Board of Aldermen 5-26-2020 Page 31
President Wilshire
Thank you, Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Tencza?
Alderman Tencza
Thank you, Madam President. | just wanted to mention as we know yesterday, we celebrated Memorial Day
as a day we recognize and remember all the service members we have lost in service to our country. In
the past, the Nashua Elks have displayed flags as a memorial in all the City Cemeteries for the veterans
who are there. Unfortunately this year because of the COVID-19 they were not able to do that and | just
wanted to recognize the group that was headed by Jackie Leonardi here in town and the Cub Scouts and
Boy Scouts that she works with in both fundraising to supply the flags and distributing them yesterday or
over the last weekend so that service could still be available to all the veterans and service members that
have been lost.
| also just wanted to say to the families in town who have lost a service member, thank you for your
sacrifice and as we start this unusual summer, you know, we will remember them in all of the things we can
be thankful for individually as we move forward. Thanks.
President Wilshire
You're welcome. Alderman Dowd?
Alderman Dowd
Yes, just a couple quick things. Sunday | was curious, | just took a ride downtown to see how the new set
up was looking and all of the restaurants, large and small, were fully seated at all their tables. All the
servers were wearing masks and people were having a great time. | am glad to see that the businesses
downtown now can recover some of the lost revenue. It may take a long time but it looked like people were
following the guidelines and enjoying themselves. Also, relative to the fireworks thing ending up at Holman
Stadium, if anybody wanted to use Holman Stadium, they would have to pay for the rent, they'd have to pay
the Police and they’d have to pay the firemen. So | don’t think that will be too often. And the other thing is
we have two Public Hearings on June 10" with the two Ordinances and one of them is the Fireman’s
Contract. We will have the Public Hearing and then go directly into the Budget Meeting afterwards and
take up those two pieces of Legislation. Also, on June 2, we will have our first wrap up session on the
Budget and if we don’t get anywhere, the next one will be the 4" and then we have, | believe, another one
the following week. So hopefully we can do it in one night but we will see where we are at. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Alderman Klee.
Alderman Klee
Thank you, Madam President. | wanted to also comment about the umbrellas. Over the weekend | was
bothering Attorney Bolton with my e-mails asking him why we couldn’t do this, and so on. | hope we can
work towards that if there’s an Ordinance | am more than happy to cosponsor that. | drove through
Manchester on Monday and every single place that was open had the umbrellas with different types of
liquors and beers and Guinness etc. on it. So | didn’t think it was detracting and under the circumstances,
to help support these businesses at $100.00 an umbrella and they can be donated, | think it’s the right
thing.
| also did want to talk about Main Street. | have been working with the United Way in giving out masks.
They have been doing City Hall up until today. Today they started City Hall and Railroad Square and they
will be there until the 31°", 10:00 to 2:00 every single day. | gave a record 1,250 masks away on Friday and
