From: Laura Colquhou riggers te ee
Sent: Wednesday, June G2, 2021 10: 16 AM
To: Graham, Donna
Subject: Re: Email to be put into Board of Aldermen package for the next meeting
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Done and thank you.
Email to Donna Graham — for Board of Aldermen Package
I would like this email to be placed in the Board of Aldermen package for their next meeting.
The history of the Nashua budget increases should raise some eyebrows. Numbers do not lie but
let us try to understand the story here.
In reviewing the Nashua budgets from 2015 — 2021 the following is the actual increase that the
Nashua budget:
2022 $341,571,257 3.01%
2021 $331,577,345 4.44%
2020 $37,483,943 20.82%
2019 $262,763,651 . 1.30%
2018 $258,493,971 4.30%
2017 $247,886,768 1.20%
2016 $244,825,057 1.40%
2015 $240,756,942 2.00%
*2015 was changed in the 2020 budget book to $311,872,919
That is an increase of $100,814.315 since 2015 which is a 41.87% increase in the Nashua
taxpayers’ budget. How did this happen — simple- the City of Nashua change the Actual
Budget figures in 2019. Ifa resident looks at the Actual budget for 2019 they will see that a
$262,763,651 budget was Aldermanic Approved however when the 2020 Budget came the 2019
Aldermanic figures was changed to $311,872,919. Nashua residents would not have checked
these figures because a resident would assume that the City of Nashua would be honest and put
the actual approved budget figure on the report.
What makes this even more frustrating is the fact that as of 2020 the City of Nashua stopped
showing the actual increase in the budget from year to year. The mayor is hoping that no
