Board of Aldermen Page 2
May 24, 2016
save about 40% of the electric bill devoted to street lighting. That bill is $830,000 so it will help the city
realize a savings of over $300,000 a year. At one point there was a proposal that we do a sole source
project at a cost of $2.1 million and as a result of the decision to go out to bid with this we reduced the
price by $600,000 so that’s good news.
The other contracts that are on the agenda are the contracts for the administration of our medical
benefits. These have not come to the Finance Committee or the Board of Aldermen before just through
custom but technically since they are larger contracts they should come before us. As you know we
have a self-insured system of medical payments except for catastrophic claims but the individual claims,
the medical claims that are made by employees are administered by these three carriers. What is before
us is the contracts to approve the administrative services rendered by Anthem, Harvard and the Hartford.
The Finance Committee is recommending that you approve those contracts.
A few good things have happened. On Sunday there was the dedication of the Child Victim Statute at
the Holocaust Memorial, it was a wonderful ceremony. Mr. Fred Teeboom was responsible for the entire
memorial as well as this sculpture. The Holocaust Memorial is a great addition to Nashua and the only
one of its kind in the State of New Hampshire.
Mary Zhu, one of our Nashua students, won a second award at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair
which is a big award. She did a project in behavioral science. In addition, the Granite State Challenge
Team from Nashua South won the State of New Hampshire and that was the first time that has
happened. The students on that team are Dody Eyd who came here before to be honored for another
accomplishment that he had; Nisha Davacia, Sam McIntyre and Noah Telerski were the team members
and the coaches were Neil Claffey, Katherine Poulin and Greg Montine. They did a really good job
representing the city.
Finally, Mr. President, coming up of course we have the Memorial Day parade on Monday and hopefully
as many of the Board members can join us to march in the parade as possible. One week from Friday
the Silver Knights open on the 3.
RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR — None
RECOGNITION PERIOD — None
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS
There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen
meetings of May 5, and May 10, 2016, accepted, placed on file and the readings suspended.
COMMUNICATIONS
There being no objection, President McCarthy declared that all communications be read by title
only.
From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: LED Street Light Conversion Project
MOTION BY ALDERMAN COOKSON TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT
TO SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,455,694
