Board of Aldermen Page 5
January 10, 2017
than 10 years old and does not touch the other portions of the registration fee. Is that correct, Alderman
LeBrun?
Alderman LeBrun
That is correct.
Mr. Weston Lu, Brookline, NH
| have a hangar at the airport and | am the Treasurer of the Boire Field Condo 2 Flying Association. | would
like to speak in favor of both the extension of the airport lease and the house bill regarding the registration
fees. My association hopes to be at the airport for a very long time and extending the airport’s lease will allow
us to have a more productive negotiation when our lease comes up in a few years. As far as the aircraft
registration fee, | hope that you have heard how uncompetitive New Hampshire is in that regard. | have been
working on some spreadsheets on behalf of Alderman Schoneman and the Nashua Airport Authority and the
business jet owners that we would like to base in Nashua and Keene and Portsmouth; if | soend $40 million on
an airplane in New Hampshire it costs me $300,000 to register it the first year and in Massachusetts it’s
$350.00. This bill will soeak to the registration fee and obviously giving up that revenue is a hard thing to do,
we will need to replace it but as business owners you all know that there are fixed costs or variable costs that
you consider and perhaps as a separate bill they will address things like fuel flowage fees and taxes that might
replace that revenue. The bill today will address the registration fees and it will help make New Hampshire
much more competitive than Massachusetts where nobody wants to base their airplanes except the accounts.
Mr. Farrell Woods, Nashua Airport Authority
| am also the owner of a condo at the Nashua Airport so | am speaking of R-16-084, to extend the master
lease for 99 years. | think it will maintain values of the properties at the airport. It will give us stability and it will
give the Nashua Airport Authority the ability to negotiate lease extensions with our tenants and basically
preserve that tract of land as an airport for quite some time. | think this is a very positive piece of legislation.
With regard to R-17-085, | do look forward to reducing the registration fees for aircraft based in New
Hampshire. We would like to attract some of those newer aircraft from places like Bedford which have a lot of
very nice airplanes. | think a bill like this would be step towards doing that. | hope this could be followed up by
some additional legislation to look to make the whole package revenue neutral. | think that is something that
the Nashua Airport Authority could support.
PETITIONS — None
NOMINATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS
Appointments by the Mayor
The following Appointments by the Mayor were read into the record:
Nashua Arts Commission
Rachel Rendina (New Appointment) Term to Expire: January 31, 2020
31 Daniel Webster Highway, #624
Nashua, NH 03060
Board of Building and Fire Codes Appeals
Daniel Bergeron (New Appointment) Term to Expire: January 31, 2020
2/ Webster Street
Nashua, NH 03064
