Board of Aldermen Page 11
June 14, 2016
towards improving the situation and you just need to start somewhere. Will all property owners like it,
definitely not but it shouldn’t affect property owners who are doing their best to provide a safe, decent
and sanitary unit for their tenants. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight.
Mr. Nick Peck, 99 Taylor Street
We have been here many times talking about this problem and the Mayor had his opening statements
that basically there are two properties in Nashua that you are having trouble with. We have departments
within Nashua, the building department, fire department and the Board of Health. You are sitting in front
of us right now and telling us that these managers of the building department, Board of Health and the
fire department are having problems with two properties in Nashua. You want to enact a Bill that’s going
to affect everybody in Nashua, every property owner in Nashua. | think it’s pretty unreasonable that the
City of Nashua can’t handle two property owners. If you are having trouble with 23 Temple Street and
you can't solve the problem then maybe there should be new people hired that can solve the problem.
Above and beyond that if you are having trouble with 23 Temple Street why don’t you buy it and solve
the problem? We are standing here and we have been fighting this for months and we are going against
deaf ears with some of the Aldermen in here and | just don’t understand why you are not listening to us.
Thank you.
Mr. Fred Teeboom, 24 Cheyenne Drive
First of all, | would like to address O-16-11 which is tabled in committee, the reduced taxation for charter
public school facilities. | ask that you take it off of the table and pass it. | gave you all an analysis that
shows that there are over 500 kids that go to charter schools from Nashua and save the taxpayers over
$4.4 million. If you don’t believe that number you can take a look at my analysis. The cost as |
understand was not part of the ordinance but the item are about $80,000 and that’s steep and a loss of
taxation. It’s an enormous gain for the taxpayers and | hope you pass it.
The next thing that | would like to address is O-16-003 and | am not a landlord, | have no skin in this
game. But, then | was not a panhandler either and | spoke against the panhandler ordinance. | have
been called by landlords because of my experience with the NRO’s (the Nashua Revised Ordinances)
and as a former Aldermen-at-Large and asked me for some input. R-15-182 is what started all of this,
appointed a committee to investigate living conditions in the Country Barn Hotel and 23 Temple Street
and other larger rental properties that are unnamed to determine whether the housing or health codes
are being violated or whether new housing and our health code provisions should be enacted to protect
the living conditions for Nashua residences. | have seen no report of this sub-committee, the
investigative sub-committee, it is customary to see an investigative report and there have been none
produced. No specific conditions have ever been identified by this committee or by anyone on any
named property in Nashua, it’s all been general discussion other than the Country Barn Hotel and 23
Temple Street and that came through a television program. O-16-003 basically is sold on the basis of
efficiency of enforcing code and that’s basically it. If you list all of the staff discussion with McKinney and
all of the rest of them; it’s a more efficient process and it has nothing to do with the purposes which this
Substandard Living Conditions Committee was established. Let’s take a look, there are specific items in
the ordinance, let’s forget the generalities, there’s a table called Table 4.1 which basically is the fine
structure. Paragraph 170-2 is the reference and that is a license required for food services, what does
that have to do with living conditions? Another paragraph is 175 which is a catch-all, it relatively defers
to state law and it deals with, in summation, sanitary food code. What’s that got to do with living
conditions in housing for which this committee was established? Another one is 190-146, site plan
procedures generally, this talks about site plan reviews. | thought we had the Planning Board that did
site plan reviews, what is that doing in this ordinance? Another one is 156, Article IV, fire prevention
code. Surprisingly if you look through that you find that there is a Board of Fire Prevention Code of
Appeals so there’s actually already a Board to appeal to if there are violations of fire prevention. What's
that doing in the sub-set of living conditions ordinance that itself has no appeal, there is already an
