item of this budget shall be considered as a
separate appropriation. The proposed Enterprise Funds appropriation amount is $24,375,845
(inclusive of anticipated Capital Appropriations), with estimated Enterprise Funds Revenues of
$20,393,530 and any additional funding for capital and CSO-related expenditures from retained
earnings, bonding and/or State Revolving Fund Loans.

That the Fiscal Year 2018 Proposed Budget for the Special Revenue Funds of the City of
Nashua be and is hereby adopted, and that the following amounts are hereby appropriated for the
several accounts and for other needs of the City of Nashua Special Revenue Funds for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2017 and ending June 30, 2018. The proposed Special Funds
appropriation amount is $18,600,853 with estimated Special Revenue Funds Revenues of
$18,600,853.

Pursuant to NRO § 5-145, E, the accumulated sum of all appropriations of the FY2018
combined annual municipal budget is $265,790,940. The FY2018 dollar amount under the limit
established by City Charter Section 56-c is $1,726, 144.

RESOLUTION R-17-098
AMENDED

Neither the approval and adoption of this budget, or any appropriation contained herein,
or to any City department or agency, including the Nashua School District, whether as proposed
or amended, shall be deemed to mean that the City has approved any program or responsibility
for funding in accordance with Part 1, Article 28-a of the Constitution of the State of New
Hampshire. Notwithstanding any appropriation herein, the city hereby expressly declines to
approve funding for any program or responsibility for which it is entitled by law to payment
from the State of New Hampshire pursuant to Part 1, Article 28-a of the State Constitution,
whether it has previously been determined that the City is entitled to said funding or not.

7/12/2016 PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO R-16-041

RESOLUTION

RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $25,000 FROM FY16 DEPARTMENT 194 -
CONTINGENCY, ACCOUNT 70150 - GENERAL CONTINGENCY TO FY16
DEPARTMENT 109 - CIVIC & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, ACCOUNTING
CLASSIFICATION 56 ~ OUTSIDE AGENCIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF
DONATING TO THE NASHUA ASSOCIATION FOR THE ELDERLY

CITY OF NASHUA
In the Year Two Thousand and Sixteen
RESOLVED by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Nashua that the sum of $25,000 be
transferred from FY 16 Department 194 - Contingency, Account 70150 — General Contingency to
FY16 Department 109 ~ Civic & Community Activities, Accounting Classification 56 — Outside

Agencies for the purpose of donating $25,000 to the Nashua Association for the Elderly to assist
with their operating budget.

AMENDED
O-17-035

ORDINANCE

ADOPTING THE ALL VETERANS’ TAX CREDIT

CITY OF NASHUA

In the Year Two Thousand and Seventeen

WHEREAS the City of Nashua has adopted the optional veterans’ tax credit in the
amount of $500, pursuant to NH RSA 72:28;

WHEREAS the qualifications for this optional veterans’ tax credit are found in NH RSA
72:28, IV, and one category of eligibility is “every resident of this state who served not less than
90 days on active service in the armed forces of the United States in any qualifying war or armed
conflict” and was honorably discharged or honorably separated from service or the spouse or
surviving spouse of such resident;

WHEREAS a recent state law which became effective on August 8, 2016 (RSA 72:28-b),
allows the City to adopt an all veterans’ tax credit, which shall be the same amount as the
existing optional veterans’ tax credit, and removes the requirement to have served in a qualifying
war or armed conflict. The law would allow a resident to qualify for the all veterans’ tax credit if
they “served not less than 90 days on active service in the armed forces of the United States and
was honorably discharged or an officer honorably separated from service” or the spouse or
surviving spouse of such resident; and

WHEREAS the City of Nashua would like to adopt the all veterans’ tax credit.

NOW THEREFORE, the City of Nashua ordains that Part II “General Legislation”,
Chapter 295 “Taxation”, Article VI “Veterans’ Tax Credit” of the Nashua Revised Ordinances,
as amended, is hereby further amended by deleting the struck-through language and adding the
new underlined language as follows:

“ARTICLE VI
Veterans’ Tax Credits

§ 295-13. Optional veterans’ tax Ecredit established.

The City of Nashua hereby adopts the provisions of New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Annotated 72:28, as it may be amended from time to time, relative to an optional

veterans’ tax credit. Effective April 1, 2007, the optional veterans’ tax credit shall be
$500. This stated optional veterans’ tax credit shall replace the standard veterans’ tax
credit in its entirety and shall not be in addition thereto.

§ 295-13.1. All veterans’ tax credit established.

The City of Nashua hereby adopts the provisions of New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Annotated 72:28-b, as it may be amended from time to time, relative to an all veterans’
tax credit. Effective April 1, 2017, the all veterans’ tax credit shall be $165.00. Effective
April 1, 2018, the all veterans’ tax credit shall be $330.00. Effective April 1, 2019, the
all veterans’ tax credit shall be $500.00. The all veterans’ tax credit is only available to
persons who are not eligible for and are not receiving a tax credit under New Hampshire
Revised Statutes Annotated 72:28 (the optional veterans’ tax credit, see NRO §295-13) or
New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated 72:35 (the optional tax credit for service-
connected total disability, see NRO §295-15).

§ 295-14. Requirements.
The requirements for the optional veterans’ tax credit_and the all veterans’ tax credit shall
be as stated in New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated 72:28_and 72:28-b, as #may

be amended from time to time. Proof of eligibility shall be submitted to the Assessing
Department.”

Changes to these ordinances shall take effect for the tax year commencing April 1, 2017.

Final passage is contingent upon final passage by the State of New Hampshire of Session Year
2017 Senate Bill 80.

AMENDED
O-17-038

ORDINANCE

ALLOWING RESIDENTS OF ASH STREET, FROM KINSLEY STREET TO LAKE
STREET, AND RESIDENTS OF MORGAN STREET TO PURCHASE OVERNIGHT
ON-STREET PARKING PERMITS

CITY OF NASHUA

In the Year Two Thousand and Seventeen

The City of Nashua ordains that Part II “General Legislation”, Chapter 320 “Vehicles
and Traffic”, Article XHI “Night Parking”, Section 320-78.1 “Overnight on-street parking
program in designated downtown area” of the Nashua Revised Ordinances, as amended, be and
hereby is further amended by adding the new underlined language as follows:

“320-78.1. Overnight on-street parking program in designated downtown area.

There shall be a program for on-street overnight parking as described below.

A. On-street overnight parking shall be allowed between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and
6:00 a.m. on designated streets only to vehicles with a permit. On-street
overnight parking for any time period between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 6:00

a.m. on designated streets without a permit is a violation of § 320-78 and is not
allowed.

1. Residents of the streets where overnight parking is permitted will be
allowed to purchase an annual permit, with a maximum number of 400
permits to be issued. Additionally, residents of the following locations are
also allowed to purchase annual permits:

1. Ash Street, from Kinsley Street to Lake Street

2. Morgan Street”

This ordinance shall become effective upon passage.

SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN
PUBLIC HEARING
JUNE 6, 2017

A Public Hearing was conducted by the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. at
the Nashua High School North Auditorium, 8 Titan Way, Nashua, New Hampshire.

President Brian S. McCarthy presided: City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.

The roll call was taken with 12 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman McGuinness,
Alderman Moriarty and Alderman Clemons were recorded absent.

His Honor Mayor James W. Donchess was also in attendance.
PUBLIC HEARING
R-17-098
RELATIVE TO THE ADOPTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2018 PROPOSED

BUDGET FOR THE CITY OF NASHUA GENERAL, ENTERPRISE,
AND SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS

Alderman Dowd

Good evening and welcome to the public hearing on the budget. Before | introduce the Mayor to give
a brief overview of the budget, | just want to go over the ground rules. I’m going to go through the
various departments in the budget. If you have a question on that particular department, please
come forward to the microphone and ask your question. If the Mayor or Mr. Griffin can’t answer the
question, they may ask assistance from one of their Division Directors. Please give everyone an
opportunity to ask their questions and limit any statements to a reasonable length and only ona
department that’s being currently discussed. With that, | will turn it over to the Mayor.

Mayor Donchess

Thank you Mr. Chair and thank you everybody for showing up tonight — Division Directors,
Department Heads, employees and of course most importantly our citizens. Mr. Chair | just have a
brief overview of the budget which CFO Griffin and | are going to provide.

The first slide talks about the presentation of the budget. So this year we asked that the departments
include more information to try to make the budget clear and provide more information to the
members of the public who do not deal with the budgets or the departments every day. This is part of
an effort that we’ve made to try to create more transparency and more citizen involvement. So you
can see that at the beginning of each department, each division, there are various mission
statements, description of services provided, some goals and objectives. We hope to build on this
and continue to make the budget a clearer explanation for people who have not gotten deeply into the
past.

The second slide speaks of the fiscal 2018 priorities as I’ve incorporated them into the budget. First
public safety which is our police and fire departments. We are in the midst of an opioid crisis that
people are well aware of. There was an article actually in the front page of the NY Times today
talking about how the number of deaths in the country is rising year after year and projecting that for
2016 there were probably about 59,000 deaths as a result of ODs. They expect 2017 to be higher.
We of course here in New Hampshire are part of this whole issue. We suffer this public health crisis
ourselves and as a result we, in my view and it’s expressed in the budget, need to maintain the level
of services with respect to our public safety agencies. The police department is doing a tremendous
job of arresting those who are involved in illegal drug trade having made over 800 drug arrests last
year in 2016 and they're ahead of that pace in 2017. Of course the fire department has been

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involved for years in terms of responding to medical calls and saving people’s lives through the
administration of Narcan. In addition to that now since November 17, 2016, they’ve taken on the role
of the safe stations role where they accept anyone who wants help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at
any of our fire stations. They’re providing a critical service to the community and therefore the fire
department and the police department our public service agencies are important and one priority of
the budget or a central priority was to make sure that they are able to continue to provide the same
level of service that they always have.

In the schools, the priority was to maintain but also to improve by adding full day kindergarten. This is
something that the Governor has promoted. Something that all of the studies show that results for
those who have full day kindergarten and lower dropout rates, higher grades, and more successful
life. Superintendent Brown did a very good job of reallocating resources so that this important
objective of full day kindergarten at all 12 elementary schools could be accomplished without a huge
increase in the budget. The schools are up 1.9 percent which is less than the public safety agencies
but more than some of the city departments. So those were | think the main priorities of the budget.

CFO Griffin is going to address the next three slides which give more of the financial detail regarding
the budget.

CFO Griffin

Thank you Mayor. The first slide as you can see highlights a few of the cost rivals that the city is
facing in fiscal 2018 namely increase of hydrant rentals, the Pennichuck Water rate increase, capital
equipment reserve fund that’s commonly known as CERF. That increase $1.2 million. Pension costs
duly noted over the last several years increased $2.23 million. Healthcare costs are increasing in a
similar fashion to the rest of the country - $3.64 million. We did have some relief towards the tax rate
which is a decrease in the debt service of $919,000.

With regard to a typical slide that we provide a proposed operating budget for the general fund is
$258.5 million. Spending cap percentage is calculated 1.4 percent. The dollar amount under the
spending amount at this time based on the calculation is $1.9 million. Increase over the fiscal 2017
budget is 4 percent. As the Mayor alluded to during his remarks to the Board of Aldermen, the
projected tax rate should be approximately 3.2 percent. Worst case, we hope to do better than that.

On the revenue side of the ledger, we continue to budget conservatively that provides us some good
revenues above budget. We have been fortunate to have an increase in motor vehicle registrations
over the last several years and that continues although modestly. We do have a low interest rate
environment which constrains our investments to some degree but also allows us to borrow quite
effectively. As we’ve seen over the last several years, there’s always a potential that the State cuts
the revenue to the city.

Taking a look at fiscal ’19 challenges, so we don’t look at this particular budget in a vacuum,
spending cap is tracking slowly upward. It’s a three year trailing average over the last three years.
Assuming a 1.6 percent spending cap percentage, the new allowable spend would be approximately
$4 million. Again potential reductions in State related revenue. As noted on the previous page,
anticipated increases and other employee related costs such as pension and benefits. With that Mr.
Mayor, that concludes my remarks.

Mayor Donchess

Thank you very much. That is our presentation Mr. Chair. Thank you for the opportunity.