Finance Committee - 7/5/2018 Page 4
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
The amount is $100,000.00 just so you guys know. My question was do we have flaggers in the city you know,
do we have employees as flaggers?
Mayor Donchess
No, the answer is no. No.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
So every time we see someone holding those flags out there they belong to some other company, they are not
city employees or anything like that?
Mayor Donchess
Correct, unless you see Police Officers, who are City employees. But when they are in that type of role, that is
a detail paid for by the private company not by the City. So on a major road, you have Police like on Concord
Street, they have some flaggers but they also have at least one Police Officer. That is like a situation where
the officer volunteers to do this in his or her off hours. It might not even be from Nashua, sometimes they can’t
find a Nashua cop who wants to the job. They get paid by the City but the City is reimbursed by the contractor
for those hours
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
| am just thinking ahead, do you think it is worth the City having those types of employees?
Mayor Donchess
Well no because it is very, very seasonal. | think it is just very involved. Then we are subject to a lot of
restrictions that we would prefer not to be subject to for temporary employees which then could become
permanent and then very involved. Anyone else? And that is an all-end rate. With the City there would be
health care, there is pensions, there is everything else. So $28.00 would become $56. No other questions or
comments?
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Vegetation Removal — Merrimack River (Value: $42,750)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
WILLIAM P. DAVIS EXCAVATING, LLC, IN THE AMOUNT OF $42,750. FUNDS
ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 169, WASTEWATER
MOTION CARRIED
