ATTENTION: FULL BOARD OF ALDERMEN February 14, 2020
I am forwarding this copy to you, so that all can share in my effort toward Alderwoman Ms. Wilkshire
in attempting to explain my concerns regarding the movement of responsibility for Parking
Enforcement from the Police Department to the City of Nashua.
On Feb 13, 2020, at 1:14 PM, Ernest Du Varney
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You are missing the hole point that J have been attempting to get people like yourself to understand.
Why is it so difficult for anyone to understand the following:
1. | agree that they are doing the best job that they can and that they have limited resources.
2. The turn-around time by our current city employees leaves a lot to be desired, compared to what the
Police Department was performing.
EX: We do not necessarily respond immediately to phone calls vs. what the Police were doing.
In fact, I experienced that it took over one hour to get back to me. Big Difference!
In Addition: If you listen to the recording it tells you that it could take as much as two days
to return your call.
This is definitely not the procedure the Police Department was administering to this task.
3. The Mayor is promoting the theory that we are experiencing a better result, by $50K vs. what the
Police Department was doing.
Excuse me but, anyone can show a savings especially when there is a lower amount of
manpower
time devoted to this effort, vs. what the Police were doing.
Furthermore, he ignored the part of my emails that emphasize that we are understaffed/not
responding
equally to what the Police Department was doing.
4. What I have been saying all along is that Jill is overburdened in such a way that she has difficulty in
responding to all of the effort assigned to her.
I am saying this because when I spoke to her directly she essentially said exactly that.
In summary, I have been saying that we can't take the proud position that we are fulfilling the
departmental
requirements equally to what the effort the Police Department was offering.
Therefore, for one thing, there is no $50K benefit by what we are doing vs. what the Police were doing.
That is actually a bogus analysis. It does not consider all of the pertinent facts when arriving at this
conclusion. If everyone is thinking that way as the Mayor does then they are kidding themselves into
a false sense of security, is what I call it.
Based upon what you have written, all I can say at this point to everyone is GOOD LUCK !
