Special Board of Aldermen 03-15-2021 Page 11
Director Cummings
And if | may, Madam President, | just want to clarify, so there is money as | understand it, set aside to do
the ongoing O&M, it is just who will do it and access that (audio cuts out) is | think the question to be had.
And, of course, one of my concerns is enforcement. If we see the O&M is with the EPA or the DES and the
City of Nashua doesn’t have the ability to enforce it, we are the ones that have to live with it. So if
something happens we want to make sure that we have some strong oversight on that front. So, again, this
is a subject area that is going to need more conversation so everyone gets to a comfort level. But it is one
that | want everyone to be aware of.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Alderwoman Kelly.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you Alderman Wilshire. Actually Alderman Dowd beat me to it but | was going to ask if there was a
possibility for either the EPA or Blaylock to give us a similar presentation that they did to the neighborhood,
there was a neighborhood discussion maybe a year ago. Does that sound about right? | know Alderman
Tencza was there. But they got into a lot of specifics and it sounds like it would be nice for some of us to
get a refresher on sort of what the plan is. | kind of echo a lot of what has been said in terms of wanting a
refresher on what the plan is, sort of a little bit more detail around what that difference between what the
EPA is bringing forward and what the City would have to cover before really committing to any sort of
funding tax incremental finance district or anything like that.
Director Cummings
Thank you, Alderwoman Kelly. So just to be clear, the plan — so there’s a couple different plans. The one |
think you were just referencing is the plan that the EPA put out their EE/CA and their preferred alternative
in which they have, they have provided 3 or 4 scenarios and alternatives and then one rose to the top. And
that is the alternative that Blaylock Holdings would have to execute on. Now my understand is Blaylock
Holdings has represented that he can do it cheaper and that company can do it cheaper than the EPA so
there’s a cost savings there. And so we definitely need to have, | think, multiple conversations; one with
the EPA as suggested and | can ask them to come in and give a briefing similar to what they did with the
neighborhood and then that’s one plan. And then the question is, is do we want to move forward with the
Blaylock proposal or plan with the development to be able to execute on it.
| think the only way you are going to see movement if it is through this public/private type partnership
because the EPA has represented that if this goes the traditional route, this site would be lower on the list
compared to all of the other contaminated sites across the country. So that is one of the reasons why they
have this interest in pursuing this type of alternative.
Alderwoman Kelly
If | could follow-up, Alderman Wilshire?
President Wilshire
Alderwoman Kelly.
