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the grocery store and other people that are in need. They have developed and implemented this plan to
help those people throughout the City. All of that would not be possible, of course, without United Way’s
many donors. So | want to thank the United Way and everyone connected to them and encourage people
to check out their web site; the United Way Nashua Web Site for more information on how you can access
food or volunteer or donate.
And one more item, Madam President. You know, we seem to be getting the handle of this WebEx way of
having meetings and | am wondering when do you see us being able to have Committee Meetings again?
Because there are things coming up that the Committees need to deal with?
President Wilshire
| think, Alderman Jette, we have started to use WebEx on some of our sub-committees or our committee
meetings. | Know that Alderman Dowd has held Budget Meetings, so | think if there is something on your
Agenda that we can take a look at whether it is time sensitive. But | think we are getting the hang of this so
| agree; we should start holding more Committee Meetings if possible.
Alderman Jette
Good, thank you.
President Wilshire
You’re welcome.
Alderman Dowd
Alderman Wilshire?
President Wilshire
Alderman Dowd?
Alderman Dowd
Yes just a couple of statements and then a couple of questions for the Mayor. The first is, | don’t know if
people are aware that Battelle from Ohio has been providing Massachusetts with a capability of disinfecting
masks so that they can be reused. | have a lot of experience with that company; they do a great deal of the
Department of Defense work. They are an amazing company; they have more patterns then most people
have grains of sugar. | feel that is probably something that could really help with the PPE until we catch up.
The other thing is on Monday, being the logistics person that | am, with the wind and the rain, | figured that
Market Basket would be pretty much empty; it was. | was able to do my shopping with only a few other
people in the store, which changed as | was leaving. But | thank the young people that are working there.
They are working very hard and they are putting themselves out there and | think that sometimes they get
overlooked and | just wanted to put a thanks out to all of them that are putting in the time. Obviously, food
is a very important aspect.
For the Mayor, two questions; one — the State received a shipment of masks and they were going to be put
for distribution. | am wondering how many of them actually found their way to Nashua. And the other thing
is, the fast test machines that Abbott makes, another great company by the way. | know we were this
week, supposed to get the cartridges that make them work, otherwise they are kind of useless. Have any
of those machines found their way to Nashua?
