Board of Aldermen 06-26-2018 Page 2
mechanism, in this case | think United Way is holding the funds as a proxy for GAD and we have collected
sponsorships. This way the City could accept sponsorships directly and money could go into a community
loan fund. We could carry this over and apply it to other events. In this case, the question has come up of
“what is the Pride Festival, Pride Parade going to cost the City”. The answer is about $450.00. We will
need a detail at the park for about four hours and that’s the out-of-pocket cost and the funds we have
collected, once they go into this expendable trust fund, if you authorize it, would be used to off-set that cost.
We have collected so far about $2,000.00 in sponsorships and therefore there could be funds left over which
could fund this account and be used towards next year’s Pride Parade or Festival or some other community
event. So | hope you will accept that and, of course, we will make a full presentation at whatever committee
it is referred to and we can discuss it more fully there.
Finally Mr. President | think some good news related to the Police Department. The Police Department has
gotten some funds to help us with the fight against drug dealing, the opioid crisis. First they got a grant in
the amount of $231,000.00 from the State in the form of the Granite Hammer or Granite Shield Grant to help
pay for overtime. Number two, through the Civil Forfeiture Procedure that is run by the Federal
Government, we hit a little bit of a windfall in the sense that the City Police Department was involved in a
drug bust that yielded a lot of money; a couple million dollars of | think cash and other assets.
So the Police Department is going to be getting $291,000.00 of Forfeiture Funds which are used to fund
undercover operations, some of the buys, the undercover vehicles and even some of the overtime. So these
both are really good news and will help with our Police Department who are doing an extremely good job in
making a lot of drug arrests and keeping as much as humanly possible, the supply of illegal drugs outside of
Nashua.
With those items Mr. President, thank you very much and | will conclude.
RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR - None
RECOGNITION PERIOD — None
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
There being no objection, President McCarthy declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen
meeting of June 12, 2018, accepted, placed on file, and the reading suspended.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS
From: Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk
Re: Fire Commissioner Resignation
There being no objection, President McCarthy accepted the communication and placed it on file.
PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS
EVENING
John Roche, 12 Meadowview Circle, Nashua. Good evening my name is John Roche, | have come to
make a last ditch request on the budget. In particular, I’m asking you to please consider adding
$224,000.00 to the bottom line of the Mayor’s School Budget. In particular, this would fund two ELL
teachers at $100,000.00 and eight kindergarten paras at $114,000.00. | realize that you can only add
the money to the bottom line but | recently exchanged e-mails with Mrs. Oden who is the president of
the board and she assures me that this is very high priority not only for the administration but also for
many members of the board.
