OFFICE OF CORPORATION COUNSEL
CITY OF NASHUA
MEMORANDUM
TO: Board of Aldermen
CC: Mayor Jim Donchess
City Clerk Patricia Piecuch
FROM: Dorothy Clarke, Deputy Corporation Counsel VA
DATE: November 14, 2018
RE: Proposed amendment to R-18-073 (legislation proposing a city charter amendment
regarding the filling of elected vacancies)
Attached please find a proposed amended version of R-18-073 (“Proposing an
amendment to the city charter relative to filling vacancies on elected boards by majority vote of
the remaining members of that board”).
This amendment is required because we discovered that the text of the city charter quoted
in the original legislation is missing some language in each of the four sections proposed to be
changed. In 2011, a charter amendment passed allowing vacancies with over six months
remaining in the unexpired term to not always have to be filled by a special election, but, if the
timing was appropriate, could be filled by the non-incumbent candidate who receives the most
votes at the regular municipal election for the next term of office which is then vacant, The city
