Board of Aldermen 05-25-2021 Page 35
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Attorney Bolton
I’m sorry, someone was interrupting.
Alderman Klee
OK | think | understand that. | will have to state that | am concerned relative to whether it be City Hall or any
other public building, City building, that if we don’t have some type of mandate we could have large crowds in
there and so on. But | will leave it at that. And Madam President, | would like to make two other statements
relative to comments that have been made at the beginning. | will be voting for this particular Ordinance but |
did want to kind of clarify some things. The New Hampshire Constitution, Part 1, Article 3, very specifically
states. “Society — its organization and purposes. When men into a State of Society they surrender up some of
their natural rights to that society. In order to ensure the protection of others; and, without such an equivalent,
the surrender is void.” This was written on June 2™, 1784. That is part of the NH Constitution which basically
says that sometimes we do things for society even if it means we have to put our own feelings or our own
rights, as long as we are trying to protect society.
RSA 47:15 — They make — and they are talking about municipalities or | should say | believe it is talking about
City Boards — They may make any other bylaws and regulations which may seem for the well-being of the City.
But no bylaw ordinance shall be repugnant to the constitutional laws of the State and such bylaws and
ordinances shall take effect and be enforced from the time they are in limited without the sanction of
conformation of any other authority whatever. Basically what | interpret this as saying is that the municipality
had the right for the protection of the people within the City to put through the mandate that we did. | know that
there were many that different like it; there were many that were calling for it. And in the same respect | have
had more businesses that have called me and ask that we lift it and allow them to decide on their own, but I’ve
also had a number of businesses that have called and thanked us for having put this in because it helped take
the pressure off of them. As well as they are now having a little anxiety that they are going to get — | believe
there were some members that said if certain businesses keep it in place, | won’t go to them. That’s a threat to
these businesses and while they may want to take care of the safety of their employees, these people are
basically saying, | don’t care about your employees.
And, again, | will be voting to lift this but | think we all need to kind of take a deep breath and say we’ve gone
through a year of hell, we are not through it as Alderman Lopez truly pointed out, we still have a road to go. |
hope that those that have been vaccinated continue to do things and those that haven’t been vaccinated will
take a pause and not say that they have been vaccinated. And | am going to tell you something, | have been
fully vaccinated, a little over two weeks after | was vaccinated | got really sick. | called my doctor, they
immediately brought me in, they felt that | had COVID even though I’d had both vaccinations and so on and
that’s because | have an autoimmune disease and the medication | take does suppress my immune system.
After that scare, thank goodness, | was negative but after that scare they basically said to me, be very cautious
to where you go for this entire time and so on and | will be cautious. But at the same time | had a friend whose
son said he had been vaccinated and tested negative. He wasn’t fully truthful and his father ended up in the
ICU. We are praying for him and we are hoping that everything is OK. But there are consequences for our
actions. And while | will be voting for this, | am going to ask the public to do their part as well. So thank you.
President Wilshire
Alderman Jette?
