Board of Aldermen 08-09-2022 Page 30
That's the one. Took over our local access and they are putting out a ton of great shows. | got to be on with James Klein,
who's a former Marine, former Marine Guard to the President, active combat Marine. He and | worked in social services
together. He is going to graduate school to be a social worker like | am and the name of his show is “Changing the
Stigma”. He has a show on the radio. Now he has one on local broadcast. We talked a lot about the barriers of mental
health, how mental health affects the city, and what we can do as a community to improve mental health access. I'm
hoping people not just check out the show that | was on the episode, but check him out and his show continuously as it
airs on local access. Thank you, Madam President.
Alderman Lopez
| want to express my condolences to the friends and families of Julie Graichen. She was the woman who was stabbed on
Kinsley Street last week. Julie was like many of the best people in the world. A very complex person but she was well
known in the community. She was very much appreciated and she will be missed.
| wanted to announce or spread the word a little bit further because I've been announcing it periodically throughout the
last couple of weeks. A week from tomorrow is Employment Connect at Nashua Public Library. So if anybody out there is
looking for employment or looking for a better job, go to Nashua Public Library between 9 and 1. There are plenty of
employers that will be setting up there. They're looking to interview people. They’re looking to hire people. Anybody who
completes the event gets a coupon to get lunch from Soel Sistas Catering. Then anybody who's not quite ready to
interview or doesn't feel ready, there's an employment preparation event next Tuesday and that's August 16" at Main
Street United Methodist. They'll have everything you could possibly need to be ready for an interview whether it's a
haircut, or a suit, or resume writing, or anything like that. So that's called “Suit Yourself”. Suit Yourself will be Tuesday,
the 16%, at Main Street Methodist from 9 to1 and then employment connected will be Wednesday at Nashua Public
Library from 9 to 1. Thank you.
Alderman Clemons
Thank you. Not an easy vote tonight on the Zoom. You know | had a lot of reservations after just some self-
contemplation. But | don't think that - | don't think that anyone here tonight was doing this in bad faith. | don't think that
anyone here tonight by the way that they voted either one way or the other was doing so to shut down public comment or
because they believe that people shouldn't go and come to us with, you know, how they feel about different issues or
different things going on. | don't think that there's a person sitting around this horseshoe that believes that we shouldn't
be hearing from the public. | think that there are legitimate concerns that were raised about what was going on and in
some of the meetings with Zoom. | think that people's levels of comfortability with that software and with what it does and
what it brings | think are different than mine and different than other people and that's okay.
No one here voted to shut down public comment tonight. So | just hope that when the discussion comes up, as it
probably well, in the community that we take a deep breath and say, you know, thankfully this city does value public
comment. We allow two public comment periods at every single meeting that we have. | don't think that there's another
city in the State that allows as much public comment as we do. So just because we took it away on one platform this
evening, we're going back to the way it was in 2019. | think that regardless of how you feel or regardless of how you
voted, | think that this city values public comment and will continue to value public comment going forward. | hope that
this debate can be settled and we can move forward.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. | want to start off by thanking Scott for always being such a joy in these meetings. I'll definitely miss his voice
on Zoom. | also am going to put a table to come to your gala Scott so we can follow up with that if anyone on from the
Board of Aldermen would like to come.
| just wanted to thank everyone on the Board for the support of the ARPA funds, you know, $10 million into the Affordable
Trust Fund is a really good start to start moving forward and helping support some projects. Obviously, it's not gonna be
enough to do a whole project but it's definitely going to allow us to do some public private partnerships and start to
increase the stock of housing. Thank you.
Alderman Dowd
It's a couple of quick things. One - you'll recall that a few meetings ago we authorize the naming of the traffic circle near
the Rivier College after Officer Graziano. On Sunday, August 14" this coming Sunday, it's the 58th anniversary of Officer
Graziano’s end of the watch. There'll be a brief ceremony at 2:20 p.m. to commemorate the official naming of Officer
Edward “Rocky” Graziano Memorial Circle and everyone is invited to come down and partake.
