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buildings to our grocery store workers, to our front liners, to our health care facilities and so on. | also
wanted to add that | had a conversation with Director Bagley last night and one of the things in our
conversation that came up was she asked me if | had Netflix. And | said, “Yes | do” and she said, “There’s
a great series called Coronavirus, it’s 30 minutes”. They are going to be doing a few of them; | watched the
first episode which is the only one available and it was phenomenal. It explained Coronavirus, how there’s
just not the three of SARS and MERS and the one we are living through now. It explains that there are 7 of
them and it starts very small, it explains exactly what a virus is. And | actually took away, as scary as all of
this is, it took away some of the fear of understanding that we are really on the right track. It’s called
“Coronavirus something’ | forget what the last word is. But anybody who has Netflix, if you search for
Coronavirus | think it will be very, very helpful. And | want to say that we really are all in this together,
there’s no one person that would not be willing to reach out and help. | know from this Board; | see it
constantly so | want to say thank you to all of you too. Thank you.
Alderman Dowd
Yeah, | just want to follow up on one thing from the Police Commissioner’s meeting yesterday and Deputy
Chief Testaverde can back this up that the Police Department in Nashua just went under a new
accreditation for law enforcement agencies. | hope | have that right for the acronym, but they got almost, if
not a perfect score, almost a perfect score. And the people that did the inspections were so impressed by
the Nashua Police Department and their process and procedures that they took some of those back to
incorporate into inspections of other Departments. So the Department got a Certificate of Appreciation for
a job well done and | think that goes a long way to showing exactly how great a Police Department we have
here in the City of Nashua. So my thanks to the Chief and his deputies and all of the officers of the Nashua
Police Department.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you, Madam Chairman. | just wanted to comment that it is a little bit disappointing to me that many of
my colleagues have made it clear that staffing is off limits and | just have a feeling that we have an
opportunity to share ideas and feelings with regards to the financial situation that we will possibly be in. Not
to share ideas out, these things is just disappointing to me. Rather than have a full discussion about it just
to, | would rather go into future decision-making process with the benefit of the Board’s input as well as
some time to reflect it and discuss it with people in my Ward. And | know one of our residents has asked
for discussion among us about how this situation is currently affecting revenues and expenses and | don’t
see that discussion among us at these meetings and | too think it is disappointing. I’m sure there are a lot
of people that watch, that would like to know what we are thinking about, how we can address the
shortages that the States have been predicting we will have.
| hope that we can be more open minded and talk among ourselves about these ideas, rather than shut
down, come to these meetings with our minds set already. Thank you.
Alderman Lopez
Madam President, (inaudible) personal privilege can | just state that | don’t appreciate having my intentions
visited by other Aldermen. | don’t consider staffing to be off limits and | didn’t make up my mind before this
at all. It falls short of our decorum, making observations about what other Aldermen’s intentions might be.
Alderman Klee
| agree.
Alderman Cleaver
Yes, | would like to take this opportunity to commend and thank the Mayor for an outstanding job and the
entire administration for an outstanding job under very, very, very difficult circumstances. They can be very
