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Secondly, Mr. President, | did want to mention again the wastewater fund. The ordinance in question here is
O-17-31. Under this ordinance which we have discussed before, so | won’t go on in great length, the
wastewater fund would be brought into compliance with the city charter. The city charter says that items need
to be in the combined annual municipal budget or not be in. We have many items that are in, obviously, but
some are items are out like paving.
Items that are out tend to be user based systems where the user, not property taxes, pays for the system. The
wastewater system is one of those systems. If you look at the budget that was passed last year, it is
expressed as a single standalone enterprise fund. But the ordinances don’t handle it that way. The
ordinances have half of it under the combined annual municipal budget and half of it outside. What O-17-31
proposes is that we rationalize the system, establish this as an actual enterprise fund, standalone outside the
combined annual municipal budget. This would also have the effect of increasing the cap space for this
coming year budget where we have all of the pension problems caused by the State of New Hampshire.
With that, Mr. President, | am concluding my remarks.
RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR -— None
RECOGNITION PERIOD — None
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING
There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen
meeting of March 21, 2017, and the Public Hearing conducted by the Budget Review Committee
of March 27, 2017, accepted, placed on file and the readings suspended.
COMMUNICATIONS
There being no objection, President McCarthy declared that all communications be read by title only.
From: Jeffrey L. Snow, Superintendent, Edgewood Cemetery
Re: Request for Joint Convention with Edgewood Cemetery Board of Trustees
There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the communication accepted, placed on file and that
the Board of Aldermen meet in Joint Convention with the Edgewood Cemetery Board of Trustees on Tuesday,
April 25, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. in the Aldermanic Chamber
From: Arthur L. Barrett, Jr., Chairman, Board of Library Trustees
Re: Request for Joint Convention with Nashua Public Library Board of Trustees
There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the communication accepted, placed on file and that
the Board of Aldermen meet in Joint Convention with the Nashua Public Library Board of Trustees on Tuesday,
April 25, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. in the Aldermanic Chamber
From: Celia K. Leonard, Esq., Office of Corporation Counsel
Re: Petition for Street Acceptance: Northwest Boulevard Extension
There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the communication accepted, placed on file and
referred to the Committee on Infrastructure
From: Larry D. Goodhue, CEO/CFO & Treasurer, Pennichuck Corporation
Re: Annual Meeting of Sole Shareholder — May 6, 2017
