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AMENDED
ORDINANCE O-18-012

(e) Factory-built fireplace and associated chimney, gas or solid fuel (each):
$2440.

(f) Masonry fireplace and associated chimney: $49-5975.
(g) Manufactured Chimney: $2430.

(h) Minimum fee for miscellaneous equipment (each), excluding the
application fee, where not otherwise provided for by this section: $3335.

(i) Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5075.

Qj) Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $250275.

(2) Commercial mechanical (including Multi-Family).

(a) Nonrefundable application processing fee: $2530.
(b) Delivery system:

[1] Gas pipe (per +900 BTU}-$0-22 Graximum $309): 0-100k BTU -
$50: over 100k - $50 plus $0.25 per 1,000 BTU.

[2] Fuel oil pipe (per 1,000 BTU): $0.2225. Gaaxtmuns$300)-

[3] Installation of Fuel oil storage tanks less than 499 gallons, fuel oil
(each): $6-5015.

(c) Equipment:
[1] Furnace: $4450.
[2] _ Water Heater: $20.
f24[3] Boiler: $49:5055.

34[4] Single-package (includes rooftops) air handlers: $4925.

f4H[5] Chiller, evaporator, condenser or cooling tower (each): $4925.

{54[6] Duct work (per 10 square feet of area served): $0.03340 (minimum
$25).

f6}[7] Fire and smoke dampers: $6598.
(d) Chimney (masonry or metal): $4475.
(e) Vented unit heater: $4940.
(f) Fans: $4925.

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ORDINANCE O-18-012
(g) Kitchen exhaust systems:
[1] Hoods (each): $3375.
[2] Fans associated with hoods — replacement (each): $359010.
(h) Minimum fee for miscellaneous equipment (each), excluding the
application fee, where not otherwise provided for by this section: $3335.
(i) Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5975.
(j) Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259500.
C. Electrical permit fee schedule.
(1) Residential electricalinehidine multtfamily (1 & 2 Family and Townhouses).

(a)

Nonrefundable application processing fee: $2530.

Note: If the items in Subsection C(2) through (6) are included with any other
work listed in those sections, there is no additional fee. (Example: if doing new
construction, there is no charge for the house meter.) The higher price will
prevail.

(b)

(c)
(d)

(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)

New construction, additions, renovations (per square feet of habitable
area): $0.06575.

[1] Service entrance (new dwelling only): $245030.
House meter: $4450.

Service change:

[1] Up to three two units: $4450.

[2] Each additional unit: $910.

Adding subpanel(s) (each): $4925.

Adding or relocating meter(s): $4450.

Pools (in-ground): $4450.

Temporary service (each): $38-5045.

Minimum fee for miscellaneous equipment (each), excluding the
application fee, where not otherwise provided for by this section: $3335.

AMENDED

ORDINANCE
(j)
(k)
(2)

O-18-012

Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5075.

Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259275.

Commercial electrical Gancluding Multi-Family).

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)

(f)
(g)
(h)

(i)
i)
(k)
(1)
(m)

(n)

Nonrefundable application processing fee: $2530.

Electrical service entrance and service change (per amp): $0.3340.
Temporary service (each): $38-5045.

Panels and subpanels (each): $65925.

Outlets:

[1] For switches, receptacles, and fire and smoke detectors (each):
$0.8895.

[2] For lighting and lighting fixtures, except as otherwise provided
(each four feet of continuous fluorescent lighting shall be deemed a
separate lighting fixture) (each): $0.8895.

[3] For ranges, dryers, and similar heating devices (each): $5598.

[4] For high-intensity lighting and fixtures (each) (250 watt and
above): $910.

Fixed multi-outlet receptacle assemblies (for each six feet): $4506.
Track lighting (each 10 feet): $4596.

Motor control centers (each), automatic transfer switches (each), wiring of
HVAC units (per unit): $28-5932.

Water heaters (each): $912.

Electric baseboard heat (per unit): $3598.

Buss ducts (each section): $659010.

Transformers, generators, motors, x-ray machines (each): $4922.
Paging and sound systems:

[1] Per speaker: $23.

[2] Per console: $4922.

Signs (each): $275032.

AMENDED
ORDINANCE

(0)

(p)

(q)

(r)

O-18-012

Minimum fee for miscellaneous equipment (each), excluding the
application fee, where not otherwise provided for by this section: $3335.

Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5975.

Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259500.

Annual permit fee: $465250.

[1] In lieu of an individual permit for each alteration to an already
approved electrical installation, the Code Official shall issue an
annual permit, upon application therefor, to any person, firm or
corporation regularly employing one or more certified electricians
in the building, structure or on the premises owned or operated by
the applicant for the permit.

[2] Annual records. The person to whom an annual permit is issued
shall keep a detailed record of all alterations to an approved
electrical installation made under such annual permit, and such
records shall be accessible to the Code Official at all times or shall
be filed with the Code Official as designated.

D. Plumbing permit fee schedule.
(1) Residential plumbing-inehidine- multifamily (1 & 2 Family & Townhouses).

(a)
(b)

(c)
(d)
(e)

Nonrefundable application processing fee: $2530.

Per fixture (tub, shower, sink, water closet, lavatory, dishwasher, garbage
grinder, outside faucet, clothes-washing machine, backflow preventer,
etc.): $6507.50.

Irrigation system (includes backflow preventer): $912.
Pumps and ejectors (each): $4215.
Water heaters (each): $65015.

(e\(f) Water pipes (per 100 feet or part thereof): $4215.
(2)
)(h)
Pa

Sanitary sewer connection: $4215.
Drainage, waste and vent pipes: (per 100 feet or part thereof): $4215.

Minimum fee for miscellaneous equipment (each), excluding the
application fee, where not otherwise provided for by this section: $3335.

AMENDED

ORDINANCE

(2)

90)

@(k)

O-18-012

Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5075.

Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259275.

Commercial plumbing (including Multi-Family).

(a)
(b)

(c)
(d)

Nonrefundable application processing fee: $2530.

Per fixture (tub, shower, sink, water closet, lavatory, floor drain, drinking
fountain, urinal, dishwasher, garbage grinder, outside faucet, clothes-
washing machine, washdown station, etc.): $6598.

Pumps and ejectors (each): $245030.
Grease interceptor: $4925.
Water heaters (each): $4218.

(2)

ch)
€5)
0)

Irrigation system (includes backflow preventer): $4415.

Backflow preventer (each):

[1] Atmospheric vacuum breakers: $4214.

[2] Pressure vacuum breakers: $4214.

[3] Dual check valve: $4214.

[4] Reduced-pressure principle: $4214.
Water pipes: (per 100 feet or part thereof): $4215.
Sanitary sewer connection: $4215.

Drainage, waste and vent pipes: (per 100 feet or part thereof): $4215.

4(k) Storm (drain) sewer connection: $4215.

e()

Storm piping: (per 100 feet or part thereof): $4215.

¢e)(m) Roof drains (each): $4215.

p(n) Minimum fee for miscellaneous equipment (each), excluding the

application fee, where not otherwise provided for by this section: $3335.

AMENDED
ORDINANCE O-18-012

€q\(0) Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5075.

*(p) Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259500.”

All other ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

This ordinance shall become effective 30 days after passage.

THE CITY OF NASHUA

Office of the Mavor

To: Board of Aldermen
¥rom: Mayor Jim Donchess
Cc: Kim Kleiner

Date: May 31, 2018

Re: Recycling costs

"The Gate City"

Board of Aldermen members,

I have attached an article from The New York Times that illustrates the recycling problem our

country is facing.

As I noted during the Budget Public Hearing, recycling costs have increased more than 100 times
in Nashua during the last 10 months. Last summer, the City was generating a small amount of
revenue from recycling or breaking even at worst; now, as of last month, it is costing us more

than $80 a ton.

Those costs are expected to continue to increase in the coming months, with some experts

suggesting it could increase to over $100 per ton.

5/30/2018 Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times

Ehe New York Cimes

Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right?
Maybe, or Maybe Not

Plastics and papers from dozens of American cities and towns are being dumped in landfills
after China stopped recycling most “foreign garbage.”

By Livia Albeck-Ripka

May 29, 2018

Oregon is serious about recycling. Its residents are accustomed to dutifully separating milk
cartons, yogurt containers, cereal boxes and kombucha bottles from their trash to divert them
from the landfill. But this year, because of a far-reaching rule change in China, some of the
recyclables are ending up in the local dump anyway.

In recent months, in fact, thousands of tons of material left curbside for recycling in dozens of
American cities and towns — including several in Oregon — have gone to landfills.

In the past, the municipalities would have shipped much of their used paper, plastics and other
scrap materials to China for processing. But as part of a broad antipollution campaign, China
announced last summer that it no longer wanted to import “foreign garbage.” Since Jan. 1 it has
banned imports of various types of plastic and paper, and tightened standards for materials it
does accept.

While some waste managers already send their recyclable materials to be processed domestically,
or are shipping more to other countries, others have been unable to find a substitute for the
Chinese market. “All of a sudden, material being collected on the street doesn’t have a place to
go,” said Pete Keller, vice president of recycling and sustainability at Republic Services, one of the
largest waste managers in the country.

China’s stricter requirements also mean that loads of recycling are more likely to be considered
contaminated if they contain materials that are not recyclable. That has compounded a problem
that waste managers call wishful or aspirational recycling: people setting aside items for
recycling because they believe or hope they are recyclable, even when they aren't.

[Here’s a guide to avoiding “aspirational recycling.” First lesson: Don’t recycle greasy pizza
boxes. ]

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Board of Aldermen Page 11
May 24, 2016

| just wanted to add a comment to Alderman Siegel’s excellent answer. There is no double-taxation. |
just want to be very clear on that too. Monies that were raised are still available to be spent. They are
spent within the budget as opposed to on the outside of the budget. If anything is done to make room in
the budget for more spending then that does become an additional tax. | fully agree that the taxpayers of
Nashua are a miser millionaire. That money is not floating around out there. It’s a very tight budget.

Alderman Clemons
We have millions of dollars set aside. We have a need, and we’re not spending the money.
Alderman Schoneman

We are spending the money. We are meeting the obligation. It's coming from the funds that have been
earmarked previously.

Alderman O’Brien

| would like to thank Alderman Siegel for his comments. | do agree with you that we did kick the can.
Unfortunately this problem is not going to go away. With the state, it’s a new biennium that’s coming up.
After people get elected in November, | really don’t see them putting any type of money at this particular
time back to alleviate this problem. By our inaction today, it’s going to prove out in the future, whether
we help the taxpayer or hurt the taxpayer. The end result if we are liable for $2 million next year, where
we could have made that $1.6 million if we voted to alieve the taxpayers a little bit of burden, we missed
that opportunity and we’re going to have to live with that. | thank Alderman Siegel for putting this. It was
well thought. It was an attempt to try to soften the blow of eventually what’s going to happen. We’re
going to be held liable for this debt. Thank you, sir, for having the foresight to come forward and try and
help to alleviate the pain that may come with this. Thank you.

Alderman Schoneman
Again, this legislation does not alleviate any sense of the responsibility that exists, whether it’s $2 million
next year from one fund, Fund A or Fund B; it’s still $2 million of taxpayer money. This would not have
shrunk that obligation in any way whatsoever and we cannot have that implication.
A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Cookson, Alderman Caron, Alderman Siegel, 11
Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja,
Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty,
Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy
Nay: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Dowd 3

MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-16-015 declared duly indefinitely postponed.

5/30/2018 Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times

In the Pacific Northwest, Republic has diverted more than 2,000 tons of paper to landfills since the
Chinese ban came into effect, Mr. Keller said. The company has been unable to move that material
to a market “at any price or cost,’ he said. Though Republic is dumping only a small portion of its
total inventory so far — the company handles over five million tons of recyclables nationwide
each year — it sent little to no paper to landfills last year.

But for smaller companies, like Rogue Disposal and Recycling, which serves much of Oregon, the
Chinese ban has upended operations. Rogue sent all its recycling to landfills for the first few
months of the year, said Garry Penning, a spokesman.

Wigan Ang for The New York Times

Western states, which have relied the most on Chinese recycling plants, have been hit especially
hard. In some areas — like Eugene, Ore., and parts of Idaho, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii —
local officials and garbage haulers will no longer accept certain items for recycling, in some cases
refusing most plastics, glass and certain types of paper. Instead, they say, customers shouid throw
these items in the trash.

Theresa Byrne, who lives in Salem, Ore., said the city took too long to inform residents that most
plastics and egg and milk cartons were now considered garbage. “I was angry,’ she said. “T
believe in recycling.”

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