A special joint meeting of the Board of Aldermen and Board of Public Works was held Tuesday, May 31, 2016,
at 6:30 p.m. in the City Hall Auditorium.
President Brian S. McCarthy presided; Legislative Manager Susan Lovering recorded.
Prayer was offered by Legislative Manager Susan Lovering; Alderman Ken Siegel led in the Pledge to the
Flag.
The roll call was taken with 12 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Schoneman, Alderman
Clemons and Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja.were recorded absent.
The roll call was taken with 4 members of the Board of Public Works present; Commissioner Pappas was
recorded absent.
Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
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DISCUSSION
Update on the status of property acquisitions for the Broad Street Parkway.
Mayor Donchess
| wanted to meet with you just to update everybody about what is going on with respect to the funding for the
Broad Street Parkway, particularly the reimbursement from the Federal Government for the federal earmark
that was passed by Congress and designated for the is project. The Infrastructure Committee has been
updated by John Vancor at various times and he will give you a more detailed explanation but in overview the
history of the situation is that in the fall of 2010, the route of the parkway was changed from one that kind of
skirted to west of the Millyard to one that directly entered into the Pine Street Extension. At the time that
happened there had already been parcels acquired by the State of New Hampshire on the city’s behalf for the
original route and when the route was changed some of those parcels were no longer necessary for the new
route; those being where the NIMCO Building is, a parking lot that is south of there and the area where the
police training facility are which are all kind of on the western edge of the Millyard and then in the fall of 2014,
the federal highway began to inform the city that they didn’t regard these original acquisition expenses as
being eligible for federal reimbursement because the parcels were not used ultimately for the road even though
they had approved the change in the route via a Record of Decision in 2010 without raising this in any way as
an issue. In any event, a whole group of people have been working on this ever since. First of all, Mayor
Donnalee Lozeau was very involved, John Vancor has been very involved, Lisa Fauteux on behalf of the Board
of Public Works, City Engineer Steve Dookran, our finance people; John Griffin and David Fredette as well as
the Legal Department. This issue has been discussed by the city, the state DOT and federal highway. The
underlying issue is if these $5 or $6 million of expenditures that were made in acquiring and moving and
dealing with the issues pertaining to these now ineligible parcels, if those are eligible for federal reimbursement
then we would not be able to use $2 or $3 million of the federal earmark that we had been granted by
Congress. After many discussions and a lot of meetings with the state DOT and federal highway, although
they remain in insisting that those parcels are not eligible we believe we have arrived at a solution that will
enable us to use the entire federal earmark. In arriving to this point | want to add that we have had the help of
