Board of Aldermen 06-26-2018 Page 4
Alderman Dowd
The one that was considered last night and passed unanimously R-18-051 is relative to the transfer of
$20,000.00 from the Department of 181, Community Development and Department 186 Transportation
for the purpose of transferring additional matching grant funds to rehabilitate the Nashua Transit Center.
The Transit Center has some issues that need to be taken care of. There is a time crunch on this and
that’s why we are doing it this way, because we want to have the opportunity to get the matching funds
so we are only putting in half the money to upgrade the Transfer Station. So Director Marchant asked
me if we would take this under special consideration this evening.
CONFIRMATION OF MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS — None
UNFINISHED BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS
R-18-019, Amended
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
RELATIVE TO THE ADOPTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR
THE CITY OF NASHUA GENERAL, ENTERPRISE, AND SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS
Given its third reading;
MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-18-019 AS AMENDED BY ROLL
CALL
ON THE QUESTION
President McCarthy
You will recall that at our previous meeting we had amended it to match what came out of the Budget
Committee.
Alderman Dowd
Yes that is sort of what! was going to say. It has already been amended with the changes that the
Mayor suggested and were talked about in his comments so the resolution as it stands now is the
amended one, it is the final one. As we discussed, we are hoping that we can approve that tonight so
that we will set to go for the 1st of July.
Alderman Wilshire
| will be supporting the budget tonight. However, | do understand the speaker that came before us
looking for more funding for teachers and paras for the School District. While | would support that if it
were a different year, we have the revaluation that we don’t know what kind of affect that is going to
have on our tax payers and so adding that much money to this budget | can’t see my way to do that, so
| plan to support the budget as amended tonight. Thank you.
Alderman Lopez
| just wanted to thank Mr. Roche for coming up and speaking publicly. | have had some concerns
throughout the budget process about some of the departments maybe having to speak a certain way or
present in public what their needs were. | have been pretty vocal about it. | had concerns about City
Welfare Assistance reductions, | think Alderman Kelly made a pretty good argument for needing to
address shortcomings more needs in our school district. Ultimately | have those misgivings through
the budget process. Alderman-at-Large McCarthy and Alderman Dowd were pretty persuasive and |
am deferring to their experience.
