Board of Aldermen 12-23-2019 Page 27
So we didn’t do it here, but they did it nationally so beginning this summer it will be illegal to sell tobacco or
vaping products to anyone under the age of 21.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Yes thank you. First | would like to address the Middle School Bond. | have been a member of Joint
Special from the time | was on the Board of Education so prior to the signing off on Nashua High School
South. | remember going through that building with Kim Shaw who was on the Board at the time and
looking at blocks in the wall that weren’t put in correctly and doing the punch list. Those Middle Schools
have always been a concern and we’ve gone on and done things to elementary schools, so it’s nice to see
we are finally coming together to address all of the middle schools in one fell swoop.
It has been my pleasure to serve with all of you; some of you I’ve known for awhile and | know you socially.
Others | have gotten to know and am coming to know you socially. | appreciate all you bring to the Board. |
think that it is very important for the public to see us having the questions and the debate that we have here
so they know that we really are thinking about what we are doing and not just, Oh yes this is what we are
all going to do. So | encourage you to continue to ask questions and have debate among yourselves.
As | said to the Mayor if there is something you need me to do, if | can do it, | am more than willing. To my
family who has put up with over 10 years of “No I’m sorry I'll meet you at a restaurant and I'll get there
before you and I'll leave before you finish your dinner but we can talk for 20 minutes”. So | appreciate their
tolerance for that and also several of the restaurant owners who allow us to eat in shifts. That's been
greatly appreciated. So | just say to all of you, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanza and Best
Wishes for not only 2020 but the 2 years moving forward in your new term. It is never easy and as
Alderman Clemons said, it is never a good year but we do figure it out and | do think that it is just important
to come together and understand that you often have, you always have a greater depth of knowledge.
That’s what you are here for, to read the documents and get the information and make the hard decisions.
And | know you do that and so it is just important that you feel secure in your knowledge and you can’t
always share all of that because frankly no one wants to know the detail That’s why you ran for office and
other people didn’t. | commend you because | know it is hard work so | wish you well. Thank you.
Alderman Tencza
Thank you. First I’d just like to wish everyone Happy Holidays, | hope everyone has a great Christmas and
Hanukah and Kwanza and Happy New Year. Also | would like to congratulate Alderman Gidge. A lot of
people know Alderman Gidge as a local artist, people don’t realize though that he was an entrepreneur
here in town, you were a late night radio host at one point.
Alderman Gidge
Yes.
Alderman Tencza
He did many,many things, he’s done a lot of great things for the City of Nashua and he will continue to do
so for many years to come so thank you for your service, the Board of Aldermen and up at the State
House.
And then to my Alderwoman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, | think | speak for all of Ward 8 if | am allowed to
do that and say we are going to miss your advocacy here in the horseshoe; everything from the
shepherding of the development, the Flatley Development and how involved you’ve been in that to the
sidewalk projects on East Dunstable Road and everything else you have helped the neighborhood
accomplish in your service here on the Board. We sincerely appreciate it. One of the things that | always
look forward to are the e-mails you send out for the bear sightings up in your neighborhood. | hope in this
spring and fall we still get those e-mails telling us to bring our bird feeders in and tracking all the
movements of the bears up in Lancaster Heights. So congratulations and thank you for your service.
