Board of Aldermen 10-09-2018 Page 17
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Gidge
The Mayor did mention this Saturday and Sunday, the Art Walk and people have to understand that
obviously art is important, but art also makes money. The research that we had done on the committee
in Concord is that for every dollar spent for the arts, there is a $10.00 return. So here is an opportunity
not only to support the arts but to support the City financially. Also to get something that is absolutely
original that you may either read, send as a card, put on your wall So please, this Saturday and
Sunday, please the Art Walk here in Nashua. Thank you.
Alderman Dowd
Two things, | get a chance to be downtown a lot these days and many of the parking meters, the LED’s
can’t be read. You put money in and you have no idea what the time is on the meter. For the
automatic, where you put the money in and get a slip to put on your dash, it is taking forever for the
receipt to come out of the machine. | had a person in front of me tonight that almost walked away and
said, “the thing is not working” and | put my money in and it took several minutes for it to come out. |
don’t know what is wrong with them, but | think somebody needs to look into it.
Alderman Lopez
| also wanted to comment on the Art Walk. | typically enjoy it, but | also see a lot of parents that are
trying to enjoy it with their kids. It is sort of a lot of walking around for kids, so Winnie The Pooh is also
going to being performed by the Peacock Players, so you can kind of get a break. And then also this
weekend, | believe the Rotary is doing their duck race.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you, | just wanted to thank the board for passing the legislation to bring the hybrid buses. As a
member of the EE Committee it will start to move us towards our goals. | don’t know if anyone saw the
recent article, that in 10 years it could be catastrophic if we don’t start looking at stuff. So | think that’s
really important.
| wanted to highlight Holiday Shopping, I’m glad that we passed that as well and | want to see people
come downtown because we have an incredible wealth of places to go and get really unique gifts as
you are going through your Holiday shopping.
And | would remiss if | didn’t bring up that | am a little disappointed in the re-referral of R-18-066. We
did spend a lot of time in committee talking about this. | think there was some public confusion on this
and | look forward to being able to clarify this. But these people have been waiting a very long time for
us to make a decision on this and | think they deserve a fair and timely resolution of it. Thank you.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
| would just like to elaborate about the Rotary West Duck Race which is happening on Saturday. As of
Sunday, they still had some of the flock that was up for adoption and you can go on-line to make
adoptions. My understanding that any ducks that are not adopted as of Saturday morning, will be
available for adoption prior to the race. | think it is important for the public to know that the proceeds
from this event does not go to Rotary West but they, in fact, use it to provide funds to non-profits within
the community.
President McCarthy
| am looking forward to our first chicken race coming up in the future.
