Special Board of Aldermen 06-21-2021 Page 36
Chairman Dowd
No.
Ms. Scaer They are completely not helping at all. OK. Sounds like a great loss for the City. | am sorry to
hear that but glad to hear more.
Justin Kates, Emergency Management Director
So the CERT Team would support any of the City Divisions during an emergency; Fire Department, Police
Department, Office of Emergency Management. The Administrative Management of that group is under
Public Health so we don’t manage the day to day operations or the training or anything like that. But what
we would do is if Emergency Management or if another agency requested their support, we would reach
out to Bobbie, Director Bagley for support in whatever task was necessary and whether they were available
or not they would perform an assessment to see if they would be able to provide that service or not. So
that’s the current status of other Department’s use of that CERT Team.
Ms. Scaer Follow up. So that means that since they are not working with Public Health they are not working
with anyone? They are not available to us as a City? Is that correct.
Director Kates
Yeah if there’s no leadership within CERT then | am assuming that they are not available to other
Departments same as they wouldn’t be available to public health.
Ms. Scaer OK. Thank you.
Chairman Dowd
Alright we will move on to the next Division, Other Public Safety, Department 159 — Hydrant Fees Fire
Protection and 162 Street Lighting. Are there any questions on that? Seeing none we will move on to
Public Health Community Services Division. Community Services is on 171, Community Health 172,
Environmental Health 173, Welfare Administration 174 and Welfare Assistance 175.
Beth Scaer 111 East Hobart Street. | am concerned because the Public Health Department has on their
website that they welcome all gender identities. And | saw it on the Public Health Van too. | know the
Public Health Director has been very concerned about, according to her newsletters, that the Nashua
residents are following the science, the science about COVID, the science about vaccines, the science
about other public health issues. But when you are saying that you welcome all gender identities that is...
Chairman Dowd
Excuse me, is this a specific budget question?
Ms. Scaer Well | mean | am just questioning the running of the whole Department. | think the Department is
being mismanaged when | see these kinds of issues.
Chairman Dowd
So you have a question?
Ms. Scaer Yeah | want to know, you know, | just question whether this Department is being properly
managed when we have the Director they welcome all — we are up to 112 gender identities, it’s just mumbo
jumbo and our whole public health is branded with these messages about the gender identities when we
have actual public health problems that need to be addressed like COVID and you know lead poisoning
and a gazillion other serious health problems. But we are going rogue, our public health department is
