Board of Aldermen — 11/28/17 Page 4
There was an email sent by the Chairman of the Governance committee on October 25", and it’s to the
President. The second paragraph says: “This special ad hoc committee addressed the expiring active Board of
Directors’ terms, dates, and makes the following motion to adopt and ratify the following state of the members
corresponding term duties, to remain compliant with the National Senior Activity by-laws.” On the Finance
Committee report, Mr. Clemons said: “I agree. | don’t think the terms or limits of the boards like this may make
any sense. If you get good people to the position, you need to keep them there.” The minutes of our meeting
on September 28", from the Governance committee — and | am on the Governance committee — we do not
want to replace the people, because we do think there are great people with us. We want to make them full
members of the board. That is our point and our goal, and that was in the minutes of our meeting on
September 28". So we're trying to get the Senior Center to expand our membership. We have a member on
the Board of Directors who is not even 50 and he can’t be a member of the Senior Center. With the new
regime coming in, the new Board of Aldermen coming in, there are a lot of young people and we would love to
have some new faces on the board. But this is a contract and you just can’t arbitrarily change the contract.
Your Finance committee has to send it to our finance committee. A contract is a binding obligation with
everyone. If you do this — most Board of Directors have term limits. You guys have term limits, the Mayor has
term limits, everybody has term limits. The point here is not to eliminate Alderwoman Caron and David
Fredette, we want to keep them. We've already said that in our minutes. If you’ve read our minutes, we want to
make them full, elected members. And we would like the board and the Mayor’s office to appoint some new
people to the board. If the Mayor wants his designate to correspond with his term limits, we don’t have a
problem with that. Send it to us, have your Finance committee redo the Motion and send it to our finance
committee so we can follow our procedures and the by-laws. We have Robert’s Rules of Order parliamentary
procedure, just like everyone else does in the world. So | am urging this Board to table this motion, send it
back to the Finance committee to send it to our finance committee. Let’s work together to get this done so that
we can make everyone happy here. But to arbitrarily send this down and change the terms of our lease
agreement with the city, | think that’s a mistake. | really urge everyone on this board to table it and revisit it and
talk to our finance committee.
Alderman Cookson joined the meeting via teleconference 8:01 p.m.
President McCarthy
Alderman Cookson has joined by phone. Alderman Cookson, can you hear us?
Alderman Cookson
Alderman McCarthy, | am able to hear you. Thank you.
President McCarthy
| need to ask you where you are and who is with you.
Alderman Cookson
| am in transit and planning to arrive at the Board of Aldermen meeting shortly. Nobody is with me.
PETITIONS
Petition for Street Discontinuance — Portion of Amherst Street, formerly utilized as part of the “Jug Handle”
which was reconfigured into a Full-Signalized Intersection
MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE TO ACCEPT THE PETITION FOR STREET DISCONTINUANCE AS
READ, ASSIGN IT TO THE COMMITTEE ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE NASHUA CITY PLANNING
BOARD AND THAT A PUBLIC HEARING BE SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2017, AT
7:00 PM IN THE ALDERMANIC CHAMBER
