Board of Aldermen — 8/8/17 Page 22
I’m going to end with this and this is what | can’t understand. If you live in Nashua, you have to be a resident
and you have to have an address basically on where you live so you can prove your residency | believe. Can
someone tell me how can you live at a PO Box Alderman Deane? | don’t understand how you can list a PO
Box and that should be an ordinance saying that any alderman, any elected official has to have a legal address
with a number on it and not a PO Box because then we don’t know where you're living. Thank you very much.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman O’Brien
I’d just like to congratulate the firefighter softball team. They beat the Police Department. | mention it only
because the Fire Department liaison is not present and take some umbrage with the Police Department liaison.
The real winner was the kids who went to CHAD and that’s a good thing. | support our men in blue and our
men in red that did something extraordinary and it sounds like it was a good time for all. Thank you.
Alderman Dowd
| just want to thank all the people involved in the paving of Tinker Road. The only complaint | heard was that
the people got caught off guard they started so soon which they all dismissed because the road is done. It’s
done quickly and it’s done right. It’s serving that area of the city and very, very well. | want to thank everybody
involved in that. We had the opening of Charron Avenue on Amherst Street today. That project was a good
example of public, private partnership coming together. The State project that was envisioned to do the same
thing was about $24 million more. Basically this project saved the taxpayers $24 million because we did it with
a public, private partnership and did just what we needed to do. The other thing is that | let people know today
at the ceremony that this construction was originally the idea of former Alderman Larose from Ward 2. When
he decided not to run again and he and | had a meeting, it was one of the things that he wanted to have
pursued. | think he would be very proud to see how it turned out. Thank you.
Alderman Caron
Alderman Melizzi-Golja isn’t here today but I’d like to remind everyone that the annual Nashua goes back to
school event takes place August 23" from 5 to 6:30 at the library. We already have about 30 vendors there
and it will be held rain or shine because of the extensive work that was done in the library to add the Chandler
portion to it, we will have room for all the venues this year. If you want to see people work real hard, come see
RSVP on Tuesday to bag 1,500 bags within less than 3 hours. Thank you.
Alderman Cookson
Just take a couple minutes this evening. | wanted to let the Board know | met a wonderful gentleman a couple
Tuesday nights ago by the name of Pat Patterson. One of the things that he’s doing for the baseball youth of
the city is he’s having over at Lincoln Park over in Ward 1, he’s having this Tuesday night summer night
baseball. It’s just a pickup game. Any youth that wants to come to the field, wants to be chosen its sandlot
style, and it’s under the lights. They keep score. It’s a wonderful, wonderful event. They’ve been doing it the
last couple of Tuesday nights. I’ve had the opportunity to go. I’ve taken my daughter. We've enjoyed watching
the game. The youth are pitching to themselves. The coaches are just coaching and the children are pitching
to themselves. It’s fantastic ball. If you get the opportunity to go out and you enjoy baseball, these volunteers
and these children are doing it right. They’re really coming together on a Tuesday night and just enjoying the
game. It’s a lot of fun. | encourage you all to come visit.
Also with regard to the library, | had a constituent call and Mr. Mayor you might be able to help with this
especially in light of this big event that we’re going to have at the end of the month for back to school. A
constituent had raised concern about the outside appearance, the upkeep of the building. So if there’s the
opportunity to — again | don’t know whether it would be grounds keeping, whether it be power washing,
cleaning, just making — and | know that the library has aged but if we can do something to keep up with the
upkeep of it. | think it would be more welcoming to the community especially as we’re expecting a tremendous
