Board of Aldermen — 3/21/17 Page 7
Alderman LeBrun
Do you need a motion?
President McCarthy
Alderman McGuinness, do you have a motion?
MOTION BY ALDERMAN MCGUINNESS TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND THAT THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN MEET IN JOINT CONVENTION WIT THE WOODLAWN CEMETERY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
ON TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017, AT 7:30 PM IN THE ALDERMANIC CHAMBER
MOTION CARRIED
From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Veterans’ Tax Credit State Legislation and Proposed Resolution O-17-035
MOTION BY ALDERMAN COOKSON TO ACCEPT AND PLACE ON FILE
MOTION CARRIED
From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Notification of Extension of the Contract for Portable Toilet Rental and Service
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE THREE-YEAR
CONTRACT TO UNITED SITE SERVICES FOR AN ANNUAL SUM OF $17,225
MOTION CARRIED
PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS EVENING
Tracy Pappas, 12 Swart Terrace, Nashua.
| am here in regards to O-17-31. | am here tonight as a Board of Public Works Commissioner speaking for
myself in opposition of this ordinance. This ordinance takes the wastewater portion of the budget out of the
operating budget which is subject to the Cap. The legislation is switching money around by taking certain fees
out of the Cap. As a commissioner, | think this will permanently damage the wastewater budget and the
wastewater facility, itself. The reason | believe this cannot be properly executed or honestly executed is that
there is shared employees working for city departments which are subject to the Cap as well as will be taken
out from the Cap if this ordinance passes. | am going to refer to my budget, and | am going to go through the
shared employees: city engineer, construction inspection engineering assistant, deputy treasurer/tax collector,
deputy manager of engineering, director of public works, DPW building accountant, DPW collections specialist
I1l, DPW contract administrator, executive assistant, finance & admin manager, fleet manager of the street
department, public works administrator, senior manager of accounting and engineering, senior staff
engineering, which last year came in at .55, scheduled in 2018 at 1.10 and then staff engineer which last year
came in a .50; this year comes in at 1.10.
My concern is that these numbers could be easily manipulated in order to try to come in under the Cap. We've
seen very high increases in the wastewater. Last year it was 15 percent. Do we want to see 25? Do we want
to see 100? Do we want to 200 percent increases? VWe’ve got some real problems with the facilities over
there. | actually don’t think that it’s really an intellectually honest way to deal with our budget crisis. To point
out as a citizen, | do have children in the school system. I’m not trying to cut city services certainly, but as a
person who has been on the Board of Public Works, | have seen real concerns with the wastewater
department. | think we’ve had some real problems, and | am really afraid of what this would do to that
department.
Also, this was our draft budget. Since that budget last month, three positions have been ordered, three
wastewater assistant positions have been added to the budget. Obviously we haven’t approved the budget.
