Board of Aldermen Page 9
January 24, 2017
just confirmed beautiful Rachel Rendina. I’m delighted to let you know, | love the arts. | love dance. I’ve
taught country western dance. I’ve danced waltzes and polkas. I’m delighted that before she left she said she
had an infinity for dance for children, or someone commented on that. Every child peacefully developing in the
mother’s womb has that infinity too and deserves that right for their future life and journey. I’m here because |
desire to explore a new possibility with all of you. A new possible movement that is going to require your
heartfelt and mental dedicated work for analyzing for your charter city that might actually move the Constitution
of New Hampshire in a new direction. You may very well legislate a possibility to add a new chapter in the
zoning law. It would take me an hour to go over everything, but | am going to give you your first homework
since I’m a Franciscan lay brother. | like to do that. | used to teach at the University of Cincinnati. If the
students were learning about statistics or calculus or accounting, all of those courses | taught as an adjunct
instructor. | gave them plenty of homework. Your first assignment is to remember the following book: “Killing
the Culture” written by Father Richard Spitzer, former President of Gonzaga University. Your next assignment
is going to be a journey with me to help me write my book called “The Diplomacy of Life.” I’m going to need all
of your help. The original concept of citizen overlay zones, life peace zones, pro lifers urged me to get to
Aurora, Illinois. | believe the State of New Hampshire and Illinois have something in common. So! am going
to need all of your help to understand how citizens who are not permitted to petition in their cities and states
because they elect you, you move the cities in these new directions. | want to write about the four phases of
the diplomacy of life. Codification, realization, promulgation, and implementation of these new citizen overlay
zones. | will conclude with in my journey of life as | travel, | try to learn the word peace because of the original
concept of life peace zones. Pax, peace in Latin. Pace, peace in Italian. Santi, peace in India. Heping, peace
in Chinese, ala paix, to peace in French. Beke, peace in Slovakia. | hope in the near future some of you will
get on board with this new possibility. It will take an educational presentation to talk to you about some of the
court cases that you need to be mindful of. Come walk with us in Washington, DC this Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. If you want to call me, if it’s cold or rainy, at 619-806-2124. |’ll repeat it again: 619-806-2124. |
invite all of you to become citizens for life and peace. Right now. Clap, clap, clap. Citizens for life and peace.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman O’Brien
Tomorrow up at the LOB, the Legislative Office Building, up in Concord, the Transportation Committee is going
to be hearing House Bill 267, which is the repeal of the Rail Transit Authority. Those, like myself, who are
keenly interested at home or my fellow aldermen that are interested in getting commuter rail, we need the Rail
Transit Authority to do that. | hope to see some of you there.
Alderman Moriarty
| noticed while reading through R-17-031, that there is a bit of a backfire. It actually reduces the amount that
the budget can grow. It says the existing NRO 255-61 describes the wastewater system fund shall be legal
accounting entity of the city. It talks about the revenues and expenditures. It’s already well defined what that
wastewater system fund is. We can go to last year, previous years and we know what that amount is. Then
you go to the next page and it talks about when you calculate the Spending Cap. It says that this ordinance is
going to redefine what the combined annual municipal budget is. For the purpose of calculating the Spending
Cap, the combined annual municipal budget does not include these sewer funds. When we go to calculate
what the next budget can be, we take the current budget and we don’t include the wastewater system fund.
Then we add the one percent growth to that and that’s what the next budget can be. Because we’re not going
to be counting the wastewater system fund, we don’t get to grow the budget by the one percent of that fund. If
that fund was $1 million the rest of the budget would be able to grow one percent of a million dollars on top of
the one percent that the budget gets to grow anyway. We’re missing out on that opportunity to grow the
budget by one percent in the wastewater fund.
Alderman Lopez
