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be a heavy thing of the road to take. | kind of think about it. When our forefathers put that DW bond over there
at Exit 5, | think they did that for a reason because it was centrally located. There’s a reason why you need it
centrally located especially in the winter when you have to get the plows out then to start plowing the streets
here in the city and sanding. Now we’re going to put them down on Burke Street in a residential neighborhood
and to try to get the trucks out to sand. The other thing | look at is the building, and | know my opinion it’s a
toxic building if you’re doing all this renovation because | know there’s mold in the building because when | go
near mold, my glands swell instantly. I’m so allergic to it. So | knew the day when | was in there and a friend
of mine who used to work at that building starting pointing out. | could see some of the mold on the wall and
you could smell it. This project because our former Mayor bought it and it was supposed to be for the building |
guess if we needed it for the wastewater plant and now we're going to start housing everybody in there. Part
of this problem is so Conway ice could have another sheet of ice or another buck a year and have a nice long
lifetime lease like they do now. We all know that Conway ice wants another sheet. They’ve been wanting it for
a long time. The one building that’s standing in the way is the Public Works garage. How do | know, | used to
be an alderman. | used to sit on this board. | remember it. From the time | remember Attorney Bolton,
Alderman McCarthy, Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Deane, we knew it from the time that they put up that
building there wasn’t enough sheets and they needed more. So that’s just kind of the story behind that.
| want to talk about the rail also. Because again Attorney Bolton, Alderman McCarthy, Alderman Wilshire,
Alderman Deane, we all sat around this horseshoe when | believe it was $4.5 million that we got from the
federal government when Bernie Streeter was Mayor and because we didn’t use that money for the rail, we
had to send it back to Washington. Now the rail keeps coming up, and coming up, and coming up. |
personally don’t want to spend the money. Don’t use any more of my tax dollars to bring the rail to Nashua
and then give me a bill because I’m not going use the rail. | don’t go to Boston. | have no desire to go to
Boston. The only time | go to Boston is when | have to see the doctors and | try to stay away from there as
much as | can to see doctors. I’m paying for something because people chose to move to Nashua because
people cannot afford their homes in Massachusetts or afford to live there so they come up here. | remember
even when | was an alderman they come up here and then they want all the amenities that they left in
Massachusetts and then our taxes rise. We don’t care about anybody else but who will have to pay these
taxes. So we accommodate everybody who move to this city. They don’t want to drive to Lowell because it’s
20 minutes, they’re going to hit traffic, not my problem. You chose to live here, take the bus. The performing
arts center, a waste of money. Make it a private donations. If you want it badly enough, go out and raise the
money.
The other thing | think I’m going to end on that | happened to see in the Telegraph. Crews putting finishing
touches on relocated Nashua skate park. This is the same skate park that I’m still going to ask for the minutes
of those meetings that never were. How do you have a meeting and Mayor Donchess said to me well | didn’t
form that committee? It was Mayor Lozeau. It doesn’t matter. The committee was formed. The committee
reconvened. You voted on a location. Nobody knew about it except the members of the committee. | guess
when money is no object — coming soon — David W. Deane world class skate park. World class. When money
is no object, you only get how much was it like $30,000 some odd thousand dollars | think it was from the cell
towers and the whole thing cost us a half a million dollars combined. People quoted “it’s incredibly complex
and it will be the premiere” “premiere” we have to have in Nashua at the cost of the taxpayers. There’s people
who can’t afford their taxes. There’s people going to have a three percent increase this year. A premiere park
in the east. | couldn’t give a darn about the east. This is Nashua but we bring Merrimack — people want it, we
build it for them. They build for everybody except for the needs in this city and what this city can afford. If the
city can afford to build things, we wouldn't have to raise our taxes like this. When was the last time we had a
tax decrease? Mayor | remember back in the ‘90s when we started the spending cap, it was because of
spenders like you that keep spending and spending. Skate park wrap up this work within two BMX bikers said
“that we’ve been watching for it like since the beginning.” They were saying that this is more a bike park
versus a Skate park. The bottom line is | don’t know any skateboarders doing some 12 foot quarter pipes. So
we build this skate park the best in the east at the expense of the Nashua taxpayers who are not even going to
use it. You have cell towers. You're violating your own ordinance when you vote on it and yet you tell us the
citizens of this city that we have to abide by the ordinances that you write. It’s like the federal government. We
have to abide by the laws when Congress doesn’t abide by their own laws that they write. Isn’t this funny. Isn’t
this a joke on the people here?
