were tracking through committee. This year, we expect it to be much more streamlined, and we expect those
emails to start going out shortly. Certainly, there are some bills at the city that we’re discussing already. We've
had quite a bit of discussion on SB 193 in the Mayor’s office and with the Superintendent, but those delegation
emails will go out shortly once we get the automated process back from our division directors.
President McCarthy
As | said, | have a legislative manager. We did just hire a new transcriptionist, by the way, so some of her time is
freed up. But one of her responsibilities is to work on at least the policy bills for the Board. So we'll do that.
| also want to point out, there was a discussion about the department heads, one of the things we do when there
is a big turnover in the Board of Aldermen is to have orientation sessions in the early part of the term and have
the department heads come in and talk. So while | want to keep that focused on the Board of Aldermen, I’d be
happy to let the delegation know when that is and they’re welcome to come and listen to what happens.
Representative MacKay
| also want to say | believe some of the representatives have participated in the Citizens Academy. | think I’ve
seen some of you there. And | know people had very positive feedback about that also, as a way to learn more
about the city.
President McCarthy
It's along program though.
Representative MacKay
It is, but | know that some people commented they felt it was well worth it.
Alderman O’Brien
I’d like to compliment this administration, because being in the House for 8-10 years, | think I’ve gone to much
more delegation meetings already than | have in the past. So | strongly encourage that. But again, let’s look at
the House. There’s 400 of us; people can write a bill, that’s 400 bills. They write two bills and that’s 800.
[INAUDIBLE] So which ones are really the particular, and | appreciate that. And if you have something sort of
streamlined that’s brilliant, share it with the State. But the thing is, we should really just focus on what’s going to
be important to us.
And I'd like to follow-up with that streamlining. If you can put opinion — people go to vote by what they are entitled
to vote. But if the city comes out with an opinion on how it affects the city, they can weigh the balance to the
representative, to kind of help them make that particular choice. Because, yes, unfortunately, it would be nice if
everybody voted in Nashua, but sometimes people do get leaned on and different things like that. | would like to
have, within an email or something like that, the net perspective to it. That that representative can weigh the
balance and say, no, I’m a Nashuaan first, I’ve got to go with the way it should really be. So | would like to see
that, as a contact. | kind of understand everybody here with the delegation. We're very careful with the municipal
on our emails and everything else, but I’m sure everybody that’s in the State delegation sees what gets out there
in the State emails. | don’t know if they ever heard of the Right-to-Know law. But it’s a form of communication
that we could get from that from the city that could bring that in, and you can send it to the whole delegation, |
think we could really weigh the balance on where that would go. That’s really going to help us. [INAUDIBLE] If
we don’t have a contact person that is up to the contact, it would be nice to have the email beforehand to
research. And | understand the Alderman’s work who’s going to be doing this. Like | said, if everybody writes two
bills, there’s 800 bills right there. The next number is coming over from percentages.
The other thing is crossover time, to pay particular attention to that. That’s when the bills from the House will go
over to the Senate and we will now receive the Senate’s version, which will be a whole different format of bills,
maybe new stuff that we weren't really watching from the House side. So that would be equally important there
too.
