Board of Aldermen 02-23-2021 Page 33
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Dowd,
Alderman Caron, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,
Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws,
Alderman Cleaver, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 14
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
MOTION BY ALDERMAN LOPEZ FOR INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT OF O-20-044
ON THE QUESTION
President Wilshire
The motion is for indefinite postponement. Discussion on that motion? Alderman Lopez.
Alderman Lopez
| mean the best that we could do with what we had was to raise awareness of the dangers of COVID. People
did what they were going to do. But the intention behind the discussion that the Board of Public Health had
was to provide some kind of rapid intervention with Christmas and New Year's fast approaching. They have
come and gone; the results have come and gone. We did lose people but we can’t necessarily attribute that to
any specific Legislation or actions on our part. And moving forward it is much more productive to support
restaurants and making sure that their employees have vaccinations when possible; that they are practicing
masking and social distancing and that we are encouraging the public to remember to remain on guard and
practice similar measures.
President Wilshire
The motion is for indefinite postponement. Alderman Clemons?
Alderman Clemons
Thank you. | just want to say obviously | didn’t support this when it came out. | respect the Board of Health
and the | respect the COVID guidelines and things like that. But what | did want to speak to was a lot of the
unfair things that were said to my colleague Alderman Lopez during the debate. | often agree with Alderman
Lopez; on this particular one | did not. But he’s a good person, he proposed this Legislation because he
believed in it and when each and every one of us does that we do it for a reason. | thought some of the public
criticism of Alderman Lopez was unfair. | just wish that Nashua would have conducted itself better during that
dialogue because some of the stuff that was said was unnecessary. | have the utmost regard for all of my
colleagues but in particular Alderman Lopez because he has the courage to bring things like that forward that
he knows is not going to be popular. But he does it anyway because he believes in it and that’s the kind of
Alderman that we all should aspire to. So | just wanted to make that known.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Anyone else? The motion is for indefinite postponement of Ordinance 20-044. Seeing no one
would the Clerk please call the roll?
