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June 14, 2016

Alderman Lopez

| attended both of the Substandard Living Conditions Committee meetings and | would like to reiterate
that | felt it was as inclusive as we could make it. The chair, Alderman Siegel, invited the landlords who
were present to sit in the horseshoe and discuss things or to elect a representative to represent them.
They chose Attorney Nicosia. Attorney Nicosia had already given us his memo and he chose to use his
time to go over that in detail with all of our city staff. There was no Attorney Nicosia said that and our
staff thought about it and said oh, you are right. It was more that Attorney Nicosia said this and our staff
said well that’s already happening or this is how that is addressed right now or this is why that wouldn't
be a good idea. The back and forth was more because our staff was basically explaining to Attorney
Nicosia how it worked. | never got any impression at all that there was any intention to sit down in yet
another separate subcommittee group that is somehow not part of the Substandard Living Conditions
Committee and work something out. That was an idea that Attorney Nicosia came up with and then just
kept repeating it over and over again to the point where he expressed disappointment that we had not
decided to it. No one any point said that would be a good idea and we are going to need three over here
and three over there. That was never really on the table. The Substandard Living Conditions Committee
would have been a great time for landlords to directly weigh in instead of hiring a lawyer and trusting that
lawyer to represent your interests for you. On that not | would want to say that regardless of what
happens tonight when you come the Substandard Living Conditions Committee, if you are invited to
speak or you have public comment, use your right and don’t just hire somebody to just speak for you and
hope they get it done because it seems like that’s not really what happened here. Again, we got another
note from Attorney Nicosia which is really just summarizing everything we have already heard several
times now. Another representative of his firm came and read through what we have already received so
we haven't really had input per se, directly from landlords that’s different from what the person that they
paid to represent them has said so far. | think we have been as inclusive as possible but we are not
really getting willingness to compromise. The people who aren't in this room will never show up in this
room. The people who are actually victims of substandard living conditions who are living in the
economic bracket that don’t have any other choices and have to put up with whatever housing they can
get are not going to come into a room full of landlords, like half of the landlords in the city and start
complaining about code violations because they are going to be afraid nobody is going to rent to them so
we are not hearing from everybody directly because when we did have people come in and testify
suddenly they were getting eviction notices and suddenly things were happening that were intimidating to
them. | can understand what those people are going through and | am keeping in mind that | represent
them too, at least in Ward 4, | have the largest population of people who are living in rooming houses
and single occupancy units and | think it’s important for their voices to be heard here too. We have
heard from places like the Nashua Housing Authority and NeighborWorks which work with those
populations and are the closest thing to a direct voice that those people have and they agreed that this is
a good step to take and this is something that we should do. | also asked the city’s department staff if it
would make a difference and if it would help them deal with people you would normally have to court.
They said yes, Sarah Marchant said that this would actually help them if they had to go to court in
creating a documentation chain. The other staff gave examples of how it would help them in their
particularly fields. Our staff says yes and they believe that this will make a difference and improve the
ability to enforce code in the city.

Alderman Clemons

With all due respect to Alderman Lopez, | think that in some cases there could be instances where this
might be effective for a landlord, maybe. But it’s basically just adding a layer to an already cumbersome
process. | too, live in a Ward that has a lot of rental units, Ward 6; in fact my house on Ash Street is the
only single-family house surrounded by rental properties. The landlords there do a very good job of
upkeep of the homes. The thing that | want to be sure about is that we are not passing something that in
the future will give the city the right to automatically come in and penalize people just because that’s
what they want to do or they want to set a new precedent. I’ve seen stuff like that happen before in the

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private sector and it’s because basically it’s allowed. If you allow it then chances are that at some point
down the road somebody is going to do it. It doesn’t mean that it will happen tomorrow or in twenty years
but if we are having an issue where we are having a lot of issues with landlords for whatever reason,
rather than give warnings we want to change the policy to just fine people automatically. Nothing in this
ordinance prevents that from happening. Nothing in this ordinance gives that landlord an opportunity to
state their case and not pay the fine other than going to court and as we’ve said earlier tonight, that’s an
expensive process. | don’t think that this ordinance is ready for prime time. | think that there are other
things that we need to do as a city to go after the big offenders. This is not going to have any impact,
other than raising the rent on the poorest of individuals in this city and it won’t do anything else other
than that and | guarantee you that the rents will rise if we pass this, they will because they are going to
build it in because their business model is not a business model of renting rooms, nice rooms to people
so that they have a safe place to live; the business model of our worst offenders is to collect the money
and hope that the city doesn’t come in and hope that the people that we are renting to don’t come and
complain to code enforcement. That’s what immoral people do.

Alderman Wilshire

Landlords can increase their rents, and they are going to have vacancies if they do so. This is not going
to affect 99 percent of the landlords in this city. It’s that other one percent that this is going to affect. We
need to pass this ordinance to start making change here in the city. | agree with everything Alderman
Siegel has said and everything Alderman Lopez has said. It’s time we, as a city, start making some
changes so the housing quality in this city improves. I’m going to support this.

Alderman Lopez

| just want to point out that if rents raise, that would be the deliberate decision on the part of landlords,
regardless of whether they are being affected or not. Rents have been raising; rents are going to
continue to rise. If a landlord in this room decides, I’m upset the city did this. I’m going to pump my rent
up, that’s one way of looking at it. The landlords that are being specifically addressed by this legislation
it is not intended to impact every person in the City of Nashua. It is intended to directly impact the people
who are being non-responsive to the city’s attempts at code enforcement. They’re the ones who seem to
have set the bar as low as possible for rent. I’m not sure they are going to start to try to compete with
other landlords and other businesses to try to get back at us or try to improve their conditions because as
soon as that happens, anybody who could afford their rental properties is probably going to pick
someone else. | don’t think necessarily rent is automatically going to be raised across the board. | do
know that you made a good point that if we allow something to happen, it probably will happen. My issue
with this is it is happening right now. We can talk about what could happen or what might happen with
the assumption for some reason by the way that every future board of aldermen is going to be
completely negligent of this issue and they are not going to respond to constituent complaints; if a
landlord is being mistreated, nobody is going to do anything. If that happens, that’s a day that hasn't
happened yet. What is happening right now is there are landlords that are doing this that need to be
addressed. It’s not even really just 23 Temple Street. There are other landlords that aren’t as frequent
or as ridiculous offender but we heard public comment in the last meeting about issues at 243 Main
Street that should probably be looked at too. There are other substandard living condition locations. |
think if we pass this ordinance, it creates a disincentive for people to continue doing business that way
because it changes the dynamic of what they can get away with and what they can't.

Alderman Moriarty

| was going to make a motion to re-refer, but I’ve decided not to. I'll let somebody else make that motion.
| heard what Alderman Clemons had to say, and I'll just let him have that opportunity if he wants to.
Thank you.

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Alderman Clemons

l’ll be brief; | know it’s getting late. When you’re renting to people who basically are the poorest people in
Nashua, maybe a step above being homeless, living in 23 Temple Street or the Country Barn Motel or
wherever else there’s issues like that, if you raise their rent by $15 or $20 a week, they can go
somewhere else. They can walk to the woods. There is no other place. All you are doing is taking
money out of their pocket. | guarantee you that the business moral of these places are slumlords. This
isn’t going to change that. This will not change that. All this is going to do is raise rents on the people
that can’t’ afford it the most. It’s going to do nothing. | agree, 99 percent, probably all of these people,
it's not going to affect them at all, one way or the other. At least not right now, but it could. But it’s that
potential where it could that | have a problem with. You shouldn’t’ pass legislation that could be
menacing in the future. I’m just going to leave it at that.

Alderman Dowd

| am going to disagree with the Alderman that just spoke on several points. One, they are not going to
raise their rents to pay fines because if they don’t’ correct the faults, the fines are going to increase to the
point where it’s going to hurt them. It has nothing to do with rents because those fines will far exceed
rents. I’ve talked to several of the department heads. For years, their hands have been tied trying to
enforce things. They’ve said if the landlords are known for taking care of these things on a timely basis
or tell them that it’s going to take me three weeks to get a contractor, they are not going to have an issue
with that. They are after the repeat offenders. The ones that time after time just ignore the code
enforcement. As far as the mandatory warnings, | equate that to having a police car at Exit 5 stopping
cars and saying if you don’t’ slow down, there’s a cruiser at Exit 6 and he is going to pull you over and
give you a ticket. You would have to be pretty stupid to go speeding by Exit 6 because you are going to
get a ticket. That’s what mandatory warnings are, the same thing. | trust that our employees, especially
working under the department heads and the mayor that we have, are not going to abuse this. Is this a
perfect ordinance? No. It’s very difficult to write perfect ordinances. We can address it over time and
see if there are tweaks that need to be made. But we need to do something now, not later. This has
been back and forth to committees on several occasions. It has had several screenings, several
opportunities. The legislation that is before us right now is what we have. Let’s give it a shot and make
sure that the intent of this ordinance is followed. The mayor and the department heads will do that. If we
get feedback from the landlords that it is being abused, we can change it right here again.

Alderman McGuinness

| think as most of you know, | won’t be supporting this legislation. But! did want to mention with respect
to the sponsors and the supporters of it, that their hearts are in the right place. They're sincere and
genuine in what they are trying to do to solve a problem. | don’t like this legislation. | think it is poorly
written and could be very harmful to the citizens that are property owners of Nashua. | do understand we
are trying to solve a problem here. The proponents of the legislation, your intentions are good, but | just
think it’s really a flawed bill. One thing | would like to say about intentions, we’ve heard a lot of
testimony from some of the department heads about how they are going to practice good will and
restraint and good intentions. I’d just like to remind everybody that this is legislation and we’re
legislators. | think good intentions are meaningless. The road to somewhere is filled with them. | think
that some of the testimony that was brought up, it’s black and white. We're making law here. We're not
talking about good intentions and friendly administrations and unfriendly administrations. | just wanted to
set that there. Thank you for listening; | will not be supporting this bill.

Alderman Wilshire

| think one of the things that really are important to me is people like NeighborWorks came out to speak
in favor of this legislation. They provide housing for low income individuals, and they are good at it. They

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are very good at it. They have a lot of low income apartments, not just in Nashua but in southern New
Hampshire. | am very respectful of the work they do. They came tonight to make sure that we knew that
they were in support of this type of legislation, as did one of the commissioners from the Nashua Housing
Authority, who is probably the biggest landlord in the City of Nashua. We also got a communication from
Bob Keating, who we all know in this Chamber, who is one of the strongest advocates for low income
people. He’s with the Granite State Organizing Project, and he was in support of this. That’s pretty
telling to me, that these organizations and individuals came here to talk to us about this tonight. This is
what these people do. They advocate for low income people. They came tonight to tell us that. I'll be
supporting it.

Alderman Schoneman

| appreciate the advocacy for low income tenants in the City of Nashua and elsewhere. The gentleman
who spoke from NeighborWorks and others who would speak in favor sounds like they are good
landlords.

(Alderman Moriarty was disconnected and no longer participated via teleconference call.)

There’s no issue with their compliance or their provision of good services. Landlords at the two locations
that we are really concerned with don’t appear to be in that category. | share the view that | don’t think
we’re going to change their character. The gentleman that spoke from NeighborWorks seemed to exhibit
a character where he had legitimate and genuine concern. The landlords or the owners at the two
places that we are primarily concerned with, | don’t know if they are going to be legitimately affected by
this. If they don’t have that character already, | don’t see it happening. | think the likelinood of them
raising rent just from an economic standpoint based on the low vacancy rate that we heard from the
gentleman from NeighborWorks at 2 percent, there appears to be no pressure to keep rates low. If he
was able to raise them to collect the fines, maybe they could simply do that from an economic
standpoint. Maybe that’s the answer in a sense because if everything is complied with internally to that
building at 23 Temple, there could still be issues with those folks across the street that wanted to develop
the property but didn’t because 23 Temple exists as it is. This isn’t going to change what 23 Temple is.
I’m concerned about that. I’m also wanted to address the comment that there’s no effect on those sitting
out here. There may be no fine coming in the next week or two or whenever, but there is an effect.
That’s what they are here speaking about. One gentleman said he had anxiety. As a landlord he owns
one building and he expressed a fear of what this might mean for him. | think that’s a serious concern. |
don’t like it when any citizen in the city is afraid of this government. | think the folks at 23 Temple, the
owners of 23 Temple should be afraid, but | don’t think they are. The legitimate people who are good
landlords, they are the ones that are fearful. Whether or not this will affect them today is hard to say, but
it could. It could affect them a year from now or two years from now or whenever when this legislation
lies there ready to be picked up and enforced perhaps punitively. Who knows, we don’t know that now.
We know the character of the people that are administering it today within code enforcement. We don’t
know beyond that. It seems to me that it opens a door that | think causes potential grief in the future,
certainly causes a level of anxiety and fear today. | question what real effect it will have on the two
properties we’re concerned with. Thank you.

Alderman Lopez

| want to say | am sensitive to the anxiety that a business owner feels really. | understand what it’s like to
be concerned about the future and what it might hold. | am also sensitive to the first woman who testified
here. Her son died in the room next door. She received an eviction notice the day before Thanksgiving.
No organizations or help was going to be available for her to get anything. She was very anxious. She
was very upset. Her son’s room was rented out the day after. The discussion about when it was being
rented out was happening right in front of her while this is all happening. His belongings were kept in a
closet that someone else was renting out, so she couldn’t even get her son’s stuff. This is not behavior

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the city should tolerate. | hate to say this, but it’s not the only time it’s happened. If more people came
and testified to the substandard living conditions and talked about the conditions that they endure in the
landlords that we’re talking about, just one or two buildings, if we talk about the human misery that they
cause, | think most of the people in this room would be completely appalled because it is a different level
of living that they are anywhere used to living. That’s why it is substandard living. People feel anxiety.
They feel depression. They feel hopelessness. They can’t move out. They can’t make any changes.
The physical building that they are living in is not basic living conditions. It’s something that needs to be
done now. I’m very sensitive to the position that this is putting landlords in because this is change. This
is a new effort by the city, and yes, we should all be very anxious about how it could go unintended and
how it could go poorly, but | think that anxiety has driven the development of it in the first place. | think
everybody who has looked at this has taken a conscientious approach at it, and said | want to make sure
we don’t do this wrong. | even understand Alderman Clemons’ approach because he is trying to make
sure that this does what it is supposed to do. Everybody in the room is very, very conscience of how this
could go wrong. | just want to remind everybody that it is going wrong for people right now. We’re all still
going to be in this room next month, the month after, maybe a year and a half from now, who knows.
We're going to be available. If something is going wrong, we can do something about it. We're all open.
You all know now which one of us is your ward alderman, which one of us is your at-large. | am very
much in favor of maintaining the communication that we’ve started here regardless of how the vote goes
because | think that’s the best way to cooperatively move forward with this. | don’t think this legislation is
going to be the solution to every problem, but | think it is start that we need to make. It’s a stepping point
to move forward collectively in trying to address a real issue with the city that most of us aren’t directly
affected by. It’s just hypothetical, but it’s happening and there are people that need to be spoken for.

Alderman Clemons

Mr. President, to Alderman Lopez, if | could. Could you explain how this legislation is going to help
somebody who is sleeping in a bedbug infested bed tonight?

Alderman Lopez

As was already described by the staff at both of the meetings of the substandard living conditions
committees, it provides a disincentive to just carrying on business as usual. As the Mayor said at the
beginning of this meeting, a lot of code violations that are happening in specific buildings, they are not
being reviewed in advance because there is no consequence. If the code enforcement officer comes
and says fix this then they have to fix it. If the code enforcement officer says this is broken, you have to
fix it or there’s a fine, now they only have ten days to fix it. The concern that is being voiced by the other
landlords here becomes a driving factor. It’s also a documentation trail so if the landlord is a repeat
offender and is constantly causing difficulty, now at least we have something that we can bring to court.
A lot of this was covered in the meetings that you were sitting at. Maybe reviewing the minutes would be
helpful.

Alderman Clemons

If | could continue, respectfully, | guess | just don’t understand how a fine is going to clean up a building
that we haven’t been able to clean up for 30 years.

Alderman Lopez
Is that a question?
Alderman Clemons

It’s not a question; it’s a statement.

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Alderman Siegel

First of all, let's remember this is code enforcement. It does not deal with just 23 Temple. We get
sucked into this rabbit hole of using 23 Temple as the litmus test for this legislation. It is not intended to
be such. It is more wide ranging than that. | gave the specific example of improper contractor actions,
which is the specific thing which led to us not wanting to put the mandatory warnings in there. Yes,
dealing with 23 Temple would be highly desirable. This legislation is not exclusive to that nor should it be
judged exclusively on its success or failures in dealing with 23 Temple. With regard to people walking
out and sleeping in the woods, the people that are in those situations have housing vouchers. Those
housing vouchers don’t go away depending on whether somebody raises the rent. The housing
vouchers are to provide for those people so we don’t have people walking in the woods. By the way, one
of those people that would be walking in the woods is the previously mentioned Kathy Tucker. | was the
person sitting there with her the morning her son died. | was the guy whose shoulder she was crying on
trying to help her from being evicted on the morning that her son died. Even that said this legislation is
not influenced by that. That’s a very bad situation. But this legislation is not part of some social justice
warrior attempt at dealing with it although that is clearly something we care about. That’s not what this
legislation is about. It’s wide ranging. It’s code enforcement, not landlord-tenant issues.

Alderman LeBrun

Mr. President, would a motion to re-refer to the committee be in order at this time?
President McCarthy

Yes, it would. Are you making one?

Alderman LeBrun

So moved.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN LEBRUN TO RE-REFER TO COMMITTEE

ON THE QUESTION

President McCarthy

Discussion which is limited to the expedience of re-referring to committee.

Alderman Siegel

Which | assume it would be re-referred to my committee, | see nothing further to be gained by re-
referring to committee. We've exhaustively discussed this. | think if it's going to pass or fail, | think it
should do so on the merits as it is presented right now. Some may object; others may not. We've had a
lot of discussion. | would like to see this voted on now. | adamantly object to re-referring it to committee.

Alderman O’Brien

As a member of the committee and clerk, | would like to reiterate exactly what Alderman Siegel has said.
| don’t see any other future work to can come. This needs to go to a vote tonight.

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A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Clemons, Alderman Schoneman, Alderman McGuinness , 4
Alderman LeBrun

Nay: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron, 7
Alderman Siegel, Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez,
Alderman McCarthy

MOTION FAILED

President McCarthy

The motion fails. The motion before us is for final passage. Is there any further discussion?

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron, 8
Alderman Siegel, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman O’Brien,
Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy

Nay: Alderman Clemons, Alderman Schoneman, Alderman McGuinness, 4
Alderman LeBrun,

MOTION CARRIED
Ordinance O-16-003 declared duly adopted as amended.

O-16-010
Endorser: Alderman-at-Large David W. Deane
ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO MERIT EMPLOYEE RULES AND REGULATIONS EFFECTIVE
JULY 1, 2016

given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS FOR INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT OF O-16-010

ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Clemons

With regards to the indefinite postponement, this was discussed at length in committee as well as with
the Personnel Advisory Board and with input from the Mayor as well as Mr. Griffin and Mr. Budreau. In
committee, it was discussed that we should probably look at a real comprehensive overhaul of the merit
schedule. Therefore, the committee recommends indefinite postponement.

MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-16-010 declared indefinitely postponed.

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O-16-011
Endorsers: Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderman David Schoneman
Alderman Tom Lopez
ADOPTING PROVISIONS FOR REDUCED TAXATION FOR CERTAIN CHARTERED
PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES
e Tabled at Full Board Level — 5/10/16

O-16-012
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
MOVING PARKING OVERSIGHT AND MANAGEMENT FROM THE TRANSPORTATION
DEPARTMENT IN THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION TO THE OFFICE OF
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE MAYOR’S OFFICE

given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF O-16-012
MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-16-012 declared duly adopted.
NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-16-039
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NASHUA TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH NASHUA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE, RIVIER UNIVERSITY, DANIEL WEBSTER COLLEGE, TOWN OF
HUDSON, TOWN OF MERRIMACK, SOUHEGAN VALLEY TRANSPORTATION
COLLABORATIVE, AND THE PLUS COMPANY FOR TRANSIT SERVICES
Given its first reading; assigned to the FINANCE COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-16-040
Endorsers: Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Benjamin M. Clemons
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY TREASURER TO ISSUE BONDS NOT TO EXCEED
THE AMOUNT OF ONE MILLION SIX HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,650,000)
FOR THE SPIT BROOK ROAD FIRE STATION 3 BUILDING RENOVATIONS
Given its first reading;

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MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD TO ACCEPT THE FIRST READING OF R-16-040 BY ROLL CALL,
ASSIGN IT TO THE BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE AND THAT A PUBLIC HEARING BE
SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2016, AT 7:00 PM IN THE ALDERMANIC CHAMBER

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Dowd, 12
Alderman Caron, Alderman Siegel, Alderman Schoneman,
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun,
Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy

Nay: 0

MOTION CARRIED

R-16-041
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $25,000 FROM DEPARTMENT 159 — OTHER PUBLIC
SAFETY, ACCOUNTING CLASSIFICATION 54 —- PROPERTY SERVICES, HYDRANT FEES
TO DEPARTMENT 109 — CIVIC & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, ACCOUNTING CLASSIFICATION
56 — OUTSIDE AGENCIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF DONATING TO THE NASHUA
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ELDERLY
Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-16-042
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
ESTABLISHING POLLING TIMES FOR THE STATE PRIMARY ELECTION ON SEPTEMBER 13,
2016 AND THE STATE GENERAL ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Given its first reading;

There being no objection, President McCarthy suspended the rules to allow for a second reading
of R-16-042

Resolution R-16-042 given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-16-042
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-16-042 declared duly adopted.

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R-16-043
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Ken Siegel
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $63,648 FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY INTO FIRE GRANT ACTIVITY “FY2015
ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT”
Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-16-013
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Sean M. McGuinness
Alderman Don LeBrun
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Tom Lopez
INCREASING THE COMPENSATION OF ELECTION OFFICIALS
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE by President
McCarthy

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Mr. Jim Cutter, 86 Palm Street
Dear Alderman McCarthy,

You have heard me talk many times about the city error that gave a large part of our driveway/clothesline
area to the Gilbertson’s. We would like it very much if the Board of Aldermen helped us. But, as far as |
know, it appears easier if Mayor Donchess helped because an ordinance would not be needed. | have
found in Section 45 of the City charter, the Mayor “shall’ enforce the ordinances of the city. Enclosed is
a copy of “1949 Plat Plan Error at 88 Palm Street” for Mayor Donchess. Sincerely, Jim.

Mr. Joseph Haas

I’m sorry | messed up the “election” for “elected” officials. But complaint still that is lodged here is the
RSA 444:6 is not being addressed. | sat as a former landlord to hear all of this stuff on ordinances and
having an ordinance enforcer to do something and right now you have the police officer is charged with
law enforcement. So we already have the law on the books but | put into my e-mail that you all didn’t get
and I’m sorry that the other two Aldermen didn’t share it with you but what happened was | went over to
McLaughlin Transportation, the Mayflower because he was contracted by Uncle Sam to hold an auction
for my friend, Ed Brown’s, personal property up there in Plainfield; he and his wife Dr. Elain Brown. |
went there to do a First Amendment, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Speech, to bid, to talk with
other people and | was told by two of the three detail officers of the police that the feds paid to keep the