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City of Nashua

Purchasing Department

Administrative Services Division (603) 589-3330
229 Main Street - Nashua, NH 03060 Fax (603) 594-3233

April 27, 2022
Memo #22-266

TO: Mayor Donchess
Finance Committee

SUBJECT: Video Detection Cameras in the amount not to exceed $161,580 funded from accounts
Prior Year Escrow, Amherst Street Trust & Main Street Trust

Please see attached communications from Daniel Hudson, City Engineer, dated September 23, 2021 for
project specific details related to this purchase. Below please find a summary of the purchase approval

request:

Item:

Value:
Vendor:

Department:
Source Fund:

Ordinance:

Replacement of vehicle detection cameras to be installed at 6 intersections along
Main Street at Amherst/Concord Streets, Franklin/Canal Streets, Factory/Temple
Streets, Prospect Street, Otterson Street and Lake Street

$161,580

Electric Light Company

161 Streets & 160 Admin/Engineering

$130,420 from Prior Year Escrow, $14,580 from Amherst Street Trust & $16,580
from Main Street Trust

Pursuant to § 5-78 Major purchases (greater than $25,000) A. All supplies and
contractual services, except as otherwise provided herein, when the estimated
cost thereof shall exceed $25,000 shall be purchased by formal, written contract
from the lowest responsible bidder, after due notice inviting bids.

A competitive bidding RFP for this project was issued on 3/22/2022 and the following bids were received:

Vendor

Location Amount Note

Electric Light Company Cape Neddick, ME | $187,550

We recommend this bid to be awarded to the only responding vendor to our IFB.

The Board of Public Works (4/28/22 BPW meeting), Division of Public Works: Engineering, and the
Purchasing Department respectfully request your approval of this contract.

Regards,

Kelly Parkinson

Purchasing Manager

Ce: D Hudson
C O'Connor

Nashua Arts & Culture Plan
2022-2027

Table of Contents

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Introduction Plan Background Current Status

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Vision & Top Enhance Cultivate

Goals Economic Impact Collaboration
Support Arts Increase About Appendix

Education Awareness the NAC

Introduction

Why an Arts and Culture Plan?

A vibrant arts scene is crucial to every
city: enhancing quality of life and ensuring
a strong stimulus to the economy.

Studies show that people and companies
want to locate in cities where arts and
culture is grounded in a dynamic
downtown. Access to arts and culture
makes citizens more attached to their
communities in both feeling and action.
Arts and culture provide jobs and draw
visitors and tourists. The creative
economy added $804 billion (4.3%) to
the national GDP in 2018, greater than the
agriculture, construction and
transportation and warehousing.
According to Americans for the Arts,
government funding for the arts at the
local level is viewed favorably and seen as
high public value by 60% of all Americans.

“We in Nashua recognize what is
understood in cities across the world -
arts and culture enhance quality of life.
People want to live and raise their
children in a community that offers a
vibrant arts and culture scene.’
-Mayor Jim Donchess

Benefits to the

Community

e The creative economy is

a community asset that
strengthens the local
economy and draws
visitors to Nashua

Arts & Culture provides a
common language that
brings diverse
populations together

A vibrant arts community
requires collaboration
between artists, arts
organizations, municipal
government, and
business organizations
with a strong citizen
volunteer base

As a Welcoming City,
inclusion and access to
arts & culture should be
available to all

Plan Background

Where We've
Come From

As part of its mission, the Arts
Commission created an initial five-
year Arts and Culture Plan that was
accepted by the Board of Aldermen
in November, 2014. This is an update
of that plan designed to provide a
framework for developing annual
priorities, securing human resources
and funding, and developing annual
work plans. Due to an interruption in
the normal cycle, this version is
intended to cover 2022 through
2027.

The Arts Commission held an initial
input session for the revised plan in
2019 with the arts community and
interested citizens, facilitated by
Ginnie Lupi, the Director of the NH
State Council on the Arts in
additional to regular planning
sessions during late 2020 and 2021.
The Commission’s Arts and Culture
Plan workgroup worked to actively
align the Arts & Culture Plan with
Imagine Nashua, a long-range
citywide strategic plan.

Where We're
Going

This updated plan envisions possibilities
for growth in the arts and culture sector
and addresses internal challenges to
achieve plan goals. This includes some
redefining of the role of the Arts
Commission, developing policy that
fosters arts and culture development,
long-term financial commitment to
support the goals, and strategic inter-
departmental collaboration by the City.

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Vibrancy at Work

Nashua is HOME to....

e More public art than any city in NH

The only City with an International Sculpture Symposium in the United
States

NH's only professional symphony orchestra and multiple award-winning
community theater companies

Southern New Hampshire's largest arts festival and oldest juried art show
The Winter Holiday Stroll, bringing 30,000 people to downtown Nashua
each year

e Active Public Library and SummerFun arts programs

For all these reasons and more, Nashua was selected by the New Hampshire
State Council on the Arts as the state’s Creative Community at the
Governor's Awards in 2017.

The City is moving ahead with the construction of The
Exec iting Nashile Center for the Arts, a new 750 seat meater on
Things Main Street as well as Fenovatlhig our community arts .

facility at 14 Court Street with improvements to the main
I om Ovolaar=) theater, new artist studios and reopening its small black
box theater.

The Nashua Arts Commission will oversee Pla n
the execution of this plan. Plan actions and

related recommendations are introduced Reference

by top goal and according to anticipated Timeframes

year of completion. The Arts Commission ° Near-term: 2022-2024
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est serve the project once in motion. ¢ Long-term: 2025-2027

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Our Vision

Nashua is a creative city where the
arts energize life and enhance

experiences for residents and visitors
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Top Goals

Enhance Economic
1 Impact ) Collaboration

Foster collaboration between
arts organizations, the public
sector, local businesses, and
civic organizations to work
together, share resources and

Support arts related ideas,
projects and infrastructure
enhancements that promote
positive, measurable economic

rowth
: leverage opportunities to
enhance Nashua’s arts
community
Support Arts Increase
Education Awareness

Cultivate artistic endeavors
through the development of arts
enrichment programs that foster
arts education for all ages

Expand the number of
residents and potential
visitors who know about,
appreciate, and participate
in Nashua’s lively art scene

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Enhance
Economic Impact

Support arts related ideas, projects and infrastructure enhancements
that promote positive, measurable economic growth

Action 1:

Create a foundation
of reliable economic
data to use as an
evaluation tool for
new art projects and
investments

Recommendation A
Timeframe: Near-term

Present Americans for the Arts 2019 economic
impact study of the Nashua area as baseline for
measurement to arts organizations, Board of
Aldermen, City Department heads Downtown
Improvement Committee, Chamber of
Commerce, and other civic organizations.

Recommendation B
Timeframe: Near-term

Sponsor and facilitate the 2022 and 2025
Americans for the Arts economic impact study
with funding and support from the Economic
Development department of the City.

e6 The nonprofit arts and culture sector is a $11.3
million industry in the Nashua Region—one that
supports 361 full-time equivalent jobs and

generates $1.1 million in local and state

Zoi) dalaat-als revenue.
AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY 2019

Enhance
Economic Impact

Action 2:

Maintain
affordable space
for Nashua’s
artists and arts
organizations

Continued

Recommendation A
Timeframe: Mid-term

Make necessary improvements to Greeley Park
Bandshell such as upgrading sound system, using
local artists to beautify existing structure

Recommendation B
Timeframe: Long-term

Complete repairs and renovations of 14 Court
Street

Recommendation C
Timeframe: Long-term

Preserve the Keefe Center for the Arts for
continued access and use by Nashua’s nonprofit
arts organizations and as a venue for fundraising

Enhance
Economic Impact

Continued
. Recommendation A
Action 3: Timeframe: Near-term
Capitalize on Support successful completion and operation of
new and existing the Nashua Center for the Arts and integration
resources that into the community.
facilitate

Recommendation B

audience
Timeframe: Near-term

development
Continue support of measurable audience

development of the arts organizations through
the Commission's grant program.

Recommendation C Recommendation D
Timeframe: Mid-term Timeframe: Mid-term

Add listings of artists by category that Expand available funding for arts

sell their work or provide private projects and programs by increasing
performances to City’s arts grants, publishing a list of arts
ExperienceNashuaArts.org. funding opportunities, and sharing any

funding opportunities on the Art's
Commission's Facebook page.

Recommendation E
Timeframe: Long-term

Investigate using Spectacle Live to book performances at Keefe and Holman
Stadium to share profits to fund the arts.

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Cultivate _
Collaboration

Foster collaboration between arts organizations, the public sector, local
businesses, and civic organizations to work together, share resources
and leverage opportunities to enhance Nashua’s arts community.

Action 4:

Track information on
projects, goals and
missions of Nashua
arts organizations
and establish a
method of pooling
resources.

Recommendation A
Timeframe: Near-term

Continue annual Collaborate Arts meeting with

both nonprofit and for-profit arts organizations
and individuals to produce annual arts calendar
and discuss missions and goals.

Recommendation B
Timeframe: Near-term

Provide a city intern or AmeriCorp member to
facilitate this initiative.

Recommendation C
Timeframe: Mid-term

Create an accessible public or on-demand listing
of resources that organizations are willing to
share including practice spaces and arts job
openings.

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