Special Board of Aldermen 06-21-2021 Page 37
going rogue and reaching out to gender identities like non-binary and | don’t even want to begin to list them
all, it’s ridiculous. And | am just very disappointed to see how this Department is being run. And especially
now, we’ve lost our CERT Team. This is a travesty. Thank you.
Chairman Dowd
OK we will move on to the Public Works Division. That's Department 160 Public Works, Administration,
Engineering; 161 is Street Department; and 177 Parks & Rec.
Paula Johnson Good evening, Paula Johnson again still here at Nashua at the High School. I’ve got a
couple of questions here on Public Works. This Budget isn’t the easiest one to follow. Because it used to
be that you had the Director, the Superintendent of Streets and everything. Now you’ve got to keep flipping
through pages here and trying to figure everything out. Director of Public Works, she spends sometimes —
it’s all mumbo jumbo here. 20% of the time she spends Waste Water, trying to find all this. Executive
Assistant 15% of the time in Waste Water. | dropped all my papers here. This is only half we will wait until
Wednesday come for my Board, I’ve got a folder full of stuff. Let me put this down before | drop it.
Sometimes | wonder why | do so much research on stuff. Let’s see | am trying to figure it all out too this
whole budget. Superintendent of Streets | see is $106,343.00 that person just stays in the Street
Department it looks like. Operations Supervisor that one | am trying to look across, trying to figure out if
that person stays all the time in that Department. So maybe | can ask the questions to the Directors and
then if | give up my 3 minutes I'll just back in line and I'll go behind Ms. Ortolano to ask some more
questions because | am kind of confused here because it looks like the Director of Public Works 70% of the
time | guess she’s the Director of Public Works; 10% she’s someplace else for $10,888.00. 70% she’s
$104,216.00 and then there’s 20% for $29,776.00 in Solid Waste Streets for $148,880.00. And then the
Director of the Street Department, | want to know if that person is in charge of the plowing because | want
to complain about, this year the plowing was pretty bad we didn’t get out there when we should have. And |
just want to know how many of these Directors actually were working from their office during the pandemic.
Because people have offices like you do Mayor that you are not directly with people.
Chairman Dowd
30 seconds.
Ms. Johnson So | would like to know even in the Street Department how many people were actually at their
desks working the whole time that their employees were out there working also doing their jobs? | guess
this really applies to the whole City. So if the Mayor is not in his office, why would his employees be in the
office.
Lisa Fauteux, Director of Public Works
Mrs. Johnson the majority of my Division worked through the entire pandemic with the exception, there
were a few people that worked remotely for a very short period of time and also in Engineering &
Administration, some of those folks worked remotely because they could. But the vast majority, including
myself and the Assistant Director were here throughout the pandemic.
Ms. Johnson | remember | had to call Engineering and | had to call to get some information and nobody got
back to me because Engineering was not in the office. And | can’t remember what it was because last year
was — | don’t want to remember it very much. So you were in the office every day?
Director Fauteux
Yes | was.
Ms. Johnson And everybody else was in the office every day, except for Engineering.
