Board of Aldermen 02-23-2021 Page 36
I've been there a couple of times. It is working like clockwork, they’ve got it down to a science. They have the
public health and hospital nurses giving the shots. They have the National Guard controlling — making sure that
people have appointments correctly and members of Nashua Fire Rescue that are there sort of directing traffic.
Starting this week in the evening hours there will also be a Police Officer there just to ensure that it keeps running
smoothly. So kudos to everybody involved in that activity and | think they are doing an outstanding job and |
hope that they continue that until as many people that would like to get a vaccine, get the vaccine. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Anyone else?
Alderman Caron
Madam Chair?
President Wilshire
One moment Alderman Caron.
Alderman Caron
Thank you.
President Wilshire
You're welcome.
Alderman Lopez
Yeah so | would just like to thank Director Bagley as much as she’s been working very hard on the COVID-19
situation and maintaining all of the other public health emergency responses that we traditionally deal with from
year to year. She also showed a lot of really good leadership in helping us make some major steps, | think, for
addressing the City’s deficit of warming stations. The Nashua Soup Kitchen is willing to start working and moving
forward with a weekend warming station which | know will be a great relief to people who are outside and
unsheltered and may have to be huddling in doorways. And it will also be some positive news for downtown
businesses who don’t know exactly what to do about people who are in distress on the weekends when there
isn’t anybody to call.
To those businesses, | would say support your local non-profits; the Soup Kitchen particularly is in the middle of
developing a large-scale project that is very, very sorely needed in the City. Its Spring Street Project will provide
decent and respectful shelter space for many single women and many single men that don’t have other
opportunities. It will also provide family shelter space which is extremely short in this community. And it includes
amenities that enhance the dignity and the ability to transition out of homelessness; things like childcare and
general resource space and classroom space. So they have really good plans for that site. They are kicking off
their capital campaign. | received a piece of mail a couple of days ago that | had very mixed feelings about. It
was in memory of Kristen Wolfe, a friend of mine who | had brought up in previous meetings having passed
away at the end of last year. She was one of the street artists who worked with me on the Veteran’s murals that
we have done around town with Positive Street Art. If anybody is interested she did the airplane on the eagle that
says “thank you”; you can see it from Water Street. She experienced homelessness and her family forwarded a
check to me and asked me to do whatever they thought would be most helpful to people who are homeless.
That is going to go to the Soup Kitchen and help with the warming station because | think that is something that
really would have helped her.
