Board of Aldermen 2-12-2020 Page 34
O-20-006
Endorser: Alderman Thomas Lopez
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
ALLOWING PERMITTED OVERNIGHT ON-STREET PARKING ON A PORTION OF PRESCOTT
STREET
Given its first reading; assigned to the COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE by President Wilshire
O-20-007
Endorser: Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
REMOVING THE HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACE IN FRONT OF 7-9 LEMON STREET
Given its first reading; assigned to the COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE by President Wilshire
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Peter Shaefer 15 E Street. | had one question that | heard somebody talking about the New Market Tax
Credit and about French Hill or something. Is that for the whole community, because Alec’s Shoe Store is
one block from City Hall but that’s not really the posterior is it?
Alderman Klee
It is, ’'m sorry, | apologize, | forgot.
Mr. Schaefer | have two recommendations about the Arts Center and that’s really all | have. One of them
is trying to end the silent phase of this fundraising, as soon as you can, | Know you don’t have full control. |
actually looked it up because it sounded kind of weird the “silent phase” for fundraising but that actually
does exist, it’s a strategy, a real strategy and | get that.
The second thing is that everybody else kind of goes, “what’s going on” and all the people talked to
(inaudible) so my recommendation is as soon as you get out of the silent phase, put up a really big
billboard with a big bottle on it and show how filled up it is, you can use blue for what has been pledged and
green for what you actually have in the bank and you can put a number of how many donors or whatever.
You don’t have to mention anybody’s name, but it gets people fired up. They want to be able to fill that
bottle like right now, I’m retired but | am willing to buy one of those seats. You’ve 750 seats they are trying
to sell, | don’t mind buying one, OK. There needs to be some fliers after this silent phase and hopefully that
ends pretty soon.
The other comment | have is we have a bunch of bumps in the road, that’s why we are here you know
several days before all of this was going to blow up on us and it is going to be designed and everything
else, it’s a difficult process. My own opinion is there are going to be some more bumps in the future and it
is not going to be all smooth sailing. You know, an expert told us that if you have 750 seats it’s not going to
cost you anything. But you don’t even know that you know he could come back later and say he was
wrong and it’s going to cost you money. Well, all of you are going to have make a vote one way or another
when these things arise. You don’t really know if your constituents have your back, right? You don’t know
at the moment. So yesterday for the vote there were 24,369 votes in Nashua. That’s a good part of the
City. My recommendation is in November, put something on the ballot so you can tell what your
constituents want. Try to get their support so when you have to make a difficult decision, you know that
they’ve got your back when you are making that decision. Because | think at the moment, you don’t know
that. Thank you.
