Finance Committee Page 4
May 3, 2016
UNFINISHED BUSINESS — None
NEW BUSINESS — None
RECORD OF EXPENDITURES
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL THAT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS COMPLIED WITH THE CITY
CHARTER AND ORDINANCES PERTAINING TO THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE PERIOD
TO APRIL 15, 2016 TO APRIL 28, 2016
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Siegel
| did receive an e-mail from Mr. Kooken regarding an expenditure from Financial Services for Town Fair Tire
and it seemed unusual that an expense would come from Town Fair Tire through Financial Services.
Apparently it’s a refund of some registration fees and | guess | want to understand ultimately how the heck that
ended up through Financial Services as opposed to the Clerk’s office.
Mr. Kooken
| can follow-up and get back to you on that. | spoke with John Griffin and David Fredette. I'll go over it with
you tomorrow.
Alderman Siegel
| just have two more items; the fire department has a $1,000 educational expense for educational assistance to
the Chamber of Commerce. I’m trying to understand what the Chamber of Commerce...| thought we had
specific courses that we could take.
Alderman O’Brien
| am going to be reaching here but | think the fire department participates in the Leadership Greater Nashua
which is a program that is run by the Chamber of Commerce?
Alderman Siegel
That’s exactly what my presumption would be and that’s exactly why | am disappointed that we have $1,000
expenditure because | think it’s a useless program personally and | would just assume see city dollars not
spent on that. That’s my opinion. | have one last item. | noticed in Community Services that there was over
$1,000 spent in outreach marketing to Hippo Press and Rumbo and |’m trying to figure out why we would
spend money in those two...where that would come from because the Hippo, eh, but the Rumbo is the
Merrimack Valley Bilingual Paper and it seems to primarily serve Lawrence, MA. Between the two of the it’s
$1,008: its $568.00 and $440.00.
Mayor Donchess
We can get an explanation on that but are you still moving to approve the expenditures?
Alderman Siegel
Yes, the money has been spent already so yes.
MOTION CARRIED
