Board of Aldermen Page 25
July 12, 2016
the police and recognizing the professionalism of our police department and also their efforts in terms of
working through the Cultural Connections Committee and other projects we have in the city to train our
police and increase positive interactions within the city.
Alderman Schoneman
In Ward 3 at Greeley Park we have SummerFun and activities that are occurring quite often, many
evenings a week. | want to thank Parks and Rec for organizing these events for us each year for us. |
drive down Concord Street sometimes on the way home, and | see a lot of people out there enjoying the
concert series. On July 28, in particular, the Yankee Brass Band is coming back to Nashua for the
second time. This is cosponsored by Friends of Greeley Park. It’s a great show. This is a group of
volunteer musicians who play period music on period instruments, wearing period costumes. It’s like
seeing a piece of history, seeing what might have occurred in Greeley Park 100 years ago.
Alderman Siegel
While | may not have liked the legislation, | certainly don’t have anything against the city so | would
certainly welcome our new twin sister. Also, | would like to voice support for police everywhere,
particularly in Nashua. | also have a plea for rational thinking, thinking outside the social network echo
chamber of negativity, and have somebody who can actually look at real information and challenge the
prevailing assumptions that some people seem to propagate which are so destructive to our society.
Hopefully that can change.
Alderman Deane
To my colleague Alderman Moriarty’s concerns and complaints about the traffic signals, a lot of that is
standards that we’re required to operate under when we accept grants of that nature. It isn’t for the LED;
| still think that we should go after Ever Source tooth and nail because they are putting the screws to us
when it comes to charging us for street lighting. We should be able to look at what other communities
are doing and see what we’re using for power in each one of those street lights, and we should be billed
accordingly. It shouldn’t just be a lump sum. Now we’re putting LEDs in, that electricity can be measure.
There are devices that can be purchased that can measure that. | can’t for the life of me understand why
the PUC would go against the consumer. | thought that’s who they represented. Is there a significant
investment? Yes there is, but we'll get our money back. They also allow you to take those lights and
reduce the amount of lights that they are throwing. You might have some neighborhoods where you can
get the component to do the reduction in the lighting. It would make a lot of people happy. | think what’s
you’re going to find in some of these neighborhoods is a lot of complaints. There’s no way to deal with a
complaint except to take the light down. | think down the road, | think we should not let EverSource just
kick everybody around. If we have a reduction in the power that we are using, we should be seeing that
relief from them as well.
Alderman Wilshire
I’d like to thank my colleagues for supporting the legislation for the twinning of the City of Mysore and
thank you for those in the audience who came tonight to support that.
Ms. Elaine Olinson
| just wanted to again thank all of you for voting in favor of partnering.
President McCarthy
The public comment period is over.
