Board of Aldermen 12-10-2019 Page 7
NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS
R-19-197
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
ESTABLISHING POLLING TIMES FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION ON
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Given its first reading;
There being no objection, President Wilshire suspended the rules to allow for a second reading of
R-19-197
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-19-197
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Clemons
Quickly | want to say that | appreciate the fact that we are keeping our polls open as tradition, 6:00 AM to
8:00 PM. | know it is a long day for the City Clerk and our Poll Workers but Nashua is a commuter town.
People leave for work early; they get back late. We don’t have a great absentee ballot law in New
Hampshire so my only request would be that some of our legislators can work on trying to make voting
easier for people who may or may not be in the City at that time. Until that happens, | think we are doing
the right thing by keeping it open from 6:00 to 8:00.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Yes, with the establishment of the date, once we pass this, | would just encourage people who are
interested in volunteering, even for a short time to relieve some of our poll workers to contact the City Clerk
so people can take breaks to have dinner or just leave for an hour. So thank you.
MOTION CARRIED
Resolution R-19-197 declared duly adopted.
NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES - None
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Laurie Ortolano Good evening, Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. There’s a couple things | wanted to
address with the Board regarding some things that are happening in Assessing. The capturing of permits
and sales data has been a really big issue that has been discussed for certainly more than a year within the
Assessing Office. We don’t have any mechanism to track open and closed permits and captured sales
data. | don’t understand why after all this time, that’s not available in a reporting system. It absolutely floors
me. We have Lynn Cameron down there, produces an open permit report every month. Building
Department permits get captured, sent down, they load on to the property cards, she does the report to
hand to the Assessors on all the open permits that can be captured by Assessing and the value permits.
We have no way of tracking what the Assessors have done to close the permits which has been a huge
issue for me. This Administration, you folks, the Mayor, the Board of Assessors, all say to me, “It is nota
problem Lori” — Steve Bolton “We only miss a few, we’ve got 2,900 cards, sometimes we miss some”. How
do you know? You have no tracking system. Last year my husband wrote a letter to the editor every
month on abatements and it really kind of ended up being a hit. He would say, “This many got done this
month”, he had like a meter going, 475 OK we are done to 400, OK we are down to 350, OK we are done
to 275.
