Board of Aldermen 09-09-2020 Page 7
Alderman Tencza
| just wanted to briefly echo the Mayor’s comments as they relate to Ms. Lovering and the work that her office
did with the elections yesterday. It wasn’t easy, we’ve gotten some negative feedback | think but | think overall
it was a positive experience for people to feel safe going out to vote in an environment where they can remain
socially distant and wearing masks and doing it a safe way. And then finally, Mr. Mayor, | hope a speedy
recovery for you and Mrs. Donchess.
Alderman Cleaver
Yes thank you. | would like to thank the Mayor for all the hard work he’s done and the Mayor’s staff and
everybody at City Hal. And Ms. Lovering that was an outstanding job you did in a very unusual circumstance
and we can’t thank you enough. | think it went very, very, very well. But kudos to the Mayor and to the staff and
to Director Bagley and everybody in fighting this virus. It’s been a fantastic learning experience in many ways
but it’s also been very, very, very hard work. We appreciate all that has been done.
Alderman Dowd
Yes | know what we had some concerns at Ward 6 because it is the Fairgrounds Middle School and it’s in the
middle of construction right now. We did what we could to make it passable working with Ms. Lovering and we
did have a couple hiccups that we are not sure what they were caused by, but it is being moved across the
street to the elementary school for November so there will not be an issue. And Mayor, | hope you and your
wife kick this real fast.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Just want to echo all my colleagues’ comments to the Mayor. | hope that you and Vicky recover abundantly and
soon. And to Sue Lovering and her staff, job well done, Ward 9 was well done. | did stay there until the end and
| actually watched them unassembled and take down things just really, really working as a team. So just want
to say hats off to you as well. And of course to Director Bagley, the lady of the hour, thank you so much for all
that you’ve done, not just for the Mayor but for a lot of other families here in Nashua, because I’ve heard nothing
but great things about your team and how they went overboard to help someone get the testing that they
needed. So | just want to say thank you, we really appreciate it.
RECOGNITION PERIOD
Introduction of New Planning Manager Matthew Sullivan, AICP
Sarah Marchant, Director of Community Development
Thank you President Wilshire and the Board. | am here before you tonight to introduce you to the new
Planning Manager, Matthew Sullivan, AICP who will be starting with us at the end of the month. This was a
long search in seeking the new manager; we really needed a very broad skill set and we were looking for
somebody with the enthusiasm and the energy to really bring this to this position, the Board and coming
back into the new Master Planning effort. And we have been incredibly busy in this time.
Bobbie and her team have been doing an amazing job with the COVID response and we have been
keeping the economy moving smoothly with non-stop Planning Board, Zoning Board, Conservation
Commission and all of the applications moving right along through and development has been proceeding
at a pretty breakneck pace. So we are really excited to bring Matthew on board and to keep this moving. |
will let you give him a little bit of a background about himself. So introducing Matt, hopefully you can see
him.
