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LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2022

RESOLUTION: R-22-020
PURPOSE: Authorizing the Mayor and the City Treasurer to issue bonds

not to exceed the amount of Thirty-Seven Million Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($37,500,000) to fund the second
five year phase of a ten year payement management project

ENDORSER(S): Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Ernest A. Jette

COMMITTEE Budget Review Committee
ASSIGNMENT: Board of Public Works
FISCAL NOTE: Bonds will be issued over a five-year period with the first bond

anticipated to be sold in FY 24 with the first payment beginning in
FY25. Estimated interest rates are 3.0°0-4.0%. Each bond issued
will be in an amount not to exceed $7,500,000 for a total of
$37,500,000. Total bond payments are estimated at $49,500,000
including interest. Each bond will have a fifteen-year term. The
Bonds will be repaid through the Special Road & Highway Fund.

ANALYSIS

This resolution authorizes the City to issue and sell general obligation bonds up to $37,500,000,
for the second five-year phase of a 10-year pavement management project as described in the
resolution. This project is in the FY2022 Capital Improvements Program.

As this legislation is an authorization to borrow money, this resolution requires a “duly
advertised public hearing” pursuant to Nashua City Charter $54-a. NH RSA 33:9 requires a 2/3
vote of all the members for the issuance of bonds. This resolution is also a specific non-budget,
supplementary appropriation, permitted by Charter Sec. 53. Requirements for that are notice and
a public hearing. A two-thirds vote is required under Charter Sec. 56-b for an item or amount
not in the mayor’s budget. A roll call is required under Charter Sec. 49.

This legislation should be referred to the Board of Public Works for its review and approval.

Approved as to account Financial Services Division
structure, numbers,
and amount: By: /s/ John Griffin

Resolution R-22-020

Approved as to form: Office of Corporation Counsel

By: ( eke, (Pore.
Date: LS Maral ODA

R-22-021

RESOLUTION

CHANGING THE PURPOSE OF UP TO ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO
THOUSAND AND THIRTY DOLLARS ($152,030) OF UNEXPENDED BOND
PROCEEDS FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT PUMPER TRUCK AND AERIAL
LADDER TRUCK PURCHASES TO INFRASTRUCURE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE
MUNICPAL FIRE ALARM SYSTEM

RESOLVED by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Nashua that the purpose of the
remaining unexpended bond proceeds of up to One Hundred and Fifty-Two Thousand and Thirty
Dollars ($152,030), previously reserved and designated under Resolution R-20-008
(“Authorizing the Mayor and City Treasurer to issue bonds not to exceed the amount of one
million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000) for the purchase of a new 2020 Pierce Arrow
XT red aerial ladder truck and the for the Fire Department’) and Resolution R-18-081
(“Authorizing the Mayor and City Treasurer to issue bonds not to exceed the amount of six
hundred and sixty thousand dollars ($660,000) to purchase of a new pumper truck for the Fire
Department”) is changed as follows:

The original purpose from R-20-008 and R-18-081 was for the purchase of two trucks for
the Fire Department. The purposes for which the funds were originally borrowed is complete
and there will be a remaining baiance of proceeds that is surplus.

The remaining funds will be used for upgrades and improvements to the municipal fire
alarm system. The useful life of the project is 40 years. The following is a brief explanation and

tasks for the project.

Nashua’s Municipal Fire Alarm System provides direct and immediate notification of fire
alarm system activations throughout the city. The Municipal Fire Alarm System is monitored by
the fire alarm operators 24.7/365. Currently the system contains 15 box circuits and six station
circuits. Circuit 15 provides monitoring for properties along the Amherst Street corridor
northerly to the Merrimack town line. The number of fire alarm boxes on Circuit 15 have grown
to exceed the recommended number on a single circuit. A new and distinct pathway across the
Nashua River (Broad Street Parkway) separate from previous circuits is available and would
provide additional circuits and redundancies to the system. Circuit 12 (Main Dunstable Road)
contains only one highway crossing with no spare or additional conductor and a pathway exists
crossing the highway that will allow for additional circuits and redundancies to be installed in
this project, including but not limited to the new middle school project.

LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2022

RESOLUTION: R-22-021
PURPOSE: Changing the purpose of up to One Hundred and Fifty-Two

Thousand and Thirty Dollars ($152,030) of unexpended bond
proceeds from the Fire Department pumper truck and aerial
ladder truck purchases to infrastructure improvements to the
municipal fire alarm system

ENDORSERS: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Melbourne Moran, Jr.
COMMITTEE Budget Review Committee
ASSIGNMENT: Board of Fire Commissioners
FISCAL NOTE: Allows $152,030 to be spent on a capital project (municipal fire

alarm system improvements} from unspent bond proceeds
approved under R-20-008 and R-18-081. The approved purchases
of two fire trucks is complete. If bond funds were not repurposed
for this project. they could be used for other capital projects.

ANALYSIS
Resolutions R-20-008 and R-18-081 authorized bonding for the purchase of two trucks for the
Fire Department. Those purchases are complete and there are surplus funds. This legislation
allows those surplus funds to be used for infrastructure improvements to the municipal fire alarm
system. That project can be found in the FY2022 Capital Improvements Program.

The use of bond proceeds is controlled by RSA 33:3-a. They may be spent only for purposes for
which the loan is incurred, except as the statute otherwise provides. If no expenditure of the
proceeds has been made or a balance remains after “completion” of the project, the funds may be
authorized, by a 2.3 vote, for another project eligible for bonding for an equal or longer period,
or the funds may be used to pay principal of the project’s loan as it matures. RSA 33:3-a II. No
public hearing is needed under bonding requirements because the reallocation is not the
authorization of new borrowing. However, this is a supplemental appropriation. Charter Sec. 53
permits specific non-budget, supplementary appropriations. There should be notice and a public
hearing. A two-thirds vote is required under Charter Sec. 56-b for an item or amount not in the
mayor’s budget. A roll call is required under Charter Sec. 49.

This legislation should be referred to the Board of Fire Commissioners.

Approved as to account Financial Services Division
structure, numbers and

amount: By: /s/John Griffin
Approved as to form: Office of Corporation Counsel

me Date Lartie,
Date: | Monts (Opus

A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, April 12, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. in the aldermanic chamber
and via Zoom teleconference which meeting link can be found on the agenda and on the City’s website calendar.

President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Susan Lovering recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Susan Lovering; Alderman Derek Thibeault led in the Pledge to the Flag.
Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance. If you are participating via Zoom, please state your presence, reason

for not attending the meeting in person, and whether there is anyone in the room with you during this meeting, which is
required under the Right-To-Know Law.

The roll call was taken with 15 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Sullivan,
Alderman Klee, Alderman Moran, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Jette, Alderman Clemons, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman
Comeau, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Gouveia, Alderman Cathey, Alderman Thibeault, Alderwoman Timmons, Alderman
Wilshire.

Mayor James W. Donchess, Corporation Counsel Steve Bolton, were also in attendance.

REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

Mayor Donchess

Thank you Madam President. First | wanted to mention a couple of the items that are on the agenda tonight for action.
The teachers’ contract comes up pretty quickly. | wanted to say and thank the Budget Committee for their unanimous
endorsement of this proposed contract. It accomplishes a number of things for the city given that education is offering an
excellent education for every child is vital to us. For that, we need excellent teachers which we have but to attract and
retain teachers, we need to have competitive pay. Right now, the teachers are in terms of average pay Nashua is 77* of
about 150 districts in New Hampshire. This will provide the teachers with a raise and help to equalize starting salaries,
salaries for those at the end of their career, and more than anything else, more than even the two ends, the middle level
teachers because Nashua is losing teachers who are trained, seasoned here in Nashua to districts close by that pay a
higher for those trained teachers. So | hope you will follow the recommendation of the Budget Committee and endorse
this very important step forward in terms of education here in Nashua.

One thing that is important is the city sought a change in the HMO plan, which is offered city employees. As you know,
we've gotten that agreement from a number of other employee groups. The teachers agreed to that plan and as a result
of that, the projection of our healthcare experts is that we will save $2.3 million in healthcare costs per year starting in year
two of the contract, which begins next July 1. We are in an environment of rising healthcare costs but this agreement
means that for a period of about three years, we will lower or constant city contributions for teacher healthcare. Before |
conclude on that, | want to thank the teachers for the extraordinary efforts that they have put in over the last two years
during very difficult conditions. I’m glad we’re back to normal now and hope we can make sure that the kids do not suffer
any lasting, long term deficits as a result of the disruption.

Another item on the agenda which has received considerable discussion over the long period of time is the outdoor dining
— the extended outdoor dining. First, we have to congratulate and thank all of the people that served on the Task Force
consisting of the Infrastructure Committee, the Planning Committee, as well as our citizen members. The number of
meetings, the length of those meetings — 11 o’clock at night, 1 o’clock in the morning. In my experience is really
extraordinary and it shows how dedicated everyone regardless of their opinion on this issue how dedicated people are to
trying to improve and support downtown Nashua. It is vital to the city and | think all of the effort put in by everyone
certainly is a recognition of that.

At the beginning, we proposed a compromise from the configuration of the outdoor dining that occurred in the last two
years. The proposal scaled back the outdoor dining in order to improve traffic flow and reduce to about 40 sum the net
loss in parking spaces out of 3,500. The Task Force looked over these recommendations very carefully — block by block
and even finer than that and adopted some changes/amendments which are before you and, of course, worked very hard
in doing that. One change that did come forward is that in addition to the city, building owners have to agree to have the
outdoor dining in front of the property. | think everyone involved agrees that bringing more people downtown is something
that we need to — is an important objective. Outdoor dining clearly does that. Three to four thousand people a day was
the count last year. It brings a lot more life to downtown. Many people commented on that. If we think about the
economic aspect — 3,000 or 4,000 people over a number of months is many, many hundreds of thousands of visitors. If
you think that every person spent $10, that’s millions of extra revenue coming into our downtown. Some people have
pointed out that we should come forward with a proposal to charge restaurants a reasonable fee for this and I’m sure we

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can come up with that over the course of the next few months. Certainly | agree with that objective. Overall, | think the
Task Force did a great job in making the recommendations they have and | hope that you also endorse their
recommendations.

Madam President one thing | wanted to touch on briefly is COVID — just because of course we’re all concerned about that.
The State has begun to de-emphasize some of these metrics that they’ve focused on over the course of the first two years
like the positivity rate because there are many people who are testing outside of the data collection by the State of New
Hampshire. Home test, pharmacies, all that data is not collected so they question whether the positivity rate really is a full
or accurate report. So they want to focus on hospitalizations more than anything else. So on that score, we spoke with
the hospitals Friday. AS of that date, there were seven people hospitalized in Nashua. More than we want but far, far
less than some months ago. Those people all were being treated. Some had been in the hospital for other reasons and
turned up with COVID. Those have been released though and the people they were talking about were being treated for
COVID but still between the two hospitals, seven patients. Again, that is far better than it was some months ago.

Finally | wanted to congratulate and thank Alderman O’Brien for his work up at the legislature. As you know, the State did
away with its own legal obligation to pay us — all cities and towns — 40 percent of the pension costs for municipal
employees. That was the 40 then 35 percent. That it was what persuaded cities and towns to join the pension fund. That
was done away with by an action of the legislature a few years back. That has cost the city so far that broken promise
$74 million. So Alderman O’Brien proposed a Bill to at least return part of that money — 7 /% percent rather than 35. The
obstacles to that were very considerable. A lot of opposition in the legislature but there was a back and forth, back and
forth, and finally after two or so floor fights, Alderman O’Brien persuaded the House, the House, to pass his Bill. That
would mean $2 million to the City of Nashua. Now it still has to go through the Senate. Alderman O’Brien and others tell
me that’s a pretty tough road but at least for the first time ever we go the Bill through the House and that was due to
Alderman O’Brien and his efforts so | wanted to thank him for that. That is all | have Madam President.

RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR

Alderman Klee

Thank you Madam President and | want to echo the words of the Mayor to Alderman O’Brien or State Rep. O’Brien. | had
a front row seat just about to watch him do his magic. He turned a kill the Bill into a pass the Bill. It wasn’t easy but he
did it in his fashion and | appreciate it. So thank you very much.

RECOGNITION PERIOD — None

READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen meeting of March 8,
2022 be accepted, placed on file, and the reading suspended.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From: Lisa M. Fauteux, Director of Public Works

Re: Referrals from Board of Aldermen — R-22-13

From: Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
Re: Communications Received from the Public

From: Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director
Re: Updated Plan Based On Taskforce Recommendations

There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communications and placed them on file.

PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS EVENING

Adam Marcoux

Adam Marcoux — | live at 4 Jolori Lane. I’m President of the Nashua Teachers’ Union. | have two children — one at South,
1 at Main Dunstable, and 1 two daycare payments away from Kindergarten.

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I’m here to speak on behalf of the contract. This contact as | mentioned to all of you that were hear to listen to me last
night, we started preparations for this contract in 2019 and then COVID hit and derailed everything as we tried to settle
this contract prior to its expiration, which we have not had any of our contracts settled prior to expiration since 2011.

This contract did a lot of things. We had a step scheduled that was not sustainable. We moved a lot of people around to
their correct places on that schedule. Last contact, which was expensive to do, and this time we worked very hard to
spread out and have equitable movement across that scheduled which makes it much easier to plan and budget when
you're expecting the same kind of raises from step zero through step 24. Step 24 will be the top of the end of this contract
which is a problem in itself that we'll have to address next time.

I’m going to tell you | was very concerned about whether or not this contract would pass the membership when we were
given the healthcare proposal. It took a lot of education, a lot of time, a lot of understanding, help from Kim Kleiner’s office
and getting this through the membership and I’m happy to report that it passed our membership with a 98 percent
approval rating. Health insurance is scary when you make changes like we are and you hear high deductibles, especially
in our field where we have a lot of people who are families and have children and spouses. It’s a scary kind of thing. I’m
happy to say the cooperation between the city, the Union, and the District to educate our members on the health
insurance changes has been phenomenal and there’s even a lot more interest in the high deductible health plan with
health savings account because it’s not so scary anymore when you hear a $4,000 deductible for a family.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds
Adam Marcoux

So in want to thank the Budget Committee for their unanimous support last night. | would pre-emptively thank you for
your support this evening and look forward to signing that contract into effect tomorrow. I’m hoping for those votes.
Thank you.

Fred Ordway

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is Fred Ordway, 12 Mason Drive. Thank you for this opportunity to
address you this tonight about the extended outdoor eating. Specifically when we’re looking at the address of 133 Main
Street, which is also known as San Francisco Kitchen. The Task Force in the past unprecedented job of COVID, and
trying to work with business, and trying to remain them relevant during that time period had an amazing breakthrough with
the outdoor seating. At that time, they were allocated two spots in front of the restaurant. It is my understanding that
under this new ruling, they might be only down to one. San Francisco Kitchen is owned by a friend and a fellow Veteran
of mine - Ruben Gomez. He served multiple tours in the Middle East and still serves with the United States Air Force and
can be deployed in the near future also. | hope you take this time to keep the downtown vibrant. With the upcoming
performing arts center coming in, | think where everything is coming in to the right downtown to bring it back to keep it
vibrant. | remember back in the days when Nashua was Money Magazine’s number one city in the year. I’ve been
delivering mail for 36 years in the downtown area with the Postal Service. I’ve seen it come. I’ve seen it change
throughout the time. Right now, we're in the right way. We're doing the right outlook and | would hope that we continue to
keep the downtown vibrant and keep bringing people down and bringing in the income. Thank you and once again,
please vote for two spots out in front of 1383 Main Street. Thank you for your time and have a good evening.

Lina Gomez

Line Gomez, 262 Lake Street. I’m here for San Francisco Kitchen. This is like my third time speaking and it doesn’t get
any better every time I’m up here. First of all, you all know I’m in favor of the barriers. | wish we just had it again like | had
it the first two years but | know there has to be somewhat modifications, some changes to it. So | just hope that | can
keep two spaces in order to accommodate the same tables I’ve had the previous years, keep my employees, and be able
to continue offering the community — serving the community like it has been.

Second, I’m going to make this short, | do want to — like | said before in my e-mails, | want to thank each and every one of
you. | know this is not an easy job dealing with happy and angry residents. It must be very hard on a daily basis and |
know you all have personal lives. Being here long hours, doesn’t make it any easier. | do want to thank you all.

Third, | want to welcome you. Please visit SFK personally or a work meeting but come by and have a nice dinner. Thank
you.

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Matthew Gouthro

Matthew Gouthro, 104 Fawn Lane. Good evening Madam President, Mayor, Aldermen, and staff. I’m here to speak on
the proposed legislation that would unfortunately create traffic gridlock, reduce parking, and a potential safety hazard in
our historic downtown district. Also, more taxpayers can provide expanded outdoor dining for our restaurant community in
downtown Nashua. I’ve watched and spoken at every one of the Board of Aldermen and joint Task Force meetings held
on this subject. | say | enjoy outdoor dining and our expanded sidewalks on Main Street in downtown provide ample
space for those activities but to block off areas of Main Street is absolutely ridiculous. Not once during this process do we
hear of an economic viability study, a traffic study, a land use study for outdoor seating, or any kind of metric to support
the need for this expenditure for one year and certainly not three years.

What we did see is that in 2021 there was a 6 percent utilization rate of expanded outdoor restaurant seating in downtown
Nashua — 6 percent to have those ugly, clunky barriers in place 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for months. Think of it this
way if you received only 6 percent of the vote in your Ward or citywide, you probably wouldn’t be sitting in this chamber
right now. What we were provided was an unusual parking study consisting of only two day in mid-October to justify
moving over 40 parking spaces from our downtown district during the height of our summer season. Our residents are not
going to park and walk blocks to get their haircut, pick up prescriptions, visit the dentist, have their garments tailored, do
their banking, or shop with other retailers. During the Task Force meetings, we heard that the legislation was going to
turn downtown Nashua into a dining destination for out of towners and those out of State leaf peepers heading north. We
heard no plans on how we were going to promote downtown Nashua as a destination whatsoever. So ask yourself this
questions, what fuel is Tim Cummings using to drive our economic engine because so far the proposed legislation in front
of you essentially states the City of Nashua’s plan is to spend thousands of our tax dollars is if we build it, they will come.
That’s not good enough for me and countless residents and business owners who have either spoken or written to this
body overwhelming in opposition to this legislation. Ladies and gentlemen, you were tasked with the purse strings of the
city.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds

Matthew Gouthro

In this case, | certainly hope you’re making decisions on how to spend our tax dollars on data driven initiatives and not
dreams. | employ you to vote down the recommendations from the Joint Task Force on this proposed legislation that’s
essentially nothing but a pie in the sky economic boondoggle. Thank you.

Ken Bois

Good evening. Ken Bois, 19 Woodbury Drive, Nashua. | would like to thank all of the members of the Task Force, and
teams, and Aldermen, and business owners that contributed all of their hard work and time to support this initiative. |
really firmly believe having been a born and raised in Nashua for over 70 years with numerous friends that thoroughly
enjoy being downtown again for the last two to three years to see filled storefronts. Besides way beyond the dining
experience, those storefronts, people walking, chatting, being together, being viable, being active. | really feel this is a
positive step for Nashua to get these barriers going and find a better way of barriers in the next three years but obviously
we are about 3 to 4 weeks behind other cities who are already opening their outside dining with great success. | sincerely
urge a very positive outcome. Thank you very much.

Laura Colquhoun

Laura Colquhoun, 30 Greenwood Drive. First, it is the job of the Mayor to appoint three members to the Board of
Registers not two as this Board is currently doing tonight. Just because the Mayor does not like the other political party
does not accept and accept their applications does not make this situation very democratic. | would ask the Mayor
forward the applications to the Board of Aldermen and have them review the applications. By doing this, Nashua could
actually have fair elections.

Secondly, a lot of Nashua residents do not want the barriers. However, the Mayor, and the restaurants, and the bars want
them so Nashua will get them. The Nashua Mayor keeps saying that the restaurant and bars downtown made millions
and millions of dollars last year. The owner of Stella Blu is very vocal about wanting these barriers and how they have
increased his profit. My idea was to let Stella Blu pay for the barriers. In doing this, the Nashua peasants would get a
break and | don't live in the north end or am | a member of country club.

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OUT OF HOME / Location Details Inventory ID] _City Size 4 Week Period | Cost/Period|* °f Periods} Total # of | Total NET | Production/Install | NET Cost +
(4wk) Impressions Cost Cost Production
(Enrollment)
Outfront - New Hampshire
N/S of Bridge Street and East Hollis Street F/E 53283A0 Nashua 10'x40' 438,404 $1,470.00 5,589,651 | $18,742.50
12.75 om “us
E/S 3 (D.W. Hwy) 500.00 ft N/O Mcgraw Br. F/S 53620AO | Merrimack| 10'x22' 136,752 $1,260.00 12 1,743,588 | $16,065.00 $2,735.00 $55,101.00
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N/S 101A 2.00 mi W/O Jct 101 FAW 8692AJO Milford 6'x12' 110,596 $420.00 4,410,099 | $5,355.00
12.75 uu oe
N/S 111 & E Hollis & Hudson Street F /E OON21D Nashua 10'x24' 185,316 $950.00 2,409,108 | $12,112.50

12.75

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Now the Board of Aldermen want to make a Nashua arts and cultural plan. However as a taxpayer, I'm saying no. With
the current Performing Arts Center being shoved down the taxpayers’ throat, | do not think any more money should be
going to the arts. Last night the Budget Committee voted to make a trust for the Court Street. Bottom line is that the
taxpayers will continue to foot all the expenses on this building plus and all the while getting in very little funds from the
two tenants in return.

Alderman Kelly stated last night that right now we, the Board of Aldermen, are putting our money where our values are.
Well Alderman maybe you should start thinking about the values of the Nashua taxpayers, which is to put food on their
tables, pay their mortgages, and pay their property taxes. This Board of Aldermen better start thinking about the
taxpayers instead of special projects for downtown. Thank you.

Karen Bill

Karen Bill, 95 Parnell Place. Please reject the recommendations made by the Joint Task Force in downtown
Infrastructure Committee for the following reasons. It is unfair to have taxpayers bear the burden for a third year for
barriers that benefit a minority of businesses on Main Street. Residents have made it abundantly clear - they want outside
dining but not at the expense of safety and reducing Main Street to two lanes. Keep four lanes open.

Another committee has been formed to study the cost of the barriers. How ridiculous that this did not happen before
making recommendation of not charging anybody for the barriers. The barrier costs should have been tracked from day
one and shared publicly with all citizens certainly as a part of this process but it was never divulged. Via a Right to Know
request, | have ascertained the costs, and costs per barrier, and e-mail them to everybody - all the Aldermen earlier
tonight. By the way, the cost of a barrier in 2020 was $617.57. One barrier. The cost per barrier in 2021 went up and
that was $688.45. The second year, it doesn't include the cost of the barriers which was in the first year. So together,
costs for the barriers for the past two years - 218 barriers; 1) now it's up to having cost us $1,374.46. | have the
spreadsheet. You have this spreadsheet. If anybody in the public wants a spreadsheet, you can e-mail me.

Outside dining has existed for the past 20 years and there was never a call to arms from any restaurants indicating with
the sidewalk amount that they had was inadequate. As many things go in life, it's a first come first serve basis. If for any
reason there are any barriers installed in the downtown area for any business, they should pay per barrier and the return
on investment in anywhere in the city. Say you need 15 barriers at $700 per barrier, parking spots 20 by 8 - that would
encompass six parking spots, 12 barriers. Your cost as a restaurant $10,500. Not bad when your return is $500,000 or
$750,000. | did the math and you have the numbers from the restaurants.

Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager

30 seconds
Karen Bill

These are all provided by John Griffin by the way. Let's solve it right now and say no to the barriers but yes to outside
dining on the sidewalks at no additional cost to the restaurants. Have the moral courage to listen to the constituents to
vote no. It's not a done deal and if you have so many concerns, send it back to committee because the costs should have
been discussed and analyzed. I'm happy to provide them to all of you. Thank you.

Tim Sennott

Thank you. Tim Sennott, 62 Underhill Street, Nashua. It feels strange to be not speaking about downtown first, but I'm
actually here to speak in support of the teachers’ contract. |, like many people in this room, have what | believe to be the
ultimate stake in our public schools. | have a son in the public school system. |, myself, was also educated in Nashua
schools at least since the fourth grade. Since that time because | was the cool nine year old who read the newspaper, |
have seen contract season after contract season come up and play out very similarly to how we've seen this contract
season play out, and the one before it, and the one before it. We need to start treating teachers like they're smart, like
they're members of any other industry. People in any other industry whether you're a teacher, or you work in accounting
like me you look for a job where you're going to get the best bang for your buck. Nashua can't continue to kick it down the
road in regard to teachers’ contracts and expect to retain the best teachers that we can offer our students. | personally
want the best teachers that we can offer my students. | hope that anybody here with a student in the public schools would
want the same for their kid as well.

And since I'm at this lectern and it would be remiss to not mention downtown, here we are. We have the proposal before
us. We have spent many long nights in this chamber. Many of you longer nights than I've spent in this chamber because