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to me as a member of the public may not be what the administration is looking for. | don’t care if you say no
rll wait until it is all done and I'll give my whole list. It just seems inefficient to do it that way. | know you
don’t owe that to me, but | think there’s a lot of lack of transparency that continues in this City and this
experience was just dreadful. Thank you.
Mr. Seidel Carl Seidel, 39 Pilgrim Circle. Thank you for paying attention to my questions. | think that the
questions came up because these are important parts. | am glad to hear that you did pay attention to the
objection, but | think you ought to come out and promote when you publicize your response you should
have something that is available. | didn’t see it at the one meeting that | went to, there wasn’t this type of
information. Was there discussion on expansion, because I’ve talked to the superintendent and he said
that he said some expansion plans in the new school. Was that necessary or could that have been delayed
to some other time in the future. They also have a special room that’s going to be for your handicapped
people | think which you thought might return some money on your investment. Is that analyzed, was that
an accurate statement or not? | mean that’s easy to figure out whether it is going to pay back over the
period of time. And a 30-year usage for that? I’ve seen schools with 50/60 years built, why are we only
getting a 30 year? Those are questions that kept coming up but the ones | asked were ones that | thought
could be done fairly quickly and should be presented whenever you are selling this capital project.
| spend four years up there in Concord or four terms in Public Works. When we asked these questions, this
is the answers that we expected, this is the things that we looked for in analyzing any capital project. But |
thank you for your response and | think we ought to put in a better audio system because | can’t hear
anything back there, what you are saying, it magnifies by almost a factor of 100 when | get up here but |
still, some of you have very low voices and | know, I’ve interviewed you on my show. | couldn’t hear you up
here in the first row. So | really would appreciate you putting better speakers in the back.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
President Wilshire
| am going to take the first remark. | am going to ask Alderman Gidge to come forward, please. Alderman
Gidge, thank you for you years of service on the Board. We would like to present you with this plaque.
Alderman Ken Gidge December 23" 2019 in grateful recognition of your service to the City. Ward 6
Alderman 2018 to 2019, your commitment and dedication is greatly appreciated.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja. Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja we present this to you December 23” 2019 in
grateful recognition of your service to the City of Nashua, Ward 8 Alderwoman from 2010 to 2019. Your
commitment and dedication have been greatly appreciated. Very much so, thank you very much.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
That will leave Alderman Caron and Alderman Dowd will now become the longest serving Aldermen.
Alderman Dowd
Alderman Caron has the longest City service.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you Madam President. | too would like to say | congratulate Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja. We are
good friends, we will see you around and everything, but it has been my pleasure to serve with you on the
Board and we are definitely going to miss your expertise.
| would like to say to Alderman Gidge the same thing. | know this year you had a pretty tough time with
your illness and | know we did practically drag you out of your death bed on one vote and you did come and
that told me exactly your commitment to public service. | know | serve with you up in Concord up there on
