Graham, Donna
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2022 5:58 PM
To: Jette, Ernest
Ce: Mayors Office Emaii; Hudson, Daniel; Fauteux, Lisa; Stansfield, Jill; Cummings, Tim;
Bolton, Steve; O'Brien, Michael (Alderman); Lopez, Thomas; Moran, Melbourne; Klee,
Patricia; Clemons, Benjamin; Wilshire, Lori; Graham, Donna; Dowd, Richard; Board of
Aldermen
Subject: Re: SFK
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Mr. Jette
Thank you for your response. | did return your call but you were not available. | totally apologize as |
was taken a take out call.
| do want to make you and all the board aware, | did talk to my landlord and he doesn't want to
jeopardize my business since he is aware restaurants do benefit from barriers and the extended
outside dining.
| thought this was about compromise and my block went from barriers in ail 13 parking spaces to just
me asking for 2. You stated " | moved to shorten the barriers to let you use the one space and provide
some parking in front of Wingates”. | have sat and recorded a full day of parking usage and out of a
whole day, not kidding you, only 2 people entered Wingates in a period of 8 hours. | want to remind
everyone, Wingates closes at 5pm, doesn't open Sundays and on Saturdays only from 8-12.
| definitely feel bullied by my neighbor and not only me but he has bullied and manipulated other
business, even to the point of misinformation about SFK, unappreciated by certain Alderman, who
don't have the courtesy to return my emails in regards to my concerns, I'm a nashua resident and pay
taxes, and discriminated because | am Latina by some people, and is not fair because | was actually
born and raised in Nashua NH and my husband is a veteran and has deployed for this country 3
times and who do you think has supported all his deployments and handled everything here at home
so he can serve his country, Me. Now that I'm asking for help, | get an answer that is an unfair option
for me and my business.
When the whole barriers issue started. Mr. Wingate's issues were parking, traffic and emergency
vehicles and now that all those options were address, now his issue is no tables in front of his store
front. | house a landscape that | didn't not ask for, why am | getting penalize for stuff that | didn't do or
request. | also want to make all of you aware, Wingates has offered to allow tables and chair in front
of his store but with the conditions of, | have to remove them at 10pm and only put them out at 5pm, |
don't have the storage to put the tables and chairs in a daily basis in my restaurant until |'m allowed to
use his store front sidewalk and also | have to take 100% liability that if | break one of his windows,
the windows are not the type that crack, it shatters, so therefore If | accept, I'm putting my employees
and guest at risk, knowing is dangerous. So | ask myself, if he is willing to allow me to put tables and
chairs in front of his store on sidewalk, wouldn't it be better on the street away from his storefront?
I'm sorry for all the issues this has caused on my block, but I'm just trying to survive financially, help
my employees and retain them and keep serving the community like it has been for the last 26 years.
| do Thank all of you, every person involved in this committee and Board because this is not an easy
job, but please try to put yourself in my shoes, trying to keep a business open and I'm literally
discussing my income and my employees future. | have a lot on the line here, just because I'm asking
for two parking spaces.
