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Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 6/25/2019 - P9

By dnadmin on Sun, 11/06/2022 - 22:37
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Special Bd. of Aldermen — 06-25-2019 Page 9

So we don’t require a Driver’s License and that’s s one of the benefits of this program is to give transportation
options to those that may not have them. So as far as regulating operation of these at a State Level, that hasn’t
come up yet.

Alderman Tencza

And if | may just follow up. | guess I’m not concerned about regulating them at the State Level, I’m worried about
whether people need to know that they need to have a license or a moped license in order to hop on one, |
guess that is something that they would have to determine for themselves.

Alderman Jette

So | mean this with all due respect, but when | hear you talk about things across multiple states and you don't,
maybe I’m wrong, but you don’t seem to have a very detailed knowledge of the laws of this State. You are a big
company, I’m sure you have high paid lawyers at your beck and call who could advise you about this and
maybe our Corporation Counsel can help us. But | am wondering whether or not we need to adopt some
legislation to regulate these things. | look at our present ordinance and just quickly, but | look at it and it appears
that this thing is defined and comes within the definition of a motor vehicle. | am assuming without knowing, but
| am assuming that these things cannot legally go on the sidewalks. So how do you get it from the street on to
sidewalk to park seems technically like a violation. | don’t know if our Corporation Counsel has had a chance to
look at the local and state laws regarding these things or not.

But | am concerned about your rules are fine, but how are we going to enforce that if there are no laws that
specifically regulate these things. Our laws didn’t envision these things; these are brand new things. | am
concerned about people riding them on the sidewalks. You know the bicycles are not supposed to be ridden on
the sidewalks but they are. These things seem like a potential hazard. | am not trying to throw a wet rag over
what might be a very good thing, but | am wondering whether this has been properly vetted. And if | could
through you Madam President, ask our Corporation Counsel whether he has had a chance to look into this or
not?

*Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel

| have not been asked to look at this prior to tonight; | will look at it. But as you point out, the bicycles are being
ridden on the sidewalk all the time, as are skateboards and other things, happily not cars very often. Not much
is done to control the fact that bicycles and skateboards and other things are being operated on the sidewalks
although technically they ought not to be. | think this is a motor vehicle, unless | am mistaken and that will
certainly will be one of the things | check into. So if someone has their license to drive, revoked or suspended, |
don’t think they are going to be operating this either. Non-motorized bicycles | think are not motor vehicles
because they don’t have a motor so that is in a different category. But! have not specifically reviewed the ins
and outs of all legislation and frankly | would prefer that the private company who makes money on this devotes
the time of their lawyer to it. That might be something to think about as well.

President Wilshire

Alderman Jette are you all set?

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Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 4/12/2016 - P19

By dnadmin on Sun, 11/06/2022 - 21:35
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Tue, 04/12/2016 - 00:00
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Board of Aldermen Page 19
April 12, 2016

Alderman Siegel

I’d like to thank our colleague, Alderman LeBrun for his participating last night in the opioid forum. | learned a
lot and it was helpful to have someone who was right in the middle of it at the state level to keep tabs on what
was being said and sanity check it and provide some information. |’d like to thank all of the participants.

Alderman Caron

The Senior Center’s big fundraiser, Fire & Fusion is May 4" and tickets are $35.00 and | understand that we
have less than 30 tickets left. | know that Aldermen Wilshire, Siegel and Melizzi-Golja have already purchased
their tickets.

Alderman Dowd

| want to thank Alderman LeBrun for what he is doing at the state level and ask you that if there is anything that
you feel this Board can help with, please feel free to bring it up. The other thing is that | apologize for missing
the last Budget Review Committee meeting but | was on vacation in San Francisco, CA with my daughter but |
did listen to minutes.

Alderman Cookson

In reviewing the minutes, | believe it was a Budget Review Committee meeting, and | believe it was centered
around the pension discussion, and | know that you and | have had a conversation outside of these Chambers.
It was mentioned that you were exploring the idea of possibly bringing in the state delegation similar to what
you have done in the past. | was curious if there’s been any progress in that. | think there’s a lot of dialogue
that would be beneficial in sharing as well as hearing from our delegation especially when it comes to
pensions, pension costs. The fact that we are going from 35-30-25 percent down to zero contribution from the
state, and we’re picking up the entire cost. | think it would be a good dialogue to have with our state delegates.

President McCarthy

| don’t think | have told our legislative assistant to do that yet. | was out of town last week, and | had a lot of
work commitments the week before. She is here now, so she will take care of that.

Alderman Deane

I'd like to ask why the communication that was addressed to you from Pennichuck required a meeting of the
Pennichuck Water Special Committee? Are we required by ordinance to hear that in a public setting, to give
the date, the proxy and the financials of the annual meeting that they are required to hold every year? Could
we have accepted that and placed it on file?

President McCarthy

The Board eventually has to vote on approving the signature on the proxy card so | believe that was the
purpose of referring it to the Pennichuck Water Special Committee. My understanding is that it will come back
with a recommendation that the Board approve the signature of the proxy card.

Alderman Deane
I’m looking forward to attending tomorrow nights’ meeting about out front. | just hope it doesn’t turn into what

last Thursday nights’ meeting turned into. That’s all | have to say about that, Mr. President. | think you ought
to watch that if you have a chance.

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Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 6/25/2019 - P10

By dnadmin on Sun, 11/06/2022 - 22:37
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Alderman Jette

Well just to follow up. So should, before we launch this program, shouldn’t we ask would it be appropriate to ask
them to provide us with some legal opinion regarding you know what laws and ordinances pertain to these
things and whether or not allowing them to operate in the City is permitted under current law. Or whether some
laws need to be changed or written to do that?

Attorney Bolton

You could certainly request such an opinion.

Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja

To follow up on that and Alderman Laws’ comments, | guess | have concerns that look at both ends of this. |
would hate to have someone think that if they come out of a bar and they know they’ve had too much to drink
they are going to leave their car wherever it is parked and hop on one of these. And then find out they also
have a ticket and maybe do something to themselves or someone else. And then as Attorney Bolton just
stated, | would also not want to see someone who has had their license suspended, think that this is OK too and
do the same thing to get around town. And it is concerning to me that could happen from either side of that. |
have not had overwhelming support expressed to me in favor of this program. | think we need more information
because | think we owe it to citizens. If we are putting these out there and someone takes one because they
think they’ve had too much to drive their car home and then they end up in a similar situation or worse, they
don’t have a helmet on and they drive one of these home knowing they’ve had too many drinks. | think that’s a
problem. So | think that we need to fully understand and maybe reaching out to the Police Department is
another venue that your company should be looking into so we can be very clear with the citizens as to what this
involves and what their responsibility and obligations are and what could possibly happen as a result of an
accident with this vehicle. Thank you.

Alderman O’Brien

Well now I'll put on my other hat as Vice Chair of the Transportation Committee for the State of New Hampshire.
It is my opinion initially this may already come under the OHRV rules within the State. We probably need to
take a look at that, which kind of follows the motor vehicle rules but yet it is kind of relaxed of OHRV as far as
the age of people who are using it. In the case that people do, we are a State that relies on tourism and there
are people up in Bartlett that get on their four wheelers and have at it and go out and have a good fun at the age
of 16. However, they have to be supervised by somebody who is 25 if it gets passed, depending upon the
Governor. But anyways we will see what happens.

But my question is we could sit all day and peel this banana sort to speak. So my question is, have you entered
into the other cities in an agreement, like how long is this going to be? In other words, instead of putting a
sunset clause on it or something like that, could we get into a trial period, evaluate the situation and then see if
some of our worse fears do come? Would be able to immediately terminate if we determine that it really isn’t
working out? And | think that’s more of what | would like to hear because | could sit all day and say, oh this
could happen, that could happen, but you know when it does happen | think we need to have a venue to be able
to address it immediately. Could you speak on that please?

Mr. Briggs Yes in the other cities that we operate our scooters in it is one of two ways, it is either under a pilot
program, similar to what you are talking about where the scooters are invited in from multiple companies or a

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Board Of Aldermen - Agenda - 6/25/2019 - P1

By dnadmin on Sun, 11/06/2022 - 22:37
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SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN
JUNE 25, 2019

7:00 PM Aldermanic Chamber

PRESIDENT LORI WILSHIRE CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER PRAYER
OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA D. PIECUCH

PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERMAN LINDA HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT

ROLL CALL

COMMUNICATION

From: Lori Wilshire, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting

PRESENTATION

Performing Arts Center Status Update

ADJOURNMENT

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Board Of Aldermen - Agenda - 6/25/2019 - P2

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Board of Aldermen

City of Nashua
229 Main Street Lori Wilshire
Nashua, NH 03061-2019 President, Board of Aldermen

(603) 589-3030

June 13, 2019

Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk
City of Nashua

229 Main Street

Nashua, NH 03061-2019

Dear Ms. Piecuch:
Please be advised | am hereby calling a Special Meeting of the Board of Aldermen for Tuesday, June
25, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in the Aldermanic Chamber. Director Tim Cummings will be in attendance to give

the Board an update on the Performing Arts Center.

Thank you.

Sincergly, :
wy, Whore

Lori Wilshire
President

cc: Mayor Jim Donchess
Steven A. Bolton, Corporation Counsel

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Board Of Aldermen - Agenda - 6/25/2019 - P3

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THE CITY OF NASHUA “The Cate City

Economic Develooment Tim Cummings, Director
cummingsi@nashuanh. gov

PAC STATUS UPDATE REPORT
To The Board of Aldermen 6/19/19

To the Members

of the Board of Aldermen:

Thank you for providing me with an opportunity to give you a brief overview and status update as to where the
PAC stands. The last time I was before you was in March where I spent a bulk of my time reviewing and
updating the Board on the design related elements of this project.

Below I have outlined in bullet-point form various new developments:

¢ Architectural Design

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Oo
® NMTC
e Capital

Architectural design continues to progress we concluded Schematic Design (“SD”) with a
majority of the decisions made and have begun Design Development (“DD”), which will last
approximately 8 - 12 weeks (we are approximately 6 weeks within DD)

At a meeting in May the Architect (and design team) presented an update as to how the
current design is unfolding and the initial cost estimates — there is going to be a need to make
some decisions in the near future to bring down the project costs

The Design team highlighted a pathway forward to achieve the target Building + Demo
budget of $12.5M (but tradeoffs will be necessary, but nothing affecting the guiding
principles of the design)

Steering committee continues to meet almost every other Wednesday (unless otherwise
stated) the meetings are in Room 208 and go from 5 PM —7 PM - The next meeting is
tomorrow 6/26 and will be a discussion on design of the project

We are in the process of putting together the legal structures necessary to be able to carry out
the transaction. We are doing this in advance to position ourselves as best as possible for
being “project ready” — one of or the most important components in the process of securing a
NMTC, This legislation was just passed.
As previously noted, eight out of the twelve CDEs we solicited (or 66%) responded with
some form of interest, but most noted it was very early and asked for us to follow up, but
they liked the project.
Last week 2018 NMTC awards were announced and we will be actively outreaching to new
and already engaged CDEs that were just awarded an allocation to market the project
Niel Cannon and I attended a NMTC conference the 1* week in June to promote the project
and meet with CDEs
We are actively soliciting CDEs
Campaign Committee
Meets regularly with Betsy McNamara and has begun the donor solicitation phase

« The group meets every 2 weeks in some fashion to discuss efforts
A NH CDFA Tax Credit was awarded to this project

e Thank you to Alderwoman Trish Klee (for attending the announcement) and

Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly (for attending the CDFA Briefing) last week

Local businesses are being outreached to with the hopes that they will get involved
Foundation grant applications are being filed
The non-profit paperwork will be filed this week
Focus is on “lead level” gifts

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Thank you for your kind attention to this matter. I look forward to providing you with an additional update
next month.

Kindest regards,

Tim Cummings
Director of Economic Development

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B\ THE CITY OF NASHUA “The Cate City’

Financial Services

Purchasing Department

June 13, 2019
Memo #19-160

TO: MAYOR DONCHESS
FINANCE COMMITTEE

SUBJECT: | CONTRACT FOR APPRAISAL FOR LISTED UTILITIES FOR TAX YEARS 2019-2024
(5 YEAR) (VALUE: NOT-TO-EXCEED $39,000)
DEPARTMENT: 132 ASSESSING; FUND: GENERAL FUND - OVERLAY

Please see the attached communication from Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services Director, dated June
12, 2019 for information related to this purchase.

Pursuant to NRO § 5-83 Professional Services (A) In the purchase of accounting, architectural, auditing,
engineering, legal, medical and ambulance services and purchases of independent professional
consultant services for personnel, data processing, actuarial, planning, management and other
comparable purchases competitive bidding shall not be required.

The Administrative Services Director and the Purchasing Department recommend the award of this

contract in an amount not-to-exceed $39,000 per year to George E. Sansoucy, PE, LLC of Portsmouth,
NH.

Respectfully,

Dan Kooken
Purchasing Manager

Coc: J. Duhamel J. Griffin

229 Main Street * Nashua, New Hampshire 03061 © Phone (603) 589-3330 e Fax (603) 589-3233

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Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 6/25/2019 - P11

By dnadmin on Sun, 11/06/2022 - 22:38
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single company for a specific set period of time, under a specific set of rules. Or it managed through a
permitting system where you just are issued a permit for a specific time period and operate under the rules of
that permit; and renew it as the period comes up.

President Wilshire

| am going to take one more question, we are way over on our time and we another presentation. So Alderman
Lopez, since you haven't had the chance to speak.

Alderman Lopez

| was just curious and this is a question to Attorney Bolton, how are seated scooters treated under motor vehicle
licenses?

Attorney Bolton

How are what treated?

Alderman Lopez

Seated scooters, like elderly people driving motorized?

Attorney Bolton

| guess things like a Vespa scooter has to be registered like a motor vehicle has to be registered, if we are
talking about something different?

Alderman Lopez

| was thinking more like electronic wheelchair kind of devices?

Attorney Bolton

| don’t think wheelchairs have any registration requirements. | guess the fair answer is I’ve never looked at that
issue.

President Wilshire

| have a member of the public if the Board would be so inclined to allow one member of the public to ask a
question? Feel free to come forward sir, give your name and address for the record.

Peter Schafer, | live at 15 E Street and | own both an E Bike and a Segway Mini. So | have some idea, this is
actually a big concern of mine because you can start deciding something is a bicycle or it (inaudible) it is going

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to impact a lot people. Years ago when the Segway’s came out there was a big deal about whether it is going
to be motor vehicle or non-motor vehicle and was specifically designed to go on sidewalks like a car goes on the
road. | have a Segway Mini which is not quite the same thing as a Segway, it’s a smaller version of it, the
wheels are maybe about that size. And the other thing is | have an E-Bike, it’s just a regular bicycle, | can ride
like a regular bicycle, | can push a button and it will assist me, give me a boost when I’m going up a hill, I’m 69
years old and | had a heart attack a few years ago, | need a bike that when | have an issue, | need a little boost,
ok? | don’t want someone saying | can’t ride my bike because it is a motor vehicle. So there are a lot of issues
and they haven't been resolved in the country as far as | know. So | really think that it would be in our best
interest, all the different kinds of things that are available, they are all over the place and they are used for
different things. And the thing is, it’s not just about VeoRide, people are going to buy them, they are starting to
buy them a lot OK? So you are going to have to discuss the issue.

The other thing | wanted to say about this particular device is it has got pretty small wheels, it'll work, like you
could take it Mine Falls Park, and fall off the sink holes (inaudible). But the main item, critical item, is at night
this thing gets thrown out into the street, I’m going to run over it. There is no way | am going to see it. So you
need to put lights or whatever on it so it’s reflecting. Thank you.

President Wilshire

Thank you sir. Ok what | would ask is that if anybody has any questions or concerns that they please forward
them to me and Sue Lovering and we will get them to the gentleman and get all your questions addressed as
best we can, ok?

Alderman Laws

I’m sorry but they are saying that the program might launch tomorrow. Is it still going to launch tomorrow before
the concerns are addressed?

President Wilshire

I’d have to ask the Mayor that question.

Mayor Donchess

Well | think tomorrow morning Ms. Chizmas and | and the Legal Department should meet to talk about these
legal issues. But we were, as Mr. Shafer just said, | mean these things are in a category and maybe technically
they would be categorized as a motor vehicle but you know they are slower than a bicycle and not that much
faster than an electric wheelchair. We really hadn’t thought of should this be treated as a motor vehicle, | mean
we were thinking it certainly would not be. So it would be relatively unrestricted in its use like bicycles.
Technically bicycles, you can’t drive them on the sidewalk but as we were talking about that issues, when they
first brought this in, we were riding around the plaza, like 3 or 4 bicycles go by in like 4 minutes, right? So there
are all kinds of bicycles on the downtown ... at least on Main Street because of the heavy traffic volume. People
off Main Street are riding in the road but on Main Street mostly it is often people riding on the sidewalk. So |
would suggest that we meet on this tomorrow and see what we can come up with.

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