Special Board of Aldermen Public Hearing — May 20, 2020 Page 4
PUBLIC HEARING
R-20-023
RELATIVE TO THE ADOPTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR
THE CITY OF NASHUA GENERAL, ENTERPRISE, AND SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS
Chairman Dowd
OK everyone should be on mute and | am going to read the procedure that we will be following this evening.
So first of all, good evening. This is the first on-line Public Hearing of the Nashua City Budget and we hope it
runs very smoothly but it may have minor problems as we try to get through it together. | am going to outline
the process and procedures we are going to follow and we need to keep as close to these as possible to be
successful. | would like to just take a minute to explain how the Public Hearing will be conducted. | will be
opening the Public Hearing on the Budget by recognizing Mayor Jim Donchess and Chief Financial Officer for
the City, John Griffin, who will be proving a short PowerPoint discussion on Nashua’s FY2021 Budget.
When they are through, | will then be going through each Budget Division by Department. When a member
of the public speaks, they must first state their name and address clearly for the record. If | see that a
member of the public has a question or a comment, | will allow them to ask one question or give one
comment for a period of five minutes for that question or comment. | will notify you when you have one-
minute left and then when five minutes has expired. Please do not speak until you are recognized by me for
your turn and finish up by mentioning that the five minutes has expired.
| will direct your questions to the responsible Division Director and they may defer it to one of their staff. Time
limits are imposed because we have no idea how many people might log on to the meeting and we may have
30 to 50 City Employees on the line so bandwidth may become an issue. | am going to ask everyone to turn
off their video unless they can a question and want to speak, then turn on your video so | can recognize you.
This will help the bandwidth issue some may have. If you have called in, please say your name once so | can
recognize you. Again when | recognize you, please state your name and address for the record.
When your five minutes has expired, | will move on to other members of the public who have questions on
that Department and so on until | see no more questions are to be asked on a Department. | will then ask if
anyone has additional questions for that Department and, if so, they may have an additional five minutes. If |
see no one with a question, | will immediately go to the next Department and follow that procedure until that
Division is complete. | will only accept questions on the Department being discussed and no others. At the
end of all Divisions and Departments being covered, | will ask if there are any additional questions on the
Budget and will recognize any person that has additional questions.
The procedures for asking questions is very simple. Each member of the public has five minutes per
question or comment including any statement that is made. Also, no signs will be allowed to be displayed
and if they are, the City IT Department will block their access to this meeting. If you run over the time limit, |
will remind you to wrap up your question and if you continue to speak, you will be reminded one more time
and if you don’t follow procedures you will be muted by IT. We want everyone to be heard on the Budget and
we have to allow all members of the public to be able to participate and we cannot let any one individual go
outside our normal procedures.
If you have general budget questions, you may ask those when the Mayor’s Office is up for discussion so that
they may be answered by the Mayor or Mr. Griffin. When we have concluded the review of all sections on
the Budget Book, | will ask for a Motion from Alderman O’Brien to adjourn the Public Hearing.
