Board of Aldermen 09-12-2018 Page 16
Alderman Caron
Yes thank you, | too would like to thank the City Clerk’s office. | know they worked very diligently on
election day and a couple of days prior to and this is a good training session, the primary especially
because you do have a lot of new people this year. So kudos to your staff.
| also would like to say that | heard that the Back to School Event went very well, unfortunately | didn’t
get there because the Senior Center was having their Annual Meeting the same day and by the time
that got done it was rather late for me to go. But Mayor, next year we are going to bring you in to pack
bags with our RSV people. And you can see first-hand how fast they work, thank you.
Alderman Lopez
| just wanted to comment on the yard waste removal, R-18-007, it had almost as many amendments as
the actual 007. So we went back and forth with basically every possible angle of how to do it fairly and |
think the primary driver of that was to address safety concerns of wet leaves as they would affect
motorcycles, | don’t think it is the intent to be regular Police activity event so | just wanted to comment
on that.
And | also wanted to thank Director Marchant for all the work that she has put into the bridge to Mine
Falls project. We broke ground on it last week, our estimate was that we would be done toward the end
of November and | think it is really important for people who are living in the inner City to access green
space and experience it for themselves. So! am looking forward to completing that project.
Alderman Klee
Sorry for being late | had a Committee Delegation. | just wanted to say thank you to someone who is
not here and that is Director Fauteux who took the time last week to literally sit with me for four hours
and bring me from place to place to department to department within the Public Works. | truly
appreciate it, it was quite a learning experience and she said she is going to do something very similar
for all of us and | think it would be great for those who haven't had the chance to do it, | really think it
would be a good educational thing. Thank you.
Alderman Dowd
Yesterday | got to spend quite a few hours with the past City Clerk and he was explaining to me what
the days and duties are of the City Clerk the day of elections and | know that Patricia was up from 3:00
a.m. until 2:00 a.m. the next morning and everything ran extremely smoothly. There is so much that
she has to do during the day and her staff, that we really owe them a debt of gratitude.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
| would like to say thank you too to Patricia and her staff, in Ward 9 everything went really well and it
was just good seeing new faces inside the polls. So thank you.
Alderman Gidge
I'd like to add a little bit to that | went to the New Hampshire Election Procedures, by the way it was put
on very well it was at a high school and the theatre which seats 1,031 people. That's where the
Secretary of State brought his people down and they talk about the new things that were taking place.
But he did mention a study from Sydney in the Harvard Kennedy School which around the world they
study the republics and democracies.
In the United States, they pointed to New Hampshire and said that New Hampshire’s officials are the
first in the nations for transparency, distribution, information to the public and the Secretary of State
certainly could have taken credit but he didn’t. He turned right around and he pointed to the people like
