Special Board of Aldermen 06-21-2021 Page 17
Ms. McKinney ... that in September you look at surplus relief. And that you have an opportunity to make
changes. | hope you will and | hope you will consider what | just said.
Chairman Dowd
Thank you.
Daniel Richardson 70 Berkeley Street, Nashua, New Hampshire. Getting back to Page 9 which shows the
exorbitant increases over the past 6 years. It is a slap in the face to the citizens of Nashua. I’ve known that
for a long time, but | am glad that you put that in the budget book so that everybody who wants to can look
at Page 9 of the budget book, it’s on line too, to see what has been happening to wages and costs of the
different departments in the city. It is outrageous. Given that, | would still like to know, just the same, about
Human Service Agencies. In here it shows the funding from last year for a number of Human Service
Agencies in Nashua.
Chairman Dowd
That’s not part of this Division.
Mr. Richardson It’s not. | will save it.
Chairman Dowd
Thank you.
Paula Johnson 15 Westborn Drive. | have just got to bring something up here. Listening to this whole thing
about insurance and pensions. Alderman Wilshire can attend basically with me when we have meetings
with then back then Mayor Streeter and probably Attorney Bolton back then, when we were talking about
the rising costs of healthcare, this was back when | was on the Board, | got on the Board on 2002 when |
stepped down from the Board of Education to become an Aldermen. So we are talking about the same
things we talked about in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, about the rising cost of health care. And at this point in
time, 2021, we are still talking about the rising cost of healthcare, because we the public always paid for
employee’s healthcare and they always had better healthcare than we the taxpayers do. They are just now
getting the high deductibles which my husband and | had for years and years and years prior to.
And also, what we talked about back then was not just the healthcare, when | stepped down from the Board
at the end of 2005 when | chose not to run again, | came into the Chamber and | don’t know, Ms. Lovering
might remember but you probably can find the minutes buried somewhere, | came in and talked about that
the baby boomers, like | am, although | don’t like to admit it sometimes but | am a baby boomer. When the
pensions had to be paid that local state and federal were not going to have enough money to pay out baby
boomers because the money was mismanaged and not funded correctly. Isn’t this what we are hearing
right now about mismanagement from the State or whatever. Whoever mismanaged it, why don’t these
people ever be held accountable and we the people, remember it’s always we the people, we the taxpayers
whatever level because we pay taxes to the federal government they bring it back here and then we still
pay more taxes locally but we pay taxes. We the people, literally, get screwed in this City on these taxes.
So it wasn’t funded properly and it wasn’t always a Republican held House between now and when this
management, because | remember Mayor | had that conversation with you that in 2005 / 2006 it was 2
prominent Representatives that asked me to run for the State House...
Chairman Dowd
30 seconds.
Ms. Johnson ... and | was at the State House as a Democrat on that side of the aisle. And so it wasn’t
always and that’s when the Democrats held the House. So it wasn’t always just the Republicans, so what
has the Democrats done to correct this when they held the House. Thank you.
