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I’d like to congratulate Alderman Lopez for volunteering with our resident Scott McCullough for Best Buddies and if you
want to handle that will be outstanding and count me in as one of the donators. Thank you Madam President.
Alderman Clemons
Sorry. | wasn’t going to speak, but | didn’t want to debate the legislation that was referred back to the committee tonight.
There’s a lot of things that need to be said about it. There’s a lot of reasons why | brought it forward. | think the
committee is the best place to look at it. | was on vacation. Had | been able to be at the committee meeting | would have.
| communicated to the Chair and maybe he forgot that | was on vacation and that | would not be there. | asked as a
courtesy to table that legislation, so | don’t know why it came out or why it ended up here. It should have been in the
committee. We really should respect one another when it comes to legislation like that. Alderman Kelly at the previous
meeting wanted legislation tabled here so that she could speak to it and we chose not to do that. It’s disrespectful. If
somebody asks for legislation to be tabled and it’s their legislation, respect them. If somebody wants it re-referred back to
committee and it’s their legislation, respect it. Thank you.
Committee announcements:
Alderwoman Timmons
The Department of Health has their bi-weekly meeting tomorrow at 12:30. Anyone that wants to Zoom in can do that. |
think we have the JSSBC meeting on Thursday is that right? This Thursday at Nashua North.
President Wilshire
Is Joint Special this Thursday Alderman Dowd?
Alderman Dowd
No.
Alderman Lopez
| believe we are having Human Affairs Committee on Pie Day, March 14".
Alderman O’Brien
| was wondering how you could forget me. Just to remind everybody in case you forgot, tomorrow night is Joint
Committee of Infrastructure and PEDC and we will be discussing the barriers. | would just like to put out the ground rules.
We are going to follow a little bit different format. Of course, | as Chairman will go by the wishes of the Committee, but at
the meeting in particular the agenda has been changed. First thing needs to be presented is a presentation — let’s put
food on the plate. There has been a lot of innuendos and not so much in the factual department. So the presentation will
be made by Director Cummings so that the committee members will be there and able to digest it and in the time make
the proper decision. After the presentation, we'll go into a public format to allow the public to come forward. There will be
a3 minute time limit to come forward and to express their point of view. After that, we will convene and | think what we'll
probably do at that particular time is work within the subcommittee and make a full recommendation to the full Board on
what the subcommittee will be. So even though we will come into the procedure as we traditionally do, I'll ask for the
motion of final passage. That doesn’t mean that we’re going to vote on it, but allows us to debate it with a positive
recommendation that can be changed. And so that’s going to be the format. So to go on | strongly encourage so we
don’t end up repeating and going through again, this is a very important subject. If you can be there, that’s where all the
cool people are going to be hanging out. Come on down, you’re more than welcome. It’s 7:00; it’s right here. I'll reserve
a seat for you. So looking forward to seeing you all then. Thank you.
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS THAT THE MARCH 8, 2022, MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN BE
ADJOURNED
MOTION CARRIED
The meeting was declared adjourned at 10:14 p.m.
Attest: Susan K. Lovering, City Clerk
