Board of Aldermen — 9/12/17 Page 47
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Lopez
There is an event this Saturday, the Arts Olympics at 1:00 p.m., downtown. Anybody who is interested in the
arts, | definitely suggest you come check it out. It’s a first time event and it should be very interesting.
Alderman O’Brien
Congratulations to one of our members to the rededication of the David Deane Skate Park. It’s good that it is
up and running. | apologize that | couldn’t be there. | would like to say something else to Alderman Deane and
the Board. Ya, the Burke Street property, | don’t know how dead is dead, but the thing is we’ve still got other
issues with the waste treatment plant, other different things that are going on. I’m holding out hope that
something is going to morph into something that is going to be a little bit better. I’m kind of hoping that we’re
just kind of taking a break, stand back, relook at it, and come up with a better decision. I’m hoping that can be
done. Thank you.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Thank you to everyone who came this evening. This week at the Planning Board there is going to be a public
hearing regarding the downtown riverfront project. That will be up in the auditorium at 7:00 p.m. for those who
are interested in having input. In October, that will be coming forward to Planning & Economic Development. |
just want to thank everyone who worked on the Back-to-School event. As everyone knows, it is a collaboration
between the City and the Chamber. It was very successful this year. | would just like to thank the committee
members from the various city departments as well as from the Chamber and Alderman Caron and George
Katis for all of their help.
Alderman Schoneman
A number of speakers tonight recognized that this is a difficult job. It is a difficult job. It’s ten minutes until
twelve. I’m exhausted. | imagine the others are too. This was an issue that divided a community. It was not
easy. | recognize the passion that these folks brought. It was very difficult because | had to choose to
disappoint somebody, and that’s never a choice anyone likes to make. My objections were not about having
an arts center, but were about the specifics of a plan. | truly hope that an arts center develops here. | look
forward to seeing what this committee wants to do. | voted against putting it on the ballot. | listened to some of
the arguments, but I’m glad it’s going to be on there. | think it’s good. The people are going to decide, and we
will see what they want to do. | think that’s the best thing. Thank you.
Alderman Dowd
| just want to thank everybody for the thoughts regarding my sister’s passing, and for the flowers for the
Celebration of her Life.
Alderman Cookson
| just wanted to take a moment to speak about the public hearing that wasn’t scheduled this evening. All reliant
on a feasibility study that our Office of Economic Development would be charged with conducting, zero cost to
the citizens of Nashua, zero cost to have him go out and explore with city staff and personnel to see if there
was any opportunity, any feasibility of utilizing any of the buildings at what was formerly known as Daniel
Webster College.
In addition to that we passed on the opportunity because we won’t have an opportunity to have a public
hearing prior to the auction or the time to submit a bid if we were interested in anything. We missed out on the
opportunity to increase our athletic fields. Maybe they are not important to some members of the Board of
Aldermen, but | understood that Superintendent Caggiano was concerned about the athletic fields that we have
