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a separate offense. If the administrative enforcement system established in the Code is
unsuccessful at resolving alleged violations, a summons may be issued as otherwise provided by
law, including use of the procedure for plea by mail set forth in RSA 31:39-d.”

All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

It is further ordained that the Nashua Revised Ordinances as amended, is hereby further
amended as follows:

1.

In Part II “General Legislation”, Chapter 182 “Housing Standards”, Article IV
“Enforcement”, “Section 23, “Contents, service of notice of violation,” by deleting the
struck through language as follows:

Whenever the Housing Inspector determines that there has been or is a violation, or that
there are reasonable grounds to believe that there has been or is a violation of any
provision of this chapter, he shall give notice of such violation or alleged violation to the
person or persons responsible therefor. Such notice shall:

(1) Be in writing;

(2) Include a description of the real estate sufficient for identification;
(3) Specify the violation which exists and the remedial action required;

(4) Allow a reasonable time for the performance of any act it requires.

B. Notices of violation, complaints, or orders shall be deemed to be properly served upon the

person responsible for an alleged violation if a copy thereof is delivered to him
personally, or left at his usual place of abode or business with a person of suitable age
and discretion who shall be informed of the contents thereof, or sent by first-class mail to
his last knowa address, or posted in a conspicuous place on or about the premises
affected, or served, delivered or published in any other way reasonably calculated to
provide actual notice.

G-Netice-ofvielation-under-this-sestien-ineludes-warnings and _citations-issued_pursuantto

$-4182-24 ef this- chapter:

2. In Part II “General Legislation”, Chapter 182 “Housing Standards”, Article IV

“Enforcement”, “Section 24, “Warnings and citations,” by deleting the section in its
entirety.

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issue—varnings—er-eltetionste—any_permen, natural _or_otherwise—including-but-net
limtted-te-any-ewner,lendlord,-egent,-tenant, lessee-er-sublessee—-whe-shall-ielate-a
provision-of this _chapter-or_pemmit-ellow-_er-suffer-any—iclation-of this -chapter,-o7
whe-feilsto-comply-with-an-erder or orders-issued_in-necordance with the provisions
of-this-chapter-Such-warnings-or-citations-may be omployed-as-cither-substitution-ter
orpeelimineryto-and-vwithout-limitetion-te-other remedios- available tethe-City Such
wernings-and_citations-shall-be-in-aceordanee-vith-the-precedures-_established b3-the
head-ef the-Code-Enforcement Department:

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head-of the-Cede-Enforcement-Depertment—Warnings-shall-specify-the reason_forthe
werntng~and_shall-direct abatement-of such-condition-which-causedtheissuance-of

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Alderwoman Lu

Yes, could | just ask a follow up question? Would you say — so have there been deferred capital
improvements that now just need to be done?

Mr. Ayotte

Well | don’t know if deferred is the right term. | think with respect to equipment replacement, that equipment
has a useful life. So for the $52 million that | am talking about here, the particular equipment replacement
involves, you know, pump stations that are at their useful life, the wastewater plant booster stations, also
wastewater treatment primary tank upgrades. So that’s just a few of the major pieces of equipment that
need upgrade. There will be others, but those others will happen in the future because those pieces of
equipment are not at their useful life yet. So it’s an ongoing cycle and what is considered useful life? It can
be anywhere between 20 to 30 years of some of this equipment, is just the equipment in service.
Alderwoman Lu

And is much of the increase due to regulatory changes that were...

Mr. Ayotte

Some of the increase is due to regulatory changes. So I'll give you an example, the CMOM Plan is part of
a future regulatory requirement as part of your NPVES Permit, which is your discharge permit to discharge
your wastewater affluent into the Nashua River. And what that is, is it is a — | mentioned this in the
presentation, it’s a Capacity, Management, Operation, and Maintenance Plan for your correct collection
system. And that requires you to essentially clean and inspect your collection system and part of that plan
analyzes whether or not the pipes are cracked or whether or not you have any blockages or cave ins, or
there is an impending failure. So it will actually fund the sewer infrastructure program improvements, which
is $30 million over the next 6 years to either replace pipes that are completely defective or those with mild
defects, by able to line those pipes without replacing them, which is a cost savings.

Director Fauteux

Frank, can | just correct one thing? The release is to the Merrimack River, not the Nashua River.

Mr. Ayotte

I’m sorry, yeah, thank you.

Director Fauteux

| just wanted to correct that, thank you Lisa.

Alderwoman Lu

Thank you. Mr. Ayotte.

Mr. Ayotte

You’re welcome. Any other questions?

Vice President O’Brien

Any other questions? Yes, Alderman Schmidt.

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Alderman Schmidt

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | just would like to ask if we could get copies of this please, your presentation.
Could you include a description of the acronyms that you are using.

Vice President O’Brien

And Director Fauteux is saying yes and | think copies ...

Alderman Schmidt

Thank you.

Vice President O’Brien

Any other questions by members of the Board? Seeing none, Director Fauteux, being your liaison and at
one of the Public Works Meetings, explain how the lining of the pipe is actually saving us a lot of money as
compared to digging that type of pipe up and replacing that particular piece of infrastructure and it’s a good
way to go to the taxpayers. Can you explain that please?

Director Fauteux

| absolutely can but | have somebody on this call that can do that even better, our City Engineer Dan
Hudson. So | will let him but that is a very good point and that is part of our CMOM plan as well, Alderman

O’Brien. So, Dan would you like to...

Dan Hudson, City Engineer

Sure I’d be happy to. It was explained pretty well but we are doing a pretty extensive program right now.
We are video inspecting pipes, some of these sewer pipes are 100 years old or more. Some of them
haven't been looked at at maybe the whole time or at least a long time. As part of the inspection we are
cleaning them as we do that so that gets us back capacity in our system, removing sediment and different
things. But the thing that we are trying to do is catch pipes before they fall into a more costly repair
category. If we can find a pipe and put a liner inside of it and repair it, to address cracking or whatever
issues it has, that’s about 10 to 20 times cheaper than having to dig that pipe up and do a full replacement.
And, of course, digging up the sewer mains, some of them are 20 feet deep, that’s a very disruptive
process and impacts a lot of people and utilities and things. So we find that it’s a great value in what we
are doing with this program, we are doing the CCTV and as much as possible, doing the lining.

Vice President O’Brien

Thank you, Mr. Hudson. And can the Clerk record that we are now joined by Alderman Dowd at the proper
time, please? Thank you. Any other questions by members of the Board? Seeing none, | thank you Mr.
Ayotte for your facts and your charts and your presentation. Director Fauteux, as always, good to see you
and thank you as well for your presentation with your team and everything. Seeing no more questions, |
will turn to Alderman Schmidt for the proper motion to adjourn by roll call. Alderman Schmidt, please?

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ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN SCHMIDT THAT THE DECEMBER 8, 2020, SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED BY ROLL CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken to adjourn the Board of Aldermen meeting which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd,

Alderman Caron, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Tencza,

Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws,

Alderman Cleaver, Alderman Harriott-Gathright

12

Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 6:59 p.m.

Attest: Susan K. Lovering, City Clerk

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Agenda

¢ Historical Rates and Proposed Sewer Rate Increases for 2021-2023

¢ Primary Drivers of Required Rate Increases

¢ Planned Major Capital Investments

¢ Funding Strategies to Minimize Capital Expenditures and Rate Impacts

¢ Comparison of Nashua Sewer Rates with Selected Cities in New Hampshire and Massachusetts
¢ Affordability of Nashua’s Proposed Sewer Rates using EPA Metrics

¢ Future Strategies to Mitigate Impacts of Mandated Future Capital Expenditures: Integrated
Planning Framework Initiative

* Conclusions

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Historic Volumetric Charges for Sewer Services

The volumetric charge is the fee charged to a customer based on how much water the customer uses.

Volumetric Charge For Sewer Services 2004-2020

$2.50

$2.00

$1.50

$1.00

$0.50
S-

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

The 2004 volumetric charge of $1.66 per hundred cubic feet is equivalent to $2.31 in 2020 dollars. The 2020 charge
was $2.36 equating to a “real” increase of just 2 percent over 16 years.

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Comparison of Nashua Residential Sewer Rates with Selected
Regional Rates (2020)

Estimated Quarterly Household Bill based on water consumption of 20 CCF

teeny Ci Fee per CCF Household Quarterly Bill

Nashua $31.94 $2.36 $79.14
Manchester $21.18 $3.47 $90.58
Concord NA $5.01 $100.20
Keene $77.70 $5.31 $183.90
Portsmouth NA $13.77 First10 CCF; then $289.10
$15.14 per CCF
Salem, NH NA $4.85 per CCF $96.90
Lowell MA NA $4.85 First 50 CCF $96.90
Average Quarterly Bill for Above Cities (not including Nashua) $142.93
2018 NH State Average Quarterly Sewer Bill** $169.61

** Source: UNC Environmental Finance Center, NH Wastewater Rates Dashboard

Proposed Residential Sewer Increases 2021 through 2023

A 20 percent increase in sewer user fees in 2021 followed by a 15 percent increase in 2022 and no increase
(0 percent) in 2023

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Rate per CCF $2.36 $2.83 $3.26 $3.26

Quarterly Flat $31.94 $38.33 $44.08 $44.08
Charge

Average $79.14 $94.97 $109.22 $109.22
Household
Quarterly Bill

Increase iN ——s === === === $15.83 $14.25 $14.25
Average Quarterly
Household Bill

Average Increase _~_ --------------- $63.31 $57.00 $57.00
in Household
Annual Bill

* The estimated average quarterly household bill assumes 20 hundred cubic feet (ccf) of water is used per quarter which equates to
about 170 gallons per day.

Sewer Bill Compared to EPA Affordability Metric

EPA uses 2 percent of Household Income as the threshold of sewer bill affordability

2.5%
2.0%
15% 1.4% 1.4%
1.2%
1.0%
1.0%
0.8% 0.8%

9 0.6% 0.6%

a 5 0.5% oe ee nay 0:5% 0.5%
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0.0%

20th Percentile 40th Percentile 60th Percentile

mag pct. HHI 2020 mam pct. HHI 2021 mam pct. HHI 2022 mam pct. HHI 2023 = EPA Affordabilty Thresholds