Board of Aldermen 09-09-2020 Page 32
President Wilshire
Thank you. Is there anyone else that wishes to address the Board from the Public? Seeing none,
Remarks by Members of the Board? Alderman Clemons.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Clemons
Thank you, Madam President. So first | just want to say that | would hope that the Mayor and his family
recover quickly from COVID-19. That is a very scary thing to happen. My wife’s School District got a scare
yesterday. Windham High School had to shut down and do remote learning for the rest of the week and
beyond that to be determined. So you know even though we’ve had a relatively good summer, it’s
definitely around and we need to keep following the advice of our Governor and of our local officials.
One other thing | want, | regret to inform the community, as | am sure we know by now, Dennis Hanson
passed away in late August. Dennis owned Hanson’s Automotive on West Hollis Street. He had been a
member of the community for 43 years while he owned that shop. Although he didn’t live in Nashua he
certainly affected Nashua. He had many loyal customers over the years, me included, my family included
and he served this community well by being fair and honest and being a place where people could go and
know that they were going to get quality service without a hassle.
Dennis was really beloved. He retired, | want to say 2 years ago and he lived life to the fullest. He enjoyed
his retirement all the way up to the very end and that was very nice to hear, although | wish obviously it had
been longer. But | know that when | get up to heaven, | Know who my mechanic will be. | ‘m sure that
Dennis will be there, ready to fix all my automobiles. So thank you very much Madam President, | hope
everybody had a safe and happy Labor Day and see you at the next meeting.
President Wilshire
Thank you, Alderman Clemons. Anyone else wish to address the Board, Alderman Klee?
Alderman Klee
Thank you Madam President. | really want to send out sincere thanks to our City Clerk and all of her staff.
Like the Mayor said, anytime you turned around Sue was working, day, night, weekend. And | can tell you
as | worked at the Farmer’s Market on Sundays, you could see Sue going and | have to also make the side
comment that I’ve often seen Dave Fredette going in as well. So we have some incredibly loyal workers,
but the City Clerk’s Office went far beyond what we could have expected. My same goes with Director
Bagley and all her staff.
But | want to address something that | know some of my constituents have contacted me about and that is
City Hall not being open and that they really appreciate the fact that the City has gone above and beyond
trying to make accommodations for them with the outside, with the Department of Motor Vehicles. The fact
that the Mayor who takes as many precautions as possible and | know | am sure our City Workers who
have families and so on are doing these precautions. The reason City Hall is not open is fully where we
can just come and go as we please, at least in my opinion and | believe this to be true, is that we have
confined spaces. And asking people to work where they may be putting their own families in harm’s way
and so on, | am glad that City Hall is doing everything that they are doing. | hope that we don’t have to go
back, but the fact that we’ve had employees that are ill and now with the Mayor, his wife, and so on, it’s
critical that we do everything that we possibly can. | know it is not popular with some people but masks,
washing your hands, maintaining social distancing. And as one of my constituents said to me, stay down-
wind from people