Graham, Donna
From: Laurie Ortolanc
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 8:19 PM
To: Board of Aldermen
Cc: Graham, Donna
Subject: Public Input and Treatment of Laurie Ortolano at Jan 11, 2022 BOA meeting
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Ms. Graham,
Can you submit this into the next Board packet.
I virtually attended the Board of Aldermen Meeting this evening. I prepared a written 3 minutes
statement for public input regarding my RTK lawsuit heard in court in December. The meeting
lasted under 30 minutes. I was the only one to give public comment. The time started and I hit my 3
minutes with another sentence and half to finish. I lost 10 seconds announcing my name and
starting my own stopwatch to track my time. Witchy Wilshire scolded me because I had exceeded
my time by 15 seconds. This is not how public input should be treated, The City allocates 15
minutes for a public comment period according to policy and if no one is there to speak, there
shouldn't be such a rude outery from the President to shut down a member of the public. I have
watched friends of Wilshire speak at public input and exceed their time by almost a minute. She
graciously accepts the indulgence. I believe I have been extraordinarily compliant with the 3
minute rule but receive an unjustified hostile interruption and objection.
I guess I should be thankful that WIlshire doesn't control the button to my chair. I could be floating
in a tank of cold water!
My Public Comment read into the record on January 11, 2022
| finished a RTK lawsuit regarding Nashua’s Assessing records in December in Superior Court.
One of the challenges involved the records returned by the contracted appraisal company
responsible for creating the 2018 assessments. The contract signed by the City and the
company is a boilerplate document developed by the Department of Revenue and widely used
by municipalities around the state.
The contract calls for all documents and property record cards used to create the new values
to be returned to the city when the contract ends.
| filed a RTK to inspect these documents and was denied by the City under the 91-A exemption
for draft material and confidential information. | contacted many chiefs throughout the state,
the DRA and attended the assessing standards board’s meetings in Concord. | questioned
