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August 9, 2016
supported the original skateboard park and | support the relocation of this skateboard park and | would
urge you all to as well. Thank you all (speaking to members of the public in attendance) for being out
here too.
Alderman Clemons
| agree 100% with the previous two speakers. Alderman Deane and | don’t often agree on many things
but there is one thing that | know and that is that he would never do anything behind the public’s back. |
am proud to support this with him and | thank him for all of his hard work.
Alderman LeBrun
This legislation should not even be on the agenda this evening. | somewhat hesitate to say that it was
ushered through an unethical process but as they if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it’s
most likely a duck. No vote should be taken. This needs to go back to square one and receive proper
vetting. The meetings need to be published properly so the public can participate. Minutes need to be
recorded and posted on-line. We are told this process began in 2012 yet it did not make it to the public
until just recently. Mr. President, let’s be fair to our constituents and ourselves and not cast a vote until
we have a bill that has gone through the process as it is supposed to. Those people responsible for this
jam it down our throats process need to be informed that this is not the way we do things in Nashua.
Nashua is better than this. If we do end up voting on this | only hope the people of Nashua take heed
that there are elected officials ready and willing to disregard their basic right to monitor how and when
legislation they have an interest in is processed through the system. We are elected to represent our
people, not to ignore them. Mr. President, | ask that we do not vote on this legislation and | motion to lay
it on the table until such time as we can do what’s right and proper for the good people of Nashua and |
ask for a roll call.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN LEBRUN TO TABLE
Alderman Clemons
| have a point of order. | thought it was against our rules to have a four minute speech and then have the
same speaker say they would like to table.
President McCarthy
| don’t think that there is anything in the rules that precludes it although we have always considered it to
be a poor practice.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman LeBrun 1
Nay: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Deane,
Alderman Cookson, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Siegel, Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja,
Alderman McGuinness, Alderman Moriarty, Alderman O’Brien,
Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy 14
MOTION FAILS
President McCarthy
The motion now is for final passage.
