Finance Committee - 07/15/2020 Page 17
Mayor Donchess
Any other questions or comments? Would 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, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Laws, Mayor Donchess 6
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
| think Ms. Bagley was here to talk about this. Sorry for the delay are you here?
Bobbie Bagley, Director of Health & Community Services
Yes | am here.
Mayor Donchess
You were in communication with the Humane Society, so can you offer the perspective they gave you?
Director Bagley
Yes sir. In response to some of the questions that the Committee had, the Executive Director of the Humane
Society provided answers that allowed us to learn that they did not incur any additional costs for the work that
they were doing in their contract and that the contract amount that is being proposed for this next Fiscal Year is
appropriate for them. One of the other things that was brought to the attention of myself, our Health Officer
and the Humane Society, was the missing language around chickens. So the Executive Director did add in an
amended contract language that says, “chickens found running at large, they will provide impoundment and
quarantine services for those animals that are impounded by the Animal Control Office.
They also added “in accordance with RSA 44 18-A” and the Nashua Revised Ordinance of 93-6 for impounded
of dogs, cats, ferrets found at large, they have added chickens as well, that they will impound immediately if no
permanent identification was found. They also provided the number, we were able to review from the previous
fiscal year how many chickens were actually impounded and | believe that | saw four and | believe all four of
those, a home was found for all four of them. So those were the questions that were proposed by the
Committee, I’m not sure if there are any additional questions, but the contract has been amended with that
additional work that has not been more than what the agency deems as needing to have any more money put
into their contract. Any other questions?
Alderwoman Kelly
| just wanted to say thank you for going back and just doing due diligence on that. We hear from different
people things that are going on so we wanted to make sure that the situation was manageable for the Humane
Society and | love everyone’s faces when chickens comes up. Everyone always has a little bit of a smirk. |
have four chickens in my backyard, they will not be running way, but | am pretty excited to have them.
