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R-20-107
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderman-at-Large Benjamin Clemons
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY TREASURER TO ISSUE BONDS NOT TO EXCEED THE
AMOUNT OF FIVE MILLION ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,150,000) FOR
THE CITY’S SEWER INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM
Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDET REVIEW COMMITTEE, BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, and
SCHEDULE A SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN PUBLIC HEARING ON MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021,
AT 7:00 PM, by President Wilshire

R-20-108
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderman-at-Large Benjamin Clemons
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
APPROVING THE COST ITEMS OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND LOCAL 365 OF
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
(“AFSCME”) FROM JULY 1, 2017 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2023 AND AUTHORIZING RELATED
TRANSFERS
Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President Wilshire

President Wilshire

Without objection | will allow for the suspension of rules for a first reading of R-20-109 that was received
after the agenda was prepared.

R-20-109
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Skip Cleaver
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
AUTHORIZING ISSUING OF BUILDING PERMITS ON OLD HARRIS ROAD, A CLASS 6 HIGHWAY
Given its first reading; assigned to the PENNICHUCK WATER COMMITTEE and NASHUA CITY
PLANNING BOARD by President Wilshire

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES - None

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PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT - None
President Wilshire

Is there anyone that would like to give public comment? | am not seeing anyone. Remarks by Members of
the Board? Alderman Clemons?

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Clemons

Thank you. | just wanted to say that | would be remiss if | didn’t make any comments in regards to the terrible
situation that occurred last Wednesday at our US Capitol. | think it affects everyone on so many levels. | will
keep this brief, | am very happy that the House of Representatives is going forward with the impeachment of
the President. | am happy that the FBI is looking into the people who stormed the Capitol. As far as | am
concerned, these people are infidels and | am very happy that our Law Enforcement here in the City of
Nashua and the State of New Hampshire are on top of any shenanigans that might come up between now
and the Inauguration and afterwards.

We need to stay strong and be united as Americans. There is a time for disagreement; we can disagree
about politics, about our candidates, where we stand on the issues. But there is no place, you know, you can
fight an election just like the President did through the Courts even though he got turned down a million times,
that’s just how it is. And that’s our American system. And we live another day. We have turnover, we have
term limits in this country, they are called elections. So | encourage everyone to stay involved, and you know,
just be vigilant, if you see something, say something. But really in our society, in my opinion, there’s no
justification for violent revolution. We do our revolution at the ballot box, that’s the way it should be. It’s how |
believe and how | was taught that America is and should be and | am proud to be an American citizen. Thank
you.

President Wilshire
Thank you. Alderman Dowd?
Alderman Dowd

Yes, first of all | would like to welcome Attorney Bolton back to the fold. There is no one happier to see him
than | am. We have been colleagues and friends for decades, probably longer than neither one of us would
like to admit. But | am glad to see him back and active and hope he doesn’t rush too much into the fray and
has time to recover. Also I'd like to welcome Attorney Neumann to the fold. | know that we have hired him
predominantly to look at the numerous Right-to-Know Law issues that we have had. And | don’t know if any
of any of the Board members have the same feeling | do, but | would like to know what all of these requests
have cost the City over the last year and if anything positive that would have done something beneficial for
the City, or even homeowners, has come out of all of those Right-to-Know requests. Because it is an
extensive amount of money; I'd like to know what the estimate is of that amount of money and what all of that
has been used for. Thank you.

President Wilshire

Alderman Klee?

Alderman Klee

Thank you, Madam President. | wanted to comment on the Brave New World Art Project. | too have driven

by it a few times. The first time | drove by it | really wasn’t even aware of what the project was. | pulled onto
Sargent Ave. and parked my car there and walked over to look at it. It was more impressive to literally walk

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by it then just to drive by. | strongly recommend anybody in this City, but especially those in Wards 2, 4, and
3, it’s right there in your backyard. Take the time to go and look at it. It’s quite an amazing job that the
students and the teachers did.

| too would like to welcome back Attorney Bolton and welcome Attorney Neumann on board. | also want to
make a comment relative to the safety here in Nashua and in the State. | had a number of phone calls from
constituents this morning as | said and Chief Carignan | contacted him and asked him, you know, are we
safe? And while he does not know what is going to happen tomorrow, they are on top of it. We have an
officer that is assigned with the FBI Anti-Violence Unit and we stay on track of it and | think the citizens should
feel safe. | believe our National Guard are right there. They may be helping with vaccines but they are also
ever on duty. So at a moment's notice, they will be where they need to be, as our State Police and so on.

| think the citizens of New Hampshire and Nashua should feel safe and proud but that does mean that you let
your guard down. So try to lead a little bit with love and as this Brave New World art project speaks, choose
love and stay safe. And try to turn one of those negatives into a positive. Thank you.

President Wilshire
Alderman Tencza.
Alderman Tencza

Thank you Madam President. Just another project that | wanted to highlight and thank some folks for. We
have heard a presentation on it here at the Board of Aldermen is the renovations that happened at the
Nashua Police Athletic League that were finalized toward the end of December. | just wanted to thank Hope
for New Hampshire for all that they did. They did the construction in 2020 which was a wild year for
everybody; somehow they got it all done. That facility is going to be something that didn’t cost Nashua PAL
anything, they came in donated their time and resources. But it is going to be a great Community Center for
kids in that neighborhood and the entire City for years to come. Thank you to them, there was a great article
in the Telegraph this weekend about it and hopefully soon enough all the kids will be back there fulltime and
able to use it to its fullest extent.

The other thing, just to follow up on what some other folks were saying. So | think that one of the things that
this Board sets a great example for the community as far as civility is concerned. We have our
disagreements but our disagreements are not personal, very professional. | am hoping that we continue that
not just at this Board but with the community as a whole as we take on other difficult issues in 2021 we set
the example. We keep things so that they are productive. We want to hear from folks but I’m not sure what
people think they are going to accomplish by coming in and insulting staff members and all of us. We are
certainly willing to hear and want to hear from folks, but please let’s remember that we are all here to try to do
the best for the City and the folks who live here. Thank you.

President Wilshire
Thank you. Alderman Harriott-Gathright.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright

| too wanted to say again welcome back Attorney Bolton and welcome to the team Attorney Neumann. This
is the time of year we celebrate Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King as part of Southern New Hampshire
Outreach of Black Unity we have had 37 breakfasts which we are not having this year. But | do want to share
that the plan is and | will send out something later. We decided that we were just going to play one of his
speeches and we have several community members that will speak to the speech including Melanie
Levesque former Senator for Nashua; Minister Ray Ealey from the Fellowship Baptist Church at 50 Ash
Street and | don’t remember | know it is one more but | can’t remember the name. But there will be
approximately 5 speakers that will soeak to whatever is played that morning. It will be on Zoom.

A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Wednesday, November 9, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.

President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia Piecuch; Alderman Tom Lopez led in the Pledge to the Flag.

The roll call was taken with 14 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Clemons was recorded
absent.

Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also present.

President McCarthy

Last week Nashua lost a couple of good friends of this Board: former Alderman Britton and a long-time state
representative, Angie Kopka, and | would ask that we observe a moment of silence in memory of them.

REMARKS BY THE MAYOR

Mayor Donchess

As we all know we had our election yesterday and many people came to the polls and | wanted to especially
commend City Clerk Piecuch and her entire staff for working very long and very hard towards a very
successful result. The city registered several thousand people before the election using the extended hours
that the City Clerk’s office set up and then registered over 5,000 people yesterday at the polls for a total of
almost 10,000 people. The City Clerk’s staff worked through the entire weekend. There were some glitches
that could have resulted in problems; the Secretary of State didn’t give us enough ballots and some of them
might have been smudged but Ms. Piecuch worked through all of those problems with her staff and all of the
people who worked in the polls. We had the regular poll workers, the moderators and others but also special
people who were registering new voters all day long at all of the polling places. Everyone did a great job and
the results were reported quickly and efficiently with no problems and in a big election like this that is not an
easy job. Two of our own members here were up for re-election yesterday. | would like to congratulate
Alderman O’Brien and Alderman LeBrun on their re-elections to the House. In the coming term we as a city
want to work carefully with our legislative delegation and members elsewhere to advance Nashua’s interests
and the interests of municipalities across the state. | will be holding a meeting for the new members of the
legislature in the coming weeks, probably in December and the Board of Aldermen would be very welcome to
attend. We will let you know when we schedule that.

Tomorrow night is the budget meeting where we are going to discuss some of the unique challenges that we
face in next weeks’ budget. It will be upstairs in the City Hall Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. and | hope as many of
you as possible can make it. We've invited all of the other Boards that participate in the city budgeting
process as well. We want to begin the discussion now on the issues that we will be looking at and begin to
get the community input both from the people who are direct participants but also voters and other citizens
and community members.

On Friday, as | am sure you know, we have the Veteran’s Day Parade which will kick-off in the morning at
Holman Stadium. We expect a good crowd and | think the weather is supposed to be pretty good so | hope
as many of you as possible can join us. There is also a lunch afterwards at the Elm Street Middle School
Cafeteria for those who are interested.

Finally, | would like to join President McCarthy in expressing sorrow for the deaths of the two leading citizens
that passed away over the last couple of weeks. Angie Kopka who was 100 years old and who has been a
very prominent citizen in Nashua for a long time and also Fred Britton who | knew when | was in city
government before and | think some of you served with him on the Board of Aldermen. They will both be
missed.

Exhibit B

Project# 52636.01
Nashua Downtown Riverfront - ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

Task # Task Name

00100 Prime Wetland Boundary

|00200 Wetland Mitigation

|00300 Stream Assessment

|00400 Rare Species

]00500 Wetland Permit

|o0600 Army Corps SPGP

|00700 AoT Coordination

]00800 NHDHR RPR

|o0900 Cultural Resource Surveys

]01000 Section 106 Coordination

]01100 Permitting Follow On

]01200 Archaeolgical Coordination

01 300 Soil and Groundwater Assessment
]01400 Soil and Groundwater Management Plan

Average Hourly Price Rate
Total Hours
Total Labor Price

Bakos, Greg Cilley, Cynthia Cloutier, Dave

Design
Manager

1
8

24

16
16

$215.00
91
$19,565.00

Sr. CAD

32

40

$125.00
92
$11,500.00

Sr. Water
Resource
Engineer

16
16

$155.00
32
$4,960.00

Fleurat,
Annique
Water
Resource
Engineer

32
24

$145.00
56
$8,120.00

Hooper, Jason

Sr.
Environmental
Engineer

40
$165.00
40
$6,600.00

Lemire, Russ

Engineer

100

$135.00
100
$13,500.00

Martin, Nicole

Envi Scientist

20

$105.00
182
$19,110.00

McSweeney,
Ariana
Cultural
Resource
Specialist

32
110

$105.00
142
$14,910.00

Nahlik, Rene

Sr.
Environmental
Engineer

60
120
$165.00
180
$29,700.00

Pelletier,
Stephanie

GIS Specialist Environmental

14
14
$115.00
84
$9,660.00

Ragalwar,
Rucha

Engineer

44
56
$135.00
100
$13,500.00

Stuart-Knight, Wagner, Walker, Peter
Quinn Christopher
Sr Cultural Sr. Biologist Project
Resource Manager
Specialist
4
16
4
24
16
8 4
50 4
88 16
16
8 4
4
8
$155.00 $205.00 $235.00
154 16 105
$23,870.00 $3,280.00 $24,675.00

Wilkes,
Kristopher
Sr.
Environmental
Scientist
4

12

24

10

$165.00
51
$8,415.00

Total Hours

25
120
52
12
200
12
216
62
172
120
62
12
122
238

1425

ESTIMATED DIRECT EXPENSES $
ALLOWANCE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SUBCONSULTANT (IF NEEDED): $
ALLOWANCE FOR ASBESTOS SUBCONSULTANT (IF NEEDED): $

AMENDMENT TOTAL

$225,365.00

Total Labor
Price

3,615.00
18,600.00 |
7,860.00 |
1,450.00 |
29,000.00 |
1,260.00 |
30,800.00 |
7,810.00 |
21,160.00 |
20,840.00 |
10,950.00 |
2,180.00 |
18,390.00 |
37,450.00 |

211,365.00
4,000.00
5,000.00
5,000.00

Board of Aldermen 01-12-2021 Page 29

Alpine Grove was welcoming us back but we are following the rules. No we are not supposed to be
congregating together like that. So we decided that yes, we still needed to do something, even if it’s for our
children. So we still will have a youth speaker as usual but the adult speakers will be probably several for
maybe 10 to 15 minutes as to what that’s about. So | am inviting all my colleagues here and Statewide and
everywhere else as usual and the community at large. So there will be something sent out for that and that
will be on Monday approximately 9:00 a.m. and we figured it would be probably an hour, hour and a half on
Zoom or so.

But | also wanted to mention that First Baptist Church who are celebrating their 39" year Celebration of MLK
and let me see, | did pull it up here. | think | pulled it up. | Know it’s Saturday and | think Mr. Mayor is still
here, probably had more; | did have it up on my screen, | don’t know what — oh there it is. OK Saturday,
January the 16" at 7:00 p.m. the Keynote Speaker is the Reverend Dr. Willard Ashley Senior and he is Co-
Chair of Anti-Racism Coalition of Faith. They also have musical performances by First Baptist Church Choir,
New Hampshire Gay Men’s Choir, Julia Leonard, Vocalist Soloist and other musical performances. And that
will be online as well so | will send this out to Donna so hopefully she can share it with everybody else so that
if you want to be in attendance on Saturday, which is usually a good time, great time, and great speeches.

And actually for Monday as well, anyone in the Public that wishes to join, we will be happy to have you. Any
comments you want to make, we will be happy to have that as well. So thank you.

President Wilshire

Thank you. Anyone else? Alderman Lopez?

Alderman Lopez

Yeah | just want to first correct my colleague Alderman Tencza. The organization that did all the work at PAL
is called “Building on Hope”. They are a small group of people and they’ve done some pretty amazing
projects. They are definitely worth checking in and we were really lucky to have them choose Nashua as a
community. PAL | won’t say is lucky because they are a force multiplier they usually hit way outside their
weight class; not only when they are boxing but when they are doing other programs. So we are just lucky to
have PAL.

| wanted to express my condolences to DPW at the loss of Andre. | wanted to thank the Board of Health for
taking the time to come out and present. And for all the work that Public Health and Healthcare Providers
have been doing behind the scenes, after hours, over the weekends to try to get us all through this. | wanted
to also thank Alderwoman Klee, it's been awhile but we did, since Christmas, but she took the lead on
Operation Enduring Welcome’s Christmas Tree decorating competition this year. We still had Veterans
decorating their hallways and trying to celebrate the Holidays as best they could. We had food donated by
Soel Sistas and then again for New Year's by Chick Fil-A. So it’s little things like that that | hope help people
get through this difficulty.

As Alderman Clemons pointed out, there is a lot of very unfortunate decisions made in the Capitol over the
week and a lot of them were by President Trump and by people who | believe were trying to represent him.
But I’ve gotten a lot of calls from people locally, a lot of concerns about how safe they feel. And all | can do is
remind them that this is Nashua, we are all neighbors we all Know each other. You can still contact your
Alderman, you can still contact your State Representatives. New Hampshire is a small State and | like to
think that we are a little bit closer together. To the people who decided that they were going to get caught up
in the mob and run off with podiums and violently attack Police Officers, | can’t soeak for the President but
you betrayed everybody who believes in the same things as you. Because that’s also what | am hearing a lot
of is people saying, Look, | believe in this but | would never have done that. And that’s wrong to take away
from other people.

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And | also think it’s wrong to take away what should be a point of transition for our country where we are
willing to say, OK Democracy happened. We put all of our hours into counting ballots and voting and our own
City Clerk worked many, many extra hours making sure that the polling stations were safe and orderly and
organized. And it just is a complete discredit to all of that to say, Well | didn’t get my way so they can’t be
true. That’s very unfortunate and we all still have to live together here in Nashua regardless of whatever is
going on in Washington.

So | would encourage people to just be mindful of the impact you have on others especially in that area. And
if you have beliefs and you have ideals and you want to push those forward, then run for office. We need
more people. Feel free to lead, mobilize and organize in positive ways; it speaks better to your message than
the alternatives. Thank you.

President Wilshire

Anyone else? I'd like to say a few things. First on the Brave New World art project, so impressive. The first
day | saw it, | was like, what is that. Then | slowed down and then | got stopped a light or an intersection and
| was able to read them and then every time | went by | tried to read a new one and | go by there almost every
day; very impressive. Great group of kids that were able to put that together and the teachers were amazing.
So | want to thank them and hope they continue doing that honest and just great things.

Also I'd like to send my condolences to the family of Andre Pelletier and Terry Romano. Terry Romano, |
knew her quite well, she was a very generous woman, very nice, very well-loved; she will be missed. | guess
that’s it.

Committee announcements:

President Wilshire

Alderman Dowd?

Alderman Dowd

Yes, Budget Monday 25 January at 7:00. We are going to have 3 bonds and a contract that night and we
had to schedule that way because of the timing involved. So there will be a fair amount on the Agenda so |
just want to make sure that everybody knows that’s when the meeting is.

President Wilshire

Is that 2020, or 2021 Alderman Dowd?

Alderman Dowd

| wish it was 2020 but no 2021.

President Wilshire

OK thank you. Any other Committee announcements? Alderman Caron?

Alderman Caron

Yes, thank you. The Personnel/Administrative Committee will be holding a Special Meeting on 1/21/21 for

discussion of two items. One is for the sewer fees and the other one is the hiring of a new Deputy Tax
Collector/Treasurer and that’s it. 7:00 — thank you.

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President Wilshire

Thank you, ok. Anyone else? Seeing none, Alderman O’Brien?

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE JANUARY 12, 2021, MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED, BY ROLL CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken to adjourn the Board of Aldermen meeting which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd,

Alderman Caron, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,

Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws,

Alderman Cleaver, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 14
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 9:21 p.m.

Attest: Susan K. Lovering, City Clerk

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January 11, 2021

Nashua Case Update ae
1 Cumulative Cases: 4,644
. Active Cases: ~ 563
«o Deaths: 60
a Case Fatality Rate: 1.2%
1 Recovery Rate: 87%
«1 Hospitalization Rate: 2.4%

Data as of 1/11/2021