Board of Aldermen — 02/13/18 Page 19
represented the fire department quite well in competitions in New Zealand and everything else. | wish him the
best of luck in his voyage, and I’ll see you soon in that big fire house in the sky.
Alderman McCarthy
| wanted to comment briefly about the street renumbering petitions. First, while | realize a lot of us are new
here, we ought to try to get the committee work done at the committees if we can possibly do that. On the
issue, itself, | dealt with one of these in Ward 5 on Gendron Drive where it was going to renumber four houses,
and none of them were happy about it. My former Ward 5 alderman had another one on Skyline Drive, where |
know that was the same case. | think we’ve seen other ones around the ward. It is really tough to change
street numbers. Last week at 7:30 a.m. | got a phone call for Gerald McCarthy. Gerald is a guy that used to
live in Milford, Massachusetts when | lived there. When | moved here in 1980, Gerald followed me for some
reason. Gerald has been dead for five or ten years now. He still is believed by many people around this
country to live at my address even though he never did. Once this stuff is out there, it sticks. You can’t get rid
of it. It is a very difficult thing. As for the E911 project to clean it up, here’s some food for thought. That’s a
great idea and we can get it all fixed. Last year in its infinite wisdom, the legislature passed the accessory
dwelling unit legislation which allows us essentially to convert each one of the about 12,000 — 14,000 single
family residence in Nashua to a duplex. If tonight was any sample of that, we’re going to spend 6,000 hours in
here debating street renumbering by the time the effect of that ripples through. It’s a great idea. | don’t think
there’s a solution to it. When somebody has a dwelling unit, wnat do we do? Renumber the house so that the
dwelling unit can be the earlier number if it’s on the left side of the house but not on the right? It’s a problem.
| think as somebody pointed out, the solution to it is we have GIS systems that point to an exact spot on the
map where that is. We're not going to solve it by renumbering streets. | would encourage us not to go that
way.
I’m glad we passed the performing arts center. | think it is going to be great for Nashua in the long term. | look
forward to us trying to get the endowment funded, and | hope everybody around the horseshoe will be as
zealous as they would like the rest of the community to be in donating.
Committee announcements:
Alderman Wilshire
On March 2, at 1:00 p.m., we will have CDBG site visits for those applicants who have asked for funding.
There will be a list of places that we will be going to visit, and you are all welcome to join.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Wilshire, may | just add to that for new members. Those site visits are a posted meeting. You are
all more than welcome to join us. Also, PEDC was scheduled for next Tuesday. It will be cancelled. Our next
meeting will be March 6". Thank you.
Alderman O’Brien
Severe apologies for all you valentines, but the Infrastructure Committee will be meeting tomorrow night.
There is an important issue that is before us. It is going to start at 7:00 p.m., and we are going to have a joint
meeting with PEDC. We expect to have our friends from that committee to join us. Again, my condolences to
your valentines, but good to see you there at tomorrow night’s meeting.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Alderman O’Brien told me he is bringing chocolate and roses.
Alderman McCarthy
Those wouldn’t be my first choices.
