Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 9/27/2016 - P24
Board of Aldermen Page 24
September 27, 2016
Alderman Moriarty
| can take a hint, Mr. President and offer another compromise. We could have a unanimous vote in
probably less than two minutes. | will be happy to withdraw my motion if Alderman Lopez withdraws his
motion.
President McCarthy
You can withdraw your motion or not and it’s up to Alderman Lopez whether or not he withdraws his. Are
you withdrawing your motion?
Alderman Lopez
| think if everybody on the Board is serious about the welcoming part of this then we will have a
unanimous vote after this but | also think that honestly, | don’t see the concerns that have been raised
and | thought | was listening to and compromising when | made that motion at the
Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee meeting and | thought that the Mayor also responded to
those concerns appropriately so | am not withdrawing my motion. If the rest of the Board would like to
vote my motion then we can vote on the recommended version.
President McCarthy
Alderman Moriarty, did you withdraw your motion to re-refer?
Alderman Moriarty
No.
President McCarthy
The motion is to re-refer to committee and debate of that point is in order.
Alderman Wilshire
| don’t see any different outcome from the committee. | am not going to support re-referring this to
committee. | would like to vote this up or down tonight.
Alderman Schoneman
| do think that going back to committee would be a good idea. It sounds like there is other information,
Alderman Siegel mentioned that there is some information that he has and | understand his desire to
move it through and we could probably pass the goldenrod copy tonight if that had been the motion. |
would also point out about Manchester; my understanding is that it didn’t go through right away. It came
to the City of Manchester and | believe Mayor Gatsas, a number of years ago and it was rejected and it
was vetted for a long period of time. In fact, it was the rejection in Manchester that caused the Office of
Refugee Relocation to hire WelcomingAmerica.org to come into Nashua to go after what they call the
talkative resistance here in the state to begin to put political pressure on people to get this thing passed.
It didn’t sail through Manchester and | think they vetted it and | it wouldn’t hurt to send it back to
committee and vet it here too.
Alderman LeBrun
If you want a unanimous vote then why don’t we vote on the original recommendation from the
committee proclaiming Nashua as a Welcoming City and have the Mayor put out a proclamation stating
