Finance Committee - 3/21/2018 Page 3
Mayor Donchess
Questions or discussion?
Alderman Caron
Thank you | think this is a great addition to the Health Department, any additional help that we can get for
nothing to do some outreach is excellent so | think that is wonderful that you were able to reach out to and get
them onboard.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Broad Street Parkway Property Appraisals (Value: $10,000)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
CAPITAL APPRAISAL ASSOCIATION, INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,000. SOURCE
OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT 160, ADMINISTRATION/ENGINEERING; BROAD STREET PARKWAY
BOND
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Change Order #4 to Contact with Northeast Earth Mechanics to Expand Construction of the
Residential Setback Barrier Wall in the Phase II Landfill (Value: $199,763)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AUTHORIZE CHANGE ORDER #4
TO THE CONTRACT WITH NORTHEAST EARTH MECHANICS IN THE AMOUNT
OF $199,763. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 168, SOLID WASTE BOND
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Nashua Transit System — Token Transit (Value $0)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
TOKEN TRANSIT, INC. FOR A ZERO VALUE
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Director Marchant is here to explain this so would she come forward.
Sarah Marchant
Thank you very much. Good evening. The idea of Token Transit is it is a zero dollar out from the City and it
would be an app on your phone that would allow you to purchase bus passes, individual and monthly. It would
also allow us to offer some additional kinds of passes for the system. This is the first time that we would be
offering other ways of purchasing bus tickets. We are constrained and we get a lot of complaints about the fact
that the only way you can purchase bus passes is through the transit center, which is open very limited hours —
9 to noon and 1 to 5, weekdays only. So this allows it to be a little more mobile and it’s very easy to download
an app to your phone and make that work. It does have a reduction in revenue which we are anticipating with
this between $4,000.00 and $8,000.00 a year but we think that the service to our constituents is worth it and
that it would certainly cost us a lot more to buy this software and provide the customer service and all of that
with it ourselves. We would very much like to move forward with something this.
