Board of Aldermen 02-23-2021 Page 6
President Wilshire
Anyone else? Responses to the remarks of the Mayor? Seeing none? Recognition Period?
RECOGNITION PERIOD - None
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS
There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the Special Board of Aldermen
meetings of February 9, 2021, February 16, 2021, and regular Board of Aldermen meeting of February 9,
2021 be accepted, placed on file, and the readings suspended.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS
From: Sarah Marchant, Community Development Director
Re: Housing Trust Fund — R-21-118
There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on
file.
PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS EVENING
President Wilshire
Is there anyone that would like to address the Board? Mr. Keating, name and address for the record please?
You're on mute Mr. Keating.
Bob Keating The name is Bob Keating from 5 Colburn Woods and | am speaking as a member of Granite State
Organizing Project. First off, just a comment about the process in terms of getting on tonight. | don’t know if
there’s some change, | found it — | got a message back when | was trying to get on Zoom that said there was
no meeting tonight. | tried a couple of times and then right at 7:30 it came on, so | don’t know if that’s a change
or what have you. So just giving that feedback.
Well first off my remarks when | saw the housing trust and then heard it directly from the Mayor in terms of the
proposal, very, very pleased about that. Hopefully you received our Communication about the housing trust it
was part of the email that we sent to the Mayor and to the Board. The idea of the housing trust just very
pleased about that and I'll speak a little about that in a moment.
As you have heard communication from us and residents of Bronstein in regards to the School Street Project is
that we think that there is a real opportunity here given that Bronstein residents are living very close to it and
that the opportunity here given that the City owns the property and tonight you will have a proposal to sell it to
a private developer and that the City has authorized a bond of $2.5 million dollars for the parking garage;
another $100,000.00 for the infrastructure and then linked it to the Performing Arts Center for another $5.5
million dollars.
You can clearly see the City sees that this is an important opportunity and we are looking at, as we have
communicated previously, this is an opportunity to offer some chance for families, | see one of the families that
is on tonight from Bronstein, to if they wish to be able to move to the new development at School Street Flats. |
don’t know actually how many people who will want to do that, | think many of the people who signed on to that
original petition were doing that for their neighbors to give them a chance to do it.
