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Even from Manchester and throughout the State and even a restaurant that is a very large regional
restaurant chain thinks this is great for Nashua. So I'd like you to consider that and we support obviously
what the Budget Committee recommendation is thank you.
Judith Carlson 15 Manchester Street, Ward 3. I’ve lived in Nashua since 1973 and brought my daughter
up here. And after working in high tech, advertising and public relations for a number of years, I’ve been
doing mostly volunteer work for the past 10 and been very involved in the Arts and in this project since it
started. But what | wanted to say today, is like some of the previous speakers, our family goes, my
husband and | go to Portsmouth a lot. We go to Portland, Maine. We go to a lot of entertainment in other
cities and since we are both of that age where we are supposed to be retired, we run into a lot of people
our age who have moved to Portland or to Portsmouth because from New York City and other large cities
because they love the idea that they are in a smaller city, very affordable with wonderful things to do and
good entertainment and excellent restaurants. And | think that is something that Nashua is going to see
that we have been talking about. It is not just that having the Performing Arts Center would be a boon for
recruiting workers, that we all Know as part of the whole economic development reason for doing this. But |
think there’s a lot of empty nesters and retired people who live in big cities who would love to come to
Nashua as Nashua evolves and the things we are doing on the waterfront as well as what we are doing
with the Performing Arts Center.
Then on a personal note, | said I’d brought my daughter up here in Nashua. She and her husband, her
husband is a Colonel in the Air Force, they’ve been traveling all over the world and they are in Belgium now
and he’s about to retire. They were thinking for a long of moving to Portsmouth, Portland, maybe even up
into one of the nicer cities in Vermont until they heard about this project. And they said, “wow, this coming
to Nashua, that’s going to make such a huge distance”. Now they are looking around and | would love to
have them come back home. Thank you.
Paul Shea Hi my name is Paul Shea, | live at 102 Toll Street, I’m a resident of Ward 3. | am also the
Executive Director for Great American Downtown. | just wanted to touch on the breadth of public support
for this project independent of the timeline that you are considering extending tonight. In 2017 when this
Ordinance was first considered, the timeline was not included. During that period of time, we did some
public outreach to determine the scope of support among people in the public and we had 510 commit and
sign their name up on-line that lived in Nashua or had a business in Nashua to reflect their support. 190 of
those people, because we wanted to ensure that we were showing authenticity in these as opposed to an
on-line thing which can be gamed, we had 190 people physically come to sign a notarized petitions and
their address was certified to indicate that they are a Nashua Resident or someone that was a business
owner.
We continue to support this project, we believe that there is a breadth of public support for the project
independent of the timeline. But we also recognize that having the timeline in place is a good thing and
now that we know what we know, extending the timeline is also a good thing. Thank you.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL
From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Awarding a Multi-Year Contract for Portable Toilets with United Site Services in the amount of
$32,140
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AWARD
THE CONTRACT FOR PORTABLE TOILETS TO UNITED SITE SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT OF
$32,140 BY ROLL CALL
