Finance Committee — 06/01/2022 Page 10
The other part is when the screening comes up to ground levels, it has to be washed, squeezed before it gets sent to the
next room. There's a flaw in the design of once it leaves this wash press and goes into the next room, there's 290 degree
elbows and it goes up towards the ceiling of our building before it goes over and often jams and gets clogged so we have
to tear it all apart. So one of the projects is adding an odor control system to that screening room and the other one is
modifying the discharge of the rags that go into that room to a lower level whether screenings won't clog up. We want to
hire Wright Pierce to do this at the same time to be more cost effective. It’s in the same vicinity and also included in the
construction work as one project, which would help save money on when we put it out to bid having that one contractor for
these three projects. | can answer any questions if you have any.
Chairman Clemons
Any questions, comments?
Alderman Comeau
Those both sound like very good ideas.
Dave Boucher, Superintendent of Solid Waste
Absolutely.
Chairman Clemons
Seeing none.
MOTION CARRIED
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - None
TABLED IN COMMITTEE - None
NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS - None
NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES - None
REGORD OF EXPENDITURES
MOTION BY ALDERMAN COMEAU THAT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS COMPLIED WITH THE CITY CHARTER
AND ORDINANCES PERTAINING TO THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE PERIOD FROM MAY 13, 2022
TO MAY 26, 2022
MOTION CARRIED
GENERAL DISCUSSION - None
PUBLIC COMMENT
Laurie Ortolano
Good evening. Laurie Orlando, 41 Berkeley Street. | just have a question that's finance related but not to what you cover
tonight. At one point in one of your Aldermen meetings Ernie Jette asked about having a review regarding the tax, the
spending cap because the State law had changed. The ruling from the court was Nashua was fine, then the legislature
overturn that and created their own version right or wrong. | mean | do think local control is what it was about but the
State did what they did. That's fine. Now we had the changes made at the State and Ernie asked in the meeting if
somebody could give an overview on what's covered in that cap and Rick Dowd said that he would provide that during the
budget meetings. He would provide an overview of that.
I've written several emails to him and have asked when if he's going to do that and when he's going to do it. I'm primarily
interested because | don't fully understand that cap. | know the city says one thing and | know there's another side that
says something else. I'm trying to figure out what it really is and what it really means, particularly when it comes to grant
money. | heard that challenge before and | don't know why no one's responding to me. | don't know if | asked some hot
potato question that legal has said you know what, we're not going to talk about it publicly. We're going to do whatever
