Board of Aldermen 03-08-2022 Page 22
Julie Saige
...out of control but they want to control us especially kids in every aspect. She kept saying our children. | am not her child.
No one owns me. This also goes beyond ridicule and public. My family has been coughed on, spat on by adults, and | even
had a lit cigarette thrown at me the other day all because about wearing masks. When we contacted the police about this,
they said that they will do absolutely nothing about it. Nashua does not protect its children and this will happen again now
that the ordinance is rescinded. One more thing about who | am...
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
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Daniel Saige
Hello. My name is Daniel Saige. I’m at 38 Deerwood. I’m actually going to talk about something a little bit different. | let my
daughter speak for herself. There was something that was said quite often that had me confused. | did a little bit of politics.
| ran for independent in California Governor. | grew up in lowa — learned that law is what’s important. You guys actually
have a great council here — legal counsel. But during the last meeting, a lot of people kept saying “mask mandate”. You
guys had an ordinance. You're the legislation branch. You don’t have mandates. Executive Branch has mandates through
departments and judicial branches have mandates. You have an ordinance. It’s just not the same thing. The problem when
you’re using these words wrong is people believe you can’t follow a mandate. You actually have a person come up and say
that “mandates aren’t legal’. A mandate from a court is very legal. If they tell you that you need to get psychiatric help, you
have to do it. A mandate from the Public Health office is mandatory. You have to do it. It causes where younger people
also will get confused. If they’re told that they have to follow this mandate and then they think that they don’t have to, or if
they think that it’s not an ordinance that it didn’t come from legislation. You guys actually did a good job in that.
When the Governor’s office did it, that was a mandate but you guys went through your branch. It’s just something that |
wanted to point out and I’m not sure how much you are getting the information from legal specifically about this. That’s
something to be very, very careful about. When people say they don’t like mandates so that’s why they were going to
rescind it, every ordinance you do is exactly the same thing. So it’s also kind of confusing there. It’s just one of those things
to bring to you guys’ attention.
Laurie Ortolano
Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street, Nashua. I’d like to thank the Board for sending 14 Court Street back to the Budget
Committee for review.
I'd also like to ask the Mayor — you gave a nice presentation on our COVID numbers, but I’m wondering what level we’re at.
Usually you say if we’re at still at substantial and the website still has us at a substantial rate of transmission and I'd like to
know when that’s going to change.
I'd like to address the removal of the press table at the back of the room. So this is your Chamber collectively and | was told
that now Attorney Bolton is looking at putting a law library back there with some books. I'd kind of like to know. | got my
press pass, and I’m ready to report, and the table has been removed. So | think we should bring our press table back and if
you are going to have a law library back there, | think that’s terrific. | think you should dedicate a shelf to Right-to-Know Law
because | think we could use some polishing up on that.
As far as barriers go, that’s coming up tomorrow and I'd like to say I’ve done quite a bit of work looking at the data and a
friend of mine compiled all the surveys and information from February 22 and March 8 as of today. | think there is a lot of
data in there that shows there is not a lot of support for these barriers. I’m disappointed in the letter that went out from the
Mayor because | think that it was not clear, and it was convoluted, and it had a twisted view on what should be said. | know
Derek you're shaking your head “no”, but really you should allow me to speak and give me the courtesy to do that and then
you can state your position on what you see. Some of it’s debatable because its data on the way it’s written and | really
understand that. I’m looking at overall the response from the newspaper, the petitions that were signed, and the letters that
in both sets of information.
Finally I’d like to speak on safety. | really think that the two new Chiefs had a private meeting with Alderman O’Brien and
Tim Cummings to address the safety issues. | think these safety issues have been raised repeatedly by the public and |
think our safety officials should put in writing their concerns. No short, small meetings with pro-barrier people on how we’re
making accommodations. | think it’s reasonable that that be put in writing. Those are safety issues for our citizens so please
ask your Fire and Police Department to put in writing the safety issues.
