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Board of Aldermen 06-12-2018 Page 14

R-18-043

Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.

RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $190,800 FROM THE STATE
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES INTO PUBLIC
HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES GRANT ACTIVITIES “FY19 AND FY20 STD AND HIV

PREVENTION GRANT”
Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-18-044
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $130,000 FROM THE STATE
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES INTO PUBLIC
HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES GRANT ACTIVITIES “FY19 AND FY20 IMMUNIZA-
TION PROGRAM OF GREATER NASHUA”
Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

Board of Aldermen 06-12-2018 Page 15

R-18-045

Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Ken Gidge

Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez

Alderman June M. Caron

Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.

RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $70,000 FROM THE STATE
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES INTO PUBLIC

HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES GRANT ACTIVITIES “FY19 AND FY20 TUBERCU-
LOSIS PROGRAM OF GREATER NASHUA”
Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-18-046

Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Ken Gidge

Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez

Alderman June M. Caron

Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.

RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $41,243.50 FROM THE STATE
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES INTO PUBLIC
HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES GRANT ACTIVITY “FY19 PUBLIC HEALTH

NETWORK SERVICES”
Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

Board of Aldermen 06-12-2018 Page 16

R-18-047

Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Ken Gidge

Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez

Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.

RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $25,000 FROM THE STATE
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES INTO PUBLIC
HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES GRANT ACTIVITY “FY19 SUBSTANCE MISUSE
SERVICES”

Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-18-048
Endorser:

Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman Ken Gidge

Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Patricia Klee

Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy

AUTHORIZING A SUB-AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NASHUA REGIONAL PLANNING
COMMISSION AND CITY OF NASHUA, NASHUA TRANSIT SYSTEM
Given its first reading; assigned to the FINANCE COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-18-049
Endorser:

Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman Ken Gidge

Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman Patricia Klee

Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy

AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NASHUA TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH THE
SOUHEGAN VALLEY TRANSPORTATION COLLABORATIVE FOR TRANSIT SERVICES

Given its first reading; assigned to the FINANCE COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

Board of Aldermen 06-12-2018 Page 17

R-18-050

Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire

Alderman Ken Gidge

Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright

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 Jan Schmidt

Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.

Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF AN ADDITIONAL $71,259
FROM THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
(TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM FUNDS) INTO COMMUNITY DEVELOP-
MENT GRANT ACTIVITY “PATH AND PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE” AND TO AUTHORIZE THE
TRANSFER OF MATCHING AND NON-MATCHING FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $86,202

Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

R-18-051
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Ken Gidge
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
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 Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $20,000 FROM DEPARTMENT #181 “COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT” INTO DEPARTMENT #186 “TRANSPORTATION” FOR THE PURPOSE

OF TRANSFERRING ADDITIONAL MATCHING GRANT FUNDS TO REHABILITATE THE
NASHUA TRANSIT CENTER

Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

Board of Aldermen 06-12-2018 Page 18

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-18-017
Endorser: Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman Ken Gidge
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
AUTHORIZING A STOP SIGN ON LOCK STREET AT ITS INTERSECTION WITH ORANGE
STREET

Given its first reading; assigned to the COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE by President McCarthy

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT - None

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Klee

| just want to let people in Ward 3 know that | will be holding a Town Hall type of meeting at Dental
Connection this Friday at 5:00 and the following Thursday at 7:00.

Alderman Lopez

Yes | just want to thank everybody who helped organize and everybody who came out for the Tree
Streets Block Party last weekend. It was a really good event, we had a lot of good times and | think it
really showcased all the diversity and positive strengths of the community. El Paisano won the Best
Rice on the Block Competition if anybody is wondering. It was generally a really good event.

| also wanted to invite anybody who is able to attend on June 21", it is the Summer Solstice which is
the longest day of the year and that is typically when we hold a vigil for people who are in recovery in
trying to recover one day at a time so that will be from 6:00 to 6:30 in front of Good Shepherd. So
anybody is invited to come and if you want somebody to be remembered that we’ve lost during their
struggle for recovery, you can submit names to Gatehouse Recovery. | will post more on that on my
page so that anybody reading can see that.

Alderman Dowd

Yes in case you hadn't seen it in the paper, last night the Board of Education referred the Middle School
Project to the Joint Special School Building Committee so we will be meeting quite frequently now on
that particular subject. If you want all the facts from it, you can watch it on the Board of Education
televised City site. It is only the first half hour so you don’t have to watch the whole meeting.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

Thank you. First of all | would like to wish a Happy Ramadan to those in our community who are
celebrating.

Then there was something recently that occurred over at New Searles and people thought it was
gunshots and then it was discovered it was fireworks and ‘tis the season. So a reminder that fireworks
are illegal in the City. | know that Alderman Klee and | have had discussions about resident’s concerns
about fireworks going off not just the week before and the week after 4" of July but throughout the
summer. | know in Ward 8 there was a home that actually had damage from fireworks.

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So a reminder to individuals that although you may be able to buy them they are illegal to use in the
City and it is my sincere hope that the Police Department will be responding to calls from residents
regarding the fireworks occurring in their neighborhood. Thank you.

Alderwoman Kelly

Thank you Mr. President. | just wanted to thank anyone who had a hand in the moving of the Farmer's
Market to Main Street, | think that is going to be a wonderful cultural shift for our Downtown community
and | hope everyone will come out on Sunday and see that.

Alderman Jette

So | had told you that | was going to be sponsoring a resolution or an ordinance to form a Committee to
study the solid waste and recycling situation. But at the last Board of Public Works meeting, the Board
of Public Works Commissioners voted to form a committee to do just that — to study specifically the
recycling situation and to see how best to deal with that. So | will not be sponsoring that resolution, the
Board of Public Works has already done it and they have asked me to serve on that committee which |
will be doing. Hopefully we will come up with some ideas on how to deal with the recycling situation.

Alderman Harriott-Gathright

On Tuesday, June 19'" we will be celebrating in Nashua Juneteenth so that is a new one for different
community folks here. That is the celebration that ended slavery particularly for African-Americans. So
if you are free, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19" at the Arlington Community Center, please
come out, there will be light refreshments.

President McCarthy

| would like to thank the organizers for the Tree Streets Block Party and particularly Alderman Lopez. |
had the opportunity to attend for a while, it was a very nice event. And | look forward to the new
Farmer’s Market on Main Street, that took a lot of work to get that to happen but | think it will be a great
asset for the City to have it there. It is going to have a lot more vendors and for the public that comes
downtown, the block between Pearl Street and Temple Street will be one-way southbound and there
will be a detour around that block of Main Street. But please come down and check out the Farmer’s
Market. There is plenty of parking at the Elm Street garage, just a block away from the start of the
market.

Committee announcements:
Alderman Wilshire
Human Affairs, Monday June 18". here in the Chambers.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

PEDC next Tuesday here in the Chambers the 19".

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE JUNE 12, 2018 MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED

MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:26 p.m.

Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk

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May 24, 2016

Now, because of the timing of how this legislation was debated, a budget had to be put forward before
this legislation had its final determination. Nonetheless, that hole exists in the Capital Equipment
Reserve Fund and | believe if this were here that hole would not be the same size but we would still have
to do something. | strongly urge my colleagues to adopt this recognizing that this is a solution to a real
problem and that problem is going to manifest itself on us not doing proper replacement of our capital
equipment.

Alderman Schoneman

| appreciate all the work that Alderman Siegel did in concert with CFO Griffin to work this out and | think
there are clearly serious issues and | don’t take them personally. VVhen we had the last full Board of
Aldermen meeting we talked about an amount that could be suitable that would be less than $2.2 million
and | said | would consider it and | have. The $350,000 sounded attractive for a couple of reasons but in
the end | have to maintain my opposition to it for a couple of reasons. One, it is a spending cap override
of fiscal ’16; | cannot count on that spending cap override. The fiscal 17 problem for pensions has been
solved. | totally recognize the Capital Equipment Reserve Fund that has been created but | don’t share
the same view that we cannot do anything about CERF in this budget. | think there could be 10 votes to
increase the Capital Equipment Reserve Fund as necessary if there were 8 votes to reduce a line
somewhere else. It is about prioritization. In an effort to keep all city soending within the spending cap
for fiscal °16, 17 and on | am going to continue to oppose this legislation and when fiscal ’18 and fiscal
19 rolls around we will address those issues when the time comes.

Alderman Siegel

| appreciate the views of my colleague. | would point out that we have a $2 million overhang in the
following two budget years as estimated by CFO Griffin. That could get worse but that is the current
estimate from the state. In looking at the current budget, you can’t just say well where can | find that
$350,000 and plug it in here and call it a day. You have to think where can | find this in the next two
years because it isn’t going away. It’s all well and good to just say we will do an across the board cut but
anyone who has actually done a real budget knows that is impossible. The second that you start
defining those areas where there are fixed costs that are non-negotiable, then you are back making
decisions and trade-offs. You just don’t get to make a blanket statement about cutting it across the
board; that’s a very naive way to do budgets. This is looking forward and seeing what the rolling effect is
is. It’s easy to focus on the Capital Equipment Reserve Fund because that problem is going to multiply
itself. We've already seen what happens when we neglect our maintenance. If | take that $500,000 and
put it towards the pension well guess what, that’s a spending cap override but are we going to sit in
dogmatic debate and say oh my God, | can’t override the cap or what is the threshold over which we say
alright, now it’s so bad that | am willing to do something, | am going to override this religious conviction
because my arm is hanging off and | guess | better apply a tourniquet; is it a $3 million pension
overhang, a $5 million, a $7 million overhang? At a certain point these kinds of arguments fall by the
wayside and they become silly. You have to view the world as it is and not how you wish it to be. What
we are proposing does not affect the dollars out of the taxpayer’s pocket and that is ultimately what we
are talking about. Are we taking more money from taxpayer’s to do this, if we were | would not have put
this legislation in place. That is the point; to cap the amount of money that flows out of the taxpayer’s
pockets. | would serious urge everyone to be very careful in consideration of that and consider that as a
key point in all of this.

Alderman Schoneman

It’s clear that moving money from inside of the budget to outside in an expendable trust fund does not
affect taxes. If the cash is already there you spend it from account A or B but it doesn’t affect the tax rate
but what is does do is that if we were to take that gap of $350,000 and apply it to the Capital Equipment
Reserve Fund in the fiscal °17 budget then that would increase the budget and it would ultimately result

AGENDA

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9(a).

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN JUNE 12, 2018

PRESIDENT BRIAN S. McCARTHY CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER

PRAYER OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA PIECUCH

PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERMAN JAN SCHMIDT

ROLL CALL

REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR

RECOGNITIONS

READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARINGS

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COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From:

Re:

From:

Re:

Mayor Jim Donchess
Recycling Costs

Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk
Warrant to be Committed to Chief of Police for Unlicensed Dogs

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

9(b). COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

10.
11.

From: Mayor Jim Donchess

Re: 2018 Sewer Replacement — Kinsley Street

From: Mayor Jim Donchess

Re: Contract for Electronic Recycling

From: Mayor Jim Donchess

Re: Contract for Scrap Metal Recycling

From: Mayor Jim Donchess

Re: Contract for Refrigerant Recovery (CRC’s) Services
PETITIONS

NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

Joint Convention with Board of Library Trustees

12. REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

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13. CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS
Downtown Improvement Committee
Danielle Skelley (New Appointment)
175 Main Street
Nashua, NH 03060
Nashua Airport Authority
David Heath (New Appointment)
7 Casey Circle
Nashua, NH 03063
UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-18-019
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess

05/30/2018
05/16/2018
06/06/2018
05/23/2018
06/04/2018
06/05/2018
05/21/2018

Term to Expire: June 1, 2021

Term to Expire: August 31, 2020

RELATIVE TO THE ADOPTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR
THE CITY OF NASHUA GENERAL, ENTERPRISE, AND SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS
e Budget Review Committee Recommends: Final Passage with Proposed Amendments

R-18-030
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Ken Gidge
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws

AUTHORIZING THE CONVEYANCE OF A DISCONTINUED PORTION OF AMHERST

STREET

e Committee on Infrastructure Recommends: Final Passage

R-18-035
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Tom Lopez

Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.

Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy

RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $30,001 FROM
RENAISSANCE DOWNTOWNS, LLC INTO PUBLIC WORKS CAPITAL PROJECT
ACTIVITY “EAST HOLLIS STREET GATEWAY IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT”

e Budget Review Committee Recommends: Final Passage

e Also assigned to the Board of Public Works; Favorable Recommendation Issued 5/31/18

R-18-036
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman June M. Caron

Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire

Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman Patricia Klee

Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws

Alderman Thomas Lopez

Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly

Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja

Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza

Alderman Jan Schmidt

Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.

Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $25,000 FROM DEPARTMENT 194 “CONTINGENCY”,
ACCOUNT 70100 “GENERAL CONTINGENCY” TO DEPARTMENT 109 “CIVIC & COMMUNITY
ACTIVITIES”, ACCOUNTING CLASSIFICATION 56 “OUTSIDE AGENCIES” FOR THE PURPOSE
OF PROVIDING FUNDING TO THE NASHUA ASSOCIATION FOR THE ELDERLY

e Budget Review Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-18-037
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $150,000 FROM DEPARTMENT 159 “OTHER PUBLIC
SAFETY”, ACCOUNT 54835 “HYDRANT FEES” TO DEPARTMENT 198 “INTERFUND
TRANSFERS”, ACCOUNT 89725 “TRANSFER TO CITY RETIREMENT TRUST FUND”
e Budget Review Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-18-038
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Ken Gidge
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
AUTHORIZING FIREWORKS AT HOLMAN STADIUM AFTER 10:00 P.M. ON JULY 17, 2018
e Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-18-007
Endorsers: Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
PROHIBITING PLACING OR BLOWING YARD DEBRIS IN THE STREET
° Committee on Infrastructure Recommends: Final Passage with Proposed Amendments
° Also assigned to the BPW; Favorable Recommendation with Proposed Amendments issued 4/26/18