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O-19-040
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
ESTABLISHING AN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DIVISION AND DIRECTOR POSITION
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN SCHMIDT TO AMEND O-19-040 BY REPLACING IT WITH THE PROPOSED
AMENDMENTS MADE BY THE PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

MOTION CARRIED

MOTION BY ALDERMAN SCHMIDT FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF 0O-19-040 AS AMENDED

ON THE QUESTION

Alderwoman Kelly

| just wanted to comment, | think that the proposed narrowing of scope makes this a little bit more tangible,
so | am definitely going to support this. | still think that we should consider what that Chief Assessor looks
like later down the road, but that’s for Budget Committee.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

| am going to support this but | am concerned and am going to be looking at what the impact is of not
having a Chief Assessor. In terms of it being cost-neutral now | understand that, but | think we also need to
look at what a contract with a private firm might cost the City. So | think that is something that we need to
look at it moving forward. Do we actually hire someone or do we go forward with a contract. Thank you.

Alderman Klee

| want to kind of reiterate what Alderman Melizzi-Golja said as well as Alderwoman Kelly had said. | agree,
| would like to see a little bit more oversight directly within that organization. But I’m happy to pass this and
as long as we are getting updated reports and so on and make decisions later as we go on. Thank you.

MOTION CARRIED

Ordinance O-19-040 declared duly adopted as amended.

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NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-19-128
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
EXTENDING AND ENLARGING THE NASHUA RAIL TRANSIT COMMITTEE
Giving its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by Vice

President O’Brien

R-19-129
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Patricia Klee
AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NASHUA TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH NASHUA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE, RIVIER UNIVERSITY, TOWN OF HUDSON, TOWN OF MERRIMACK,
SOUHEGAN VALLEY TRANSPORTATION COLLABORATIVE AND THE PLUS COMPANY FOR
TRANSIT SERVICES
Giving its first reading; assigned to the FINANCE COMMITTEE by Vice President O’Brien

R-19-130
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF TAX DEEDED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 4 % - 6 CANAL STREET
Giving its first reading; assigned to the COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE by Vice President O’Brien

R-19-131
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
AUTHORIZING THE GRANTING OF AN EASEMENT TO THE NASHUA MILLYARD ASSOCIATES,
INC. OVER LAND LOCATED AT 2 PINE STREET EXTENSION

Giving its first reading; assigned to the COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE by Vice President O’Brien

R-19-132
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO A SUCCESSOR “CONCESSION AGREEMENT”
WITH GRANITE DIAMOND, LLC

Giving its first reading; assigned to the FINANCE COMMITTEE by Vice President O’Brien

Board of Aldermen 04-09-2019 Page 28

R-19-133
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH
SPECTACLE MANAGEMENT, INC.
Giving its first reading; assigned to the FINANCE COMMITTEE by Vice President O’Brien

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-19-041
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman Patricia Klee
ADDING TWO STUDENT MEMBERS TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY COMMITTEE
Giving its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by Vice
President O’Brien

O-19-042
Endorser: Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman Jan Schmidt
DESIGNATING THE SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION AREA AS CITY CONSERVATION LAND
Giving its first reading; assigned to the PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE by
Vice President O’Brien

O-19-043
Endorser: Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
UPDATING THE ORDINANCES REGARDING THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS RETIREMENT
SYSTEM
Giving its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by Vice
President O’Brien

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Vice President O’Brien

We have six speakers. Again as what we spoke about earlier, we are going to try to keep at 15, it’s been a
long night folks. But we are willing to hear you.

Laurie Ortolano 41 Berkeley Street. | was kind of glad tonight | was last and there were people before me,
but here | am. So | wanted to share with you after the last meeting, | went home and did a Google search
knowing very well that what has happened in our Assessing Office has happened in other communities,
surely we are not the first one to go through a struggle where we are trying to rebuild. | came up with an
interesting article and a transition that happened in Chicago with their Assessing Office.

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Chicago some has some areas that are notorious for their crime so they've had an assessing structure that
has had a tough element to it because they Chief Assessor is an elected position. In the office over there,
they were willing to accept gifts brought right to the office and donations brought right to the office which
had just become a major issue among folks. So in comes February 21*' or February 19", a gentleman,
highly educated, had never run for elected office, he had an MBA out of Stanford and worked 5 years in
Russia as a financial analyst in a large mutual fund firm. He wins the election and he comes in and he has
three principals that are going to guide his tenure as Assessor: ethics, fairness and transparency.

He starts writing Executive Orders immediately and generates a 100 day plan which is moving along nicely,
| get an e-mail every day from them and he sets up a visitor's log, which we have done, so the public so
would be aware of any meetings with direct level employees or higher people in the office. He wanted to
end so-called access to preferential outcomes. He described his work as complex and difficult and the
referendum and reform of the Assessor’s Office would be objective of taking a complicated system and
making it better. Another policy he implemented on his first day in office was terminating any employee
who had been hired or who had any form of nepotism, he implemented a strict anti-nepotism policy. He
looked to eliminate many appeals and he introduced a number of new staff members, including outside
experts he hired from the IAAO, data scientists and assessing officials from other states.

He summarized it by saying the work isn’t sexy but it is very important. And | thought it was interesting
because | raised that issue regarding anti-nepotism in our policy and | know it struck a few notes but | think
it's very important especially in an Assessing Office, because they operate with standards, ethic standards
that are additional guidelines beyond an anti-nepotism policy that | think create a problem when there are
relatives in an office at that level.

| just want to let you know that | did reach out to Larry Budreau and he was the one who sent me the policy
and | wanted to meet with him to talk about what was going on. | received a response back that he did not
feel a meeting would be productive and he was respectfully declining any meeting. | do feel that you have
some issues with your Human Resources Department that you should address and the one issue or the
one item | raised with him is “do we know what other departments we have relatives working in or related
people”. The response that | got back is that we have documentation on that type of information and
because there is documentation there is no right under RSA 91:A to answer the question because nothing
is in writing. Really when you create an anti-nepotism policy or any policy and you are going to violate a
policy, you should do a manual over-ride. | have a friend whose been a Human Resource Director at a
company with 30,000 employees for 30 years. And they were the ones who said to me “you’ve got have an
over-ride, you can’t break a policy without an over-ride and the over-ride should be signed off by the
management chain and it should be fully documented”.

| believe in that; | think that’s good business and is good for the City and | am not certain we do have an
over-ride policy. | am not sure all hires are going through Human Resources so that the screening for
these issues can take place. You know if | had the chance to meet with him | would have said that | think it
is important to send a letter to all Department heads to understand who might be in your departments that
are related or have a relationship and identify them, identify what their titles are and do we have a conflict
here? And hiring that is handled that’s handled in non-public session that’s very typical for hiring to be
handled in non-public session, | understand that if you are discussing personnel matters. But! know when
| was on a Board once we discussed those matters and we knew the individual was going to accept the job,
we came into public session and put the nomination into public session and did our vote in public session
so that the public would know who we are hiring.

My opinion is that if you are going to break an anti-nepotism policy in public session you should identify that
and you should say “there is an issue here, we’ve over-ridden our policies, we have the proper sign-offs on

this and we are moving forward this is our decision”. My feeling is if you’re not comfortable doing that, then
you probably shouldn’t be doing the hire because if you want to keep it a secret and not say it, then maybe

it’s not the right thing to do. And | bring it up because | happen to have some information come my way that
other departments have had hires that are relatives or have relations that have made it into the system

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without an apparently screening process at all. So | don’t think we are living up to our policy and | think it
affects the quality of the work and the process and the product that we deliver here out of City Hall.

So that’s one thing. The other thing is | know that Ben wanted details, | needed to be more detail-oriented
on what | saw was wrong and all | can tell you is when | filed my PA71 with the State this is the binder that |
delivered. It contained many, many property cards, probably 300 pages. | put together a lot of detail
because | was disturbed by what | saw here in the City. | can’t come to a meeting like this and address that
kind of detail here. It just won’t work. Anyone can reach out to me and ask me if you want to be more
educated about the things | am concerned about, that’s fine.

The other thing is the Board of Assessors, | would like to be able to take most of my issues to the Board of
Assessors and have them addressed there. | don’t think they belong here. But! can’t make that avenue
work and it’s very frustrating. | delivered a letter on effective year build and concerns with an example on a
property card to them three weeks ago. It was completely ignored, not even acknowledged for the record.
They brought it back last week; they acknowledged it on the record but with no discussion. So if you can’t
get to a substantive discussion on issues that affect the quality of the assessing data base and a lot of
home, then what good are they?

| tried to track your meetings and one gentleman is very combative, so it is very difficult for me because |
see an individual who | believe has a personal agenda. They are not willing to look at the big picture stuff
that affects — you know — sales chasing, effective year build, these are all letters | kind of had sent to you,
MLS Correcting, Permit Captures. We are dealing with valuations; favoritism and unethical conduct when it
comes to assessing properties of potentially influential people. Those are important issues and if you can’t
have substantive discussions about those, | really don’t know how you improve the quality of the data. All
the software stuff you are doing is great but the software does not create the assessment on its own; the
judgements are coming from the people and ultimately the management within the office.

When | look at the Board of Assessors, last year they had 20 meetings, one cancelled, the average for
those 20 meetings was under 30 minutes with almost half of them being under 20. They have meetings
that are 6 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 12 minutes, 13 minutes, 18 minutes, there are a lot of short
meetings over there. | think there is room to up their meetings, take yours down by pushing these issues to
them and getting them to respond. So it is super frustrating because they just won’t recognize anything.
They won't sink their teeth into anything or even acknowledge the need for potentially creating policy. So |
think policy is so important on a lot of these issues and they just won’t address it. | felt like we took a huge
step backwards last week with the use of the equalization ratio. One member doesn’t really believe in it: |
didn’t even know that was the case So that was difficult. There was a resident that came in to represent
an abatement and | thought it went really poorly for that individual and you really get this “us against them”
adversarial feel. It’s horrible, it’s uncomfortable; it was so stressful for the gentleman who came; he was
exhausted for two days after that whole event.

So | hope that there is some way that someone can give some assistance to what is happening in those
meetings so that they can become more substantive to work on what | think are the bigger issues. | know
that the City’s position, certainly with me, is “we’ve given you tons of time, you’ve talked to everyone, you’re
not happy, we’re never making you happy”. The reasons that I’m not happy is because the substantive
issues aren't addressed. They are waived off and told they’re nothing which is ultimately why | created a 3
inch binder that went to the State, because | couldn’t get any of that really looked at here. And |’m really
concerned about what is going on in that office. Management | think is very important; I’m super happy that
a few of you spoke about potentially a Chief Assessor or some management in that office. | cannot tell you
how important | think that is. | don’t want to hear from anyone here how hard the staff is working; some
work hard, some do not. We have some issues that have to be resolved: all is not equal. And that’s just
the way it is.

When it comes to HR and our Chief Position, we don’t even have a policy where upper management the
higher level people check in. The biggest issues is he wasn’t at work, he was at work 20, 25 hours a week,
this went on for years. So we don’t have a way that our people check in and get recorded to be paid, our

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top level people. | just find that odd. | asked myself what other departments do people not come to work
and we don’t know. To me if you’re not going to come to work you should call Human Resources; say |
have a sick or have a reason but not just your boss. This just totally feel through | don’t know where and it
went on for a long time. We really flushed half a million dollars down the drain in that position in 3 % years
with benefits and everything else. That is expensive and it was very damaging. When | look back at — I'll
end it with this comment and | thought about it last night. When | had my first interface with our ex-chief
and | tried to address the valuation of my property which at the time was $700,000.00 a year and a half
ago. | had a brutal conversation on the phone where he was unrelenting and punishing that it was fair, it
was right, there were no issues in his office. | look back at that now and think “how screwed were we”.
Because this was a chief who knew what the equalization ratio was and | didn’t, none of you probably did
either.

So when I’m on the phone going “$700,000.00 is outrageous for the value of my home”, that was really the
assessment, at the time the ratio was about 80%. So the sales value of my home was actually
$840,000.00; | was upset at $700,000.00 but this guy knew, talking to me, and I’ve got a lady here who is
upset whose home is, | know what the ratio is, her home is really got a value of $840,000.00 and I’m telling
her, “you're fine, don’t bother coming in, I’m not looking into, don’t bother me, you bought it, you own, pay it,
that’s it’. If that doesn’t tell you how much it is us against them when that’s going on, and we were totally
taken because we didn’t understand the ratio. And I’ve done a lot to understand what that means when
you are looking at your value. So thank you.

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Alderman Schmidt
I’d like to apologize for the little error that | made earlier, | am very sorry everyone, I'll get better.
Alderman Jette

So | am a little disappointed that things didn’t go the way | expected they would go tonight on the tobacco
ordinance. But it has gone back to Committee and | think you all know that I’ve spent a lot of time on this.
I’ve done a lot of research, I’ve talked to a lot of people, I’ve become quite knowledgeable in this area, not
based on my own information but based upon readings and talking to people. So if anybody has any
questions, I’ve sent you all e-mails asking you to call me with any questions that you may have. | think
those of you who have talked to me have known that I’m receptive to suggestions and I’ve tried to be very
fair in presenting a balanced view of what the information is that’s out there. So | look forward to the next
Personnel Administration Affairs Committee to see if we can come up with either the original ordinance or
an amended version of it that you will all feel comfortable supporting.

| feel that this is the right thing to do and | hope that you all work with me and if you have an objection to it,
you know, voice your objection to me so | can attempt to meet it.

On another note, this weekend | had the opportunity to get on my bicycle and enjoy the great weather that
we had and | have personally encountered — | went through my Ward, I’ve encountered a lot of the pot
holes that people have referred to. And | encourage people to report those pot holes to the Department of
Public Works. My own personal experience has been when I’ve reported them and it is not because | am
an Alderman, | think they react to any report of a pot hole, they try to go out there and fix it. So | encourage
people to report those by contact it’s DPVWWRequest@NashuaNH.gov and if they don’t respond, let me know
and I’ll try to make sure it gets taken care of.

On a very high note, on my bicycle ride, | was going down Gilson Road and | encountered a woman who
lives in the Tangle Wood Drive area with a wheelbarrow, gloves, and trash bags and she was cleaning up
the trash along Gilson Road all by herself. | stopped and introduced myself and thanked her for doing that
and | hope that to be able to organize to some degree some kind of a day, maybe in early May, to
encourage residents, especially in Ward 5 to do the same type of thing that this woman was doing. The

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Department of Public Works has told me that they cannot afford to clean up the roads, even on land owned
by the City. They say they can’t afford to clean that. So it’s up to us residents as volunteers to do it. The
Department will provide us with gloves and bags and we can just leave the bags of trash and they will come
and pick it up. So look forward to that and | encourage all the other Aldermen to do something similar in
their Wards so we can help keep the City neat and clean. Thank you.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

Yes thank you, Alderman Jette’s talk about being out in the nicer weather than we were having this evening
reminded me that in the past week | have received 3 reports of bears. One was in our conservation area
and | just think you know the Southern part of New Hampshire, we have parks and we have conservation
area which adjoins conversation area in Massachusetts. So our bears have large roaming areas. There
was a bear over in the Maplewood/Cherrywood area who took down some suet feeders and bird feeders
which Fish & Game told us in the middle of March should be removed; so please remove those. And there
seems to be a bear going up and down the hill between Shakespeare and the Flatley Property and
Bicentennial School who has also removed a number of bird feeders. So | would just remind people, take
down your suet feeders, take down your bird feeders. The bears are waking up, they are hungry, keep
your garbage closed and once things are out there for them to eat, if you want to put your bird feeders back
up in June, go ahead and do it. But right now your bird feeders are a feeding station for bears. So just a
reminder to be careful especially if you are out and about walking at night with your dog or whatever.

Vice President O’Brien

Fair advice, given up on the finch, you want a bear, keep your bird feeder out.

Alderwoman Kelly

Almost from bears to chickens, the new Ordinance is in effect and | know people are starting to look into.
There is an evening of information for anyone who is looking to do backyard chickens tomorrow night at the
Library at 7:00 p.m. It should be in your mailbox. We encourage people who are interested in this to come
out and learn the safe way to do this and hopefully bring this to the community that way.

| just want to thank people for supporting both the amendment to get the Student Members on board at the
Energy & Environment Committee, we have a couple students in mind who have really gotten interested in
the Committee and really brought some great information to us. They are pretty passionate about what
they want to get done. So thank you for that.

The Conservation Land which will be sent was a legacy of Brian so | am excited to see that go through as
well. So Saturday, 10:00 a.m. City Steps is a park clean-up, myself and members of the Energy &
Environment Committee will be helping Great American Downtown get that kicked off. Last year we had
200 people go out so | am hoping for a few more. So come on out and help us, hopefully it will be a nice
day for it.

Alderman Lopez

So first | just want to get this out of the way. With regards to the smoking ordinance, | wasn’t aware that the
ordinance had been altered due to any legal issues with it; that is what | understood some public comment
to be saying that it had to be modified because of legal. | have had no information to that effect. And then
second, there is considerable public argument that this is an indictment of the ability of an 18, 19, or 20
year old to choose. So | just want to clarify as someone who has a Masters Level Clinician and does a lot
of work with people in addiction that when doctors are talking about brain development and maturity; they
are not passing a value judgement on it. | could not think of a better analogy during the meeting but
basically they are thinking maturity in terms of like cooking time. Like there is a certain point where your
brain is no longer still as malleable still much more prone to developing pathways. So that’s what they
mean by younger people are more susceptible to it. It’s not necessarily that your judgement is impaired at

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an age just because of the age. Like when you drink a beer, your choosing to drink the beverage but you’re
not choosing when you get drunk or how drunk you are; that’s just happening as a chemical process. So |
felt the need to point that out but there was never really an opening for it.

The second thing is just reminding my constituents, many of whom have seen me repeatedly posting about
it. I’m going to be in Honduras next week from Wednesday to the following Wednesday. | will still try to
attend meetings remotely if possible but it’s a third world country and internet is pretty spotty. I’m looking
forward to it; it’s an opportunity to see people that I’ve been working with for years trying to help them
empower their community; build their businesses up and their own opportunities. And it’s not very far away
from where many people are fleeing from that has been of obvious public concern and has been
represented in the news. So there’s many ways to do things, sometimes you can trust the government to
do it; sometimes you just have to go do it.

The next thing is volunteer day, | was going to mention that but Shoshanna Kelly kind of beat me to it.
Great American Downtown has one scheduled for this Saturday at 10:00 a.m. and there have been a
number of people cleaning up the trail ever since the snow left. So | want to thank everybody who has been
doing that. | know the Rough Riders were out doing a section over by Palm Square, so do not litter there.
And | wanted to also thank Mayor Donchess and Director Fauteux; residents have been asking for garbage
cans on the Heritage Rail Trail and on the Library Walk for some time. We received confirmation that
garbage cans will be placed there, hopefully in time for the clean-up. So | am very grateful for that.

Alderman Klee

I’d like to address a couple things. First off my re-referring, | hope you didn’t take that personal in any way |
really do feel that some of the things that were coming through that came through in that e-mail, | do have
some concerns about that and | would like the Committee to address that. But | also want to clarify
something that | heard the public state and | mean no disrespect to anybody who said that. But | don’t
believe for one second that that Bill in any way is an attack on businesses; | believe that it was done in
good faith and with good heart. So anyone who feels that anybody was trying to, regardless of how they
vote, | don’t believe anybody on this Committee would attack businesses, | think they are very pro-business
and | want to get that out to be very clear.

In reference to potholes, | will agree with what Alderman Jette. | personally have put in and it was taken
care, but | ask my constituents when they call me to complain about a pothole to use that DW/PRequest. |
get back great feedback, within a day, two days, that pothole has been filled. So | want to commend DPW
on that very thing.

As far as bears are concerned, they are not just in the south. | live on the outskirts of Greeley Park and the
bears are out and about and baby bears are coming out at this time too. So | am going to ask all members,
all citizens of this, you see it, it’s fine, take a picture from a distance, do not chase after it because they are
more afraid of you than you are of them and they will probably go into a crowd, get hurt and we already
know what happened to a bear just within a couple of years ago. So if you really do love animals, leave
them alone. Thank you.

Alderman Lopez

I’m sorry | needed a second turn because | forgot something. | wanted to congratulate Alderman O’Brien for
his presiding over us tonight, it was not an easy meeting and | appreciate the way you handled the public
comment. There were a lot of people with things to say and | feel like you gave them a good chance but
you were also pretty fair to the overall agenda.

Vice President O’Brien

Thank you sir. Thank you.

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Alderwoman Kelly

If we are going backwards, Paul Shea just said to remind people that you have to bring your own rakes and
gloves and stuff on Saturday.

Vice President O’Brien

| would just like to take a moment to express publicly my condolences to Corporate Counsel Steven Bolton
on the passing of this mother. Us Irishmen have this old song, you never miss until a mother’s love until
she’s buried beneath the clay. And God, us Irish love our mothers, so the thoughts and prayers from the
O’Brien Clan go out to the Bolton Clan at this very difficult time that you are going through. | wish your
family the best of luck. My other thing on a more lighter type of note, thank you for putting up with me on
my first time driving untethered, so | appreciate it, you all were great. | think we had a tough meeting
tonight and | think we got it down nicely. So | thank you all. It has been my pleasure serving with you and
my pleasure presiding this evening. But Lori, you can have your job back.

We have a request for a unanimous consent by Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja.

Committee announcements:

Alderman Caron

Yes thank you. There is a special Personnel meeting next Monday the 15" at 7:00 and that is to discuss
the Charter Change for Election of Members to the Various Boards and that is the only thing on the

agenda.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

PEDC will be a week from this evening in this Chamber and we will be starting with a Public Hearing
regarding an amendment to the sign ordinance, regarding the size of numbers and letters on the sign. So
next Tuesday.

Vice President O’Brien

So unanimous consent by Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

Ok so — you gave me a perfect opening. It is Spring, people are getting chickens, they are going to be
building chicken coops. 5 hens, no rooster and just when you set it up and build it be aware of the
proximity to your abutters. Enjoy.

Vice President O’Brien

Very good, very nicely done. And after receiving such a prestigious award there, do you have a motion
Alderwoman Kelly.

ADJOURNMENT
MOTION BY ALDERMAN KELLY THAT THE APRIL 9, 2019, MEETING OF THE BOARD

OF ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 10:02 p.m.
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obligations with or without call or prepay penalties.

Note 4 ~ Accounts Receivable

Accounts receivable consisted of the following at December 31, 2015 and 2014:

(in thousands} 2015 2014
Accounts receivable - billed $ 2,235 $ 2,240
Less allowance for doubtful accounts (51) (51)
Accounts Receivable - billed, net $ 2,184 $ 2,189
Accounts receivable - unbilled $ 2,283 $ 2,399
Less allowance for doubtful accounts - -
Accounts Receivable - unbilled, net $ 2,283 $ 2,399

Note 5 — Deferred Charges and Other Assets

Deferred charges and other assets as of December 31, 2015 and 2014 consisted of the
following:

Recovery
Period
(in thousands) 2015 2014 (in years)
Regulatory assets:
Source development charges $ 652 $ 708 5-25
Miscellaneous studies 862 1,080 2-25
Unrecovered pension and post-retirement
benefits expense 6,895 6,483 wv
Total regulatory assets 8,409 8,271
Supplemental executive retirement plan asset 645 649
Subtotal 9,054 8,920
Debt issuance expenses, net 4,781 4,422 ()
Total deferred charges and other assets $ 13,835 $ 13,342

‘ We expect to recover these amounts consistent with the anticipated expense recognition of these assets.

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