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a lot of gifts away. We have entertainment and we have a lot of fun in probably 45 years. So thank you,
and | was 5.
And then finally | wish you all a Happy Blessed Thanksgiving and next week hug all your family and
give them a lot of love.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you | just wanted to thank everyone in the community that came to the Soup Kitchen Auction.
There was a great turnout, | Know the Mayor was there, Alderman Tencza was there and it was really
just a wonderful success for the Soup Kitchen. It is on my mind too coming up on Thanksgiving so
making sure that people in our community are food secure is no small task.
| wanted to thank you Alderman Wilshire for stepping into this role of leadership and you as well
Alderman O’Brien and won't belabor but | do want to say thank you so much to Trisha, it was an
incredible day. | went to every Ward and | saw that things were going smoothly. | appreciate that.
| don’t think | can add too much more to what has been said about Brian. He was an incredible leader,
he was an incredible asset to our community. | know that as a new Board Member | learned a lot from
him in a very little time. So it is a big loss.
Alderman Jette
| too want to acknowledge the passing of Brian McCarthy. He was a resident of Ward 5, longtime
Alderman of Ward 5 and Alderman-at-Large for a much longer time. He was very helpful to me when |
came on the Board although he never forgave me for voting against the Performing Arts Center; didn’t
seem to understand my explanation that | had promised that | would vote the way the Ward voted. The
Ward voted against it so that’s the way | voted. He seemed to think that his vote should have been
more persuasive than the rest of the Ward, but he will certainly be missed.
| do want to congratulate Ward 5 for a 58% turnout, second to only Ward 1. | want to congratulate the
new Ward 5 representative, Dan Toomey, Mike Peterson, Allison Nutting Wong and our new Senator
Melanie Levesque, hopefully they will represent the City of Nashua better than the people they
replaced.
| do want to mention | understand what the Mayor said about the DRA’s review of the Assessing
Department. But! think Ms. Ortolano has brought up some serious issues that deserves answers and |
think that, hopefully, our assessing department and the Mayor will look at those issues and come up
with a better way of doing things to improve that department. | Know that we are the beginning of
investigating these things, if there are problems, | hope that the City will be responsive in resolving
them. If there are not problems, then | think that we ought to be able to explain that and satisfy her
concerns.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Again, as | said Brian’s loss is a loss for the City and to many of us in many different ways. | think as
has been stated, the best thing we can do is to continue to carry on and you will vote to support
Performing Arts Center legislation, right.
Just to further comment on the passing of the boxing coach at PAL, | know some of you knew Frank.
Frank was honored at one time at one of the PAL dinners. | first met Frank | was just thinking about
this like 14 or 15 years ago and he was up supervising a couple of police officers drawing electric lines
through the ceiling of what is now the PAL gym. He oversaw the updating of the PAL Gym and if you
haven't been there, it is an amazing facility wnere many young men and women in our community go to
box recreationally and some of them very seriously. Under Frank’s guidance we’ve had Silver Glove
