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Board Of Aldermen - Agenda - 3/22/2016 - P6

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G. The name and address of the office to which the payment of the penalty may be made.
H. The time period during which a reduced penalty may be paid in full satisfaction of the

citation.
I, Notification that failure to pay the penalty may result in court action.
J. The signature and printed name and department of the individual issuing the citation.

§ 74-3. Service of citation.
A. Any citation shall be served by the official issuing it in any one of the following ways:
(1) _ Inhand to the person responsible for the violation; or

(2) By certified, registered or U.S. Postal Service first class mail, to the last known
address of the person responsible for the violation, or as listed with the NH
Division of Motor Vehicles.

B, The official serving the citation shall maintain a record of the date, time, and manner of
service of the citation including the post office receipt if service was accomplished by
registered or certified mail.

§ 74-4. Citation penalties.

A, (1) The penalties for any offense relating to the following ordinances for which a
citation has been issued shall be as follows:

Table 4-1

Cee Tt a TT aK Ula
§ 182-28 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 250.00 Exterior standards.
§ 182-29 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $250.00 Interior standards.
§ 182-30 $ 50,00 $ 100.00 $250.00 Premises and accessory structure standards,
§ 182-31 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 250.00 Emergency and Code Enforcement Dept Information
§ 182-32 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 250.00 Standards.
§ 182-33 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 250.00 Sanitary facilities
§ 182-34 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 250.00 Mechanical requirements
§ 182-35 $ 50,00 $ 100.00 $ 250,00 Electrical requirements
§ 182-36 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 250.00 Means of Egress Standards
§ 182-37 $ 50,00 $ 100.00 $ 250.00 Lodging Units
§ 182-38 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 250.00 Number of exitways
§ 182-39 $ 50,00 $ 100.00 $250.00 Egress Doors
§ 182-40 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 250.00 Fire Escapes and Ladders
§ 182-41 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $250.00 Smoke detectors/alarm devices
§ 182-42 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 250,00 Fire Suppression systems
§ 170-2 $ 100.00 $ 250.00 Court Appearance FS License required
He-P 230301 +,02(ay(o) | 810000 | $250.00 5300 CV 01-Food source, condition, spoilage
hep 0d, 04-29 So 10g.00 $250.00 soo CV 03-Food protection-PHF meets temp requirements
Nee nine 5 100.00 $250.00 Se CV 04-Food protection-facilities maintain product temps
oP 7304.29.35 LY ee ce CV 07-Food protection-unwrapped + PHF not re-served

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§ 170-5

He-P 2305.01 -05 § 100.00 S 250100 ue CV 11-Personnel with infections restricted

fer 508 06-08 5 100.00 Sore spogne CV 12-Personnel-hands washed and good hygienic practices
He? 2310.03 See azo sre CV 20-Food Equip. + Utensils-sanitized, etc.

He? 21 | $ 100/09 $250.00 5200.09 CV 27-Water source-hot and cold

Hep 2312 re ogee Sow CV 28-Sewage and waste water disposal

Fe-P2913,02 Po ewe Seg CV 30-Plumbing-cross connection, backflow, etc.

Pu 700+ He 231401-03 | $100.00 | $250.00 eaeehs CV 31-Toilet + Hand washing Facilities

He23 16 pe BLS Ce ae CV 35-Insect, Rodent Animal Control

nepases See oor as saten Sea CV 41-Other Operations-Tanic items

Chap. 105 Art. $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 200.00 Building. Violation

Chap. 105 Art. 11 $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 200.00 Mechanical Violation

Chap. 105 Art. IV $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 200.00 Plumbing Violation

Chap. 105 Art. V $ 50.00 $ 100.00 $ 200.00 Electrical Violation

§ 190 -146 $ 200.00 $ 400.00 Court Appearance | site Plan Violation

§ 190-135 $ 200.00 $ 400.00 Court Appearance | sytdivision Plan Violation

§ 190-15 $ 100.00 $ 200.00 Court Appearance | Zoning Use Violation

§ 190-16 $ 100.00 $ 200.00 Court Appearance | Zoning Dimensional Violation

Chap. 190, Art. X $ 100.00 $ 200.00 Court Appearance Sign Violation

Chap. 190, Art. XI $ 100.00 $200.00 Court Appearance | Wetlands Vialation

Chap. 190, Art VII $ 100.00 $ 200.00 Court Appearance | gigod Plain Violation

eek ii Art. $ 200.00 $ 400.00 Court Appearance ae accupancy.capacity of the pasted Place of Assembly
nna tik v 5 100.00 sz Court Appearance Failure to maintain kitchen hood suppression system __
NE sel en Soe $200.00 oor peanatc Failure to maintain cooking hood and ventilation gystem
Steal ne Art. IV $ 150,00 $ 300.00 Court Appearance system. maintain the buildings water based fire protection
rr i es Stee ny Com Aen Failure to maintain the buildings fire alann system

(2) If any penalty set forth in Table 4-1 is not paid within ten days of the date the
citation was issued, the penalty shall be the amount set forth in Table 4-1 of this
subsection plus $50 up to a maximum of $1,000.

B. The penalties for any other offense for which a citation has been issued shall be as

follows:

(1) First offense - $50 if paid within ten days; $100 thereafter.

(2) Second offense - $100 if paid within ten days; $150 thereafter.
(3) Subsequent offense - $200 if paid within ten days; $250 thereafter.

Cc. Second and subsequent offenses are offenses that occur within twelve months of the first

offense.

§ 74-5. Penalty.

Whenever any person fails to pay any penalty imposed pursuant to a citation issued under the
authority granted by this chapter, § 1-12, or § 1-13, such person shall be guilty of a violation and
shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not to exceed the maximum allowed by RSA 47:17
or other applicable law for each offense. Each citation penalty, which is not paid, shall constitute

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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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such-warningsvithin-e-reasenable-aad-certain_peried-of time (Vhere+warnings-clicit
compliance~as—directed,_th e-_Code—Offieial_meay—cause—such—warnings_te—be~filed
without-further action.

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heed-of the-Code-EnforcementDepartment-Citations-shall-specify the reasor—fer-the
eitation—and-shall_direct-abatement-of such-conditions—whichcausetheissuanec-of
such-citationswithin-ateasoneble _and-certain-period of time WVhere-citations—olicit
eompliance-as_directed,the Code-Oficialnay_eause such-citations-te-bo-filedavitkeut
further action-afterappleablefees_as-_provided-by-this-chapter_have been-paid.

DFees-for-citations.

(}-Fhe following-fees-fer-eitations-are generally-intendedte-detay-administraive
costs incurred by the City in-obtaining abatement of conditions-which-cause-the-issuanee
efsueh-eitations:

(e}-Foreach-citatien issued and-one-+reinspection-to-subject property-$-1S,

(63-Fer-each-additional-reinspeetien-er attempted-reinspeetion:- G25.

@)Peyment-effees_provided-hersin-shall_be-deemodte—be-en_administrativefee,

freel paid-witheut-future recover-or-otheraction againstthe City; its-ofhicial employees
eragents:

3. In Part II “General Legislation”, Chapter 182 “Housing Standards”, Article IV
“Enforcement”, “Section 26, “Violations and penalties,” by deleting the struck-through
language and adding the new underlined language as follows:

Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall, apon conviction thereof,
be punished as provided in § 1-12 of the City Code subjeet-te-a-fine-of net-lessthan-$25
ner-more-than-$1-00-atthe-diseretion-of the-court. Every day @ violation continues after
due notice has been served in accordance with the terms and provisions of this chapter
shall be deemed a separate offense.

This legislation shall take effect following its passage.

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Chairman Len Fournier - Superintendent Vice Chairman

NILES F. JENSEN JR. Mayor Donnalee Lozeau - Ex-Officio MICHAEL L. MCLAUGHLIN
Secretary 101 Kinsley Street Treasurer
MARVIS J. MELLEN Nashua, New Hampshire 03060 DAVID G. FREDETTE

Phone: (603) 594-3354 Fax: (603) 594-3418

March 8, 2016
Nashua Board of Alderman
Attn: Susan Lovering
City Hall
Nashua, NH 03060
Dear Susan,

Would you please schedule a Joint Convention with the Alderman to re-nominate Barbara Whitmore to a new five
year term as a Trustee of Woodiawn/Pinewood Cemeteries.

Thank You,
Len Fournier
Superintendent

Woodlawn/Pinewood Cemeteries

CC: Niles Jensen, Chairmen of Trustees

Incorporated 1895

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Jim Donchess
Mayor e City of Nashua

To: Board of Aldermen
From: Jim Donchess
Date: 3/22/16

Re: Contract Award of Library HVAC Maintenance

Pursuant to NRO § 5-74 (B), which states that a contract that extends from the current fiscal year into
succeeding fiscal year(s) in which no funds have been appropriated nor otherwise designated for this
purpose shall be approved by the full Board of Aldermen before the contract shall become binding on the

City.

The Finance Committee approved the award of the below referenced contract at their March 16, 2016
meeting. | am requesting the concurrence and approval of the full Board of Aldermen for the award of the
following contract:

Library HVAC Maintenance — Attached please find Purchasing Manager’s Memo # 16-117 regarding this
contract. This is a two (2) year contract with an option for a third year.

229 Main Street * PO Box 2019 * Nashua, New Hampshire 03061-2019
603.589.3260 ¢ fax 603.594.3450 * NashuaMayor@NashuaNH.gov
www.NashuaNH.gov

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fig THE CITY OF NASHUA “The Gate City’

Financial Services

Purchasing Department

March 10, 2016
Memo #16-117

TO: MAYOR DONCHESS
FINANCE COMMITTEE

SUBJECT: AWARD OF LIBRARY HVAC MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT (VALUE: NOT TO
EXCEED $15,000)
DEPARTMENT: LIBRARY; FUND: GENERAL FUND
ACCOUNT CLASSIFICATION: 54 PROPERTY SERVICES

Please see attached communication from Jennifer McCormack, Library Director dated March 17, 2016 for
the information related to this contract award.

Pursuant to § §-78 Major purchases (greater than $10,000) A. All supplies and contractual services,
except as otherwise provided herein, when the estimated cost thereof shall exceed $10,000 shall be
purchased by formal, written contract from the lowest responsible bidder, after due notice inviting bids.
The Library Director and the Purchasing Department recommend awarding multi-year contract to Palmer

and Sicard of Exeter, NH in an amount not to exceed $15,000. This is a two (2) year contract with an
option for a third year renewal.

Respectfully,

Dan Kooken
Purchasing Manager

Cc: J McCormack J Graziano

229 Main Street ¢ Nashua, New Hampshire 03061 ¢ Phone (603) 589-3330 « Fax (603) 589-3344

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Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 3/21/2016 - P1

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A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Monday, March 21, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the
City Hall Auditorium

President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderman Richard A. Dowd led in the Pledge to the Flag.

The roll call was taken with 13 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Caron and Alderman
Cookson were recorded absent.

Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton was also in attendance.
COMMUNICATIONS

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT ALL COMMUNICATIONS BE READ BY TITLE ONLY
MOTION CARRIED

From: Brian S. McCarthy, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE TO ACCEPT AND PLACE ON FILE
MOTION CARRIED

PRESENTATIONS
Joint Presentation by Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce and One Greater Nashua
Ms. Liz Fitzgerald, United Way of Greater Nashua

| am one of the two Co-Chairs of the One Greater Nashua Coalition. | want to thank you for extending this
invitation to speak with us. There are a lot of folks sitting up here and that’s because this is a community
based coalition with many people participating and representing many different organizations. | am going to
give you a little bit of history of where the coalition came from and why we want to go forward with such a thing
and my co-chair, Jared Barbosa will talk to you about just exactly what the coalition is and Janeth Orozco-
Sanchez, Jennifer McCormack and Tracy Hatch will talk about each of the specific goals as they are chairing
those specific goals. Galina will also talk a little bit more about the opportunity and the imperative for the work
that we are doing.

About three years ago during United Way’s Day of Caring some folks in the community came together as their
contribution for the day; the Day of Caring is a community-wide day of service where about 350 people from
companies and organizations throughout the city give up a day at their office or at home to go into the
community at one of our service providers and do some kind of task or function for a non-profit. It’s usually
painting a wall or building a fence. These particular individuals met at the community college and just had a
conversation about their vision for the community and Greater Nashua. That conversation was facilitated by
New Hampshire Listens and one of the recurring themes that came out of that was the idea that the community
was growing and rapidly changing in its demographic make-up and that although there were leaders emerging
in all different walks of life and communities, the groups were not connecting. The establishment leaders were
not connecting with the people that were emerging in different communities. All of the people at the table felt
like that was a really important thing to address. Paul Hebert, who was president of the United Way at the time
and Chris Williams who was president of the Chamber of Commerce volunteered to take that on and find a
way that we could bring the communities together. Just about six months after that meeting the Endowment
for Health put out an RFP around immigrant integration. They were looking for four communities in the state.
They wanted a broad sector of people to come together and plan. They were willing to fund for the planning
and they wanted one proposal from each of the communities and if they liked what they saw they were willing
to invest for three years in those initiatives with some best practices coming from Welcoming New Hampshire.

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This might be a hard slide to see. This breaks down our interest as a United Way was in health. So, in terms
of health you look at how long a person lives and how healthy a person’s lifespan feels. Of all the things that
contribute to a person’s long-term health outcomes, their social factors are 40% of that. So not your DNA, not
your access to healthcare but how well you live and where you live and how you feel about how you live.
That’s why we chose to focus on social inclusion in integration. The Endowment for Health was very broad
and allowed each community to define what their term for immigrant was. We felt that people could be living in
our community and not feel connected to us for three weeks or three generations and still not feel connected to
the community. We painted the term immigrant as broadly as possible and that’s where we came up with the
notion of a One Greater Nashua; a feeling that our community is strongest when all people have the
opportunity to participate at their full potential.

Mr. Jared Barbosa, Co-Chair, One Greater Nashua Coalition

I’d like to start this aspect of the presentation with a quote. “Nashua’s legacy as a community of innovation,
advancement, experimentation, invention, enterprise, diversity, culture, tradition and youth stands as strong as
granite, as powerful as our rivers and as eternal as our land. The Gate City will go forward and continue to
make history.” This quote really sets the tone for what OGN is all about and aspires to be. It is our mission,
our goal, to improve healthy equity through social integration and social inclusion. Hence our motto “Stronger
Together.” After many weeks of meetings we reconvened as a coalition to develop a well thought out plan, a
plan that includes opportunities in economic vitality, community engagement and leadership. We strongly
believe that opening these doors will lead to improved overall health. We value our growing diversity and I'd
like you to remember that for the next slide. This slide shows a map of Greater Nashua; the blue & yellow
indicate sections that are the highest concentration of our non-white adult population and here is a
concentration of our non-white youth population and red being the highest concentration. The reality is
diversity is growing. In ten years that’s our workforce. We feel it is important to value this growing population
and we believe that our plan truly invests in it. We have a three pronged approach to our three year plan to
fundamentally change the way Nashua makes decisions. We knew it wouldn’t work if we tried to reinvent the
wheel so we built a bigger table. Building a stronger cohesion between stakeholders and ultimately creating
stronger feelings of belonging among all residents. Each pathway has its own focused goal group anchored by
existing institutions in the community. Specific measured goals and objectives; each goal group connects
through others through the goal. Goals are interconnected and complimentary. |’ll explain a little bit about
each goal. Gateways and cultural navigators help newcomers with skills that they need to succeed. Business
and civic engagement attract young people to our community and encourage civic leadership and engagement
and youth leadership.

Ms. Janet Orozco

One of the things that mainly highlight with the youth goal group is that we as a community emphasize on
middle schools. We learned that some of the neighborhoods are very different and unique so when the middle
meet for the first time coming from the twelve elementary schools it’s a different dynamic of how kids associate
with each other and how parents interact with other. We also learned that perhaps if we come up with a
system or build up in the culture of the middle school that are in our communities; how do we make it more of
developing academics of success, opportunity of engagement for the parents and the youth and kind of build
up what is in their schools already. When we approached the administrators of the schools we also offered the
opportunity of enriching their curriculum in the sense of when we could provide cultural effectiveness training in
the sense of what are the faculty learning that we could build that from and also have a more global
understanding of what the community sees as a community because it’s easier....1 can say that being a
minority Latina in my neighborhood, | find ways that | can highlight what my district is about but also bring in
what | have. We wanted to allow that opportunity for the teachers to understand what the parents have to
bring and how they could bring it in a more effective way where everyone understands each other. We could
highlight projects that the school per se wants to do. One of the things that we were invited to do was to
become part of the summer program, the ELLO Summer Program so we came in with a very open mind and
understanding that the school already has a curriculum for that but we built up on leadership so we worked

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with the youth at the high schools during the summer and this is an opportunity where middle schools and high
schools are together and we had a great opportunity of exploring what leadership meant to them and how they
felt about their community. Many of them had projects for their own particular school. It’s amazing to see the
progress that these teens have been able to do for their school. Some were able to advocate for multi-
language dictionaries in their school in a very short period of time. Their schools probably have over $500.00
in dictionaries that they didn’t have at the beginning of the year. Moving forward | think we will continue with
the schools doing a welcoming nights for parents and also for the youth. Another thing is to reach out to the
afterschool programs in the Nashua area; we have all of the participants like the Boys and Girls Club, Girls,
Inc, YMCA, the Nashua Prevention Coalition; anyone who is identifying themselves as working with youth.

Ms. Fitzgerald

I'd like to talk to you about the navigator, Cultural Navigator is actually the title that this group started with and
this program is actually modelled after a program that the Hartford Public Library started four years ago to be a
partner in Hartford’s grappling with the growing immigrant population and how to make them feel more
integrated. In Hartford in particular the library has the American Place so it’s a little bit more than the Navigator
Program but we took that and we adopted it and made it more special to Nashua. The Navigators are a group
of community volunteers and they are trained to be friendly neighbors and mentors to immigrants and refugees
in our city. Their particular role is not to be a social worker but a friendly face to give them advice and help
them engage more fully in their community. The library and the Adult Learning Center have formed a
partnership and the Adult Learning Center is posting the coordinator position for our Navigators and the library
is hosting a series of welcome events that will be run by our Navigators. The first events topic is Emergency
Services so we are inviting folks from the fire department and the police department and talk a little bit about
when it is appropriate to call emergency services and what to expect to happen when you do that. We
recruited our first group of Navigators in September of last and we had over 30 people volunteer and 18 of
them were from another country and represented 14 other languages that were spoken. They were joined by
13 volunteers that were long-time Nashua residents. We had a Navigator who volunteered and she had only
been in the country for a few months, she didn’t drive and she didn’t have a job. One of the other Navigator
volunteers showed her how to use the bus and helped her find the courage to apply for a job at a place where
she had already applied once, she got a job and now she is employee of the month. It’s fantastic to see a
group of volunteers become friends and become a support for one another. We see this program as a way to
person by person change our city and make it a more welcoming place. Our Navigators are not trained to do
tasks for someone but to help them find the courage and the daring to help them figure out how to do it for
themselves. | like to think about it as our Navigators helping immigrants learn what the expectations and
possibilities of their new home are.

Ms. Tracy Hatch, President and CEO of the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce

| am not here tonight representing the Chamber, | am here as the co-chair, along with Galina Szakacs; we are
the two co-chairs of the Business and Civic Leadership Goal Group for One Greater Nashua. Most people the
Chamber is all about economic development and a skilled workforce and that’s true but what leads to that are
leaders, the people in our community who step forward like all of you have on the Board of Aldermen to take a
role in shaping our community. We need to make sure that when we look to leaders of the future that we are
not just looking to those of us who are traditional Nashuans. We want to look into some of the areas within
Nashua that aren't traditional Nashuans and we want to engage and support them. When you think about how
many of us got our start in leadership positions we followed some fairly traditional paths. We joined Rotary,
and exchange club or the Lion’s Club or became members of the Chamber of Commerce. Yet for the
newcomers or those who may have had several generations here in Nashua but don’t come from our white
bread background, that’s not necessarily the normal way that they connect and as we look for leaders in the
future, we need to be very cognizant of that. We need to not only open the doors to those more traditional
places like the Rotary and the Chamber of Commerce but we also need to see where are those leaders, that
18%, those youth leaders that Jared pointed to and Janeth pointed to, where are they connecting today?
Where are their parents connecting because it’s probably not where you and | connect today? We need to find

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