Special Board of Aldermen Public Hearing — May 20, 2020 Page 5
At this time, | am going to turn the meeting over to Mayor Donchess and John Griffin and ask that everyone
else please turn off your video and everyone is mute except the Mayor and John Griffin so they can do their
presentation. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Mr. Chairman, | didn’t hear Alderwoman Kelly on roll call be she is on the meeting, she was on the meeting, |
don’t know why we didn’t hear her. | just wanted to note that for the record. Thank you. Alderman Lu,
unless you have a procedural question the Aldermen are here just to listen this evening.
Alderwoman Lu
| do, would it be a good idea to inform the public how they can indicate how they have a question?
Chairman Dowd
| covered that. They either have to wave their hand, turn their video on so! can see them. If they don’t do
that, | can’t see them. And if they are on a phone, they need to say their name, there may be several people
saying their name, whoever | can hear | will call and we will go through until no one else has a question.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you, I’m sorry | may not have been here when you said that. That’s all.
Chairman Dowd
Alderman Kelly did you have something? No? Alright. | sill see people on video outside of the Mayor and Mr.
Griffin, please turn off your videos until you are called upon and that includes members of the City Staff;
unless we are asking for you to answer a question, please keep your video off. The bandwidth will be terrible
if we don’t do that. Mayor?
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Mayor Donchess
Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Good Evening everyone. Of course we are following a very unusual procedure
tonight for a Public Hearing we hold every year. Every year we hold a Public Hearing on the Budget and take
public input. Normally we are at Nashua South and this is all done live but because of the COVID-19 Crisis
and all that we have experienced together over the last two months, we are doing this remotely. | want to
thank the City IT Department and everybody else who has been involved in making this possible.
Now what | have here is a set of slides that we are going to go through that gives you an overview of the
Budget. Then, as the Chairman mentioned, at the end or when it is appropriate during the Public Hearing, of
course we can answer general questions about the Budget. Or if you have specific questions about any
Department, when that Department comes up, please ask your question then and one of the leaders of the
Department will respond to your question or your comment.
So the cover, of course, just tells you that we are proposing the FY21, we are discussing the FY21, that’s
Fiscal year ’21. We are on a fiscal year which means we run from July 1 to June 30 so the current fiscal
year, which is Fiscal Year ’20 ends on June 30, coming up next month. Why don’t we go to the next slide?
Now one thing | wanted to make clear before we get into the details is that the Budget that we are discussing
was proposed before we were hit with the COVID-19 Crisis.
