Special Board of Aldermen 06-21-2021 Page 13
same as it was back in 2016. The report still states that Pennichuck was purchased to reduce rates but
does not mention that this has never happened. It did not mention that Pennichuck has just given a 5.78
increase to their bills; did not mention that both the Solid Waste and Waste Water Budgets went up $8
million dollars in 2022. It did not mention that the Nashua taxpayers will be paying out of their taxes $5.7
million for the shortage of the Solid Waste Funds that is not supportive, did not mention that the sewer rates
went up 35%. This report also stated that the City vacancy is 7%. | happened to call the Economic
Development Department in early 2020 and they told me they didn’t keep this information but apparently
they can still put it in the report. The report also states that the PAC bond is $15.5 million, | guess he didn’t
get the Memo that we got another $5 million dollars.
Most importantly this report mentioned nothing about the commercial property and their submitting
abatements. This is not a subject the City likes to bring up; however these abatements of 2018 and 19 and
the City new this information when submitting this report but they made no mention of it. | am therefore
asking the City to eliminate this Department. Thank you.
Chairman Dowd
Thank you.
Paula Johnson — 15 Wesborn Drive. Mayor, when everybody had to wear masks, motor vehicle did not in
August on the 3% floor because | went up there to register my car. So when we talk about what is fair and
equitable, we had and | keep apologizing for this that | didn’t realize about Executive Order 74 andl ama
member of the Board of Ed that’s been fighting to get these kids back in school, to get the masks off these
kids in school to try to get some normalcy back to these kids in school, but Executive Order 74 and | read it
that night at the meeting, nothing in this order shall be construed, and | know we are not wearing masks
anymore, but this is the point to prevent municipalities within the State of New Hampshire from enacting
their own ordinances related to the wearing of masks or face coverings that contained stricter provisions
than those contained within the order. This order shall not apply to the following, shall not, we know what
shall not means. We write it in every piece of Legislation just about “shall”, that word “shall” educate a
student and staff within K through 12. Any person with a medical condition or disability that prevents
wearing masks or over the face or covering.
It talks here about physical activity, but the bottom line is really the killer and also | am trying to find out
from Risk Management, you have all these barriers downtown, all of them. Where’s the handicap parking
under ADA? And that’s really this last paragraph says, any person who declines to wear a mask or face
covering because of a medical or developmental issue or difficulty breathing shall not, shall not be required
to produce documentation which is unlawful, unconstitutional, and so is six feet evident verifying the
condition. So | ask here when | was in City Hall and we had to wear masks, your employees didn’t wear
masks up in motor vehicle. And you are dictating to the citizens of this City and most of us had lost their
jobs and couldn't afford anything, and you are dictating to us about masks when Executive 74, this order
here said that people who couldn’t wear it, couldn’t wear it and you made your businesses become the
nasty ones here. The Police, wrong.
Chairman Dowd
30 seconds.
Ms. Johnson And | am glad | got 30 seconds less because | am going to bite my tongue on this one, thank
you.
Chairman Dowd
Name and address?
Dan Richardson 70 Berkeley Street, Nashua, New Hampshire. First | want to comment that the Mayor
made the assertion that there was a lot of public input on the Master Plan. | would like to challenge that
