Board of Aldermen 12-11-2018 Page 45
Paul Shea My name is Paul Shea, | am a resident of 102 Toll Street and | am also the Executive
Director for Great American Downtown. | sent you remarks in favor of the Performing Arts Center
updates and | just wanted to stick around this evening to say thank you for the mindful way in which you
are approaching this project. It is a complex thing, there is a lot of work that has gone into and will go
into it. You are all doing great work to ensure that it is done in a responsible and sustainable way and
that the project has great success. So thank you for that.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja Yes just briefly, this evening as | drove into the City around 5:00 | came
down West Hollis and across Spruce and there was an active fire on the side street on the west side of
Spruce. There were a number of fire trucks and a couple of streets, Temple Street was partially
blocked off because off because of the running of hoses. In less than 2 hours after that, fire trucks went
both north and south on Main Street, so it was a busy night. | would like to thank them for their service
and for those who had the fire emergencies | hope their losses were minor and certainly at this time of
year, we all want to be aware of our wiring, our candles and all of those decorations we have up that
are probably more flammable than we would like to believe. Just a comment on that.
And then finally for those who were here and some who are still here, all of those that were sworn or
will be sworn in thank you to see so many people here volunteering to do the City’s work is really
encouraging. Thank you to all who spoke in support of the Performing Arts Center Amendment. Thank
you.
Alderwoman Kelly
I'll Keep it brief. | just wanted to note that this is the last full Board meeting of the year and | have just
appreciated this is our first year for a lot of our full board. The next one is the 26°? Oh we had this
conversation on the way in and | thought for sure that this was the last one of the year. | will rescind
that. | will save it for that day. But! do want to say Happy Holidays.
Alderman Caron
| too would like to wish everyone a happy holiday and see you the day after Christmas.
Alderman Lopez
I'll be totally brief. | wanted to comment on something | have kind of been watching unfold over the last
couple of months. There is a gentleman who used to play his guitar down on Main Street, kind of just
trying to make some extra bucks and asked a lot of questions and then he started to show up without
the guitar, and explained it was broken, he had a very complicated life and he had a lot of Police
encounters as well. So | saw him again with his guitar and | was like you got a new guitar how did you
pull that off. He explained that somebody had gotten it for him from the recovery community, which |
thought was a tremendously kind thing to do but also that he didn’t have any strings for it and didn’t
really know how to tune it and Nashua PD went out of their way, some officers, to get him strings to
tune his guitar. And this a man that does not have other things or anything. So for me, | wanted to
share that act of kindness because | think it speaks highly of Nashua Police. They do a lot of really
good work in the community. They go well beyond just managing their calls in a courteous and kind
way. They reach out and they really try to connect with people in need in the community.
Next Friday, December 21%, at 5:30 in front of Main Street Methodist we are going to be acknowledging
the people who have passed away who are homeless. We do it on the longest night of the year
because it is the longest night that people have to go through when they are unsheltered. So |
encourage all of you to join us when we are doing that. Also, | am grateful for everybody who does
whatever they can to help people around them who you may just walk by, you may not necessarily see,
find a place to stay especially when it is cold, and it is dark.
