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Special Bd. of Aldermen — 02/27/2017 Page 5
Alderman Jette

When | get to my bus stop | can take the bike and ride it home and leave it there outside my house.

Ms. Xie

So we don’t recommend that people put a bike on the bus but in the ideal world, like when you get out of the
bus there would be one bike waiting for you. So that is the reason why we need to analyze the data to see
how many bikes we need to need to meet demands. And then where we need to distribute it.

Alderman Jette

So if | take the bus and at that bus stop there happens to be a bike waiting, | can drive that home and leave it
outside my house?

Ms. Xie
Yes on the sidewalk.
Ms. Marchant

Just as part of our analysis of where we are going to deploy bikes, we are looking at the transit stop data and
our highest ridership transit stops. So we hope to deploy bikes at those stops that have high ridership so there
will be some there so people can use them from that point. Does that make sense?

Alderman Tencza

This may be a question for Director Marchant, but who do you see as the market for these bikes? Are you in
other smaller cities with less than 100,000 people and how long have you been there and how well has the
program gone?

Ms. Xie

So the first question, we see the Bike Share Program can be served for several purposes. The one is for
commuting so people have the last mile demands we can use the Bike Share to meet their demands. And the
second is recreational purposes. We know Nashua has great resource of trails, so we can use the bikes to be
put in the trail system to encourage people to ride it during the weekends or holidays. And right now we are
operating in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, City of Henniker, and then expanded to Texas as well. So some similar
sized city would be Lawrence, Kansas or Pala, lowa or West Lafayette, Indiana. So right now in the college
town the response is pretty good because in a lot of universities, parking is a pain. So Bike Share is pretty well
adopted and in the community cities Bike Share actually is pretty well adopted in the downtown area and from
the parking lot to the work and then from the work to the restaurant is the most popular route people are taking.

Alderman Tencza

| still don’t understand so let’s say | am downtown and hop on a bike and bring it back to my house say “Ok I’m
not using it” and stick in my garage for the night. In the morning, hop back on. What would stop me from
doing that?

Ms. Xie

Our system has an alarm so we can notify it is within someone’s garage so it may trigger the alarm and it goes
on which you don’t want to create over the night.

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Alderman O’Brien

Downtown we have some very popular spots and | can see a whole bunch of bikes at that particular area. Will
your company be providing bike racks or anything to the most popular destinations that we have.

Ms. Xie

That is a topic we can discuss in the future. The first step is to identify where those locations are.

Alderman O’Brien

Your preference is that they get left on the sidewalks is that correct and not into a designated parking space?
Ms. Xie

Because right now the model works, we encourage people to use it and give them more flexibility and freedom
not to constrain them to only pick up and drop off at certain locations because we don’t know if that is the true
demands. If that answers your question?

Alderman O’Brien

Thank you.

Alderwoman Kelly

You mentioned you had fat tires, do you have any other types of bikes in the fleet?

Ms. Xie

Yes we will have e-bicycle and then we have trike and the fat tire bike and side by side bike.

Alderwoman Kelly

If | could follow up. Are they all well-versed for any type of terrain because we have lots of different types of
trails here in Nashua.

Ms. Xie

It needs to be tested first. Because those special ADA bikes need to be rented out with certain number and
departments if that makes sense.

Chairman Dowd

How do the batteries stay charged on the bikes?

Ms. Xie

Yes we have a solar panel here to charge the bike. Without the charge, the battery can last for two months.
Chairman Dowd

Any other questions?

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Alderman Lopez

Is your company looking at any other type of vehicles?
Ms. Xie

Vehicles?

Alderman Lopez

There is a surprising demand for kayaks downtown. No one is renting them out.
Ms. Xie

| will let our co-founder know, it might be a good business plan.

Chairman Dowd

So if you rent kayaks do people throw them out of the river?

Julie Chizmas, Transportation Planner

And | just wanted to take a minute, | am going to take the mouse now just to show you a few examples of what
we envision parking will look like because that is a common question that we have. A little photo shopping
here, but | went around Nashua and looked at different locations and this is typically, up here is the furniture
zone along Main Street and that is where we will be encouraging and educating people to safely park their
bikes. So out of the pedestrian way, not blocking any activity that is normally going on on the sidewalk, you
know, we have furniture zones, we’ve got up here against the fence that marks off outdoor dining. This is the
trail down to the Nashua River Rail Trail so not quite wide enough for a car but perfect for bikes to park. At the
Nashua Library there happened to be some bikes there when | was there that day so | thought “hey that would
be great just to pop a VeoRide Bike right next to it’. So | mean we have bikes out on the sidewalks, we have
them in public places this is just another bike joining other bikes out there.

And then the other thing that | wanted to touch on quickly because | know we have short time. We are actively
working with the Department of Public Works to get some bike lanes striped out and about in Nashua. So here
is amap, it is a little tough to read and | am sorry, but the green lines here where we actually do have striped
bike lanes, we also have just a few segments that are signed but not actually striped. So they are signed as
bike lanes and they have wide shoulders, but they don’t have the icons in the pavement that show it is a bike
lane. And the red lines are where we are working with DPW to have bike lanes put in. They are actively
working on this, they want to make sure it is done safely and in accordance with sound engineering practices
and all the standards that go with that. But the goal here is the blue lines that you see are existing trails, so if
you were to take a bike, you could come up there or the Nashua River Rail Trail, go up country side come all
the way along West Hollis, hit the trails in the Mine Falls Park and be downtown.

And that is kind of the goal of all of these little trails that we’ve done so we have one from Nashua North High
School along Cheyenne Drive, a nice quiet not real busy traffic-wise road that would connect to the park and
get you into the system and get you downtown. And just for a few close up images of what that might look like
again | did go out and take some photos and so here is where | said that we actually have bike lanes on West
Hollis Street and you can see there are no markings in the pavement but it is a bike lane and then some
sections where we don’t have bike lanes yet but we’ve got some nice wide shoulders that was some great
forethought by DPW when they re-did this road and gave us some nice wide shoulders for future planning.
And again, Countryside, we think we can accommodate bike lanes and then Main Street. Main Street will be a

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challenge but we know that is where bikes are going to end up. That is our downtown core and we want to
make the roads and accessible for these bikes so again, we’ve got some opportunities and we’ve got some
challenges. And that is what DPW is working on with us to solve these challenges and make a nice safe route

for these bikes to go on. We don’t just want to put them out there and not have a plan for where they can go
safely. Thank you any questions?

Alderwoman Kelly

What happens if we consistently find bikes in places that are blocking parking or on the sidewalk?

Ms. Chizmas

Then we can set up no parking zones. That is built into the app and it will penalize, financially, people who
park in the no parking zones. Am | right Candice? Thank you. So it definitely and our goal is to not set up
these no parking zones initially unless as Candice mentioned, like in front of the Fire Department, locations like
that, but we want to kind of see where they end up before we start imposing restrictions on where they can go.

Chairman Dowd

Any other questions? Thank you very much.

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE TO ADJOURN
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 7:15 p.m.

Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk

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at-Large Kelly to come. The citizens are invited to come and express their concerns and ask questions
and hear a report from the Mayor and the Aldermen. Thank you.

Alderwoman Kelly

This goes back a little bit, but | just wanted to thank everyone who was involved in the Earth Day event.
The Mayor came out and we had quite a few kids come out. | shout out to Adrianna Lopera who did a
really great craft with them and everyone had a lot of fun. It was a beautiful day.

Alderman Caron

Yes thank you. | too would like to thank those members of the Board of Aldermen who attended the
Senior Center's Annual Fund Raiser. It looked like this year the chefs really got involved, the theme
was tropical and there was one table, | think it was Courville and another nursing home, they were
actually dressed at pirates. The food was phenomenal and it looks like hopefully we have made our
goal for the first time to make $50,000.00 for our senior center which will go a long way to open up for
nighttime programs and what have you. So! appreciate that.

On another note I’d like to send out my condolences to the Migneault Family, Chubby Migneault who
worked for Public Works for over 30 years passed away unexpectedly last week and | know he will be
sorely missed by his friends and neighbors. My husband knew him since he was a little kid not only
when they worked together. So our condolences to the Migneault family. Thank you.

Alderman Lopez

| would also like to pass condolences to the Migneault family. | know some of their neighbors were
particularly touched by his life.

Additionally, this Thursday there is the Sculpture Symposium which I’m sure everybody is aware of and
planning to attend the opening. There is also the Bridges to Hope fund raiser to benefit Bridges right
over here on East Hollis. They are neighbors to our Gate City Light Recipients, the Nashua Soup
Kitchen so | would encourage people to consider attending that as well.

Then on June 9", we are having the Tree Streets Block Party. As last year, we are having our best rice
on the block rice tasting competition, representing multiple restaurants from around the community,
their own particular flavor of rice, just to taste and see who has got the best rice on the block. We have
a whole number of performance activities being organized. We have local band favorites, a live art
battle, a lot of non-profits, over 22 so far have registered to run fair events and carnival activities and
that kind of stuff. So it should be a really good opportunity to see the Tree Streets at their best. It is
going to be on Ash Street from 2:00 to 6:00 on June 9".

Alderman Wilshire

My condolences also to the Migneault family, Chubs was a great guy. | also want to commend all the
Nashua Fire Rescue employees who received awards last week. | was unable to attend and congrats
on the goal for the Nashua Senior Center, that is awesome. | know you work really hard Alderman
Caron on that so congrats to that. And Mary Roy, what a spectacular woman she is. She is really
amazing, everything she has done for 25 years just trying to make other people’s lives better,
phenomenal lady.

Also my congrats to the Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter, they do fabulous work, | can’t even express it
enough how strongly | feel about the work that organization does. They are awesome. So that is it.
Thank you.

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President McCarthy

| would express my condolences to the Migneault family as well. | have known Chubs at least as long
as | have been on this Board which is awhile and I’ve considered him a good friend and he will be
missed.

I'd like to extend my apologies to the firemen for not having attended the awards ceremony because |
was at the Senior Center Fund Raiser. Lastly, | know Alderman Lopez mentioned it but | wanted to
make sure everybody knew about the opening reception for the Sculpture Symposium which is at the
airport from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, it is a great event and the symposium itself produces new
public art for Nashua every year. This year promises to give some spectacular pieces that may be in
very prominent locations. So if you can make it and support that, please do. The symposium will be
held at Make It Labs so while it is in progress over the next few weeks, if you want to stop down during
the day and see the sculptors work, they will be there.

Committee announcements:

Alderman Wilshire

Thank you. Human Affairs will meet on Monday the 14" at 7:00 p.m. here in the Chambers.
Alderman Dowd

Yes tomorrow evening we are going to have our final division come before the Budget Committee and
that will be the School Department. It is obviously the largest piece of the budget and then on the 17”
of this month we will be having our public hearing at Nashua High School North. So just wanted to let
everybody know that. And then following the public hearing, we will be having wrap-up sessions and |
will explain more about that tomorrow night.

Alderwoman Melizza-Golja

Yes PEDC next Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.

Alderman Lopez

| forgot in my Aldermanic remarks to inform the public, we have an employment connect job fair event
tomorrow at the Nashua Public Library. | encourage anybody who is looking for employment to attend.
The employers that are attending are focused meeting eye to eye, face to face with people and making
that in-person connection. So it will be at Nashua Public Library, the job fair event is 10:30 to 1:30 and
then there is job preparation ahead of time where different supportive agencies will be there on-hand to
help you spruce up your presentation, any last minute resume tweaks that you need, make sure that
you are able to work into the job as competitive as possible.

President McCarthy

Any further announcements?

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE MAY 8, 2018 MEETING OF THE BOARD OF

ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED
MOTION CARRIED

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The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:06 p.m.

Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk

SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN

MAY 8, 2018

6:45 PM Aldermanic Chamber

PRESIDENT BRIAN S. MCCARTHY CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER

PRAYER OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA D. PIECUCH

PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERWOMAN-AT-LARGE SHOSHANNA KELLY
ROLL CALL

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From: Brian S. McCarthy, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting

ADJOURNMENT

Board of Aldermen
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Brian S. McCarthy

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May 3, 2018

Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk
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Dear Ms. Piecuch:

REC'D CITY CLERK DEPT
MAY 3°18 Px12°05

Please be advised | am hereby calling a Special Meeting of the Board of Aldermen for Tuesday, May 8,
2018, at 6:45 p.m. in the Aldermanic Chamber. Candice Xie, owner and vice president of business
development of VeoRide will be in attendance to give a presentation and bike and app demonstration.

Thank you.
Sincerely,
Brian McCarthy, President

cc: Mayor Jim Donchess

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