A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, January 28, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Susan K. Lovering recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Susan K. Lovering; Alderman Ernest Jette led in the Pledge to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Dowd, Alderman
Clemons, and Alderman Jette were recorded absent.
Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Alderman Dowd and Alderman Jette will not be joining us this evening. | haven’t heard from
Alderman Clemons, | expect he will be here.
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Lori Wilshire, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting
There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication, placed it on file.
PRESENTATION
Nashua Police Athletic League - “Building on Hope” — presented by Shaun Nelson, Executive Director of the
Nashua Police Athletic League. Video Presentation.
Shaun Nelson Executive Director of the Nashua Police Athletic League
We would love to show the video first, it is a longish video, 7 or 8 minutes but it is going to save us time on
talking about Building on Hope and all the things that they've done. And then we'd love to open it up and
talk about what the impact of PAL and the impact to Nashua is going to be.
John Halley Can | just give you a little context before we play this video? My name is John Halley, I’m an
architect from Concord and | coach there a group called Building on Hope. We are not an incorporated
501(c) or anything like that. We are truly a barn-raising group of New Hampshire residents that for the last
12 years have raised more than $5 million dollars and have completed five projects in Amherst,
Manchester, Concord, and what we do is we come and do an extreme makeover but not for profit.
We went through an application process about nine months ago and chose Nashua PAL for their Mission
for their impact and for the fact that they have great programs, but had a capital facility that was in need of
renovations. So what we plan to do is come in for 10 days in May and completely renovate this building.
We expect to raise over $800,000.00. | can tell you that we bought an elevator today, | have a contractor
that has committed to build a shaft on the outside of the building that | haven’t even told Shaun, that
construction is going to start in about a month. So there are some things that happen ahead of time. We
will muster probably 100 different general contractors; | have a personal relationship with just about every
contractor in the State, so the cringe when | call. But | have every contractor that you can imagine,
commercial contractor, will donate a couple of people for a couple of days over a ten day period.
We literally put about 200 people on-site a day for 10 days. We partner with an interior designer, in this
particular case we have 15 interior designers, each one owns a room and they own designing the room, the
own putting a team together. They come in a build it and completely furnish it.
