Board of Aldermen 02-22-2022 Page 5
Sandra Ziehm, Paula Johnson, Jessica Brown, and Christina Darling. I'm just over the moon happy for those kids and the
parents that have been dealing with this. Thank you.
Alicen Hogan
Hi. My name is Alicen Hogan from 7 Hardy Street, Nashua, New Hampshire. | wasn't planning on speaking today. I'm
actually here because I've emailed my Ward 4 Alderman as well as all six Aldermen-at-Large, including the President and
Vice-President. | have left voicemails for my Alderman and all of the Aldermen-at-Large, including the Vice-President and
the President and | have received no response back. | have recently moved back from Maryland and | was trying to get
acquainted with my representation here back in Nashua.
President Wilshire
Are you here to speak on something we're going to be acting upon?
Alicen Hogan
Absolutely. So this whole can | call in, can | dial in? So | feel that that would be a detriment because the demonstrated
behavior is that after two weeks of trying to reach out to my representation, this is the only way that | know | can reach out
to you. | am here physically to talk with you because | know you're here. If | were not able to do this, | would have to wait
another three weeks before | got a response from my Ward 4 Alderman, before | got a response back from any of the
Aldermen-at-Large including the President and the Vice-President. That to me seems odd. Nashua and New Hampshire
especially has been a very representative government of the people, by the people, for the people. So having this in
person requirement to me seems essential. So hopefully, I'm looking for Tom Lopez. Hi. Excellent. Hopefully we can
connect and | can speak with you directly after the meeting so we can discuss some of the things that are going on in
Nashua and get reacquainted and all of the Aldermen-at-Large when | was growing up here, we only had one Alderman-
at-Large and one Vice-President. Now we have | believe six Aldermen-at-Large is that correct and no one was able to get
back to me in two weeks. So this is why | think it's very important for you to have an in person presence so that your
constituency can at least connect with you, can talk with you, can sit down and see you and have a discussion because
that's important. That's where we're at right now is that maybe we don't see things eye to eye but that's okay. We need to
understand each other as people and to discuss things openly. So thank you very much. | hope that that helps shed
some light on things. Thank you.
Lou Juris
Good evening. Lou Juris here - 56 Haines Street. I’m commenting on the masking. | believe we should keep it until
March 1st as the rates go down. Like the doctor said, just keep the masks on as much as possible until March 1% and |
believe that transmission rates will continue to go down from that point. | also think that the school system may be was a
little too premature. Until the middle of March would have been better in my opinion. | know that other jurisdictions
around the country are dropping some things right now but they may have been ahead of us in terms of rates of infection
for 100,000 people. This is a very good place to educate your children. In my class from the early 80s, there's one sitting
judge. There's also people who are doctors. There are those who have done quite well in finance, and real estate, and
also in medicine. So this is a very good place to raise your children and we have to continue to fund properly our public
schools. The shade that's being thrown by those on the School Board about having doubts, | believe, is wrong. If that's
the case, then they shouldn't be on the School Board. I'd like to say I'm a big supporter and | think we have a good school
system and | want to support our teachers. The contract that's up now should be, hopefully will be coming soon and we
can move beyond these contract blocks. We have a new superintendent coming on board and we can get beyond and
can agree on salaries, and back our teachers up, and continue to move forward, and to graduate high numbers of
students who hopefully return to the community, and be here and raise their kids here, and maybe come on these boards
and continue to make Nashua a progressive, and a great place to live, and to be educated, and to thrive. | want to thank
you for your time and good evening to you all.
Sonia Prince
Hi. Sonia Prince, 49 Tufts Drive. Can you hear me?
President Wilshire
Yes.
