Board of Aldermen 2-06-2020 Page 22
Ms. Novotny
| am not a CPA however | provided a CPA with all the information for 2019 and that CPA has not asked and
they do all of the 990’s for several non-profit organizations; they haven’t asked for the names.
Mr. Ladd That will be interesting, see | do have an advantage, unfortunately why | asked this question, is | was
an auditor for the IRS for charities. So it’s a typical document for me to request this information, it’s not a
difficult thing, which | did for 15 years. So it will be interesting to see when the form does get filed and then of
course it is substantially missing information it can be considered not filed. So that is another question.
Ms. Novotny
| can assure you that we are going to give the CPA everything he requests.
Mr. Ladd Alright if you could pass that along that would be helpful thank you.
Ms. Novotny
| will.
Tom Lockland Thank you, I’m on Nichol Lane. The way that | understand this is that this is not an extension it
is just a removal of the timeframe which in essence gives an unlimited amount of time and from what we can a
relatively unlimited budget to prepare to spend $15 or $25 million dollars. Between November of 2017 and July
of 2019, the non-profit wasn’t formed. That started in August of 2019, which means any donations prior to that
went through the City. How much was obtained between November 2017 and July of 2019, how much was
raised, that’s my question.
Ms. Novotny
Our fundraising began in August of 2019.
Mr. Lockland OK understood. Parents like myself, we experience that we don’t have enough money for certain
things. At Main Dunstable in Ward 5 we do not have enough money nor are we provided any funding to
replace a playground. 488 children upwards of 3 times per day can use this playground, but the parents must
fund this. | don’t see how we are here talking about this when things like that, when parents are forced to raise
money for a playground that their children play on every day. We seem to have enough money to spend $16
million before overruns on a Public Works Project or $94 million before overruns on a school we can’t physically
access or $150,000.00 on a boat launch, or $65,000.00 for blinking crosswalks, or $40,000.00 on establishing
an arts district. We seem to have enough money to renovate the Aldermanic Chamber. And with all those
things that we have money for, | don’t think that we really do, | think that we are just saying that we do.
The Performing Arts Center in 2017 passed by 151 votes. Since 2017, no fewer than 400 student voters left
this town, so it’s safe to say in 2020 it doesn’t reflect 2017’s voting viewpoint. We voted on the referendum and
it is going to expire. | firmly believe that if anything is going to change, it needs to go back to the voters. Thank
you.
Deborah McLaughlin 19 Salmon Brook Drive. A lot of discussion has been discussed this evening in regards
to the pros and the cons of the center itself, but as you said, we are here to discuss about the deadline. | own
the company the Renegade Leader Coach & Consulting Group. | work with national and global enterprises that
are facing change; ones that are changing technology, ones that are facing mergers and acquisitions or they
are reacting to market or industry changes or compliance changes. All of them have to move quickly with
change. What | did hear tonight was a list of long-term excuses, honestly is how | heard it that if any corporate
office were to be having a board room of a list of excuses | don’t know if all those people would be there the
next week.
