Board of Aldermen 11-26-2019 Page 28
Alderman Klee
| do want to say that although Alderman Jette would not go near the peeling potatoes, he did empty
trash though. He is very hardworking. | want to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving and remind
everybody to come to the stroll. My two greyhounds and my husband will be with me.
The other thing | wanted to mention we talked about how we get information out to people. One of the
things that | do it does take a lot of work, is | do a weekly newsletter and | give them the entire calendar,
the links to all the agendas and then | give them what the previous week’s meetings were with the
YouTube the minutes, everything on there. So | get the word out to those people who apply to it. And
then | try to, as much as | can, put that newsletter literally on my Facebook page. | get information out
as much as | can. It doesn’t mean that they come. But think that every effort that we try and every
effort that we do, does help. You can only do so much for people. And | understand that in the case of
the School that they had only heard about it form that, but it had been in the paper prior to that. It was
just that it was more significant and closer to it and that’s when people pay attention. So while | do
have a lot of sympathy for all these people, no one wants anything in their backyard. But is kind of the
real estate of it and | love the fact that we have our public hearings where people do get to express
their feelings and so on. And | think that’s helpful. In the case of the BPW, there will be 3 different days
of presentations, there are things that are on-line and | appreciated that Alderman Schmidt had passed
on that you can contact DPW and they are willing to talk to you and | think we should do that.
As far as the School Board is concerned, the School Project is concerned, | know Alderman Dowd has
been getting a lot of e-mails that he has been talking with people and engaging with people. So | do
think that they need to reach out to us as well as us reaching out to them as best we possibly can. And
at that, I’m going to stop talking. Thank you.
Alderman Dowd
Yeah, | want to wish everybody a Happy and safe Thanksgiving for you and your families, enjoy the
day. Two the Stroll is a phenomenal event and every year it gets bigger and bigger and it is just a great
opportunity for friends to get together. People come from way out of town to come to Nashua’s Stroll,
so we ought to be very proud of that activity. Three, | know that the communications are probably not
ideal and there may be other things we can do, but we meet the letter of the law as it is stated by
Ordinance and by State Law on notification of everything that is going on. But we can do more. | have
reached out to the people that were at the Joint Special the other night, answered some of their
questions because there was a lot of misinformation put out at that meeting which | don’t appreciate but
we've Clarified it. All of that information, all of the questions that have been asked on the School Project
are going to appear on the Board of Education’s Web Site under “Frequently Asked Questions”.
Also, it is going to be presented to this Board or at the Public Hearing by the architects, they are going
to answer all those questions. And | will reach out to Director Fauteaux to also make sure that all the
questions that are asked before the Public Hearing get answered when they do their presentation. | am
not sure that we can do anymore in that regard. Let’s see, the other thing is speeding. | happened to
have a discussion with the Chief of Police today, believe me, over the next couple of weeks or so,
maybe more, they are going to be focusing on speeding and they asked that any Alderman that has
somebody call about speeding on a street, notify them immediately, they have ways of catching the
people and they will be doing that.
The last thing is, speaking of misinformation, we are not in any of our plans for the Middle School
Project, tearing down Elm Street. We will be moving the School out of it and then it will become a City
property which | think we have ideas for. We are not tearing the building down; we are not tearing
Health Auditorium down. So | just want to lay that out so people understand because it is amazing
what some false information can start matriculating around the City and it doesn’t do us any good.
