Board of Aldermen Page 16
June 28, 2016
neighborhood and who is not. That are is so congested now. We don’t get police presence because | guess we
have such a drug crisis in the city which | understand; | wrote an op-ed on heroin addiction. We are asking the
city, state and the federal government to pay the doctors and the drug companies to really do it because they are
the ones writing the prescriptions and getting a lot of these people hooked on it. Everybody that signed on
because you think this is a great idea, think about the neighbors because | don’t see anybody coming forward to
say the skateboard park should be in their area.
I’ve been complaining about West Hollis Street for months. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out.
Just take a solid white line and make the whole thing a left turn right down to Ledgewood Hills and see if that
works. Don’t put up any more signs unless it’s all going to say left turn. Somebody is going to get killed there
and it’s going to be on the head of the city because the city has known about this and the former Mayor knew
about this and it’s only getting worse. It’s getting worse because people have no respect, they run the red
lights left and right in this city.
Alderman Siegel asked a very important question if the Renaissance was going to pay for this, $250,000 came
from the contingency and the rest from the cell tower, they are not paying for anything. Enough is enough
already and | hope notices will go through my entire neighborhood so everyone is aware of this, that this
meeting is coming up.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Wilshire
| want to send my condolences to the family of Michael Boucher.
Alderman Cookson
| would like to thank the members of the Board and the Mayor for your expression of sympathy at the loss of
my mother. It was greatly appreciated.
Alderman Dowd
| would like to thank the Board for passing the budget this evening. It was a very difficult job for the Mayor to
put the budget together and I’d like to thank the Budget Review Committee for all of the work that they put in
on the budget. There were elements brought up of reasons why people didn’t vote for the budget and one
being salaries and that has to do with we want to have a liaison with the Boards that actually present the
contract to us and that should be arranged without actually interfering with a negotiation process. Also, the
pensions, the pension issue that we had with our budget here in Nashua is caused by the monies that are no
longer paid by the state, they passed it down to us and it’s severely impacting our budget and the next two
years it’s going to be even worse. The only way to solve that is to vote for people that represent us in Concord
that are going to vote to fix that and accept the responsibilities that they originally said they would take on
pensions. All of those things were beyond what we can do here with a budget committee vote so | thank
everyone who voted for the budget.
Alderman Schoneman
Regarding the budget and pensions, | have a counterpoint. The pensions are based on salaries and the
pension problem isn’t just the states not paying what they said they were going to. The pension problem
includes the fact that some of these pensions are pretty large and that’s now what the state is passing down to
us it’s just part of what we offer for compensation and | think that should be addressed.
Secondly on Saturday, July 9th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. over at the airport there is going to be an
experimental aviation event. | think it will be a great family event.
