Board of Aldermen 4-28-2020 Page 24
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Dowd
Yes, | want to thank everybody for helping on that sidebar with agreement between Unions and their Labor
Boards are extremely hard usually to get past. In this case, both members who signed it were in full
agreement with it, as was | as the liaison for the Board of Aldermen to the Police Commission. The Police
Commission signed off on it. So | am very happy that we passed that and | want to thank Deputy Chief
Testaverde for being here this evening and providing his input.
This other sidebar that will be addressed by the Budget Committee, it is nothing that has to be imminently
done, it has to do with recruiting and has a really minor financial impact. But we will be addressing that in
Budget.
Alderman Jette
Yes, | want to acknowledge this past weekend, a group from the Gate City Striders, which is the running
club in Nashua showed up in Ward 5, Main Dunstable Road and Ridge Road and obeying social
distancing, they gathered, | don’t know how many bags of trash along the roadway. They filled up a flatbed
trailer with it and | want to thank them for doing that. | also want to acknowledge that the Nashua Rotary
Club, this coming Saturday, a group maintaining social distancing, a group of members of the Rotary Club
are going to clean up the Rotary Common which is the park on Main Street near Salmon Brook, where
Salmon Brook crosses Main Street. So my hat is off to both of those groups. Thank you.
Alderman Lopez
Yeah, | just wanted to thank everybody who donated to the Involved Impacts Fund Raiser to purchase N95
masks to donate to First Responders. | really wanted to thank all of the performers and musicians and
entertainers that donated their time throughout April to do the on-line thing because | think people have
been really struggling with the social distancing, people have been feeling very isolated. Their routine is
really abruptly terminated where they may be used to seeing their favorite musicians or you know being
able to go out on a Saturday night and this kind of gave them something to work with, some familiar faces.
So | wanted to thank all of them for contributing their time. | wanted to thank the Mayor for guest starring in
our final event as well.
On amore somber note, | wanted to express my condolences to the family and friends of Bill Nelson. |
know Paul Shea and Julia Shea are feeling his loss deeply. My thoughts are with you.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you, Madam President. | just wanted to thank everyone for their support of the Coronavirus Aid Fund
and getting that together. | know that will be critical for non-profits and small business owners in Nashua as
we try to get some aid to them as they are struggling through this as well. And | wanted to, | feel like a
broken record, but every time we get together, | just want to say thank you to our Front-Line Workers;
everybody at City Hall that’s keeping things going. There’s so much work that’s going into it and people are
working overtime on all fronts. So | really appreciate that; we have a great group of non-profits here in
Nashua. | am personally connected and know what is going on with the United Way and the Soup Kitchen
but | know there are a lot of other organizations that are stepping up during this time. So thank you for that
and together we will get through it.
Alderman Klee
Thank you, Madam President. | just want to say a couple things. | feel much like Alderwoman Kelly is that
we sound like a broken record saying “thank you” but! don’t think we can say thank you enough. And it
truly is heartfelt and | do believe everybody understands it and it is from the person that is cleaning the
