Special Board of Aldermen 03-15-2021 Page 12
Alderwoman Kelly
Yes, thank you. | mean | think it would be appropriate to hear from them again especially | wasn’t aware
that there was an alternative to the EPA doing it. | would like to know sort of what are the risks and again
the monitoring piece if the EPA isn’t the one executing their plan. So | definitely think more information is
key here. But! do believe that this neighborhood has waited a very long time to have this cleaned up and
we have quite a few community members who have been very vocal on this and | think we should prioritize
cleaning this up but making sure we are being safe about how we do it and fair about how we do it.
Because as one of the Aldermen before me said, ideally the company that made the mess would clean it
up but that company is no longer there and this is still a piece of our City.
President Wilshire
Next | have Alderman Schmidt?
Alderman Schmidt
Thank you, Madam President. This is such a complicated issue, all the puzzle pieces have to come
together at the right time and the right place that that piece of land is so valuable to this City. If we could
clean it, that’s a real benefit. If we could business in there, that’s another good benefit. | just have a
specific ask for Director Cummings. Could you gather all the data that we have on this project and put it in
one place where we can go and do our own research on it? | Know there’s some maps that were out there,
there were some plans that we could see. But | don’t have them all and | am not one of the newer people,
so the newer people don’t have any of them. It would be really, really nice to have access to them. Thank
you.
President Wilshire
Director Cummings?
Director Cummings
Yes so | am happy to try to put up what | have. What | want to make sure you are aware of though, the
EPA has a project for this specific site which in my Memo to the Board of Aldermen | included a link, which
if you were to click on that link, it has all the EPA-related documents consolidated on to one site. So | guess
| can look at trying to get City of Nashua and more specifically the Blaylock Representations out on the site.
Now as a reminder | haven’t been given a lot of this information that | have been asking for. So some just
came in recently on Friday to me. But this is live-time type stuff, hot off the press, as in | absolutely agree
with you. All the puzzle pieces need to fit together to make this work.
President Wilshire
Alderman Clemons?
Alderman Clemons
Thank you very much. As far as the monitoring, | wanted to make this point because I, and in regards to
the TIF and things like that, | don’t mind a TIF if we are going to do this correctly and we are going to do it
safely and the neighborhood is going to be protected and there is a clear, defined plan in place, not only for
how to encapsulate this, but how to monitor it, what we are looking for, and a remediation plan for the future
as well. In other words to set money aside for the future as sort of an insurance and in-case of and a set of
money that can’t be touched unless there is an issue that needs to be remediated and then that way that
money is there in the future so that we can quickly go and fix whatever problem may arise. Because it’s not
.... |do believe that there won't be an issue in the future, it’s just the way things work, right?
