Board of Aldermen 03-08-2022 Page 32
Alderman Sullivan
Thank you Madam President. Congratulations Matt Sullivan on the promotion, well done! | got to know you when | was
an Alderman Elect and came in wide-eyed and not understanding what’s going on and now | have constituents asking me
how come there isn’t a fire hydrant on my street and you allowed me to ask those questions and not make fun of me. So|
appreciate that. So Congratulations!
To the ordinance going back to committee, | think that we have to remember that legislation is not like an automobile on
an assembly line because sometimes you have to if you pass a known defect down the line, it can screw up things for
years to come. | think to sometimes halt the assembly line to make sure that all the parts and pieces fit well together is
okay to do occasionally. | just want you to Know the Alderman you got for the next 2 years, I’m not afraid to raise my
hand. I’m not afraid to ask dumb questions. | will make mistakes. | will admit when I’m wrong and sometimes I’ll ask for
a timeout and a pause to make sure we got it right, especially when it comes to the budget. It’s the peoples’ money. We
have to make sure that we do the right things with it. So | appreciate us taking an extra pause on that and definitely we'll
do our due diligence on that. Thank you.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you Madam President. | have a couple of things so please bear with me, but the first thing will start off on a sad
note and then will crescendo onto something really spectacular but anyway. Unfortunately on this date March 8, 1971,
Captain Honre Raymond of Nashua Fire Department made a supreme sacrifice and was killed in the line of duty at a 2"?
alarm fire on 23 Damon Ave. Captain Honre joined the Nashua Fire Department in 1938 until his death tragically in 1971.
Thirty three years of service. When he died, he was 60 years old. Although his death was 51 years ago on this date
today, | did not know him but being a firefighter for 35 years, we never forget those that have made the supreme sacrifice
and particularly for our City. His name is on the plaque up on the wall on Manchester Street with 15 other firefighters who
made the supreme sacrifice in the protection of the community of this city. So on this day, | and Nashua Fire Rescue will
remember. We never forget our own. May he rest in peace and may God's eternal light shine upon him.
Second thing sadly equally Chicken & Chips burnt down yesterday. Probably to the chagrin of my primary care physician,
but | did enjoy the treat of chicken & chips. It was popular. | wish them the best of luck and hopefully maybe something
else can come out because they were a nice treat and | did enjoy them.
Moving up to something a little bit better - to all my women colleagues on the Board and to all the women out there,
Happy National Women’s Day! None of you girls mentioned it. So | recognize you and it’s good to serve with you.
The other thing that | have is maybe recommendation to Alderman Dowd what was brought up is the cabling. If that’s
what moving that cable - | don’t think you’re going to move it. They would have moved it when they built Lake Street.
They would have moved the fire alarm from that location to Lake Street. You may think it’s a good idea. Bring an open
wallet. You got to look at it that some of that cabling is part of the telegraph system. Those little fire boxes, they all run
into that hub and then from there is retransferred back to Lake Street. So it’s a big project and I’m sure W1, or Jeremy
Audette can explain it, or Chief Buxton.
The other thing is there is tree cutting going on at the landfill. That’s our project in Infrastructure with Public Works. So
it's not a bunch of beavers or anything so, it’s part of the replacement of that project.
| did check my phone and Draft Kings did say that R-22-008 which has been referred back to committee will be coming
back with a positive recommendation, | believe. I'll take those odds.
But | just want to say something, | do agree with Alderman Thibeault. Representative Klee knows the way we deal with
things up in the State. We put a lot of faith into each individual committee. We have to and my Committee alone was 58
Bills. We were joined this week by Alderman Jette who did come up on another matter was at our committee meeting and
hopefully he got to see some of the efficiencies. But 58 Bills in one committee if we kept re-referring things, it would be
tragic. | understand that doing diligence and understand, but keep in mind | just say as part of our procedures if you do
have questions, watch the calendar, show up to the committee meetings. Please keep that in mind because I'll list that
into a segway when we get into Infrastructure tomorrow night, but I'll wait to committee assignments.
The final thing that | have - two final things - is wish me luck tomorrow, I’m going up to Concord to discuss with the
Finance Committee. I’m glad you recognized Representative Renny Cushing. He’s the one that wrote that Bill that is
going to put 7.5% back into the pension system. He and | worked on that and it gives me an honor to carry that forward.
We got it off the floor of the House like we said earlier and now it’s going to Finance. I'll go up and present it to Finance.
I'll get into some arm wrestling with them up there and hopefully that we can go from there. So again, wish me luck.
