Board of Aldermen — 9/12/17 Page 46
Paul Chasse, 26 Balcom Street.
I’ve been watching this all night. My first question to the President of this Board, during the first open mic. people
were clapping. It prolonged the whole night. We have two X-Presidents that are sitting here, especially
Corporate Counsel, that never would have allowed that. | know he would have said please refrain from clapping
until the end of the night. The second thing is my ward alderman, | am very impressed with tonight. You did a
good job. We don’t see eye-to-eye, but you did a good thing. | am not against the arts center. There are certain
things, maybe it is time for this Board to say maybe a two-minute speaking time for every individual. Thirty-five
people came up tonight. That’s a long time. Believe me, you people had your minds made up before you even
sat in this horseshoe.
I’m not very happy for some of the things | heard. Mr. Mayor, | can look at my crystal ball versus yours. You
took out the wastewater place where we bought. | was totally for it because | wasn’t basically worried about
the building. It was about the land. If we had to move north to build that thing further, we needed that land.
I’m sure it is coming down the line. $19 million. If | had a household and $19 million and I’m paying off my
debts and I’m paying off my debts, I’m not going to add more debt to it. | honestly believe, well I’m going to
have to believe with Paula Johnson, that maybe it’s a 50-50 endeavor on that thing.
Now it’s going to the ballot. Good job, because | guarantee you, I’m not into arts. I’m not against arts or
whatever. People do things. They are into symphony. | think | went one time to the Nutcracker and | said
that’s enough for me. I’m not into that stuff. Most of the people in Nashua probably are not into that stuff.
Your blue collar or what do | want to call myself: slum lord, slum, whatever. I’m not into arts. You can go to
the Symphony or whatever, I’m deaf so | don’t know what the hell they are playing for music anyways.
They want to raise money, they want to do something, a few years back Whitney Houston came into Holman
Stadium. | don’t know how much money they made. They brought in Santana. Aerosmith came in there.
Danny and the Juniors came in there. Beach Boys came in there. That’s my type of music. | paid and | went
to see them. There’s an agenda there. There’s a way that they can make money to get their $4 million or their
$8 million if you want to go 50-50. | have no problem if the City of Nashua went 50-50 with these people. But
for the City of Nashua to take on this thing and buy another problem, because | sat in the horseshoe and we
bought some properties and we are paying for them now, and it’s not a good thing for the City of Nashua for us
to get involved in this type of venue. So, you made a decision tonight. Thank you for putting it on the ballot.
The people of Nashua will know make the decision. | thank you for your service because | know what you’re
going through. Good night.
Jen Czysz, Interim Director, NRPC
| am the interim director of the Nashua Regional Planning Commission. | just wanted to be here to be on hand
if there were any questions for the household hazardous waste collections cooperative agreement. This is a
program that NRPC provides the staffing for on behalf of our community in the region. We will be on hand to
assist when it goes to committee as well. Thank you.
Paul Shea, 102 Tolles Street.
| spoke earlier on behalf of my organization, but | just want to speak as a ward resident right now and how
absolutely ashamed | am. We demonstrated well over 150 people that were in support of this project. The fact
of the matter is is that the downtown wards are the wards that have expressed the greatest degree of support
for this project. I’ve always had a great deal of respect for David, and I’ve always had a great deal of
appreciation for the degree to which he takes constituency feedback into consideration. But as a resident of
the ward, | am absolutely, | am distraught right now. | am upset, and | had faith in you and | had trust in you,
and | don’t have that anymore. So, no thanks. Thank you.
