Finance Committee — 04/06/2022 Page 5
future not just for the revaluation but for years to come. So we would be working with five of ESRI’s top consultants in the
design of this as well as our own information technology team.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone?
MOTION CARRIED
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - None
NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS - None
NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES - None
REGORD OF EXPENDITURES
MOTION BY ALDERMAN COMEAU THAT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS COMPLIED WITH THE CITY CHARTER
AND ORDINANCES PERTAINING TO THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE PERIOD FROM MARCH 11,
2022 TO MARCH 31, 2022
Mayor Donchess
Any questions or discussion?
MOTION CARRIED
GENERAL DISCUSSION - None
PUBLIC COMMENT
Laurie Ortolano
Yes. Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street, Nashua. | have a lot of questions on what | just heard with this $82,000 being
spent and I’m so tired of “improvements being made for transparency” that we either don’t need or don’t make sense. Is
this supposed to bring the property record files online because Miss Kleiner does not speak clearly? Is this an interface
that brings these files on line that are being done by Inception Technology? I'd like an answer to that. We were told that’s
$7,500. Is that $7,500 we’re going to spend still to do this or is ArcGIS providing this? And where is the transparency
now? We have all the cards online. You can check your neighborhood. You can access them from home. You can run
the taxes. You can look at all comparable properties. Why would be doing this unless this is the interface for Inception
Technologies scanned work? I’m so tired of the wasted money for transparency that isn’t transparent or necessary.
We bought all those tablets for the assessors to take out in the field. We never really use them. You know why, our
assessors since 2019 when we purchased them aren’t doing permits or sales data anymore because when we signed the
contract with Vision they took over and did all that work. So the handy tool of buying digital equipment wasn’t really
necessary at all. We spend the money, we don’t really use it. We upgraded for thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of
dollars. Patriot Properties tool three years ago. We have the latest and greatest software down there. She did not say “is
this system going to be accessible from home?” or “is this only going to be accessible if you go into the assessing office?”
because | don’t want. | want the same accessibility from home that | have now but | don’t see a need for this at all.
Somebody tell me what this is going to do other than muddle it for people who have to try and understand this stuff. The
new version of Patriot is complicated enough down there and the Clerks that work in the office don’t know how to help you
on that computer screen because they don’t understand the WebPro that’s been updated. You have to fish through it
yourself. | went down there and a person couldn’t show me how to print a card off the computer. | had to stand there and
do it myself.
So is this part of the Inception deal? Are we trying to couple the property record files and this is being developed by a
consultant to allow...
Alderman Comeau
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