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This change will do nothing if they want the product they can get it. Vape seems to be what | am hearing
from the crowd here and what | heard from the Committee in past hearings, the problem becomes vape.
We don’t sell vape, we don’t carry vape, we are stuck in with all other tobacco products and it is not fair.
Nashua needs to take a step down and stop the overreaching from this. Thank you.

Ed Santamaria Good evening, hi I’m Ed Santamaria, 15 Spit Brook Road, Nashua, New Hampshire and |
work at Two Guys Smoke Shop. | am in opposition of this Ordinance as written does not curb use for
possession. Past Committee meetings we heard Alderman Wilshire say that she thinks that people are
going to go elsewhere to buy these products. They will go elsewhere, they’ll go to Hudson or Merrimack as
other people have mentioned. Right now they go elsewhere to Nashua, New Hampshire from
Massachusetts from surrounding areas. If you’ve been to the Mall on the weekend, there are a lot of Mass
plates. That’s just business that is going to be lost. This Ordinance is an attack on local businesses; all
businesses like | said the Mall, restaurants, other establishments. It’s not good for business in the Nashua
area. And | understand the pleas of those in favor, but this does not curb use or possession and | think that
it is not going to solve the problem at all. Thank you.

Steven Elliott Hi! am Steven Elliott, 256 Pine Street, Ward 6. In about 2012 a couple years after State’s
started implementing bans on texting while driving, all the studies showed that texting related accidents
increased in those states, including fatal accidents. And so one thing to do when you are looking at laws
like this is to ask what are unintended consequences? And what you will probably see if since people
between the ages of 18 and 21 are the poorest people, the fines are going to make them even poorer.
That means that if you look at the data, poor people have higher birth rates, so you'll have people that are
smokers having higher birth rates, which will probably increase the amount of smokers in the long run. So
your law probably won’t work. Thank you.

Quinn Bardon Hi I’m Quinn Bardon | live at 7 Royal Crest Drive in Nashua. My father is British and in his
home country an establishment may serve a 16 year old with beer and wine that is purchased by an adult.
Not coincidentally in that country youth alcohol poisoning and DUI rates are significantly lower than in the
US. Adult authoritarian control of addictive substances merely creates a forbidden fruit effect where the
targeted substance becomes that much more attractive simply because it is forbidden by those seen as
stodgy and cool. Thus this Ordinance will be counterproductive in that respect.

See reverse psychology here is a genuine phenomenon and on that I’d also like to point out that | find it
curious that many proponents of these types of restrictive policies, also advocate lower the voting age to
something like 16. So apparently a 16 year old is qualified to choose someone with the power to initiate a
nuclear conflict with Russia but has to wait 5 years to pick up a pack of smokes, very curious that. Thank
you.

Howard Ray Good evening Mr. Mayor, Board of Aldermen. My name is Howard Ray, | live at 2 Clock
Tower Place, 133 here in Nashua, New Hampshire, Ward 4. What we are talking about here this evening
really is responsibility; responsibility for your health, your children’s health and so forth. | find it nowhere
that this municipality has the right, moral right or obligation, to tell me how to raise my children especially
after he has reached the age of majority of 18. What right do you have over my child and the decisions that
| make? | would say as a municipality none at all. And | would even argue obviously as a State none at all
either.

My service, | spent 13 glorious years in the United States Army, my service in the United States Army
wasn’t for a group of local politicians to tell me how to raise my children. It was so that | could make the
right decisions on my own to teach my child that perhaps at 18, he should not smoke. Perhaps he should
join the military. Perhaps he may not join the military, perhaps he does smoke, that’s my decision and his
on his own. It’s not yours. About these education camps that were mentioned earlier, you are going to
send 18 year olds to tell them what not to do and as soon as they pay their $50.00 they are going to go
back to their home and they are going to pick up their E-Cigarette and go “Well that was nice”. And they
pay their 50 bucks and it’s a wash. And they got caught again and who cares? Not the people that want to
smoke, not the people that are 18 years of age or older.

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And | am going to tell you as a person who is 18 years of age or older, you can buy a shotgun, you can buy
a rifle, you become a pilot at the age of 16. So! don’t want to hear this idea that 18 year olds somehow
don’t have what they need up here in their minds to make the right decisions. They can make the right
decisions on their own especially if they have good parents leading them. That’s all | have to say, thank
you for your time.

Dotty Oden Thank you, | am here to support the ordinance. Dotty Oden, 16 Cathedral Circle, | am here to
support the ordinance tonight, | am a member of the Board of Education but | am not speaking on behalf of
the Board | am speaking as an individual. We have a serious vaping problem at our two high schools as
just about every other high school in the country is dealing with. Within the past few years our high schools
had reduced the number of smoking offenses to only a handful of students. Unfortunately things have
changed. Now we have students who have never smoked a cigarette but are vaping throughout the day.
Our schools are being overwhelmed by the growing number of students vaping. We also have a smaller
number of students vaping at our middle schools, but if the national trend continues, that number will grow
quickly. It wouldn’t be a surprise if we had elementary school students vaping also.

JUUL is the most popular vaping device, it is used by almost 80% of those who vape and so popular that
vaping is often referred to as “JUULING”. Just this past December, Altria the parent company of Philip
Morris invested $12.8 billion dollars to purchase a 35% stake in JUUL Labs whose value was placed at $38
million dollars at that time. It certainly appears that the big tobacco companies are looking to ensure that
they will have a new and younger generation to buy their cigarettes to their profits will continue to roll in.
Ironically the first line of JUUL Lab Website reads “JUUL’s Lab’s Mission is to eliminate cigarettes”.

Our administrators and teachers are spending much valuable time and effort in dealing with the vaping
epidemic. Our Health Teachers have incorporated the dangers of vaping into their curriculum, but sadly
peer pressure and the allure of vaping are strong and difficult to combat. Many parents think that vaping is
harmless because of the sweet smelling flavor and the fact that it is not a cigarette. Of course this is not
true as a JUUL pod contains as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. Recently | read an article that
stated, I’m sorry | had to cut some of this, “the long term effects of vaping are unknown but the long term
effects of nicotine are not”. And | think that’s part of my concern about this is what past people have
spoken to is how it changes the brain of these young kids who don’t realize that for the rest of their life, they
could be looking at a strong susceptibility to addiction.

Our schools need help and they need it now. | am asking for your help. We have a great many needs in
educating our students which are not being met due to budget constraints. | ask that you support this
ordinance as there is no money being asked for; only your vote. It will not eradicate the problem but will
send a strong message that vaping is harmful for our kids. It might also free up more time for our
administrators and teachers to ensure our schools are safe and students many needs are being met. We
need help in many areas and this is one. Again this is not a money issue; | am asking for your vote to send
a strong message that this community is supportive of doing what is right and best for our children and their
future. Thank you.

Louis Alciere Hello I’m Louis Alciere of 28 Mobile Drive and | am against. It doesn’t really make sense that
most of my friends under this new bill would not be able to purchase tobacco or whatever else they may be
or like everyone else has alluded go over state elsewhere. Massachusetts has already implemented this
State-Wide and | would like, I’m sorry I’m a little nervous. New Hampshire is supposed to be about Live
Free or Die. And you are trying to take away some of my friend’s freedoms. That doesn’t make any sense.
And | am speaking for those friends are already in Massachusetts schools that have to drive up an hour to
get their products because of the law that has been implemented in Massachusetts. | had a lot to say and
then Justin O’Donnell literally said word for word everything | had. So thank you. That is all | have to say.

Sue Newman Yes good evening, Sue Newman, 25 Charlotte Avenue, Ward 2. | support this ordinance.
We all have the responsibility | believe to make good health decisions in the best interest of our families,
our children, our community and especially for our young people. We all know how dangerous nicotine is.

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| sent a brief e-mail to you all just yesterday so | don’t know if you had a chance to look at it, but from a site,
Tobacco Free Kids, the total of tobacco in New Hampshire the following information was put out.

7.8% of our high school New Hampshire kids smoke. 23.8% just under 24% of our New Hampshire high
school kids are using E-Cigarettes. The number of cancer deaths in New Hampshire attributable to
smoking, 27%. Kids now under 18 and alive here who will ultimately die prematurely from smoking,
22,000. Then getting to the money end of it, health care costs in New Hampshire directly caused by
smoking - $729 million dollars and that was reported to be an annual figure. From a February 11, 2019
FDA report, | am quoting, “The epidemic use of E-Cigarettes among children is one of the biggest public
health challenges currently facing the FDA. Additionally while E-Cigarettes might be a successful tool to
help currently addicted smokers quit, the sale of these devices just cannot come at the expense of
addicting a generation of kids to nicotine”. So | thank you and | close with saying we have the responsibility
to make some good decisions for our young people.

Tom Alciere Good evening my name is Tom Alciere, | live at 28 Mobile Drive in Hudson. | was briefly a
State a Representative from here in Nashua and those of you who don’t remember my opponent in the
Libertarian Primary has already spoken here today. On 24 May 1979 Governor Hugh Gallen signed Hate
Crime Legislation here in New Hampshire. Hate Crime Legislation, Raising the Drinking Age from 18 to 20
when | was 19. Those of you who remember my brief tenure in the NH Legislature saw just how grateful |
was If it’s all about saving lives by hiring gun toting goons in bullet proof vests who intimidate people into
living a healthier lifestyle, you don’t win if the targets of the legislation to whom it is totally unacceptable,
spend every waking hour for the rest of their lives like a merciless chess player looking for every possible
opportunity to make you wish you hadn't; such as the time | spotted an opportunity to run for New
Hampshire Legislature.

| don’t know how you can pledge allegiance to a Republic With Liberty And Justice For All; Liberty is an
unalienable right which by definition preempts the rule of law when the two things conflict with each other.
And then from Hate Crime Legislation against people just because it is easier to pick on people under 21
then it is to pick on people older than 21. | mean I’ve heard all the excuses, oh sure, drinking during
pregnancy harms the baby so let’s impose this on men under 21 and not on pregnant women over 21. The
same thing is true of smoking cigarettes. It harms the baby, so let’s impose this on men under 21 and not
on pregnant women over 21, because it’s not as easy to pick on people over 21. And there are Libertarian
chess moves that would do better. There is a State Law forcing businesses to hire smokers. It is illegal to
discriminate against applicants that smoke. That denies jobs to people like the gentlemen that my son —
when he’s out looking for a job it’s not fair that they should pass him over in favor of some smoker if they,
they shouldn’t have to. Non-smokers deserve a job more, they won’t drive up the cost of the company
group health plan as high and companies can save money, they’ll have an incentive to give jobs to people
who deserve jobs instead of giving them to smokers.

On 14 February 1997 in Manchester, a smoker got into a taxi, it’s illegal to smoke in taxis in Manchester
and that’s beside the point because the owner of that car said there is no smoking allowed in that car.
That’s the property right; the smoker would have none of that and the cab driver wound up drawing a Glock
9 Millimeter, fired 8 shots and extinguished the smoker and wound up going to prison for second degree
murder as if the cab driver was the one doing something wrong. That has to stop, people have to be able
to defend themselves against the smokers. Just like the time the Turkish Air Force shot down a Russian
Jet Liner that was on its way to bomb Syria cutting through a corner of Turkish Air Space, that’s how they
defend their air space. That’s how non-smokers can defend air space too.

If a smoker and a non-smoker both need a lung transplant, why should the non-smoker who has never
smoked in their life wind up dying so that that lung transplant can go to a smoker that deliberately
destroyed his or her lungs. There are Libertarian chess moves that can make smoking history instead of
using unprovoked violence to try to intimidate people into living a healthier lifestyle.

Bobbie Bagley Good evening, I’m Bobbie Bagley, | work at 18 Mulberry Street. | don’t live in Nashua but |
spend a great deal of time in Nashua and | have quite a bit of family that lives here as well. A couple of

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weeks ago | had the opportunity to participate in an Awareness is Healing Walk with over 300 people who
were there to remember loved ones that were lost due to overdose due to their addiction. There were
family, there were friends, their hearts were hurting, they were sad; but they were also happy to be there
together with their community to make a difference.

This issue is about what Nicotine does to the brain; how it changes the brain chemistry. Imagine if we
could spend, if we could expand the life expectancy of all of those members in our communities so that
they could meet their full potential and contribute to society living long and healthy lives, free of chronic
diseases, free of hypertension and free of addiction to substances. Imagine if we could extend the time of
a young person developing the habit of using tobacco or Nicotine to allow for their full development. We
don’t have to imagine this. We can make this a reality here in Nashua; in support of O-19-037.

I’ve heard this economic impact on businesses. A while ago we passed legislation to not having smoking in
restaurants. At that time there was a thought that business would be lost because people wouldn't go
because they couldn’t smoke in the restaurants; that didn’t happen. What do we know? We know that
$729 million dollars were spent on tobacco-related diseases with 19,000 deaths in 2018. This is a Public
Health Issue and the Public Health is our entire community’s responsibility and preserving the health of our
youth in this community and the communities abroad, is all of our responsibility.

| have a letter here from one of the members of our Board of Health who is a pediatrician who practices
here and he did send a letter out to members of the Board of Aldermen. It is a long letter and I'll just read
parts of it. Dr. Cappetta does apologize for not being able to be here this evening because of a prior
commitment. But he does stand in support of this legislation and does believe in raising the age of
purchasing tobacco to 21. That would include all tobacco-related items such as cigarettes, cigars, chewing
tobacco, and Electronic Vaping devices.

The well-known addictive properties of Nicotine, which is the main substance in all of these above-
mentioned products is especially relevant to him as a pediatrician for over 30 years. The development of
mature brains does not take place until the age of 25. This fact is well-known is scientifically supported and
is indisputable. As we all know the brain is a computer control at the top tower of the body and is made up
of a complex system of nerves and neurons that send and receive messages to and from all parts of the
body to do everything we take for granted; talking, walking, breathing, movement, digestion, etc. Without
these intricate series of sequentially transmitted messages being passed along from nerve to the next, like
the game of telephone tag we used to do in elementary school, we would not survive.

Each nerve cell sits next to each other separated by a small space called a synapse, much like two
neighboring houses on the same street, separated by a common driveway between them. In order to get
from one house to another, the neighbors need to cross the driveway to get to the other side. Furthermore,
in order to actually enter your next door neighbor's house, with permission of course, you need to have a
specific key to allow for you to enter. This simplistic view of how these friendly neighbors coexist with each
other can now be applied to how Nicotine affects this transfer of messages. Nicotine is similar to an
unwanted intruder in the neighborhood who has somehow gotten ahold of the house key and is able to get
into that house and to the house next door and cause havoc with them.

Nicotine acts by attaching itself to one end of the same nerve cells which in turn triggers the release of feel
good chemicals such as the hormone called Dopamine that leads to the body thinking that this good feeling
is great and it is wonderful and it wants to continue to get more and more of this stuff. And who does not
like to feel good? This deceptive action of Nicotine to stimulate the increased release of good feeling
hormones is the beginning of addiction. The incipient feelings of physical addiction lead to the body
wanting more and more of that which caused such a great rush or high in the first place. Thus, smoking,
chewing, or vaping activities increase to sustain this powerful sensation of a great feeling.

This in turn leads to the hardest part of Nicotine usage, the mental addiction, where now the brain is fooled
into thinking that the Nicotine that was once considered bad is now considered good because of the need
to have more and more of it in order to produce the same effect — aka the definition of tolerance. In this

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case, more and more Nicotine must be taken to reproduce the same initial effects on the body and now on
the brain. That is why trying to break the cycle of tobacco, the use and addiction is extremely difficult. The
known physical ill effects and consequences of Nicotine use causes cancer, hypertension, stroke and etc to
name just a few that are taken over by the brain’s false thinking that it needs more and more regardless of
the continuing damage of the Nicotine upon the body itself.

The adolescent brain does not fully mature until 25 and so it at more risk than the adult brain to be fooled
by this negative impact and this cycle that is very sneaky and this very bad home invader. Since the
younger brain, under 25, continues to build better and faster driveways or synapses between nerve cells
than the older one, the addiction potential is that much stronger and that much deadlier.

He apologizes for the length of this letter but is in full support of the passage of O-19-037 to raise the
tobacco purchasing age of 21 without hesitation to allow the developing brains of our future leaders, as we
have heard from a couple of youth here this evening of tomorrow who will someday be sitting in these
seats; the same seats that you occupy tonight. More valuable time to not be exposed and traumatized by
this powerful and dangerous drug. Dr. Cappetta says that he is available to meet and talk with anyone
about the things that he has submitted in this letter. Thank you.

Ben Bolen Good evening, my name is Ben Bolen and | am from South Hampton, New Hampshire. | am the
Director of Operations of Rapid Refill. | will keep this brief, | promise. As | mentioned at a previous
meeting we have a convenience store here in Nashua. We are adamantly opposed to cities and towns
unilaterally moving the legal age to purchase tobacco to 21. It unfairly impacts licensed retailers in the city
and does little to reduce youth access It will also result in a loss of a sales which in turn reduces labor
hours that we were able to allocate to our dedicated employees

| will reiterate what | said last month which is that we have a proven process in place that educates our
employees on how to effectively sell age restricted products. In closing and to be clear, we would fully
support moving the legal age to purchase tobacco to 271 if it is done State-Wide and enacted at the same
time. Thank you.

Vinayak Graves It’s Vinayak Graves, | live at 23 Serotta Ave., Nashua, New Hampshire. Thank you to the
Honorable Board of Aldermen and to my fellow Nashua residents for sacrificing your evening for this
important cause. As | said | have been living here for 11 years, | am currently a high school freshman and |
am attending an on-line accredited academy for the last 4 years. So | know we’ve already heard a lot of
statistics tonight so we could be here all night if | go over them all over again. So | want to give you a quick
personal experience.

Two years ago, my eldest sibling entered high school a bright and enthusiastic student. He was a part of
the National Juniors Honors, he had a perfect GPA. Slowly he transitioned from “I only tried it once” to “It
helps relax me” until finally he developed an addiction to vaping. | would to let you all Know that going into
high school he wanted to be a lawyer, now today due to the effects of vaping, his mental health has
suffered greatly and he is no longer even able to attend the local high school. Numerous times he told me
“You can get anything you want at high school” so this is not just about the smoking and the health; this is a
business in these schools that these kids, these young children are making into a business.

Raising the age from 18 to 21 for the purchase and possession of tobacco products could prevent brilliant
students like my brother from going down the dark road of addiction. It would prevent 18 year old high
school students from buying and distributing harmful tobacco products to younger students. According to
the American Lung Association every day roughly 2,500 children under the age of 18 will try their first
cigarette; 400 of them will transition to becoming regular day smokers and half of them will eventually die
from their habit. If this problem continues and we fail to put precautions in place, an estimated 5.6 million of
today’s youth will ultimately die prematurely from smoking-related diseases.

As we've heard earlier tonight, many people have said this will not 100% fix the issue of smoking and that
is true. It is not 100% going to fix the issue of smoking; but the fact is that if this Bill can save one life, then

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is it not worth it to pass it? If it can save people like my brother from going down these roads is it not worth
it? | Know it is not going to solve the problem 100% but it is a step in the right direction. | also have heard
people say that kids can go to Hudson, they can go to Merrimack, they can go to other towns, but | would
like to remind you all that the City of Nashua has the second biggest population in New Hampshire with
roughly 88,000 residents. Is it not our duty to set an example as a major City in New Hampshire? Today
we have that chance to set the bar high and join other communities like Dover, Keene and Newmarket, who
have already made changes with regards to smoking. If the second biggest City in New Hampshire can
raise the age from 18 to 21 to purchase and distribute tobacco products, what is stopping the rest of the
State from following? I’m sure if we can do this today that Hudson and Merrimack can start a similar
movement. It isn’t just what we do for our City that counts, it is the example that we set for other Cities that
truly matters. The opportunity that we have for our City today is a step towards making all of New
Hampshire a better State for our youth.

| would like to state a quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt which states “We cannot always build the future for
our youth, but we can build our youth for the future”. Today right now each one of us has the chance to
build our youth for a future of happiness and health. The difference that we make today is a difference that
could save lives. The tobacco industry has stated, in 2007, that the smoking industry claimed in 2007 when
E-Cigarettes were first imported into the US that they were smoking cessation tools. However, according to
the Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 20.8% of high school students reported using E-Cigarettes
and 4.9% of middle school students reported the same, making E-Cigarettes the most popular method of
tobacco use for youth in the United States.

Unlike traditional cigarettes, E-Cigarette marketing is not restricted, thus they are being advertised on
television, in magazines, at concert events, at music festivals and sporting events and kids are noticing. |
would like to direct your attention to this advertisement | have here. As someone mentioned earlier, JUUL
is one of the most common vaping and as we can see from its advertisement, as we can see from this
advertisement itself, the JUUL Company is advising that we raise the age from 18 to 21. So when the
JUUL Company itself is advising this, then | think we should all be concerned. The fact is we really don’t
know what the long-term effects of vaping is, it hasn’t been properly researched. But | understand that
today this has been less of a debate over the health the health of our youth but more of a debate about
whether or not we should choose money over our youth. | think we can all say that the health of our youth
is important than making money for the City. Thank you.

Adhvika Arun Hi my name is Advika Arun | am not a resident of Nashua, actually | am a resident of
Londonderry but | have come here today as a representative of Londonderry and the State of New
Hampshire. As stated before by Mr. O’Donnell, when you are 18 you can vote, you can adopt a child, so
many other things, but those things that you are allowed to do when you are 18, those do not have
biological effects. Things like smoking, drinking, doing drugs like marihuana and cocaine, those all have
severe biological effects on the body. And when Nicotine is entering an undeveloped body and
undeveloped brain, disastrous effects can happen. And | don’t think we want for our youth and the future of
our City.

Additionally | just wanted to state again that | am coming here from Londonderry because | really want this
to happen; not only in Nashua but in all throughout New Hampshire. | think Nashua would be a great
example and would set a great example for our country and even our State. | just want to say that Nicotine
has severe biological effects, it manipulates the neurotransmitter called acetylcholine which is very
important for muscle movement, heart rate, all things that can easily go wrong when the system is hijacked.
Lastly | just want to end with a quote by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli from
the 19" Century. He stated “that the youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity” | feel that the City of
Nashua and maybe even the State of New Hampshire, | feel like we should stay true to this maxim and we
should take care of our youth and our brains. As a representative of the youth of New Hampshire | hope
that this Ordinance can be passed, thank you.

How Funds from the NH Tax Shift Plan will be used

- Based on 2017 Estimates

General Fund \ rr ($30M)
Retirement Contribution Repeal Interest &

($150M) Dividends Tax $89M)
Earned Income ye
Credit ($47M)

Repeal Statewide
" Property Tax ($363M)

Repeal Business
Enterprise Tax ($268M)

Repeal Utility Property
Tax ($41M)
Lower Business Profits
Tax to 4% ($213M)

subsidiaries also record to plant and CIAC the fair market value of developer installed mains
and any excess of fair market value over the cost of community water systems purchased
from developers. CIAC are amortized over the life of the related properties.

Revenues

Standard charges for water utility services to customers are recorded as revenue, based upon
meter readings and contract service, as services are provided. The majority of our Company’s
water revenues are based on rates approved by the NHPUC. Estimates of unbilled service
revenues are recorded in the period the services are provided. Provision is made in the
consolidated financial statements for estimated uncollectible accounts.

Non-regulated water management services include contract operations and maintenance, and
water testing and billing services to municipalities and small, privately owned community
water systems. Contract revenues are billed and recognized on a monthly recurring basis in
accordance with agreed-upon contract rates. Revenues from unplanned additional work are
based upon time and materials incurred in connection with activities not specifically identi-
fied in the contract, or for which work levels exceed contracted amounts.

Revenues from real estate operations, other than undistributed earnings or losses from equity
method joint ventures, are recorded upon completion of a sale of real property. Our
Company’s real estate holdings outside of our regulated utilities are comprised primarily of
undeveloped land.

Investment in Joint Venture

Southwood uses the equity method of accounting for its investment in a joint venture in
which it does not have a controlling interest. Under this method, Southwood records its
proportionate share of losses under “Other, net” in the accompanying Consolidated State-
ments of Income with a corresponding decrease in the carrying value of the investment.

Income Taxes

Income taxes are recorded using the accrual method and the provision for federal and state
income taxes is based on income reported in the consolidated financial statements, adjusted
for items not recognized for income tax purposes. Provisions for deferred income taxes
are recognized for accelerated depreciation and other temporary differences. A valuation
allowance is provided to offset any net deferred tax assets if, based upon available evidence,
it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
Investment tax credits previously realized for income tax purposes are amortized for financial
statement purposes over the life of the property, giving rise to the credit.

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Vice President O’Brien

Thank you, that concludes our 15 minutes of public comment. | would like to say we got through it and for
those of you that did try to remain brief, we really appreciate it and I’m glad that you were heard. Those
that really gave it the good college try we do say thank you and again we are glad that you came before us
and to be heard.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Contract Award of Transit Service Operations

MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT
TO FIRST TRANSIT, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,945,301
MOTION CARRIED

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Contract for Pump Station Upgrades Project — Phase 1 Construction Services

MOTION BY ALDERMAN JETTE TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AWARD THE CONTRACT
TO DEFELICE CORPORATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $3,469,550
MOTION CARRIED
PETITIONS
Resubmittal of Petition for Street Acceptance: Portion of Pine and Central Streets
MOTION BY ALDERMAN LOPEZ TO GRANT THE PETITION FOR STREET ACCEPTANCE FOR
PORTIONS OF PINE AND CENTRAL STREETS
MOTION CARRIED
NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS
Appointments by the Mayor

The following Appointments by the Mayor were read into the record:

Downtown Improvements Committee

Edward Hayes (New Appointment) Term to Expire: December 13, 2019
Terra Salon

137 Main Street

Nashua NH 03060

Phillip Scontsas, Alternate (New Appointment) Term to Expire: December 1, 2021
169 Main Street
Nashua NH 03060

Zoning Board of Adjustment

Nicholas A Kanakis, Alternate (New Appointment) Term to Expire: September 11, 2020
159 Main Street
Nashua NH 03060

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There being no objection, Vice President O’Brien accepted the Appointments by the Mayor as read
and referred them to the Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee

Joint Convention with Edgewood Cemetery Board of Trustees

There being no objection, Vice President O’Brien declared that the Board of Aldermen meet in joint
convention with the Edgewood Cemetery Board of Trustees for the purpose of electing two trustees
and called for nominations.

Trustee Maffee nominated Morgan A. Hollis and Andrew W. Armstrong for terms to expire March 31, 2024

There being no objection, Vice President O’Brien closed the nominations.

A viva voce roll call was taken on the appointment of Morgan A. Hollis and Andrew W. Armstrong which
resulted as follows:

Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderman Laws, Alderman Lopez
Alderman Caron, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Jette
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman Tencza
Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Clemons, Alderman O’Brien
Trustee Andrade, Trustee Douglas Barker,
Trustee Normal Hall, Trustee Hollis, Trustee Maffee, Trustee Slattery 18
Mayor Donchess

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

Vice President O’Brien declared Morgan A. Hollis and Andrew W. Armstrong duly appointed to the
Edgewood Cemetery Board of Trustees for terms to expire March 31, 2024.

Oath of Office administered by Corporation Counsel to Morgan A. Hollis.
There being no objection, Vice President O’Brien declared that the Joint Convention now arise.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

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There being no objection, Vice President O’Brien declared the report of the March 25, 2019, Budget
Review Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, Vice President O’Brien declared the report of the April 2, 2019, Budget
Review Committee accepted and placed on file.

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There being no objection, Vice President O’Brien declared the report of the April 3, 2019, Finance
Committee accepted and placed on file.

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