Board of Aldermen Page 24
July 12, 2016
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Lopez
| want to give my condolences to the family members that had to witness their loved ones die on
YouTube. Regardless of the circumstances of why they were there and all of the associated concerns,
no one should have to see that. | also wanted to express my condolences to the police department in
Dallas for the loss that they suffered and just state for the record that the police should never be targeted
for doing their jobs. | want to take knowledge of the foresight that Mayor Donchess had with regard to
ensuring our community, as a whole, is represented when he started the Ethnic Awareness Committee.
It's my belief that we should not have our police on the front line of racial warfare or disagreement of
cultural issues. | think the Cultural Connections Committee has played a good role in that over the years
in creating the disproportionate minority contact, which evolved to be a statewide initiative and is now the
Nashua Red program. It emphasizes how to behave and how to respond when a police officer pulls you
over. It also supports sensitivity training to the extent that New Hampshire can pride themselves on
having the second largest trained police force with regard to sensitivity and our merit program is
regarded as highly effected and a model for the rest of the country. | appreciate that effort and the
foresight. | also look forward to what the new initiative, My Brother’s Keeper, can bring because | believe
as a community if we’re working together and we are well represented, we have a confident professional
police force then everybody will be acting in their best interests and we won’t have tragedies like that in
Nashua.
Alderman O’Brien
| similarly would like to say to my brothers and sisters in the police community, |, too, share their loss with
the tragedy that we witnessed in Dallas and also in St. Joseph, Michigan. | respect what the men and
women of law enforcement do. | know there’s good and bad in each and every single one of us, but I’m
very proud of the force that we have here in Nashua. It shows the investment that we put into them; we
get in return better quality service. Finally, | would like to say welcome to our new twin sister city. | think
this is a big step forward, and | look forward to the communications that come forth. Thank you.
Alderman Moriarty
We mentioned something about black body radiation, and I'll make a comment on the LEDs. If you
looked at a lightbulb and had a detector that could see heat, it would look a lot brighter in heat than it is
visible. | mentioned this because the firemen were here earlier. You can build a camera that has
electronic eyeballs that are particularly sensitive to heat, especially the type of heat that comes off your
body so you can race into a burning building and look through this camera and it will only see the heat at
that particular color that is radiated by people so you can see people in a burning bundling. What is that
relevant to stop lights? | was never a fan, and | am still not a fan of those yellow reflectors that were put
up on all the traffic signals all over Nashua. Especially in 8 or 9, you would come over a hill and you
used to not be able to see anything. You would see trees, you would see houses. Now you see this big
yellow square hanging in the middle. It’s just ugly. | don’t know of anybody who’s never seen the light.
You see the light. Does the big ugly yellow picture frame around the light actually really help that much?
I’m of the opinion that if we’re going to pick the $3,000 or the $4,000 LEDs | would pick the ones that are
not as bright for the very reasons the study showed the people out in the country don’t want these bright
turn signals everywhere. Thanks.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
| would also like to welcome the signing of this agreement with the City of Mysore. | think it will not only
enhance our relationships with the city but also help make the members of our community here feel more
of a part of our community. | electronically contacted the chief but will publicly comment about thinking of
