Board of Aldermen 6-09-2020 Page 3
Alderman Laws
| am here, | am alone and | can hear you all.
Alderman Cleaver
| am here, | am alone and | am practicing social distancing. | can hear everybody just fine.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
| am present, | am alone and | can hear you and | am practicing social distancing.
President Wilshire
| am here, | am alone, and | am practicing social distancing.
Susan Lovering, City Clerk
You have 15 in attendance.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Is the Mayor with us this evening, Mayor?
Mayor Donchess
Yes, | am Madam President.
President Wilshire
Do you wish to address the Board?
REMARKS BY THE MAYOR
Mayor Donchess
Yes, thank you. | wanted to give you first a quick COVID-19 update. As you know, Public Health and
others in the City have been working very hard to contain the virus. There’s quite a bit of good news.
Certainly, it is still with us and there’s always the risk of a reemergence. We do not know how this is going
to go in the future. But from the testing we are doing, the testing that is being done here in Nashua and
State-wide has a very favorable trend. Right now, as of yesterday, there were 539 COVID-19 cases in
Nashua. But the percentage of people that are being tested, who show positive, who come up with a
positive test, has been declining now for about 40 days from above 10% to below 5% in some cases. So
that is a very important and very favorable trend. Unfortunately 18 people in Nashua have died; one is |
think well-known to many of us, Kevin Slattery, a very generous, kind member of the community who got
COVID-19 and was in the hospital for a couple of months and ultimately passed away. So that is a very
sad loss. But that is the reason we are undertaking the steps that we all find difficult. It is frustrating and
difficult to have to meet like this remotely, to not go out, to have to wear the masks. But in the end, we are
doing something very important together and although Kevin passed away, we are trying to save other
people like Kevin and we are being successful in doing so.
We need to continue and | am determined to continue to consider safety and use the scientific evidence
we have, and, of course, people want that. | think they, of course, need us to exercise and undertake the
steps that will help keep everybody, our families, our friends, safe.
