Board of Aldermen 6-23-2020 Page 12
ON THE QUESTION
President Wilshire
Is that your Motion?
Alderman Schmidt
Yes.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Lopez, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette,
Alderman Schmidt 7
Nay: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Clemons
Alderman Tencza, Alderman Cleaver, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Wilshire 7
MOTION FAILED
President Wilshire
And that Motion failed. Do | have another Motion?
Alderman Schmidt
| guess we could go back to the original Motion.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SCHMIDT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND APPROVE THE
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT RELATED TO THE NASHUA DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT
PROJECT IN THE AMOUNT OF $24,000 TO THE GREAT AMERICAN DOWNTOWN AND TO
AUTHORIZE THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TO SIGN ALL RELATED DOCUMENTS,
BY ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
President Wilshire
Any discussion? Alderman Dowd.
Alderman Dowd
Yes, GAD is right at the moment is having financial difficulties because a good part of their funding is
related to the casinos and casinos donating to the charities, which have not been able to do that for some
time. Also, GAD is responsible for a number of things that keep Nashua vibrant such as the Meals
downtown, the Stroll and numbers of other things. If there’s nothing to keep them going, they may
disappear and | think that would be a tragedy for the City, because the one thing we are really going to
need when we come out of this pandemic is things to get people’s spirits back up and get the vibrancy of
the downtown again. And it is important that we, you know, it’s not that it necessarily would be a dance. If
that doesn’t happen we will find other things that GAD can help us with and take some of the burden off of,
because | see Mr. Cummings just joined us, off of his group. That’s why we are looking to have GAD get
involved in that. They have a number of other things to do. But we want to keep GAD vibrant and busy and
helping the City of Nashua. And this is one way we can do it. | would strongly suggest that we approve
this.
