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From: Laurie Ortolano
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2021 6:29 PM
To: Graham, Donna
Subject: Board of Aldermen Packet
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Donna,
please submit that as public communication for the next board packet.
Mayor Donchess is chartered to select Corporation Council for the City to serve at his pleasure but
this should not prevent Aldermen from weighing in on the ethics and fiscal abuses occurring in the
legal office.
Aldermen have been all too silent on suspect collaboration between the Mayor and the jegal
office. The battles the Mayor and Corporation City Council Bolton have chosen to take on against
citizens and elected officials are wasteful, irresponsible, unethical, and financially unaccountable.
The Nashua legal office should not have blatant, unrestrained spending ability in order to escalate
legal matters into costly litigation. This is what has happened. The Board genuflects to Bolton and
tippy toes around his caustic inflammatory personality hoping not to be the next victim of his
verbal abuse.
Bolton and Donchess are thin-skinned, short tempered, and personalize issues setting up
vendettas and creating a toxic work environment for all city employees. Their bruised egos open
the door to litigation at any cost. Who cares, the taxpayer’s foot the bill!
Bolton, as an officer of the court, is all too comfortable misrepresenting information to the Board,
the public, and police agencies. A Corporation Council should not have the ability to pick and
choose what Aldermen or Commissioners he is willing to serve. Aldermen Lu and Commissioner
Pappas should be able to freely seek legal counsel in order to perform their duties when
representing their Ward and City. An entire Ward is ignored because of the strikingly juvenile
antics of a 70 year old Corporation Council who acts like a thwarted child.
The Board sits silently in meetings when the Mayor and Bolton attack seated Alderwoman,
Elizabeth Lu. No decorum rules apply for those members. Ms. Kelly, the only At-large Aldermen
running again, sits quietly as meetings are hijacked by these leaders’ temperaments. Our Board of
Aldermen, which serves as our legislative branch, is failing us at every turn. Rather than serving
the citizens, they have become the Mayor’s posse.
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