Special Board of Aldermen 07-25-2022 Page 7
| completely agree with you. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Anyone else? Thank you very much. | appreciate your interest in serving Ward 7 again and we will take up
nominations after we hear from all candidates.
June M. Caron
Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Next we have Tim Sennott. By the way just for the record, Alderman Sullivan joined us at 7:22 pm.
e Tim Sennott
62 Underhill Street
Nashua, NH 03060
Tim Sennott
She set the precedent so I'll stand too. Thank you Madam President, members of the Board. It's no secret to any of
you that my name is Tim Sennott. | live at 62 Underhill Street in Nashua’s Crown Hill neighborhood. Since 2018, I've
served the residents of Ward 7 as an election official. | started my election official career as a Selectman from 2018 to
2020. Since 2020, | have served them as the Ward Moderator currently in my second consecutive term. | point to my
past as an election official as a great precedent for why | feel I'm qualified to serve on this board, why | feel | would
make a good contribution to this Board. If you are not aware in the election cycles whether it's municipal, State, or
federal we are required with our ballot inspectors to have an equal member or equal amount of each party. If we have
four Republicans present, we have to have four Democrats. If we have seven Democrats, we have to have seven
Republicans. Oftentimes the party city committees can appoint ballot inspectors for us to use but if they're not
available, no longer interested in serving. It is on us as the elected election officials to take to whether it's Facebook or
to the neighborhoods and recruit civic minded residents to serve in that capacity and that involves extending branches
across aisles and that's something I'm very proud of in Ward 7. We were left with very few people on board when | took
over as moderator and together with my ward clerk and my ward selectman, we have assembled a very diverse team
of ballot inspectors who serve and volunteer. At times they've stepped up to serve when we've had Selectmen resign
their posts. We have Democrats, we have Republicans, we have undeclared, and they all bring something to the table
and they all are capable of working together setting aside their political differences for the betterment of the cause,
which is to hold free and fair elections.
In the neighborhood, I've kind of hung my cap on the fact that I've become the guy on Underhill Street that people come
to when they want to know what's going on in the city. | have a neighborhood knows that I'm here most Tuesday nights
with you folks and some Monday nights, and Wednesday nights, and whenever there might be something of interest on
the committee meetings and he often asked me, Tim what's going on the politics in the city right now? I'm very proud of
that. People are able to come to me when they want to Know who they need to reach out to maybe get a stop sign
placed in the neighborhood. That's something that I'd like to carry forward and be their voice for Ward 7. No longer
would | have to point to them and say, well go speak to this person and start here. I'd like to be able to just stop the
conversation right there and say, let's see what we can do for you.
I've had the opportunity to get to know many of you. I've spent many hours this year in this chamber as I've decided to
take my free time that | have and dedicate more of it towards public service. Most recently as many of you know, | was
appointed by Mayor Donchess to the Downtown Improvements Committee. | have not had the opportunity to serve on
many meetings with that group yet because they only meet once a month. July was difficult and | was sick in June. I've
learned a lot from them about the going ons of downtown, what their concern is with downtown. | think many residents
would be interested to know that there's more that goes on in that Committee than just barriers. It's the real nitty gritty
of what makes downtown an attractive place to be. As | articulated in the Personnel Committee prior to being
appointed to that committee, | think our downtown is on a cusp of something great. | think the completion of the
Performing Arts Center is going to be a turning point for the city and I'm excited to see how the folks on that committee
who many of whom are business owners on Main Street are integral in taking Main Street to that next step. So | thank
you for your consideration and | certainly welcome any questions.
