issues around economic development, such as the aircraft registration fee change, which | think is very beneficial
to Nashua in particular. Beyond that, | spend a lot of time on planning issues and budget, etc.
Representative Lasky, Wards 3,4,6,7,8,9
I’m Betty Lasky and | am Vice Chair of the Judiciary committee and serve on the Commerce committee. | will be
prime sponsor — our bills from the Senate we’ve not yet had to sign off on them, so they are still in somewhat of
flux. But! will be doing a couple of election law bills; our city clerk will be happy to hear that. One is about not
sharing information, such as the fiasco we had with our Secretary of State this summer. The other would be
closing a loophole for campaign finance, from spending general election funds in a primary, which was done by
soon-to-be former Mayor of Manchester. | believe I’m prime on another one and | will be doing many co-
sponsoring. | know one we hope to have the repeal of the death penalty back again. There will be quite a few
other bills coming through Judiciary which I'll work on. Certainly, if there is anything that the board needs to put in
— oftentimes, it’s easier to get a late bill in through the Senate than it is through the House, so happy to do that.
Representative Harvey, Ward 2
Suzanne Harvey, State Rep from Ward 2. I’m on the Science, Technology and Energy committee which is
particularly wonky about the electric grid, sources of electricity, all the utilities, the Public Utility Commission,
energy efficiency, renewable resources for energy. These are the kinds of bills that we deal with, and I’ve been
on that for several terms. Energy efficiency is high on the list of priorities for me and a lot of my colleagues
because it’s the cheapest form of energy; it’s the energy that you actually don’t use. So the goal of most people
interested in this is to have an electric grid that’s reliable, and hopefully is based on clean energy sources.
The other thing | want to mention is I’ve been involved for many years on the issue of human trafficking. I’m on
the state-wide, collaborative task force on human trafficking. It’s not the task force that’s doing it but actually
Harbor Homes and the school system are putting on, on December 6" at Harbor Homes on High Street at
5:30pm, a forum on youth homelessness. And my particular interest is that homeless youths are so much at risk
for human trafficking. They’re the first, easy prey for a trafficker. So | urge you to show up if you're free that night
and learn what you can, because this is a very important subject. We do have several hundred homeless kids in
Nashua and we want to keep them safe.
Representative Newman, Ward 2
Sue Newman, and |’m in my first term as a state rep from Ward 2. | am on Public Works & Highways with Marty
Jack, and | would echo his comments that there was a lot of infrastructure — roads, bridges, and quite a bit of
presentations about the bus systems that are in the state. | particularly was interested in rail. Any comment about
rail did not get very far in our committee this session; things might change, | don’t know. As an old school board
member, | remain exceptionally interested in public schools and how they are funded, ideally to be adequately
funded.
Representative Klee, Ward 3
I’m Patricia Klee, the Ward 3 state rep and Ward 3 Alderman-Elect. I’m on the State, Federal and Veteran’s
committee, and we deal with almost nothing with veterans. We deal mostly with constitutional law -- changing our
Constitution, trying to secede from the United States. Different things like that. | was a little disappointed that we
don’t deal with as many veterans’ issues as we thought. Latha is on that committee so she understands what I’m
talking about. It can be very frustrating, we should be doing more for our veterans and we’re not. That was my
hope, after working 26 years with the Veteran’s Administration, I’d hoped that some of my experience would help
there and it really didn’t. We are hoping to create a Veteran’s Administration within the VA, but even that, | don’t
think, is going to be what they were hoping it would be.
As an Alderman-Elect for Ward 3 and for Nashua, | guess the things I’m interested in are the infrastructure, trying
to do affordable housing, what we can do, much of which you were talking about. The affordable schools and
school funding is also something extraordinarily important to me. | want to see more public school dollars, and
that doesn’t necessarily mean that’s something | can do as an Alderman, but I’m hoping that, as this is my first
year, I’m hoping to have a second year and maybe we can work on some kind of more alternate funding, less for
the private schools and more for the public schools. I’ve been working with NAMI now since late spring and
