Finance Committee - 07/15/2020 Page 9
Director Kleiner
That it would; all of our staff would have their work, their valuations reviewed by and signed off by Mr. Norman
before brought forth to the Board of Assessors.
Mayor Donchess
And one question that we received was given that he, Mr. Norman, works for the Town of Windham, does he
have time and will he be able to provide the necessary services to the City of Nashua given his affiliation with
Windham.
Director Kleiner
Certainly a fair question, one that Mr. Norman have discussed at length. To be fair, he has done this for other
communities. He has continued to work and have his own business certainly choosing the assignments
himself. He’s not going to be a Chief Assessor, with a Chief Assessor comes a different role. As a Chief
Assessor you are working on supervising the day-to-day activity within the office, you are overseeing the
Administrative Staff. There’s a lot of other duties. So this scope is very limited. He is going to be providing
that technical overview of the Assessing work. He will have access to our systems, he will have access to our
CAMA System and we feel that he will, being a limited scope, he will have the necessary time to perform the
duty and to perform it well.
Mayor Donchess
Any questions or comments? Alderwoman Klee.
Alderman Klee
Thank you Mr. Mayor and thank you Director Kleiner, | really appreciate this. And before the meeting | had
you asked you about it being no-ended and | appreciate you addressing that. As you said, it would be
terminated upon no longer needed it if or wnen we were finally able to find a Chief Assessor, which to be
honest with you I’m not so sure that would be possible with the certain pressure that’s going on these days
within the community of nastiness. But putting that aside, | just wanted to say thank you for doing this.
So we also limited it to $124,800.00 if at that time we are still not able to find a Chief Assessor, you would
come back in, if he were willing to renew this contract is that how it would go and how long do we think this “not
to exceed” monies will last.
Director Kleiner
Great question; so that is based upon a year. And | certainly understand the question of the money. To be
clear, so this is not abnormal. You are hiring a consultant and you are hiring a consultant with very significant
experience and that’s what we want right now. You are not paying this individual benefits and pension and all
the things that would be an employee. So you have to take that into consideration. It will last a year, if we still
haven’t found a Chief Assessor within that time period, then we would need to come back to the Board and
extend the contract.
Alderman Klee
Thank you very much, that’s all | have right at the moment, thank you Mr. Mayor.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you, Mayor Donchess. I’m not clear, or | didn’t hear the details so is it a one year contract and in other
words is that stated fee paid regardless of how long this person stays with us?
