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tremendous effect. | will be happy to work with you on trying find answers to some of the questions that got
asked here tonight. | think Alderman Siegel brought up a lot of points that we need to fit.
We have a template that says it’s possible. We need a template that says it’s optimal by doing some more
work. Unless anybody on the Board wants to make a motion to the contrary, | think we'll give a
recommendation to Director Cummings that he pursue getting a concrete proposal before us that we can look
at and in the course of the budget we review the bond schedule again so we understand what our debt
tolerance is over the coming years.
Alderman Lopez
Does it make sense to form a committee for the building plans? | thought one of the recommendations was
that we form a committee.
Mr. Webb
There are three committees that we recommended. One is related to find funding, one related to physical
planning, and one related to operations.
President McCarthy
| think we'll figure out how to structure that in the proposal that comes forward.
Alderman Deane
Wouldn't this fall under the Committee on Infrastructure, the former Committee of Lands and Buildings? | take
it the deal here is we’re going to use Alec’s Shoe. Am | right?
President McCarthy
That’s the proposal. The Infrastructure Committee is not appropriate to manage that on a day-to-day basis.
We are going to need something to deal with the programming and the operation of the center if it is going to
work.
Alderman Moriarty
In reference to what Alderman Schoneman was saying, is there any chance in the future you might be giving
us a presentation on a cost of a commuter rail station? Have you done any work of any sort towards that
endeavor?
Director Cummings
| have been diligently working on trying to develop a way to bring passenger rail up into Nashua and then
further north to Manchester. Is there any proposal to come before you in any short order? The answer to that
is no. There’s a lot of work ahead. Would | be looking to possibly fund a short appropriation to help bring in
some consultants to help fine tune that plan, to bring professional staff in as consultants such as Duncan to
help the city move forward, that would probably be the only type of proposal that would be coming before you
but nothing in terms of this order of magnitude at all.
