Board of Aldermen Page 17
April 26, 2016
Alderman Siegel
| agree with my colleague Alderman Cookson’s desire to wait because it would be helpful to allow people to
review the written minutes. | know Assistant Chief Rhodes gave some testimony which | think people would
find valuable. Personally, | could repeat the remarks | made but | don’t think that’s a complete picture of
anything. The process would be better served by allowing the minutes to be made available and just address
this at the next full Board meeting.
Alderman Lopez
At the Budget Review Committee meeting, honestly | want to hear the objections to how the contract has been
developed especially if they had a mediator who was involved. | know all of us understand that we have a very
competitive fire department. It’s a regional leader. | know in my ward we have had a lot of emergency calls,
emergency issues. Nashua Fire has done an exemplary job in responding to effectively and efficiently. | do
share Alderman Cookson’s and Alderman Siegel’s positions because | want to know what the objections are.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Alderman Cookson, | just assumed that it was on the agenda. People had taken advantage of whatever
information was there and was in a broad stroke referring to the minutes because | knew it was available via
audio, and made the assumption people take advantage of that. | am fine if we want to move this to the next
meeting. | certainly understand people may want to get more information. | have no objection to that.
President McCarthy
Was that a motion to hold until the next meeting?
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
So moved.
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN MELIZZI-GOLJA TO HOLD R-16-026 UNTIL OUR NEXT MEETING
Alderman Clemons
The agenda for this meeting has been out since Friday. This has been on the agenda since Friday. Clearly
we had a number of people come tonight who expected this to be on the agenda. | don’t want it to go
unrecognized that although some people may not have known, a lot of people did. They took time out of their
evening to come here tonight expecting us to move this forward or not move it forward or take some action on
it. So, | won’t be supporting the motion to hold.
President McCarthy
| would point out that | spoke to at least Assistant Chief Rnodes and Mr. McAllister today and pointed out to
them that | expected that it would likely be held until the next meeting.
Alderman Cookson
| would just like to remind those who may have been on the board at that time that there were more people that
came from Nashua Fire and Rescue when it wasn’t on the agenda last time. While | certainly respect those
who came this evening, | think it’s the prudent thing to allow us to review the minutes, raise any additional
questions or comments, if there are any. I’m looking forward to supporting the contract, but | certainly like to
do my due diligence and review the minutes prior to giving my vote.
