Board of Aldermen 03-09-2021 Page 43
Marian Knight 29 Harris Street in Nashua. Thank you. | am the person that emailed you proposing that you
establish an end date to your mask emergency order. | don’t want to get lost in a general mask discussion so |
am going to focus on the nature of the emergency and because | am not talented at speaking | have written
down my main points, so I'll be quick.
First is my personal opinion that an order passed due to an emergency should always have an end date,
otherwise it may never be reviewed and have the possibility to be rescinded. | have been told in the past by
politicians that unless it is required, that generally they don’t want to act on anything that they are not forced to,
so here we go. | am asking for an end date so that you would be required to review the mask mandate. That’s
my goal, it is important to those of us who disagree with the Ordinance, feel unheard and disrespected and
often forgotten. | reviewed the minutes of the May 21, 2020 meeting. At that time you were looking for
available ICU beds and a vaccine and | point out that those goals have been achieved and we have treatments
for Coronavirus so | am curious about the Board, what is the continued emergency that, you know, what are
the goals that we need to achieve in order to consider an end date that haven’t already been achieved.
If you need science, | would encourage you to read the Great Barrington Declaration signed by more than
60,000 medical professions worldwide including medical doctors and epidemiologists from Harvard, Yale and
Stanford. Now we understand the virus better, we have treatments, we have vaccines, we know its target
group is senior citizens like myself and/or people with pre-existing conditions. | am not saying it is nota
tragedy that 79 people have died but | am asking if you would consider adding an end date to the mandate, it
could be your future date chosen by you. And | just want you to continue to review the situation and make sure
there is still an emergency and an end date would achieve that goal. Thank you for listening to me.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Anyone else from the public that wishes to give public comment? | am not seeing anyone? OK.
Remarks by Members of the Board?
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Klee
Thank you Madam President, | just had a couple of quick things to say. One is | would like to extend my
condolences to the Belknap family. | agree with everything that was said. She was an incredible woman and |
have gotten to know Sandy a little bit over the past couple of years. | did not know her mother, but | know they
are an incredible family. And | love to hear the stories of the gardens and Whiskey the cat that comes to visit and
soon. Sol am very sorry to hear for the family.
The other thing is | just want to make an announcement that Ward 3 and 7 will be having a parking study, the
second meeting this Thursday | believe. | should double check that, yes — at 6:00 p.m. This information is on the
parking web page. And it is going to be in conjunction with Wards 3 and 7 and it is the second meeting. | think
they are going to be doing three wards again. So | hope that those from Ward 3 will be in attendance. Thank
you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Alderman Dowd?
Alderman Dowd
Yes, just a couple quick things. One well | haven’t seen them myself but | am told by Dan Hudson, the City
Engineer, that on Charlotte Avenue the speed indicators have been mounted, the solar ones and hopefully they
will be controlling the speed. As soon as the spring is a little bit warmer we will be paving Charlotte Avenue, one
of the first streets so that will be good. Relative to the comment on masks, from my personal opinion, until we get
a recommendation from our Board of Health, the mask mandate stays.
