Board of Aldermen 12-23-2019 Page 3
In any event, I’ve already spoken on this longer than | intended to. It is the Holiday Season. So | will cease with
my comments on this. But again | will return to the beginning, | hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday
Season, regardless of your position on this and | know many of you disagree with me, but regardless of your
position on this | hope that we will have a good holidays and | look forward to our next two years together.
Thank you Madam President.
RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR - None
RECOGNITION PERIOD - None
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS
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There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen meetings of
December 10 and December 16, 2019, accepted, placed on file, and the reading suspended.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS
From: David G. Fredette, Treasurer/Tax Collector
Re: — Bond Sale Plan and Debt Service Analysis for General Fund
There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication, placed it on file.
PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS
EVENING
President Wilshire
So our comment period is 15 minutes, if you could limit your remarks to 2 7% minutes that will give
everybody time to speak; give your name and address for the record, please.
Tracy Pappas 12 Swart Terrace in Nashua. Regarding the $10 million bond for the Public Works Facility; |
am a better writer than | am a public speaker. So for Board Members who didn’t see it, | wrote an editorial
which was published in the paper today and that gave more of the dollars and sense kind of breakdown.
What | am going to do is | am going to go through each facility to explain the health issues, because | am
not the person who went to the press and explained all the health issues in our facilities and | certainly think
those need to be dealt with. But the problem is that this bond doesn’t go near touching those health issues
for our employees. | am extremely concerned about the message we are sending to our employees, who
are in parks and rec and street department. We are telling them, your facilities are in such horrific condition
that we are going to take all your support staff and we are going to put them in a centralized location. You
are going to stay there in those facilities; actually one Commissioner who did vote for this said “squalor-like”
and | don’t disagree with that description.
| am extremely concerned about the safety issues, particularly in the Street Department for particularly our
mechanics. So my best way to go through this is to —| am going to hit each facility and | guess my main
beef with this is that our homework was not done and we didn’t get the figures.
| am going to start with engineering department. It has always had HVAC issues, mold issues, that was
going to take some money. For Transit that has worked out quite well, they have actually fixed that. And a
lot of my objection is we never got a quote on what it would cost even short-term to fix that HVAC and to
get rid of the breathing issues and | am very sensitive to that.
