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The abuse of power by political bodies should be called out and corrected.

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:22 PM Laurie Ortolano <lauricortolano@gmail.com> wrote:
May 26, 2020

To: Board of Aldermen

lam requesting that this be accepted as public input and when meeting are open again for the public to
speak at the microphone, | will be reading this into the record.

lam writing to this Board to ask for disciplinary action to be taken against Alderwoman Jan Schmidt. Lori
Wilshire sent a link to the Aldermen Code of Conduct. | have provided a link to the code below as well as the
language for section F.

| am concerned that there is no disciplinary policy for member who fail to abide by the code of conduct. What
are the ramifications?

Jan Schmidt has been using social media to post information that | believe that is not available to the general
public and appears to be information she might be receiving in non-public sessions. She is clearly choosing to
engage in these communications rather than withholding comment. It is her choice to play in the social
media arena.

https://ecode3 60.cony/§72838?
F. Each member is responsible for the behavior of his or her fellow members, since inappropriate
behavior which goes unchallenged reflects badly on the entire Board.

In a post on Nashua Scoop last week, May 21, 2020 regarding the PA-71 filed by Chery! Walley against Greg
Turgiss, Alderwoman Schmidt posted a comment about the police warning given to me in September.

She wrote: “Would you like to explain why employees were accosted outside the building? Why some
were in tears, feeling frightened? Why you had to be told to leave them alone? You had business inside
their offices not outside being aggressive toward them.”

| did offer an explanation. | am only aware of a single conversation with Lynn Cameron outside City Hall that
took place on September 11, 2019. She was not in tears nor did she look frighten. As a matter of fact, she did
not walk or run away from me; she stayed and spoke and answered my question.

It was 11 days later, on September 22, 2019 that the police showed up to issue a verbal warning to have no
contact with assessing employees outside of city hall or a restraining order would be issued. | was also
warned that if my conduct in City Hall was viewed inappropriate, | could be removed from the building and
denied entry for an extended period of time.

If | had been so menacing and emotionally abusive, why did the police wait 11 days to issue the warning? The
use of the word “accosted” is interesting and disputable.

| explained on social media, that | had watched Lynn Cameron deal with some pretty difficult people (they
were men) who came into the assessing office upset about exemptions. They were verbally and aggressively
confronting her. She was accosted by them. She stood up to questioning beautifully and was no shrinking
violet.

The information from the police investigation has not been made public yet. | am still waiting for my RTK
request to be filled. It has been 8 months since the warning was issued and | have no idea what was said by
every employee to warrant the warning given to me.

Have the Aidermen and Jan Schmidt been made privy to the information in that investigation and should she
be posting the results on social media when the person accused does not have access to the information and
no real means to defend themselves?

So, when Jan Schmidt writes employees were accosted, in tears and frightened. Who is she referring to?
This is not the first time that Alderwoman Schmidt has used social media to address the police warning.

| was sent a post this weekend by a Nashua resident who was on Jan’s personal Facebook page. Here is what
was written,

“Lam trying to have a conversation with a woman who has inflated her self-importance by attacking a
city department.

You know that person who has an argument by increasing the load of horseshite by bringing up every
single slight she has ever encountered?

Even if each has been resolved, years ago?
And then her friends jump in to tell you that you are shite and have to be removed from office?

Yes, Have a problem with letting people get away with manipulating the facts and manipulating
people —/ don’t know why | bother.”

She the writes on her page, “I have to say that 99% of my own constituency is incredible. Thoughtful,
caring, part of a community- but there’s those few — one called me a Schmidthead today...sigh.”

It is not clear, if Aldermen Schmidt is referring to me in this post. But what is clear is that it is incredibly
inappropriate to write this way about any citizen who chose to reach out to Jan.

If this post is, in fact, about me, then Jan is doing quite a bit of information manipulation herself. She writes
that each of the issues has been resolved years ago. My issues have not been resolved. My appeal and
abatement will continue for the next several years, my Right-To-Know lawsuit is scheduled for a 2 day trial in
November, and my police investigation data has not been released. We still do not have a Chief of Assessing
and no policies have yet to be written to guide the office. The by-laws for the Board of Assessor were started
last September and are not publicly available. Public input has been eliminated. Moving forward to replace
paper data with digital data has not even been locked at.

Finally, and most disappointing, there is not community involvement in the policy creation or digital data
initiative.

If 99% of Jan’s constituency is wonderful, | think she should be able to handle the 1% that are difficult. Once
again, she doesn’t have to use social media to draw attention to this individual. Wouldn’t it be best to just

ignore this individual?

lam very concerned about Jan Schmidt’s conduct and her ability to serve the people of Nashua as an
Alderwoman and Representative to the state.

Regard,
Laurie Ortolano
BTW, in the process of drafting this letter, | have been in an email exchange with Ms. Schmidt. | sent the

email to her City account and she responded using a private account. | do not think this is appropriate as | am
addressing City business. | will forward all the emails.

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On September 16, 2019 at approximately 1145 hours after meeting with Gary Turgiss (DOB: "Yin the 4
Nashua Assessing Department, Louise Brown (DOB: } notified me of an incident that had occurred the previous
week involving Nashua Assessing Department employee, Lynn Cameron (DOB: }and resident, Laurie Ortolano i
(DOB: ). Upon being told this | met in the conference room within the assessing department with Brown and

Cameron.

Cameron informed me that the previous week, possibly on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 she had just left the
office and was walking down Elm Street to where her vehicle was parked to get something for lunch. Cameron said that
while walking she was approached by Ortcolano who confronted her about memos and a meeting both related to the
Nashua Assessing Department.

Cameron said that during this contact Ortolano had not assaulted her or threatened her at all. However Cameron
explained that the entire interaction with Ortolano made her feel very uncomfortable. Cameron explained that she felt that
Ortalano had been waiting outside and had intentionally been attempting to confront her outside of the office.

As Cameron was explaining what had occurred she began to cry. Cameron explained that based on the accusations
Ortolano had previously made about the assessing department and how Ortolano twists everything they tell her or attempt
to explain to her this interaction made her very uncomfortable and alse scared her because she felt that Ortclano had
specifically baen waiting for her to confront her.

After Cameron explained to me what had occurred and how it made her feel. | explained the protection order
process to her and what options she had involving attemoting to obtain a protection order. | also informed her that | could
speak with Ortolano an her behalf and inform Ortolano that Cameron no longer wanted to have any contact with her
outside of her duties within the Assessing Department Office.

Cameron seemed slightly overwhelmed at that time so | informed her that she did not need to make any decisions
at that time if she did not want to. tL informed her that if she wanted to take some time to think about her options she could
let me know at a later time if she wanted any further Police involvement in this incident. Cameron stated that she wanted
to think about it and both she and Brown expressed an interest in sharing these options with other members of the
assessing department as they were under the impression that they would also possibly not want Ortolano to have any
contact with them either outside of the Nashua Assessing Department Office. | informed Brown and Cameron that would
not be an issue.

Prior to ending my contact with Cameron and Brown | provided them with my contact information and encouraged
them to contact me if they had any other issues or concerns or to have any of their co-workers contact me with any
questions they had. Brown and Cameron were then thanked for their time and | ended my contact with them,

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On September 22, 2019 at approximately 1634 hours Sergeant Ditullio and | responded to Laurie Ortolano’s
(DOB: ) residence of 41 Berkley Street in an attempt to make contact with Ortolano. | was responding to this
address in an attempt to provide Ortolano with a warning that members of the Nashua Assessing Department did not
want to have any contact with her outside of their official duties while working within the assessing department.
This stemmed from a previous conversation | had with Lynn Cameron (DOB: } and Louise Brown (DOB:
} about Cameron being confronted outside of the Assessing Office by Laurie Ortolano (DOB: ). Since
my previous conversation with Cameron and Brown everyone within the Nashua Assessing Department, except Cheryl
Walley (DOB: ) had decided that they wanted me to inform Ortolano that they did not want to have any contact
with her outside of the Assessing Department Office.
Upon our arrival | was unable to make contact with Ortolano. Ortolano’s husband, Michael Ortatano (DOB:
) advised that she had just stepped out but he stated that he would have her contact me when she returned.
Mr. Ortolano was thanked for his time and | ended my contact with him.
A cali number, 19-63717 was generated for this attempt contact and was later added to this case file for case
inclusion,

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From: Laura Colquhoun <lauracolquhoun2@gmail.com>
sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2020 8:07 AM
To: Board of Aldermen; Mayor's Office Email

Subject: Public Comment

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June 9, 2020

Laura Colquhoun
30 Greenwood Dr
Nashua NH 03062

To:

Dear Members,

I have become aware that the Board of Assessor is not allowing public comment of any form,
email or verbal. [am requesting that you use your influence and help the Board walk back their
position and open up public comment, and at a minimum, accept emails, during this pandemic.

This Office sets the assessment levels for all properties in Nashua and ultimately determines a
significant portion of the money generated to support the budget. I ask that you recognize the
importance of the public’s comments in these meetings.

Please make this part of the public record,
Thank you,

Laura Colquhoun

Graham, Donna

From: Carole A Barker <carolebooks@icloud.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2020 9:16 AM

To: Board of Aldermen; Mayor's Office Email
Subject: Public Comment and the Board of Assessors

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June 9, 2020
Carole and David Barker
43 Raymond Street
Nashua, NH 03064
To: Mayor Donchess and the Board of Aldermen
Dear Members,
We have become aware that the Board of Assessors in Nashua is not allowing public comment of any form,
written/emailed or verbal. We are requesting that you use your influence to encourage the Board to walk back their
position and open up public comment. At a minimum, especially during this pandemic, they should accept emailed
communications,
The Office of Assessors sets the assessment levels for all properties in Nashua and therefore ultimately determines a
significant portion of the money generated to support the city’s budget. We ask that you recognize the importance of
the public’s comment in these meetings.
Please make this part of the public record.

Thank you,

Carole and David Barker

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Graham, Donna

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From: Ramesh Reddy <reddyrame@gmail.com>

Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2020 9:53 AM

To: Board of Aldermen

Cc: Mayor's Office Email

Subject: Public comment

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> To: BOA@nashuanh.gov; nashuamayor@Nashuanh.gov

>

> Dear Members,

>

> | have become aware that the Board of Assessor is not allowing public comment of any form, email or verbal. | am
request that you use your influence and help the Board walk back their position and open up public comment, and ata
minimum, accept emails, during this pandemic.

>

> This Office sets the assessment levels for all properties in Nashua and ultimately determines a significant portion of the
money generated to support the budget. | ask that you recognize the importance of the public’s comments in these
meetings.

>

> Please make this part of the public record.

>

> Thank you,

>

>

> Ramesh Reddy

28 Sims street

Nashua, NH 03063