Board of Aldermen 4-14-2020 Page 11
Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President Wilshire
R-20-029
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
RELATIVE TO ACCEPTING CDBG FUNDING UNDER THE 2020 CARES ACT; AMENDING THE
FY2020 HUD ANNUAL ACTION PLAN TO REPROGRAM EXISTING CDBG FUNDING; AND
CREATE A COVID-19 IMPACT PROGRAM
Given its first reading; assigned to the HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by President Wilshire
NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES - None
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT - None
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Klee
| am sorry Madam Chair did you call my name. I’m sorry Madam President. | just want to thank everybody
for all that they are doing here. The City has been extraordinary from the citizens to our workers and
truthfully there are just too many to name by profession and definitely by name. But! did want to state that
| attended a State Meeting today and one of the things that | found that was quite interesting was that we
have 763 ventilators in hospitals that exclude pediatric and infant. We are only using 68 of them at this
time. They found that by using the BPAP, | guess they call them and the CPAP, that they are having a
better outcome | guess, by using those things instead of ventilators. So | thought that was really good
news.
The thing that | found quite disturbing was Nursing Homes and Home Care. We have been paying a lot of
attention to hospitals as well we should and First Responders. But our Nursing Homes are in desperate
need of smocks and masks and that is throughout the State. | tried calling a couple of the Nursing Homes
today and | didn’t get through to find out what their needs were. | am sure there are other people that are
doing much more than that. And our Home Health Care Workers seem to be kind of at the bottom of the
barrel when it comes out to handing out the PPE. So if anybody knows of any of these needs and so on,
you know, try to see if you can help them as well as all the others. But! want to commend our City and the
Mayor and everybody else, our Public Health people and so on. Everybody is doing a phenomenal job and
| am proud to be here in Nashua, | truly am.
President Wilshire
Thank you, Alderman Klee. Anyone else?
Alderman Jette
So we know that there are many people in the City who have been really helping out during this crisis, but |
wanted to make special mention of the United Way. Mike Apfelberg and his many volunteers have
developed and implemented a plan to provide food for students and others; senior citizens who can’t get to
