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SECTION 5.10. Water Rights, Title to Property, Etc. (A) Obtain and maintain walter rights
in such amounts, priorities and qualities as are necessary at all times to meet the needs of its customers;
(B) obtain and maintain title to, valid leasehold interests in, or other valid interests (including easements,
licenses and servitudes) in, all real property on which all water wells, reservoirs, water and wastewater
treatment plants, and warehouse and storage facilities are located; (C) keep all water rights and discharge
rights free and clear of any interest of any third party; and (D) nol suffer or permit any transfer or
encumbrance of any water rights or discharge rights, or abandon any water rights or discharge rights, or
do any act or thing which would impair or cause the loss of any water rights or discharge rights.

ARTICLE 6
NEGATIVE COVENANTS

Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by CoBank, while this Agreement is in effect, the
Company will not:

SECTION 6.01. Liens. Create, incur, assume, or suffer to exist any Lien on any of its
properties, except:

(A) Liens in favor of other lenders; provided, however, that: (1) at the time thereof,
CoBank is granted a Lien on the same assets and such Lien is shared pro rata by CoBank and such other
lenders pursuant to an intercreditor agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to CoBank;
and (2) the instruments and documents granting and/or perfecting such Lien are in form and content
reasonably satisfactory to CoBank.

(B) Liens for taxes or assessments or other governmental charges or levies if not yet
due and payable or, if due and payable: (i) the Company is contesting same in good faith by appropriate
proceedings; (ii) the Company has established and maintains reserves in the amount due and payable
thereon (including interest and penalties); and (iii) foreclosure or other action to enforce the Lien is
stayed,

(C) Liens in favor of mechanics, landlords, material suppliers, warehouses, carriers,
and like Persons that secure obligations that are not past due or if due and payable: (i) the Company is
contesting same in good faith by appropriate proceedings; (ii) the Company has established and
maintains reserves in the amount due and payable thereon (including interest and penalties), and (iii)
foreclosure or other action to enforce the Lien is stayed.

(D) Deposits and pledges under workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance,
Social! Security, or similar legislation (other than ERISA).

(FE) Deposits and pledges to secure the performance of bids, tenders, contracts (other
than contracts for the payment of money), public and statutory obligations, surety, stay, appeal,
indemnity, performance or other similar bonds, or other similar obligations, in each case arising in the
ordinary course of business.

(F) Judgment and similar Liens arising in connection with court proceeding,
provided the execution or other enforcement of such Liens is effectively stayed, the claims secured
thereby are being actively contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings, and reserves in the
amount secured thereby (including interest and penalties) are established and maintained by the

Company.

A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, October 13, 2020, at 7:30 p.m. via
teleconference.

President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Susan Lovering recorded.

Prayer was offered by City Clerk Susan Lovering; Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly led in the Pledge
to the Flag.

President Wilshire

As President of the Board of Aldermen, | find that due to the State of Emergency declared by the
Governor as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and in accordance with the Governor’s Emergency
Order #12 pursuant to Executive Order 2020-04, this public body is authorized to meet electronically.

Please note that there is no physical location to observe and listen contemporaneously to this meeting,
which was authorized pursuant to the Governor's Emergency Order. However, in accordance with the
Emergency Order, | am confirming that we are:

Providing public access to the meeting by telephone, with additional access possibilities by video or other
electronic means:

To access Zoom, please refer to the agenda or the City’s website for the meeting link.

To join by phone dial: 1-929-205-6099 - Meeting ID: 870 7107 1871 Passcode: 761034

The public may also view the meeting via Channel 16.

We previously gave notice to the public of the necessary information for accessing the meeting, through
public postings. Instructions have also been provided on the City of Nashua’s website at www.nashuanh.gov
and publicly noticed at City Hall and Nashua Public Library.

If anybody has a problem accessing the meeting via phone or Channel 16, please call 603-821-2049 and
they will help you connect.

In the event the public is unable to access the meeting via the methods mentioned above, the meeting will be
adjourned and rescheduled. Please note that all votes that are taken during this meeting shall be done by roll
call vote.

Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance. When each member states their presence, please
also state whether there is anyone in the room with you during this meeting, which is required under the
Right-To-Know Law.

The roll call was taken with 15 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Michael B. O’Brien,

Sr., Alderman Patricia Klee, Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly, Alderman Richard A. Dowd, Alderman June M.
Caron, Alderman Benjamin Clemons, Alderman Thomas Lopez, Alderman David C. Tencza, Alderwoman

Elizabeth Lu, Alderman Ernest Jette, Alderman Jan Schmidt, Alderman Brandon Michael Laws, Alderman

Skip Cleaver, Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire.

Mayor James W. Donchess, Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton, were also in attendance.

ROLL CALL

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Alderman O’Brien

| am present, | am alone, and | can hear the proceedings.

Alderman Klee

| am present, | am alone at the moment, | can hear the proceedings and | just need to accuse Alderman
Lopez of stealing my family room. That's all | have to say.

Alderwoman Kelly
| am here, | am alone, | can hear everyone.
Alderman Dowd

| can hear the proceedings, | am alone, and | am practicing social distancing in accordance with the
Governor's Order.

Alderman Caron

Yes, | am here, | am alone and | can hear everyone.

Alderman Clemons

Hi, | am here, | am by myself and | can hear everybody.

Alderman Lopez

| am here, | am alone in my own apartment, | can hear and see everybody.
Alderman Tencza

| am present, | am alone and | can hear everyone. Thank you.
Alderwoman Lu

| am present, alone and | can hear everyone.

Alderman Jette

| am here, | can hear everything and | am staying safer at home with my wife.
Alderman Schmidt

| am present and | am alone.

Alderman Laws

| am here, | can hear you and! am alone.

Alderman Cleaver

| am here, my daughter is with me. | am practicing social distancing.

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Alderman Harriott-Gathright

| am present, | am in this room alone, and | am practicing social distancing and | can hear everyone.
President Wilshire
| am here, | am alone and | can hear everyone and | am social distancing.

Susan Lovering, City Clerk

You have 15 in attendance.
President Wilshire

Thank you. Also in attendance is Mayor James Donchess and Corporation Counsel, Steven Bolton.
Mayor, do you wish to address the Board this evening?

REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

Mayor Donchess

Yes, Madam President. There are a few items that | wish to speak to you about tonight. First, on our
Agenda is a very important recognition of the people who have organized and conducted the very beautiful
kayak parade; the lighted kayak parade on two different occasions as well as other kayak events. Bev
Monagle, Trish Mullen and others. | remember one Friday or Saturday night | was at home and | saw on
Facebook a photo of what they had accomplished that first time and the beauty of it and the spontaneity
and just the commitment that it took. It just was something that | greatly admired and since then they have
built on this. This is what we are trying to accomplish with respect to our improvements along the river.
This is a great asset that people can enjoy and our lighted kayakers are showing us the way. So later on
we have a recognition for them, Madam President, which | know we will read at that time. But | wanted to
thank them.

One major item on the Agenda tonight, Madam President, is R-20-071 which is the bonding authority to
complete the Performing Arts Center and provide the parking necessary to move forward on the School
Street Housing. As we’ve discussed already, the Committee and the City have raised the $4 million dollars
that we need to satisfy the commitment on the bonding. That constitutes the New Market Tax Credits as
well as the private funds raised. Now the New Market Tax Credits is a deal that we have to close later on,
but there seems to be no doubt that we can do that and get that money. Of course, without it we would
never proceed, because the $4 million dollars wouldn’t be satisfied.

The Performing Arts Center will help us build a stronger economy, build a stronger tax base. It’s a project
as a result of a stronger economy, stronger tax base that will benefit everyone in every neighborhood of the
City. It will support our small businesses and bolster them. And it will attract private investment into the
downtown. We have already seen that occur because the School Street housing, a proposed 150 units, is
the first time a private investor has been willing to build from the ground up apartments in downtown without
a conversion; Conversion has special, very lucrative tax incentives -from the ground up, in 120 years. So
we have disinvestment in terms of apartments downtown, at least ground up apartments for 120 years.

These smaller units that will be part of the project, studios and one bedrooms and desperately needed in
our market. You will be hearing soon that that the rents for one bedroom apartments in the last ten years
have climbed 40% as compared with 20%, well 20% is still a lot but half that rate for apartments in general.
So we are in critical shortage regarding one bedroom apartments, apartments needed by very small
families, by single individuals who would like to live downtown.

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Now, of course, some people have expressed a concern regarding affordable housing, a well placed and a
concern that we share because we want all families and all individuals to have an affordable place to live,
something we have been working on, on and off for decades. But if you look at the City’s record over the
last four years, four or five years, you will see that in the downtown areas, now again not in the central
business district but a little bit distant, we have promoted the development of 500 units and 150 of those
have been affordable. So what we have achieved is a 30% affordability rate.

We need to continue working on this problem of a shortage of housing and a shortage of affordable
housing, project by project. So a project which will accompany the School Street Housing is the Bronstein
Conversion, which Boston Capital proposed to do with the Housing Authority, guaranteeing those people
living there to return in an equal or better unit than they have now. That will add 150 affordable units two
blocks from School Street. In addition, and maybe Ms. Marchant is on this call, we have committed HOME
Funds to another affordable housing project on Amherst Street, close by to the School Street up on the
early part of Manchester Street. And we are working with Neighborworks and other projects, other ideas, to
promote the idea of affordable housing. And, of course, we have a study that is about to come out.

But again this project demonstrates that the Performing Arts Center will attract private investment, because
the taxes generated by the School Street Housing will pay for not only the public parking that will be
retained there, but will also pay for the additional bonding capacity for the Performing Arts Center asked for
in R-70-021. These are linked, at least conceptually because we’ve always said the Performing Arts
Center would attract private development and the developer of the School Street Housing, Peter Flotz, has
said that’s why he got interested in Nashua. He’s the first developer, builder of housing from the ground
up, apartments that has been willing to work in the central business district, in more than a century. So |
hope you all will support R-20-071 and we can make two projects successful. And, in addition to that,
develop affordable housing where we know we can do it.

R-20-016 | wanted to mention Madam President, this is the Energy Performance Contract. | don’t have a lot
to say about that. | think it’s been in two committees, but it will convert the high schools to more efficient
energy use, both LED lights and other features. It will reduce the carbon emissions at the two high schools
by 1,600 tons of carbon per year, the equivalent of taking 348 cars off the road. This will not cost the City

in the sense that the guaranteed savings are greater than the amount we will have to pay in basically rent
for these improvements. And we expect also to save $10,000.00 but probably significantly more money per
year in energy costs in addition to all the carbon reduction. It is something we’ve worked very closely with,
with the School Department. It’s a big project and it just shows how much we can accomplish if we keep
going in this direction. We will nearly have reached our goal of 25% carbon reduction by 2025 once this
project is completed.

Finally, Madam President, | wanted to mention with some concern Ordinance O-20-032. This has to do
with the reduction of the overnight parking fines. | think if you are inclined to vote for this we should hold
this because you need to understand the implications. If we reduce revenue, supporting the parking
enforcement function by $225,000.00 to $250,000.00 which is the fiscal note it would put parking
enforcement deeply in the red. We can’t run — especially now with all the financial issues we are facing,
COVID, the Pension Increase, the Health Care, we cannot afford to run Parking Enforcement deeply in the
red. So were this to pass we would need to go into effect, we would need to significantly reduce parking
enforcement to balance the budget there, probably by letting some people go, probably by little
enforcement at night. | think you should understand the implications before you vote on it. So | would ask if
you are inclined to vote for it, | mean | obviously | don’t support the idea at least in the current environment.
But | would ask members that are considering it to think about holding it so that we can have a more in-
depth discussion about how this could be handled and the implications it would have in terms of parking
enforcement.

But back to kayakers, | can’t wait until we get to the recognition because they have done such a beautiful
job for the City. Thank you, Madam President.

RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR - None

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RECOGNITION PERIOD

Nashua Area Kayak Explorations Destinations Group

Mayor Donchess

Alright, thank you Madam President. Of course you and | and other members of the Board of Alderman
had discussed this wonderful accomplishment numerous times. So we have come up with this Resolution
that | hope you will all endorse and | am sure you will, celebrating Nashua Area Kayak Explorations
Destinations. Whereas the Nashua Area Kayak Exploration Destinations is a special group that makes
Nashua a great placed. Founded 5 years ago, its 1,400 members are kayak and some paddle board
enthusiasts; good stewards of our waterways and they are dedicated to bringing the community together.
And whereas founding members, Trisha Mullin and Beverly Monagle say the camaraderie, the fun, exercise
and chance to get outside are what they love most about being in this group. Nashua Area Kayak
Exploration Destinations is focused on bringing kayakers togethers to set on the water and kayakers of
various ages and skill levels getting to know each other.

Nashua is a unique and special place for kayakers with the Nashua River running through downtown. And
whereas during what has been a difficult year, Nashua Area Kayak Explorations Destinations has brought
joy into our lives with its Halloween Kayak Parade and two nighttime kayak parades in the Nashua River
featuring kayaks adorned with bright, colorful light. In previous years, the group joined in our downtown
music events and helped with the duck herding for the Annual Rotary Duck Race. Its members have lent a
hand in monthly clean ups of Mine Falls Park.

They’ve also seen a rise in membership this year as Nashuans were looking for fun, outdoor activities. And
whereas thank you, Nashua Area Kayak Explorations Destinations for lighting up our hearts this summer:
for giving Nashuans something to smile about and for helping community members find a new, fun past-
time. And now, therefore, |, Jim Donchess, Mayor of the City of Nashua and the Nashua Board of
Aldermen do hereby recognize the Nashua Area Kayak Explorations Destinations as a special part of the
Nashua Community. That concludes it Madam President.

President Wilshire
Thank you and congratulations to the Nashua Area Kayak Explorations Destinations Group. We appreciate

everything you’ve done and it was fantastic to see the lighted kayaks out on the river. It’s great to see the
river being used. Thank you for that.

Alderman Lopez

Madam President?

President Wilshire

Alderman Lopez.

Alderman Lopez

Just as a point of order | would like to clarify that we just recognized our naked citizens.

READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen
meeting of September 22, 2020; Special Board of Aldermen meetings of September 28 and
October 6, 2020 accepted, placed on file, and the reading suspended.

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Alderwoman Lu

Yes | noticed an error in the meetings from the last Board of Aldermen Meeting that I’d like to bring up.
President Wilshire

Ok. Which meeting, Alderman Lu?

Alderwoman Lu

The meeting of the 22", September 22" or was it the 23?

President Wilshire

We met on the 22%.

Alderwoman Lu

OK, that’s the one. | had made reference to the escrow of $50,000.00 to a study for the dog park and |
listened to the tape and it sounded to me like 50 and the amount | meant to say was 50 and I'd like that to be
corrected and it was transcribed as 15.

President Wilshire

Ok duly noted. Thank you.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From: Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
Re: Communications Received from the Public

From: Sarah Marchant, Community Development Director
Re: Bronstein Housing Relocation Update

From: Julie Chizmas, Transportation and Long-Range Planner, Community Development Division
Re: Referral from Board of Aldermen: Ordinance O-20-031 — Prohibiting Dogs in Fenced-In Tot
Lots

From: Jill Stansfield, Parking Manager
Re: Concerns Relative to O-20-032: Reducing the Fine for Overnight Parking Violations

From: Doria Brown, Energy Manager
Re: Nashua School Energy Performance Contract with EE

There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communications and placed them on file.

PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS
EVENING

President Wilshire

We have a lot of people on, 65 people on this meeting and | am going to have to limit your time because we
will be here until 2:00 in the morning. So | am going to call for Public Comment right now. Mr. Teeboom?

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Fred Teeboom, Cheyenne Ave. Do you recognize me?

President Wilshire
Yes, | do.

Mr. Teeboom Ok my name is Fred Teeboom and | wish to comment on three of the items on the Agenda.
First of all, R-20-071. | did not support that in the past and | now fully support it. My comments are in the
minutes of the Public Hearing but just to summarize briefly there is no second-floor deathtrap in the current
design which is excellent. There’s no need for a $4 million-dollar endowment fund to support operations,
because the operator will operate the theater for the cost of $1.00 per year. And finally, the $5 million
dollars, can you hear me ok? The $5 million dollars which have been deliberately underfunded as was first
proposed and ignored the professional estimate for Fennesy, that will now be covered pretty much by the
$5 million which is now proposed at the current bond. So given these three conditions, | am now fully in
support.

The second item | want to comment on is R-20-077, the naming Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s
Day. | think that some Alderman here that carry a personal agenda but that agenda is mistaken. First of
all, Columbus Day is a regularly scheduled, recognized Federal Holiday one of 10 federal holidays. It’s
also a State holiday and | think yesterday, | don’t know if the City formally recognized it but | think the City
at least took it as a holiday as well. In the comments, in the Administrative Affairs Committee, what is being
considered and discussed, Alderman Lopez, one of the strongest supporters of it mentioned, | quote, Page
17, | quote, “I think we give the opportunity to the public to debate the issue”. The public has not seen this.
The public certainly hasn’t debated it. He also says, | am quoting again, Alderman Lopez, Page 17, | must
also agree that there are going to be people who want to be heard and | want to hear from them. This
board has not given the opportunity for the public to be heard, for instance, the American Italians, in whose
honor Columbus Day was initially passed about 100 years ago, maybe 150 years ago. | think this ought to
be put on the Agenda of the next election as a non-binding election question so the public can debate it.
This may be well intentioned but this a misplaced personal agenda item that should be placed before the
voters.

Finally | would like to comment on the — let’s see — O-20-009, Public Comment. Many years ago, | was the
first Ordinance passed in 2000 and 1994 O-94-001 there was a public comment period, no condition.
(inaudible) more conditions placed for public participation and this Ordinance is no exception. On the other
hand, the Aldermen placed absolutely no restrictions on the comments even if they are not on the agenda.
Case in point; on the Public Hearing of R-20-071 out of 20 pages, that’s maybe 100 minutes, 5 minutes a
page of discussion, 9 % pages of 45 minutes was Aldermanic comments. Well Aldermanic comments are
not on the Agenda for public hearing. There should be no Aldermanic comments on the Public Hearing
that’s for the public. And | score Chairman Budget Committee Dowd for completely losing control of the
intent of that public hearing. So even though there are ever long restrictions for the public comment on the
public comment period of these meetings, there seems to be unrestricted uncontrolled Aldermanic
comments on the Public Hearing, which are designed to hear public comment and for the public to ask
questions and what they propose. So this is bad news. This ought to stop, the public hearing is for the
public not for Aldermen. Discussion of the Aldermen who are unprepared and just use that period to try to
get information which they shouldn't, discuss during the Committee Meeting not during the Public Hearing.
Thank you.

Latha Mangipudi Thank you Madam President and Board of Aldermen. | am here in support of R-20-071
Performing Arts Center. It is a critical piece of our culture downtown that will add to the vibrancy and also
bring people to downtown. Arts & Culture is the heart of a community and having such a diverse
community you are in Nashua. This will only enhance and bring more people to downtown and bring the
vibrancy. So | am really eagerly looking forward to seeing this project come to fruition and just like the
lighted kayak parade, we will have more concerts and more performances downtown and that would be a
joy. Thank you, Madam President.

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President Wilshire

Thank you. Bob Keating?

Bob Keating Hello, can you hear me?

President Wilshire

Yes.

Mr. Keating Ok, thank you. My name is Bob Keating and | live at 5 Colburn Woods in Nashua. And! am
speaking as a member of JSOP on behalf of the residents of Bronstein and other low income families in our
neighborhoods. There are many, as we know, of low income households with over 3,000 on the Housing
Authority and Redevelopment, Housing & Redevelopment Authority’s list both for public housing and for
Section 8. | am going to read the opening of the petition signed by 28 households of Bronstein. Hopefully
you’ve had a chance to see it. It sets the stage for the expression of the residents hope.

Dear Mayor Donchess, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Directors of NHRA, We the residents of Bronstein
are asking the Board of Director of Nashua Housing & Redevelopment and our elected officials to make
every effort to enable each family who wants to remain in our neighborhood to be able to do so. This will
allow our children to attend their same schools which is very important. It will allow us to maintain our
relationships with our friends as much as possible, we also more easily work and go to our doctors and use
other services and shop at the stores we use.

It is difficult to move especially when you do not choose to do so. We hope you will keep this in mind as you
think about the demolition of Bronstein which means we lose our homes.

The essence of this petition is to give the residents of Bronstein more choices in what happens to them
about their future in regards to the homes that they will lose. The parking garage nor the Performing Arts
Center will have no direct benefit for the Bronstein residents nor likely many low income residents.
Probably few residents will be able to attend events at the Performance Arts Center because of the cost,
the case of the proposed School Street project; none will be able to be houses as the project has studio
and one bedroom apartments.

The development of the project may, in fact, actually lead to increased rental costs in the area as has been
true in many other communities that have gone through a process of gentrification. We know in our own
community that despite adding a certain amount of housing, that rental costs have continued to go up. And
in fact with that | Know many of the residents, many of the Aldermen have spoken about this, that without
assistance low income households and we are talking about families that make less than 50% of our mean,
so about 36,500 and many families are making far less than that. So they are without some kind of price
support, vouchers, tax credits, they will not be able to secure affordable housing, meaning housing that will
be less than 30% of their income.

So the Aldermen today have a chance to assist 48 families of Bronstein in their transition. They can help to
enable residents to stay in their neighborhoods by ensuring that the design of the new project at School
Project, if it goes through, allows those families from Bronstein who wish to be able to move, can stay in
their same neighborhood. | feel that there are families lost in relocation will enable (inaudible) inside about
170 families or thereabouts to have affordable housing that previously would not be able to be housed as a
result of the redevelopment of Bronstein. Because of their loss if you will, | think it’s all the more
appropriate that they deserve our support in the sense of all the people in our community, they are the ones
who are experiencing the loss, it is their relocation that is enabling our community to serve more people,
which is what we want to do to get affordable housing.

So | would ask in closing here that, that’s the official position of Bronstein and GSOP and we are just
minimally asking well for the Board of Aldermen and for the Board of Nashua & Housing Development

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Authority to sit down with the residents and to look at ways in which we can honor what is happening with
them. Because | do know from people | know on the various boards that nobody here wants to see people
be relocated when that is not what they wish to do. And | know none of us, | don’t know that for sure, but |
am venturing that none of us would want to be relocated without our own choice.

So | am going to end with what the petition says and it says, “Ve would like to meet with the Board of
Nashua Housing & Redevelopment Authority, the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen as soon as possible.
We ask that no decision be made about School Street Flats before we meet. Thank you, The Tenants of
Bronstein’.

So like | said, there are many other things that we can honor them in terms of cash payments and all that
but if we had enough money to build a $25 million dollar Performing Arts Center and a $2.5 million for the
parking garage, sitting down with the residents there and looking at how the School Street Project could be
redesigned for those families who wish to move there. So that’s the simple request and | hope that,
although tonight it will not be the final decision because | know we have to come back and see, if it goes
forward tonight, then you still would have to sell the lot. But before signing the dotted line please reach out
to the residents, sit down with them and look at ways that they too can get something directly out of this
move. So thank you, appreciate it.

President Wilshire

Thank you. There are a lot of people who want to speak; some people still have their hands up that have
already spoken. If you would please do me a favor and lower your hand, because there are 64 people on
here and a lot of them would like to speak. And | recognize those of you who are on chat, | have written
down your names. So | am going to try to take this in order. | have Aron DiBacco?

Aron DiBacco Thank you very much, my name is Aron. | Aron DiBacco work with Granite State Organizing
Project its (audio cuts out) because he said a lot of what | was going to say. So | will save you some time
there. For us, Granite State Organizing Project (audio cuts out) will be among communities of faith and we
have been working with the residents of Bronstein and our main concern is that the residents of Bronstein
(audio cuts out) and voice in the way that this coming highly disruptive process is managed. While we are
appreciative of what the Mayor (audio cuts out) to affordable housing, we also really recognize that there’s
opportunity for creative interaction between the two projects given that the School Street Flats Project is
very close as you mentioned about two blocks. And should it work to use that as part of the temporary
housing during the move, that would enable people to stay in their neighborhoods and not lose their
communities and their support systems. So for us it is very much about the residents of Bronstein having a
say in how this move is handled and that they get to explain what their needs are and how they would
prefer to have them met. And also this is GSOP is in support of R-20-077, the adoption of Indigenous
People. Thank you.

President Wilshire
Thank you. Mike Apfelberg?

Mike Apfelberg Good evening, Mike Apfelberg, President of the United Way of Greater Nashua located
at 20 Broad Street in Nashua. | would like to speak this evening in favor of R-20-071. To be sure, United
Way is not an Arts Organization. Our focus is typically on the health, education and financial stability of the
communities we serve. So you might ask where does a project like the Performing Arts Center fit into this
value scheme. You have and will of course hear about the economic value of the Performing Center, the
PAC. This includes, of course, the generation of business revenue as theater goers go out to eat, and
shop in our downtown. It will also very likely increase property values as Nashua becomes an even more
attractive community to live in and work. One aspect of the Performing Arts Center you might not have
thought about is the value in the community to health as well as community connectedness.