Finance Committee - 09/02/2020 Page 14
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Mr. Caggiano?
Mr. Caggiano
Nick Caggiano, Park & Rec Superintendent. Currently we are in the middle of rehabilitating this park. The
original park was put in over the cap land fill in 2003. Over the years, there has been some settlement with the
trash degrading a little bit and it has caused the walks and parking lot and some of the field surfaces to heave
and sink a little bit. The playground was removed last year, all the footings came out of the ground and |
deemed it unsafe. So we had to pull it out. Through this Capital Funding we’ve got for Lincoln Park we are
working on the tap half of Lincoln right now. We are going to finish it up this fall and then the kids are going to
be able to play baseball in the spring and then next July they are going to work on the lower half. So this
playground will replace the existing playground.
It is going to be unique because it is going to have a rubber pad surface, similar to the one at Legacy
Playground over by Fairgrounds Middle School. This surface is going to allow water to shed off it and not get
underneath it and it is going to prevent that heaving along with the drainage improvements that the Street
Department is currently making right now.
Mayor Donchess
Discussion? Could the Clerk please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 6
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Surplus Equipment Donation to the Picker Artists of Nashua
Mayor Donchess
The next Communication is from Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager, but this may be a transfer that is not
happening, but let me turn to Ms. Kleiner on this.
Kim Kleiner, Director of Administrative Services
Yes, good evening Mayor, Members of the Committee. There was an arrangement made to transfer and
donate the chairlift at the old public health department on Mulberry Street to the Artists. Unfortunately when
the Artists further investigated the chairlift, they did view that it will not meet their needs. The chairlift is fairly
old, there’s some concerns about receiving parts for it and it is a very difficult chairlift to fit on a space if the
stairwell is different than the current Public Health stairwell. So the transfer was not made to them, they are
not interested in the chairlift any further and the chairlift will be removed and disposed of.
Mayor Donchess
So you don’t need any action on this?
