Board of Aldermen 06-08-2021 Page 23
President Wilshire
You’re welcome. Alderman Cleaver.
Alderman Cleaver
Thank you Madam President. | would like to say a good word for our City employees now that COVID is being
mitigated and opening back up, City Hall is open and so on and so forth. | would like to thank all the City Hall
workers, all the City employees generally for all the great work they’ve done through COVID through all the
heartaches and difficulties that created. They have done a fantastic job. Well before | got into government either
State or local, | recognized that our City Hall was outstanding, our present Mayor was Mayor before and always
presented a very good administration. They do a fantastic job and each one is to be congratulated. They are
under appreciated as many government employees are, but | would like to thank them both for myself and for the
Board for all the work they’ve done. Thank you.
President Wilshire
You’re welcome. Alderman Jette?
Alderman Jette
Thank you Madam President. | wanted to commend you and Alderman Caron for scheduling the public hearing
on the issue of the Referendum Question about the Police Commissioners. Lots of times we have Public
Hearings and then we have a Committee Hearing immediately thereafter. And I’ve always felt that it didn’t really
give a chance for us to really digest what the public had to say during the Public Hearing before we were called
upon to vote on it in Committee. This time, the Public Hearing was scheduled and many people appeared and
expressed their opinion; | found it very informative on both sides of the issue. And now it is going to go, not that
same night, but sometime in the coming weeks the Personnel & Administrative Affairs Committee Chaired by
Alderman Caron is going to consider it and make a recommendation. And then, at some point after that, the Full
Board would vote on it. | appreciate that because it gives us a chance to have a full discussion, a full debate.
And | want to remind people that what is before us, this Resolution is not to change anything at this point. The
Resolution is to put on the ballot the question about whether or not the voters think that the way that we select
the Police Commissioners should be changed.
| don’t know how | am going to vote on this but if it does pass, all it does is it puts it on the ballot and then a full
debate will occur and then the voters will decide whether any change is warranted or not. And | think that a lot of
people are under the mistaken impression that this Resolution is affecting that change right away. It would just
put it on the ballot and allow the voters to decide. There are people who are against it and want it to stay the
same and feel that there should be no question and it shouldn’t even be on the ballot. But | just wanted to clarify
and | wanted to thank you Madam President and Alderman Caron for arranging for this debate to occur over
several meetings. And thank you.
Alderman Clemons
Thank you Madam President. | wanted to give my condolences to the Davidson family tonight. Don Davidson
was Mayor in the 90’s when | was a teenager in Nashua. He actually inspired me to get involved in City Politics,
but not in the way you might think. | was actually very against Mayor Davidson and some of the things that he
proposed in his first two years in office and some of the crazy things he did. But | learned a lesson from Mayor
Davidson and that is that people can change and people can, if you listen to your constituents, you can govern
better because Mayor Davidson in the second two years of his term was a fine Mayor, a very good Mayor,
somebody that | agreed with. Somebody who worked with the people of Nashua and worked with the Legislature
and other folks in the State to try to make Nashua a better place and, in fact, we were named the Number 1 City
in the Country for a second time under Mayor Davidson.
