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Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Skip Cleaver

Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND THE CITY TREASURER TO ISSUE BONDS NOT TO EXCEED THE

AMOUNT OF TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS ($20,000,000) TO REFUND ALL OR A PORTION OF
CERTAIN OUTSTANDING BONDS OF THE CITY IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE INTEREST COST SAVINGS

e Budget ReviewCommittee Recommends: Final Passage

R-20-058
Endorsers: Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Ben Clemons
APPROVING THE COST ITEMS OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
NASHUA BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS AND TEAM STERS LOCAL 633, FROM JULY 1, 2020
THROUGH JUNE 30, 2022 AND RELATED TRANSFERS
e Budget ReviewCommittee Recommends: Final Passage

R-20-060
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Thomas Lopez

Alderman Jan Schmidt
RELATIVE TO THE APPROVAL OF THE PURCHASE OF ONE TRANSIT VAN FROM THE CAPITAL

EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT FUND (CERF) DURING FY 2021
e Budget ReviewCommittee Recommends: Final Passage

R-20-061
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess

Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright

RELATIVE TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF $63,865 OF UNANTICIPATED REVENUE INTO

FUND #7026 “CAPITAL EQUIPMENT RESERVE FUND”

e Budget ReviewCommittee Recommends: Final Passage

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-20-017
Endorser: Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
AUTHORIZING FREE PARKING AT METERS AND PAY STATION SPACES THROUGH
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
(tabled at BOA May 21, 2020 mtg)

NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-20-066
Endorser: Alderman Richard A. Dowd
APPROVING THE COST ITEMS OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE

NASHUA BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE NASHUA ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATORS AND SUPERVISORS, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS,
AFL-CIO FROM JULY 1, 2020 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2021 AND RELATED TRANSFERS

R-20-067
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
ESTABLISHING THE USE OF FUND BALANCE FOR TAX RATE

R-20-068
Endorser: Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
RELATIVE TO THE USE OF U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT HOME
INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM FUNDS FOR ACQUISITION AND REHABILITATION OF 82-
92 AMHERST STREET

R-20-069
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
RELATIVE TO THE RE-APPROPRIATION OF FISCAL YEAR FY2021 ESCROWS

R-20-070
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $294,676 FROM THE NEW HAMPSHIRE
CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INTO PUBLIC HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES GRANT ACTIVITY
“COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER SUPPORT TO VULNERABLE POPULATIONS”

R-20-071
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY TREASURER TO ISSUE BONDS
NOT TO EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS ($8,000,000) FOR TWO
CONTSRUCTION PROJECTS, CONSISTING OF A PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE GROUND LEVEL
PARKING GARAGE ($2,500,000) AND ADDITONAL FUNDING FOR THE PROPOSED PERFORMING
ARTS CENTER ($5,500,000)

R-20-072
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $356,046 FROM THE U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION, AND $26,828 FROM
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION INTO TRANSIT GRANT
ACTIVITY “LOW OR NO EMISSION GRANT PROGRAM”

R-20-073
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO PILOT AGREEMENT PURSUANT TO RSA 72:74 WITH

PENNICHUCK WATER WORKS, INC.

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES

O-20-030
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
ADOPTING A TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (TIF) DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT UNDER RSA 162-K AND
NRO 295-11, THE “SCHOOL STREET TIF” AND A TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM AND FINANCING PLAN FOR THE NEW TIF

PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Committee announcements:

ADJOURNMENT

Board of Aldermen

City of Nashua
229 Main Street
Nashua, NH 03061-2019

(603) 589-3030

MEMORANDUM

TO: Board of Aldermen

FROM: Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
DATE: September 3, 2020

SUB.: Communications Received from the Public

Attached please find communications received from the public as follows:

From: Travis Tripodi
Re: Q-20-029

From: Jim Rafferty
Re: School Street Project

From: NH Retail Association
Re: Mask Ordinance

From: Catherine Norton
Re: Mask Ordinance

From: Sharon Giglio
Re: Masks

From: John Cawthron
Re: Masks

From: Kerry Litka
Re: Mask Ordinance

From: Jeff Locke
Re: Mask Policy

Graham, Donna

aie CORSE aoe
To: Travis Tripodi
Subject: RE: O-20-029

From: Travis Tripodi [mailto:tttripgdi326@gqmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2020 8:13 PM

To: Board of Aldermen

Subject: 0-20-029

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Dear Aldermen,

I previously wrote to the Board prior to the consideration of the adoption of O-20-018. At that time, I expressed
my concerns about passing an ordinance that takes away the freedom of a business owner, small or large, to
operate their business how they see fit.

During the BOA meeting where O-20-018 was discussed, one of the main arguments for the ordinance, put
forward by Alderman Lopez, was that small business owners had expressed concern about having to enforce the
wearing of masks on their premises without backup from the local government. At the time, I found the
evidence for this perspective to be anecdotal, overstated, and unsubstantiated. I believe that the language
proposed in O-20-029 supports this:

"All businesses open to the public...shall post at each public entrance a notice stating "FACE COVERINGS
REQUIRED."

"No business and no employee of any business shall provide goods or services to any person not complying
with face covering requirements of this ordinance, O-20-018, or any other face covering requirements now in
force or hereafter adopted. No business and no employee of any business shall permit a person to remain on its
premises in violation of these requirements."

It is clear that the proposal is in response to businesses not operating in alignment with the City's stance on
mask use. If the original mask ordinance, O-20-018, was put in place in support of, and not in opposition to
local business, this newly proposed amendment, O-20-029, would be unnecessary. This ordinance is very
clearly stating that the goal of City officials is to dictate to private business owners how they should operate
their businesses.

The "Or what?" question was also a large part of the initial debate on O-20-018. I suspect that it will be a larger
part of the conversation around O-20-029. Is the City going to propose that businesses that don't comply lose
their licenses to operate? Then we have to ask the question, "Can/will we enforce it?” When you start to ask
these questions it becomes clear that this proposal is not "pro-business" like it was originally proposed.

Businesses and individuals do not need the government; federal, state, or local, to tell them how to live their
lives or operate their businesses. When people talk about how ordinances such as this are a slippery slope, this

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is exactly what they are talking about. This was always the natural next step when the community did not
comply with an ordinance they did not agree with. I would ask and strongly recommend that the BOA vote
against the passing of O-20-029 AND vote to rescind the previously ineffective O-20-018.

Sincerely,
Travis Tripod

34 Lawndale Ave, Nashua, NH 03060
Increasingly Concerned Citizen

August 11, 2020
Dear City of Nashua Aldermen:

There have been a number of recent meetings between the abutters and city officials regarding the
School Street Development, and | am writing to provide you an update.

In these meetings, there is general agreement that to protect the abutting businesses’ viability,
mitigating parking measures will be necessary. Alternatives discussed include creating additional street
parking, creating parking on city land next to the Pennichuck building, rewarking the oval into squared
off intersections, or demolishing other buildings on High Street to create parking spaces. Perhaps the
most feasible solution is to secure access to the new Pennichuck parking during evenings and weekends.
This will not satisfy the parking deficit, especially on weekdays and busy nights, but would help.

City officials, while willing to discuss parking solutions, are not currently able to make assurances on any
proposals. The parking ramifications of this immense building in this location are significant and
potential solutions are at this time uncertain.

City officials are, however, unyieiding in their resolve to go forward with the project, now. One tald me
outright, “The City is going to do this project.” The Mayor and the administration are myopic on the
issue; the Mayor has said the project will generate $490,000 annually for the city. What a minute - the
River raised $488,153 for charities in 2019. What the Nashua Children’s Home and the Corpus Christi
Food Pantry do with their money, we believe, is as important as what the City does with its revenue.

On July 21st the Mayor emailed a 3-page letter “Building a Stronger Economy with New School Street
Housing” to his email list, an email which was circulated around the River by customers to employees.
One empioyee asked me bluntiy, “| guess we’re dane?” | can’t say to her what the Mayor said to me,
“There is plenty of parking in downtown Nashua, 3,000 spots.” She knows the behavior of the guests at
the River and she knows this could mean the end of a job that provides well for her family.

The River’s ownership, charities, and 49 employees are net alone in their concern. ALL of the abutters
are opposed to the project. My landlord, George Katis, put up a sign adjacent to the River’s leased
space, “12,000 sq. ft. for lease.” Harbor Homes, with 85 employees and 7 million dollars invested into
their building, is also strongly opposed. The Lafayette Club and Polish American Club feel imperiled.

“The City is going to do this project?” The future of this project is not up to the Mayor and City
administrators. Itis up to you. And you are closer to the truth. You know that parking in Nashua is a
problem which has reached crisis levels, with drastically under-parked housing projects, unsafe,
underutilized parking garages, predatory towing schemes, and overnight parking policy unrest.

You understand the good that the River does, the significance of the services.of Harbor Homes, the
value ta the community of Ace Hardware, the Lafayette Club, and the Polish American Cub. We are
asking you to stand with the employees, the charities that the River supports, the community social
clubs that helped build Nashua, the clients of Harbor Homes, and the long-time business development
by the Katis family. The Aldermen should do the right thing, change the course,

Sincerely,

Jim Rafferty
52 Main Street, Apartment 404, Nashua NH 03064
603-809-7106

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ASSOCIATION

NEW HAMPSHIRE LODGING & RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION

August 13, 2020
Nashua Board of Aldermen
229 Main Street
Nashua, NH 03061

Dear Nashua Aldermen,

We are seeing many municipalities passing ordinances requiring customers to wear face masks before entering retail store
settings. It has come to the attention of the NH Retail Assoc, the NH Grocers Assoc and the NH Lodging & Restaurant
Assoc that you are considering an amendment to Nashua’s mask ordinance that would require businesses and employees
to enforce the requirement for customers to wear a mask.

Requiring retail employees to enforce such an order unfairly places employees in an untenable or uncomfortable position.
Retail workers are not law enforcement professionals who receive specialized training to enforce public laws and de-
escalate confrontations. Customers and employees are already under enormous strain to follow procedures to protect
themselves and the public. Instituting a policy that will lead to conflicts within or outside the store is not only unfair to
employees, but it is unsafe to all those in the store.

Our associations are participating in organized efforts to boost mask wearing in the state. Further, mandated mask usage,
as the current ordinance provides, allows businesses to state that the ordinance requires the use of masks in stores, so law
enforcement can properly address situations where customers become belligerent or violent. But there is distinct
difference between a requirement that allows the business owner or employees to tell a customer that it’s the law,
and putting them in the position of being the enforcement arm.

While cases of violence are certainly the exception, we have all seen the videos or read the reports of customers behaving
badly. The proposed amendment to the existing mask requirement ordinance puts retail employees in potentially
dangerous situations when they’re forced to confront unmasked customers.

We respectfully request that you reject the proposed amendment to the current ordinance and leave appropriate law
enforcement personnel to enforce the order. This is the only way to safely and effectively enforce these public health
policies. Retailers will continue to focus on store operations made more complex by including public signage or routine
public address reminders for consumers of their responsibilities under local health orders.

We hope you will agree that it must be up to state and local law enforcement agencies to address violators of a
government order, not store employees. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

— /
Nancy C Kyle John Dumais Mike Somers
President/CEO NH Retail Assoc President, NH Grocers Assoc CEO/President, NH Lodging &
603-225-9748 603-669-9333 Restaurant Assoc, 603-228-9585
nancy@retailnh.com dumais(@grocers.org msomers@nhlra.com

ee: Mayor Jim Donchess, Chief Michael Carignan, City Attorney Steve Bolton.

Graham, Donna

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From: norton_catherine <norton_catherine@yahoo.com>

Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 5:04 PM

To: Board of Aldermen

Subject: New mask mandate proposal

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unknown.

As a Nashua resident, homeowner, Nashua business owner and a commercial property owner I wish to make it
known that neither I nor my husband support any new mandates requiring the monitoring or policing of mask
wearers in the city of Nashua. Our property, since we have owned it, has been broken into, windows broken
and hit with a machete, smashed into by a car, homeless people urinate and defecate on our property and
nothing has been done to increase police presence downtown, to eliminate the homeless people harassing our
customers and workers, or even a barrier at the most dangerous intersection in the city to keep cars ftom
smashing into our businesses at these corners. Now, someone, who does not live downtown, wants us to police
mask wearing, after requiring us to shut down our business for three months and then only allowing us to open
at fifty percent at the most with the requirements of six foot spacing which equates to even less. No, and I will
work with my family that lives and owns property in Nashua and all of the contacts I know to vote out anyone
who votes that we do. Enough is enough.

Catherine Norton

104 Shore Drive

Nashua NH 03062

Sent from the Samsung Galaxy View:

Scott Cote (New Appointment) Term to Expire: November 1, 2019
39 Tenby Drive
Nashua, NH 03062

Kevin Slattery (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 1, 2018
4 Berkeley Street
Nashua, NH 03064

Downtown Improvement Committee

James Tobin (New Appointment) Term to Expire: November 2, 2019
36 Dogwood Drive
Nashua, NH 03062

Historic District Commission

Robert Sampson (Reappointment) Term to Expire: September 30, 2019
18 Sargent Avenue
Nashua, NH 03064

Mine Falls Park Advisory Committee

Bruce Lund (New Appointment) Term to Expire: November 1, 2019
2 Clocktower Place, #227
Nashua, NH 03060

Nashua Arts Commission:

Marc Thayer (New Appointment) Term to Expire: April 1, 2019
1 Clocktower Place, #416
Nashua, NH 03060

Planning Board

Gerry Repucci (New Appointment) Term to Expire: March 31, 2017
17 Badger Street, #1
Nashua, NH 03060

UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS

R-16-029
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
ESTABLISHING AN EXPENDABLE TRUST FUND FOR RIVERWALK WALKWAYS, BRIDGES
AND RELATED IMPROVEMENTS AND APPROPRIATING AT LEAST $500,000 INTO THE
EXPENDABLE TRUST FUND
e Budget Review Committee Recommends: Indefinite Postponement

R-16-077
Endorsers: Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire

APPROVING THE COST ITEMS OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
THE NASHUA BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE NASHUA TEACHERS’ UNION, LOCAL 1044,
AFT, AFL-ClIO FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2017 AND RELATED
TRANSFERS
e Budget Review Committee Recommends: Final Passage

Graham, Donna

From: Rick Dowd <rdowd1@comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 1:11 PM
To: Graham, Donna

Subject: Fwd: Masks

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unknown.

Please fwd Sharon’s email to the full Board. Thanks!!

Sent from my iPhone
Alderman Rick DOWD
Ward 2 Nashua

Begin forwarded message:

From: Sharon Giglio <giglios@nashua.edu>
Date: August 13, 2020 at 10:30:46 AM EDT

To: Richard Dowd <dowdr(@nashuanh. gov>
Subject: Masks

Hi Rick,
| could not figure out how to send an email to the entire BOA so if you are able to forward this
to the others, | would appreciate it.

| would like you to pass the mask mandate that would, hopefully, add some teeth to that of the
City. |am in a high risk group. | have had to stop shopping at Shaw's on Main St. due to the
many not wearing masks in that store. | spoke to someone at City Hall and to the store manager
{| told him | would be shopping at the Shaw's at exit one, since they are enforcing the mask
wearing). | was told how hard it is to enforce this. Some patrons are very threatening (and are
carrying weapons} and by the time the police get there they have left. | m not sure what the
solution is. |am sure the police have a lot on their plates. | do not want business owners to be
assaulted in trying to enforce this...but...our future and our lives depend on mask wearing.

Thank you to all,
Sharon Giglio

29 Taschereau Blvd.
Nashua 03062