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as The current rate of the impact fee for a 999 square foot residential unit in a duplex
or multifamily dwelling is $531.50 per unit.

8. As a result, without an abatement, educational facilities impact fees totaling
$16,476.50 would be imposed on the thirty-one (31) units in The Springs, A 62+
Condominium Community. To date, none of the units at The Springs, A 62+
Condominium Community have been completed and no impact fees have yet
been assessed.

9. Section 190-85 of the Land Use Code provides, in pertinent part, that the impact
fees may be waived if the “new development consists of....elderly housing which
can be reasonably expected not to require additional educational facilities.”

10. In light of the foregoing, in accordance with Section 190-85 of the Land Use
Code and based on the provisions of RSA 354-A:15, II, which prohibit any
persons younger than 62 years of age from residing at The Springs, A 62+
Condominium Community, it can be reasonably expected (in fact, it is certain)
that the thirty-one (31) units of housing for older persons at The Springs, A 62+
Condominium Community will not require additional public educational
facilities.

WHEREFORE, the Petitioner respectfully requests that pursuant to Section 190-85 of the
Land Use Code, the Board of Aldermen waive in full the impact fees imposable against the
Premises.

Respectfully Submitted,
Springs One, LLC

By its attorneys,

Winer and Bennett, LLP

radford Westgate, Esquire

.O. Box 488

Nashua, New Hampshire 03061-0488
(603) 882-5157

PETITION
FOR
STREET DISCONTINUANCE

TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF ALDERMAN OF THE CITY OF NASHUA:

Pursuant to the Nashua Revised Ordinances, Chapter 285, Section 24, the undersigned
requests that the following described portion of:
Conant Road; the areas identified as AREA ‘A’ and AREA ‘B’ on the attached PROPOSED
REVERSION PLAN prepared by JEFFREY LAND SURVEY, LLC

be discontinued from public dedication or use:

. The petitioners Edward &. Melissa Gilbertson, of 121 Conant Road, owners of record of
Parcel C-1032 AND Michael Fournier, of 119 Conant Road, owner of record of Parcel C-2800,
jointly petition for the AREA ‘A’.and AREA ‘B’ be discontinued from public dedication or use.

AREA ‘A’ and AREA ‘B’ constitute in excess of 60% of the total square footage encompassed by |
areas ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, and ‘D’ on the attached plan. AREA ‘A’ and AREA ‘B’ border Katie Lane.

in compliance with direction from the Nashua City Engineer, Stephen Dookran, P.E., and
Nashua City Surveyor, Mark Jennings, all four adjacent properties have been surveyed and
included on the attached PROPOSED REVERSION PLAN prepared by JEFFREY LAND
SURVEY, LLC. All comments and feedback received from multiple reviews of this survey plan by
the City Engineer's Office have been incorporated by Mr. Gregg Jeffrey into the attached — .
PROPOSED REVERSION PLAN.

The petitioners understand that the City Engineer would prefer all four landowners to jointly
submit the petition; however, with Alderman Jette checking with Attorney Celia Leonard, and with
her reply that one or all of the four owners can petition “that the City discontinue a street or a
portion of ROW’, the joint petitioners would like to petition for a partial discontinuance of Areas ‘A
and ‘B’.

in compliance with the request of the City Engineer’s Office, all four landowners who could
potentially benefit from the proposed reversion plan of Areas A,.B, C, and D have been personally
contacted by Edward and Melissa Gilbertson multiple times to invite their participation in the
discontinuance. Michael Fournier, of 119 Conant Road, has agreed to join the petition after the
first contact and has also invested significant funds into his property survey. Brian and Lynne
Mullally, of 68 McKenna Drive, have responded that they would very much like to join the petition
to have the land identified as Area ‘D’ added to their property, but the costs would present a
financial hardship for them at this time. Daniel Toupin and Patricia Falbo-Toupin, of 123 Conant
Road, have no interest in joining the discontinuance. When first contacted, they stated that they
did not want to pay the expense for the surveyor, nor to pay any additional taxes. On our third -
contact with them, we informed them that we had paid for their survey and that Alderman Jette —
had found the amount of their potential tax increase to be only $81 annually. Dan Toupin stated
that they still did not want to participate because they did not agree with the surveyed markers
that had been coordinated with and already reviewed by the City Surveyor, Mark Jennings.

The petitioners thank you for your consideration of this petition.

PETITION/STREET DISCONTINUANCE:

The street discontinuance is being petitioned by:

(603) 888-5711 Edward and Melissa Gilbertson
(603) 321-2096 Michael Fournier
Telephone Number Petitioner

121 Conant Road (Gilbertson)

5 June 2018 119 Conant Road (Fournier)
Date Address

The petitioner has submitted three copies of the petition and plan (along with three copies of the 24”
x 36” recordable mylar surveyor prints) of the proposed street discontinuance showing the abutting
owners, the location of the new proposed property lines, any existing utilities and the new bounds to
be set.

Plan and petition received \— 06/08/2018
CITY CLERK DATE
The foregoing petition ( ) is ( ) is not The foregoing petition ( ) is ( ) is not
Recommended for approval: recommended for approval:
CITY ENGINEER DATE CHAIRMAN, NASHUA PLANNING BOARD DATE
Petition introduced at Board of Aldermen Meeting JUNE 26, 2018
DATE

Public Hearing conducted by the Committee on Infrastructure:

JULY 25, 2018 7:00 P.M. ALDERMANIC CHAMBER
DATE TIME PLACE

In accordance with Chapter 19, Section 19-37, the foregoing petition was granted, conditional on the
petitioner’s recording the plan in the Hillsborough oo Registry of Deeds, by the Board of
Aldermen and Mayor on

DATE

Attest:

DATE CITY CLERK

Proposed Amendments to Plan made at Infrastructure - 09/26/2018

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APPOINTMENTS BY THE MAYOR
OCTOBER 9, 2018

Airport_Authority

Brian H. Law (New Appointment) Term to Expire: August 31, 2023
78 Concord Street
Nashua, NH 03064

Cultural Connections Committee

Sylvia Gale (Reappointment) Term to Expire: February 28, 2021
4 Clergy Circle

Nashua, NH 03064

Energy and Environment Committee

James E. Pyle (New Appointment) Term to Expire: October 31, 2021
14 Elyston Circle

Nashua, NH 03064

Mine Falls Park Advisory Committee

Greg Andruskevich (Reappointment) Term to Expire: June 30, 2020

3 Caraway Lane

Nashua, NH 03063

Michael Watts (Reappointment) Term to Expire: October 31, 2021
10 Royal Drive, #10

Nashua, NH 03060

Nashua Arts Commission

Tina Cassidy (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 1, 2021
36 Arlington Street
Nashua, NH 03062

Lindsay Rinaldi (Reappointment) Term to Expire: April 1, 2021
705 Belmont Street
Belmont, MA 02478

Nashua City Planning Board

Maggie Harper (New Appointment) Term to Expire: March 31, 2020
(Moving from Alternate to Full Member)

3 Taft Street

Nashua, NH 03060

Zoning Board of Adjustment

A. John "Jay" Minkarah, Alternate (New Appointment) Term to Expire: September 11, 2020
13 Mount Pleasant Street

Nashua, NH 03064

| respectfully request that these appointments be confirmed.

Jim Donchess
Mayor

A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, October 2, 2018, at 7:10 p.m. in the
City Hall Auditorium.

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

Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright led in the Pledge to
the Flag.

The roll call was taken with 14 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Gidge was recorded
absent.

Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
COMMUNICATIONS

From: Brian S. McCarthy, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting

There being no objection, President McCarthy accepted the communication and placed it on file.
PRESENTATION

Mohawk Tannery Presentation by EPA Officials

President McCarthy

Tonight’s agenda item is a presentation from the Environmental Protection Agency regarding the Mohawk
Tannery. | will introduce Melissa Taylor from the EPA who can introduce the other people who are with her
and deliver the presentation.

Melissa Taylor, EPA NH & RI Superfund Section Chief Thank you very much. My name is Melissa Taylor and
| work for EPA. | am the manager of the New Hampshire and Rhode Island Superfund Program of which
Mohawk Tannery is one of the sites that we have in our section. This is Gerardo Millan-Ramos, he is the
project manager for the Mohawk Tannery site. We also have Kelsey O’Neil who is our Community
Involvement Coordinator for EPA and that is it from the EPA.

I’m not sure what format you would like to have us work on but I’d like to say a few just opening points and
then maybe hand it over to Gerardo to kind of go through a few slides of the presentation if that is ok with you.

President McCarthy

That would be fine.

Ms. Taylor So the reason why we are here today | think is two-fold. The Mayor had a meeting back on
September 13" and a few things were raised at that meeting that we'd like to hopefully address today, if that’s
what you want. More importantly, we really believe that we are at the crossroads and that we have a unique
opportunity to work cooperatively with the State, the City and the developer on a common sense solution to the
site that takes it out of its current stalled state and returns it to productive use at a reasonable cost to the
taxpayers.

The administration recognizes this opportunity and placed it on their administrator's special emphasis list back
in 2017. We have been working with the City, had many conversations with the City, the State and the
developer over the past year on this approach to the clean-up.

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We hope that the City agrees to this approach, but if you do not, we will have to frank conversation with both
the City and the State regarding what the move forward with formally placing the site on the Superfund
National Priorities List or NPL which is basically the list of Superfunds sites that across the country.

We have worked diligently in partnership with the City to develop a plan that could clean up the site and return
the site to productive use. EPA alone has spent over $4 million dollars at this site since it was proposed for the
NPL back in 2000 which includes but is not limited to EPA’s payroll, State cooperative agreements and past
cost for the time critical removal actions that we have done at the site. EPA’s comment period closed on
September 7", we received about 18 comments from residents and/or City officials that were opposed to the
consolidation and capping of material on-site and would prefer off-site disposal.

That is pretty much all my opening comments. If you would like to have us proceed with the presentation?

Gerardo Millan-Ramos, EPA Remedial Project Manager Well good evening everyone and thank you for
hosting us here tonight. What | am going to present is a very, very brief presentation that is like a summary or
a nutshell version of what we consider the main points that we have laid out in previous meetings, both public
meetings and meetings with neighbors at neighbor’s requests just to make Sure we are on the same page.

So the Mohawk Tannery Site basically these are the main things | would like to briefly cover tonight before we
get into questions and answers. The first topic would be a summary of the recent past activities that we have
had. | will also be showing maps and figures to make sure we all understand where exactly this site is and
adjoining properties, the contaminants of concern that we are talking about and EPA’s recommended
alternative as we have laid out in an amended Engineering Evaluation Cost Analysis (EE/CA).

Starting with the recent past and future events, back on July 25™ we had a public information meeting here at
the City Hall and we basically presented the EE/CA amendment. Then on August 29" we had the request of
some neighbors and an informal meeting with them to provide more technical information and answer some
questions that neighbors had. Then we closed the comment period for the EE/CA on September 7" and now
actually tomorrow we are having a site tour with a group of neighbors, again at the neighbor's request.

Ms. Taylor We'd also like to invite any of the Aldermen to attend that as well. It is at 5:00 at the site tomorrow.

Mr. Millan-Ramos Yes 5:00 at the site tomorrow. The idea of that tour is to show the main features of the site
and a general overview of what it is that we propose to do there. Then on March 29" that is when we foresee
the approximate date of finalizing our Action Memo. The Action Memo is our decision document that formally
documents what is it that we will do at the site, in full detail. It will be a public document once it is finalized.
We are certainly working and striving to do it as soon as possible, but that is the internal deadline we have set
ourselves.

We envision that if everything runs smoothly, construction would be starting the Summer of next year. To put
again in perspective where the site is in relationship to all the properties and the neighborhood, this is a very
good figure that shows, highlighted in green, you see two parcels there. Those two parcels in green is what we
call the Mohawk Tannery Site. Further to the north, immediately adjacent to it to the north you will see a
property highlighted in blue, that is the Fimbel Door property. It is a separate piece of property that houses a
landfill that has the exact same waste that is on the site. Further north of that property is a City-owned
property that houses asbestos that was primarily from the construction or found after the construction of the
Broadway Street Parkway.

Ms. Taylor Can you just point to where the lagoons are?
Mr. Millan-Ramos Sure | am going to try, let’s see if | can use this pointer here. The lagoons in the site are

right here where | am moving the cursor and | realize it is kind of hard to see. That’s where the former lagoons
are and those of you who will be able to join us tomorrow will see that of those two lagoons, only one is really a

Special Bd. of Aldermen — 10/26/15 Page 3

lagoon, the other one is totally covered with sand and virtually solid in consistency, so much that you can walk
on top of it.

Ms. Taylor We have some pictures here too of the material and what it looks like, we can show them to you
now or we can show them to you afterwards.

President McCarthy

Whatever makes the most sense for your presentation.

Mr. Millan-Ramos We understand that when we use the term lagoon it is natural to think of these as liquid.
But in reality it is sludge that has been there for many, many years and it is virtually solid, earthlike
consistency. For members of the public, this is what | am referring to.

Ms. Taylor It just looks like dark soil more than anything else.

Mr. Millan-Ramos Yes, very dark soil. These are pictures from some test pits. Basically what | was saying is
that the consistency of this sludge, oh it went off, is it okay now? Alright, back again. So the idea of showing
you these pictures is to show you the consistency of this sludge in the former lagoons. As you can see it is
pretty much solid, granted in one of the former lagoons, lagoon number 1 is still open and when it rains you will
see liquid in there but the sludge as it has been tested numerous times, is pretty solid in consistency.

Ms. Taylor Show the Aldermen. This is kind of a weird set up.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

What is the top picture again, oh lagoon 2.

Ms. Taylor It is just a test pit so they basically dug, see that is an excavator there on the top, the second
picture.

Mr. Millan-Ramos | have another figure that shows better the location of the two lagoons it is in the
presentation but this one here is lagoon #1 that is the one that is liquid sort of speak.

Ms. Taylor Open, it is not closed.

Mr. Millan-Ramos Open, correct, the other one is totally covered with sand. And | think that is the whole
objective of these figures.

Ms. Taylor There was just a lot of misconception what the material actually looked like and was consisting of, it
was more like this gooey sludge kind of material and it is really not it is more like a soil.

Mr. Millan-Ramos Correct. So | think this is probably fairly obvious to most of you the location of the site, but
again there has been often confusion about what is the site, what is not and | just want to make clear with this
image that we call the Mohawk Tannery Site is what you see highlighted in green and that is what our cost
estimates are based on, it is just strictly work in there. There are other two properties, if this approach with the
current developer follows through, you know would be addressed as well. But there are other, they have
different ownership and we don’t have jurisdiction over them.

Let me move to the next one, this figure here and | realize it doesn’t show that quite well, but you see the two
lagoons....

Ms. Taylor Do you think it’s better in that one?

increased above last year is $3.1 million, which is still under the spending cap by $100,000. Based upon the tax
base that we have, which is a little over $8 billion, given this budget as proposed, we think the tax rate increase will
increase to 2.5% or in that vicinity. As far as revenues go, the city has been budgeting conservatively on revenues
for many years, | would say decades to we don’t run into problems with not having the revenue that we had
projected. We are continuing to budget them conservatively. We are seeing increases in motor vehicle registration
fees which in part come to city. We also have a low interest rate environment so we are not realizing interest on the
city’s assets and investments as we used to. We are getting virtually nothing on interest and another factor is that
we are seeing a reduction in state funds this year, specifically, in education assistance where we are down over
$400,000. The next slide shows you the overall operating budget in a pie chart where it shows the percentage of
the budget going to various categories. You can see that education is 56% and that includes benefits but does not
include the capital or the bonded debt of this portion as it relates to the construction of schools. Police is 11% and
fire is 9% and public works is 4%. The next slide gives you a sense of where the budget has gone over the last 10
years, what the spending cap has been, the amount of the increase and the dollar number that the budget was
under the spending cap. Obviously the only one that | proposed was the final FY °17. The next slide shows you
where some of the costs have gone over the last 10 years and the one that | think you need to note most carefully is
the pension in NHRS which stands for the New Hampshire Retirement System. It has gone from $8.1 million in FY
2008 up to $21.2 million in FY °17 which is a 162% increase while wages have only climbed 24%. | know from
working on the Budget Review Committee and studying the issue since I’ve been Mayor that this is the single most
serious financial issue that the city has been facing for nearly a decade and we expect that the pension obligations
imposed by the State of New Hampshire will continue to go up and we will need to discuss that in much greater
detail. The next slide is the debt service budget. The city has been successful in reducing the debt service budget
in part because the bonds for the two high schools continue to get paid off and the debt service budget for fiscal
2017 is going to be a little over $17 million; about $17.3 million. The next slide shows you the increase of $3.1
million and how that is divided up. Most of it goes to schools but also the police department and the fire department
and our other major departments. The budget challenges which we will face next year; in FY °18 is that the
spending cap is likely to be 1% or 0.9% and at 1% the allowable new expenditures would be $2.5 million and we are
likely to lose education assistance, the State Adequacy Grant is likely to go down as it did this year; something
which is very unfortunate. The state is, under the way things are being handled now, education aid to wealthy
communities is going up; Bedford and Windham have nearly doubled this year. They have 5% and 3% free and
reduced lunch children which is an indication of economic disadvantage. There aid is almost doubling whereas
Nashua’s aid has gone down; we have 43% free and reduced lunch, Manchester has a higher percentage and their
education aid is also being reduced. To the next point, the retirement costs are estimated to increase next year by
another $2 million because the state has taken further actions which will increase our pension liability unrelated to
any increase in salaries. We will also have negotiated wages for contracts which extend into the next fiscal year.

Mr. Chair, | think that gives an overview of the budget and | wanted to give you some insight and | thank you for that
opportunity.

The following departments received public comment:
Department 101, Mayor’s Office
Mr. Fred Teeboom, 24 Cheyenne Drive

This is a public hearing so | would like to make some comments and then | will address line items. First of all,
Mayor, the budget is under the spending cap, congratulations; you met your campaign pledge and | hope you will
continue to meet your campaign pledge as years go on. | think you have done a marvelous job with this budget. |
am not here to second guess your priorities, the priorities are your problem but | would like to make a few
comments. | do feel that there is a sense of entitlement by the police department union, fire department union and
the teacher’s union in its attempt to raise the budget beyond the spending cap limits. There is however, a very
healthy unassigned fund balance, | think it is $28 million more than last year and | thank CFO Griffin for that. A
healthy fund balance could reduce bond rates alone which you have taken advantage of by refinancing the bonds. It
also means that you don’t spend every penny that’s saved. You have to set priorities, meeting a spending cap
means you just can’t spend anything that comes alone. | have some concerns. One concern that | have is the
school capital reserve fund. At one time the education grant that you mentioned earlier was about $34 million and
at one time it was zero. | remember very well back in 1994/1995 at the meeting in Concord, the Secretary of State
said he was going to give us $20 million and we said that’s unheard of and we said just this year? He said no, every
year: | almost fell off of my chair. They were so rich that Mayor Davidson said | will take half of that money and

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Mr. Millan-Ramos Yes, that one is probably better to look at. But the two lagoons, lagoon #1 which is the one
| am pointing to here, and lagoon #2 are right next to each other. So area 1, the open lagoon and area 2 the
closed lagoon right here. The plan as conceived right now is to basically contain all that waste that is already
in there, by building a containment structure or wall around it. We have three different technologies and we are
leaning to what is commonly called a secant wall, just to contain the waste in there and add the solid
contamination that is in satellite areas that you see here highlighted in beige as well.

One possibility that has been envisioned is to also add on top of that lagoon once it is contained, the waste
from the Fimbel Door landfill which you see here and the asbestos that is in the property owned by the city
would be dug into a cell adjacent to this site in here. So again the general idea or approach here is to basically
consolidate all this waste in this area by building that secant wall first up to the soil level and then on top of ita
containment wall that would hold the additional waste and then have it capped with an impermeable cap.

This figure here that Melissa is holding and before | go to that picture | just want to make sure the members of
the public here see this. This is what | was referring to. The two lagoons right here and satellite areas of
contamination and the Fimbel Door Landfill, all would be consolidated in this area. The southern parcel was
largely unused and the idea is for it to remain as open green space after the whole clean-up is done. So with
that | think we can move to the other figure.

Here is basically a cross-section of the area if you were to split the area in half and see it from the side, this
would be the river, this would be the neighborhood. It is a fairly steep grade, not as steep as shown in this
schematic, but still steep. The idea, as | said, is to contain the waste here with a secant wall, which is what
you see in purple and have the retaining wall would hold additional contamination on top of it and it would be
capped with an impermeable cap. Pretty much like you see here.

Ms. Taylor The only thing that this doesn’t really show is that the cap will go behind this wall. It is not going to
just be a wall that is holding the waste behind it. The cap is going to encapsulate all this material and then the
retaining wall is kind of like a belt and suspenders kind of thing. Same with the secant wall, that material is
staying where it is right now we just want to make sure nothing is going to happen to it at any point in the future
so we are kind of putting something extra on there.

Mr. Millan-Ramos Kelsey can you do me a favor and move in that direction so that the people here have an
opportunity to see. So the second cross-section of it, in purple, the secant wall in blue it would be that
retaining wall that would hold the additional contamination and it would be capped with an impermeable cap
and right next to it there would be a cell containing the asbestos from the other property. And it is just a
schematic to show a general depiction of what the remedy would be.

Moving on, | wanted to show you list of what we call contaminants of concern. This list is in order of toxicity
from the most toxic substance at the top to the last toxic substance at the bottom. The bulk of the
contamination is in those two former lagoons, areas 1 and 2. And basically some metal contamination in the
satellite areas that | showed you in the previous figure.

Ms. Taylor And even though that goes from the most toxic | guess you would say to the least toxic, it doesn’t
actually mean that this is the majority of the actual material that is in there. The majority of the material | think
is actually contaminated with what chromium, chromium and probably arsenic but we also think that a
component of the arsenic might be attributed to background.

Mr. Millan-Ramos Yes, correct.

Ms. Taylor Which is naturally occurring, I’m sorry, | am using scientific terms, | apologize.