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Board of Aldermen 04-23-2019 Page 16
Alderman Klee

Thank you, Alderman Clemons, for bringing that up. | would like to echo your comments. The truth be told, |
have spoken to a couple of people down there. Not many and not all of them, but it seems to be a much better
atmosphere. They all seem to be working much better under her tutelage or however you want to call it. |
agree. | think we are on the road to recovery, and thank you for pointing that out.

Committee announcements:

Alderman O’Brien

Tomorrow night, Wednesday, April 24"", at 7 p.m., the Infrastructure Committee will meet here in the
Chambers. All are welcome; lots of fun.

Alderman Caron

Personnel will be meeting Monday, May 6, at 7 p.m., a lot of fun.

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE APRIL 23, 2019, MEETING OF THE BOARD
OF ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED

MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 83:32 p.m.

Attest: Judith Boileau, Deputy City Clerk

Fred S. Teeboom
24 Cheyenne drive
Nashua, NH 03063

(603) 889-2316

fredtee@comcast.net
April 23, 2019

Lori Wilshire, President Board of Aldermen
Members of the Board of Aldermen

Mayor Donchess

City of Nashua, NH

Ref: (1) Communications on the BoA April 23, 2019 Agenda: from David Villiotti, Executive Director
Nashua Children’s Home, subject “Clarification of Mr. Teeboom’s Testimony at the April 8, 2019
Human Affairs Committee Public Hearing regarding the Nashua Children’s Home.”

(2) Spread Sheet, Analysis of CDBG and HOME funding, dated April 7, 2019
Dear President Wilshire

On your Agenda this evening under Communications for “Procedural Action” is a letter wherein the
Executive Director of the Nashua Children’s Home claims I gave false or erroneous testimony before the
Human Affairs Committee during the Public Hearing on April 8, 2019 concerning CDBG funding (ref.1)

] gave testimony during this Public Hearing wherein I summarized the applications submitted for CDBG
funding of $803,000 and HOME funding of $398,000 in a detailed spread sheet which you'll find
attached to the Minutes of this Public Hearing (Ref. 2), and also enclosed with this letter.

1 concluded that the applications were not adequately reviewed and validated by the Nashua Urban
Programs Department or by the Human Affairs Committee. On my direct question to the committee, “Do
you review these applications,” acting Chairwoman Caron stated “NO.” (see page 8 of the minutes).

For example, I determined that the Nashua Urban Programs Department collects $252,000 of the
$803,000 in CDBG funding for the combined “Administration” and “Project Delivery”, representing a
31% management fee, well in excess of the 20% HUD limit.

I cited several applicants, including $250,000 for repairing the roof of the City of Nashua’s Court Street
building. Together with the management fee, nearly 2/3 of the entire CDBG grant was requested by the
city. To its credit, the Human affairs Committee rejected the Court Street request.

I noted that the Executive Director of Entrepreneurship for All, a non-profit with an agency budget of $4
million serving 100 clients, earns a compensation of $185,000 and its Program manager earns $145,000.
I find that excessive compensation.

I asked the committee a few questions about the Nashua Children’s Home. The application listed 12
Nashua children to benefit from a request for $45,600 to replace windows at its Concord home. No one on
the committee could tell me how many children were served for its $5.1 million budget

The letter on your Agenda from Mr, Villiotti clarifies that Nashua Children’s Home serves 85 children.
With a budget of $5.1 million that means the support for each child costs, on average, $60,000. Is this
standard for these services?

The Nashua Children’s Home CDBG application states total compensation, salaries plus benefits, to be
$4.0 million. The letter from Mr. Villiotti clarifies that he employs a full-time staff of 70. That means the
employees, on average, earn a compensation of about $57,000. Is this standard for these services?

The application does not state Mr. Villiotti*s compensation; neither does Mr. Villiotti’s letter. Consulting
the Nashua Children’s Home Form 990 Non-Profit IRS filing I determined that Mr. Villiottis’
compensation in year 2017 was $139,129, It seems Executive Directors of non-profits are compensated a
great deal of money from their charitable grants, but none except Entrepreneurship for All reported this
on their CDBG applications.

Mr. Villiotti claims that if the Nashua children’s Home did not exist, the taxpayers of Nashua are “on the
hook” for $47,411 per student. He does not provide the basis for this figure, but I note in his CDBG
application and Form 990 filing that NH state and school district funding amount to about 85% of his
budget. This funding does not disappear when the Nashua Children’s Home goes away but would be
assigned to another caretaker, so I would consider this statement to be a self-serving misrepresentation.

I have done the research from available data, and intend to forward my findings to the HUD Regional
Office in Boston for an audit of Nashua’s administration of CDBG funding.

I request this letter be made part of the minutes of this evening’s board meeting.

Sincerely,

((

Fred& Teebo

Encl.: Spread Sheet, Analysis of CDBG and HOME Funding Applications, Fred Teeboom, April 7, 2019

R-19-125 Analysis of CDBG and HOME Funding

Fred Teeboom 7 April 2019

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Organization/ Clients Project Agency FY20 salaries Director Request FY20 Request FY20 t
Name Served Budget Budget & benefits Comp. Task Award commen
Entrepeneurshp |40¢8 <30%AMI Exec Dir. 185K Excessive
for All 40ea 31%-50%AMI $592,000 $4.0M $2.9M Prog Mgr 145K micro enterprises $40,000 $40,000 Conaceineation
20ea 51%-80%AMI p atio
888ea <30%AMI Behind lot
Boys & Girls Club |428ea 31%-50%AMI | $140,000 $3.3M $2.0M 222 safes $40,000 $20,000 rehab
219ea 51%-80%AMI
Nashua Children's window .
22?
Hatie 12ea <30%AMI $45,600 $5.1M $4.0M 2? 7 replatenieint $45,600 $25,000 repair
358ea <30%AMI
Nashua PAL |21ea 31%-50%AMI $30,050 0.6M $0.2M 2??? fire safety $30,050 $20,000 repair
tea 51%-80%AMI
Nashua Soup a 299 asbetos
Kitchen & Shelter cpap ear gee (ss it $7.0M —s remediation $330,550 $75,000 rehab
Opportunity ann 99> accessiblity
netwaks eet $82,453 $3.3M $2.7M 227 iniproventeats $82,453 $40,000 rehab
250ea <30%AMI
PLUS Co. Oea 31%-50%AMI $77,500 12.7M $8.5M 22? HVAG replacement $77,500 $29,071 repair
74ea <30%AMI Heating system
Youth Council |18ea 31%-50%AMI | $57,806 $0.8M $0.6M 22? = hacet $57,806 $25,000 repair
Gea 51%-80%AMI P
low income : repair/
22? 22? 22?
Dan Stevens faniniesnters $27,660 2277 227 227 roof repair $27,660 $0 fanlordtreen.
Nashua , repair/
22? 22? 22? 22?
Gouirt Strack 227 $540,000 2?7 227 227 roof repair $250,000 $0 sublie blog,
Public Services | low-mod income | Grants for eligible activities through Citizens Advisory Cmt. (CAC) $98,700 $98,700 | 15% of $658,000
Housing Improve. : Minor rehab incl. code & safety corrections, essential repairs, accessibility. Grants for 0% loans &
(HIP) owner occupied |.,,i,.0, emergency repairs up to $5,000. $75,000 $75,000 emerg. grants
Rental Rehab : Essential repairs of residential rental properties containing 1-8 units. Owners provide
(pilot program) rental occupied | 10, match. Priority: French Hill, Crown Hill & Tree St. $61,785 $54,894 Oe ene
: 17% of grant
UPD CDBG Admin grant reports, etc $137,600 $137,600 (20% limit)
ea ae reviews, bid specs, construction management, etc $115,000 $115,000 14% of grant
. : hg to Housing
201 =
Contingency UPD letter April 4, 2019 $47,409 Improve't (HIP)
Total CDBG Funding $1 469,704 $802,674 54.6% of
requests
CHDO private non-profit organization to develop affordable housing $59,700 15% of grant
mandatory
Housing Devel. rehab or conversion to create affordable rental and/or home owner housing $298,500
Home Admin tech assistamnce, specs, reviewe, reports,etc $39,800] 10% of grant
Total HOME Funding $398,000

City of Manchester
A Resolution

WHEREAS, working people are entitled to all wages they have earned; and

WHEREAS, some employers seeR to minimize 2 labor costs by withholding wages from workers or
committing payroll fraud; and

WHEREAS, wage theft occurs when workers are not paid all their wages, denied minimum wage or
overtime pay they are due, are not paid at afl for the work they perform, their tips are stolen, or they
are called independent contractors when they are actually employees; and

WHEREAS, worker misclassification ts a deceptive effort by bad-acting employers to purposely
identify workers as independent contractors to avoid paying employment-related expenses such as
unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation; and

WHEREAS, misclassified workers are robbed of basic workplace protections under federal and state
law which have protected employees for more than a century, including the National Labor Relations
Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act; and

WHEREAS, by this unlawful activity, bad-acting employers save nearly 30% on worker-related
expenses due to misclassification, forcing employers who play by the rules to compete at a
disadvantage;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that I, Joyce Craig, Mayor of the City of Manchester,
do hereby state my support for Senate Bill 151 to give the NH Department of Labor the authority to
act immediately to protect workers from being taken advantage of and to hold employers accountable.
for deceptive labor practices; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that I, Joyce Craig, Mayor of the City of Manchester, do hereby
oppose any deceptive practice by employers that resulis in not paying full wages due to their employees
or failing to secure workers’ compensation coverige for their employees;

And that this resolution be duly signed by the Mayor of Manchester.

Matthew P Norman City CR

aented on: A At ' | | 5 . 2019

AGENDA MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN APRIL 23, 2019

1. PRESIDENT LORI WILSHIRE CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER

2. PRAYER OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA PIECUCH

3. PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERMAN LINDA HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT
4. ROLL CALL

5. REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

6. RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR

7. RECOGNITIONS

8. READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS AND PUBLIC HEARINGS

Board of Aldermen.. ; beet dee estes eeeneees 04/09/2019
Special Board of Aldermen Public Hrg: R 19- 4127. a 7 04/15/2019
Public Hearing conducted by Human Affairs Committee: R 419 126. beeee 04/08/2019
Public Hearing conducted by PEDC: Amended O-19-038.. bese 04/16/2019

9. COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS

From: David Villiotti, Executive Director, Nashua Children’s Home
Re: Clarification of Mr. Teeboom’s Testimony at the April 8, 2019 Human Affairs Committee
Public Hearing regarding the Nashua Children’s Home

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Administrative Services Director and Division

9(a). PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON
THIS EVENING

9(b). COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Larry D. Goodhue, CEO/CFO, Pennichuck Corporation

Re: Annual Meeting of Sole Shareholder

e Pennichuck Special Water Cmte Recommends: Election of C. George Bower, Jay N. Lustig,
John D. McGrath, Preston J. Stanley, Jr., Deborah Novotny

10. PETITIONS
11. NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS

Appointments by the Mayor

12. REPORTS OF COMMITTEE

Budget Review Committee... ............ 0.0 cece cette eeteeeesteeeees 04/04/2019
Budget Review Committee... ............ 0.0 cece cette eee eeeeteeeeeseees 04/10/2019
Budget Review Committee... ............... cece eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeees 04/15/2019
Finance Committee... bee cee dee cee teste tee tee teste seettstetesteeseeee 04/17/2019
Human Affairs Committee .. beed eet cet eet tet etter tt tseeseetessesses. 04/08/2019

Pennichuck Water Special COMMItCC. eee cece cece eee 04/17/2019

Special Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee................... 04/15/2019
Planning & Economic Development Committee......................... 04/16/2019

13. CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS
UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-18-073, Amended
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY CHARTER RELATIVE TO FILLING VACANCIES
ON ELECTED BOARDS BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THAT
BOARD
e Personnel/Administrative Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage with Proposed
Amendments

R-19-118

Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.

Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright

Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman Patricia Klee

Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws

Alderman Tom Lopez

Alderman June M. Caron

Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja

Alderman Jan Schmidt

Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF UP TO $218,486 FROM THE
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES INTO
TRANSIT GRANT ACTIVITY “FEDERAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY (“FTA”) OPERATING GRANT”
e Human Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-19-121
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $43,113 FROM THE UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY “2018 JUSTICE
ASSISTANCE GRANT (MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL)”
e Human Affairs Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-19-127
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY TREASURER TO ISSUE BONDS NOT TO EXCEED
THE AMOUNT OF TWO MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,800,000) FOR
POLICE DEPARTMENT HEATING, VENTILATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM (HVAC),
AND WINDOW IMPROVEMENTS
e Budget Review Committee Recommends: Final Passage
e Also assigned to Board of Police Commissioners: Favorable Recommendation Issued 4/18/2019

R-19-129
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Patricia Klee
AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF NASHUA TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH NASHUA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE, RIVIER UNIVERSITY, TOWN OF HUDSON, TOWN OF MERRIMACK,
SOUHEGAN VALLEY TRANSPORTATION COLLABORATIVE AND THE PLUS COMPANY FOR
TRANSIT SERVICES
e Finance Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-19-132
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO A SUCCESSOR “CONCESSION AGREEMENT”
WITH GRANITE DIAMOND, LLC
e Finance Committee Recommends: Final Passage

R-19-133

Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt

AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH

SPECTACLE MANAGEMENT, INC.

e Finance Committee Recommends: Final Passage

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-19-038, Amended
Endorsers: Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Tom Lopez
AMENDING THE SIGN ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO ADDRESS NUMBERS OF GROUND SIGNS
e Withdrawn from Committee, Amended & Re-Referred to PEDC & NCPB — 3/26/2019
e PEDC & NCPB Recommend Final Passage as Amended

NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-19-134
Endorser: Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
ADOPTION OF STRATEGIC PLANNING GOALS

R-19-135
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
RELATIVE TO THE APPROPRIATION OF $24,850 FROM DEPARTMENT #194 “CONTINGENCY”,
ACCOUNT #70100 “GENERAL CONTINGENCY” INTO VARIOUS NEW ACCOUNTS IN DEPARTMENT
#106 “ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES”

R-19-136
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
AUTHORIZING THE FORMATION OF TWO VOLUNTARY NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS UNDER
RSA 162-G FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

R-19-137

Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF TAX DEEDED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 342 MAIN STREET

R-19-138
Endorser: Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
RELATIVE TO THE APPROPRIATION OF ADDITIONAL U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM FUNDS TO
NEIGHBORWORKS OF SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Committee announcements:

ADJOURNMENT

Proposed Amendments made in Personnel — 4/15/19 AMENDED
R-18-073

RESOLUTION

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY CHARTER RELATIVE TO FILLING
VACANCIES ON ELECTED BOARDS BY MAJORITY VOTE OF THE REMAINING
MEMBERS OF THAT BOARD

CITY OF NASHUA

In the Year Two Thousand and Eighteen

RESOLVED by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Nashua that pursuant to RSA 49-
B:5, the following amendment to the Nashua City Charter is deemed necessary and shall be
submitted to the voters by placing it on the ballot at the next regular municipal election on
November 5, 2019, in the manner required by NH RSA 49-B with the following summary:

Shall the municipality approve the charter amendment summarized below?

This amendment changes the way that vacancies on the Board of Aldermen, Board of Education,
Board of Public Works, and Board of Fire Commissioners are to be filled until the next
municipal election. Currently, if there are more than six (6) months remaining in an unexpired
term that has been vacated, the vacancy is filled by a special election held after forty (40) days
but before one hundred and eighty (180) days following the creation of the vacancy, or, if the
regular election timing is appropriate, the vacancy can be filled by the non-incumbent candidate
who receives the most votes at the regular municipal election for the next term of office which is
then vacant. This charter amendment would instead require vacancies on the Board of
Aldermen, Board of Education, Board of Public Works, and Board of Fire Commissioners to be
filled until the next municipal election by majority vote of the remaining members of that board
within sixty (60) days following the creation of the vacancy. The amendment further clarifies
issues concerning vacancies caused by death or declination of office before inauguration and
when persons elected to fill vacancies assume office.

Amend the City Charter by adding new underlined language as follows:

Ҥ 44. Vacancy in office of aldermen

Vacancies occurring in the office of alderman [aldermen] from any cause shall be filled