Board of Aldermen 09-10-2019 Page 7
Several of those cities are re-doing those studies again in the next couple of years. They found that those
studies have been very beneficial in pointing out where the problems are with their parking and adjusting
those parking situations.
So the Downtown Improvement Committee would like for you to let us have the parking study conducted,
let us see what our problems are, what information comes back to us so that we as a group can discuss it
and implement a parking program that will work for everybody. Thank you.
Rich Lannan Good evening, Rich Lannan, | live in Pelham, | am also on the Downtown Improvement
Committee and | don’t want to be repetitive because we have a long agenda. Marylou pretty much
touched on just about everything as well that | was going to mention. The Downtown Improvement
Committee which myself and Marylou and several others have been on since its inception and the
Committee before that and we do think about these things through quite a bit. | mean we look at everything,
our budget is small, so we really have to do a lot of discussions about every item. We didn’t know a lot of
the details at the last meeting ahead of time to hear the students which | don’t know if it would have made a
difference, but it would have been nice to do that. But | do agree with her, | think the Parking Study coming
up that we talked in length on is perfect timing to talk about parking rates, parking times and everything else
going with parking. When we did these parking regulations back 5 or 6 years ago, whatever it is now, a lot
of thought went into that; but things change. So the timing is such that we are reviewing them, everything
all over again and with the free parking that is in the area, | do commend the students, we would love to
have them come downtown to the Library now and in the future. | just don’t know that this is the right and
seeing this parking study through before money is taken out of already again small budget that we have
allocated over the next year and looking at the next couple of years, | just think the timing is bad. So just to
encourage you to think about it for the future, but wait for the parking study to be done. Thank you.
Grace Lehto Hil am Grace Lehto, | go to Nashua School North, and my address is 26 Massachusetts
Drive. So | would like to speak in favor of the parking. So this parking would encourage student use
especially low income students and college students who are home for the summer. | know from personal
experience, my sister — we live by Rivier so sometimes we will go to Rivier Library to study but it would be
very nice if we could also attend Nashua’s Library for the low cost. And then for me, as a personal
anecdote, when | got my license this summer | got myself a library card because | was now responsible to
be responsible for my own books. At times the downtown area can feel a little bit unsafe, especially at
night, so by parking in the Library parking lot, it feels a lot safer to walk to the library, it’s a little bit dark
there. It is just the closest lot and it just feels a lot safer. And then free student parking is a very clear sign
that the library is very welcome for students to study. Thank you.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL
From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Contract Award for Landfill Engineering Services
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AWARD THE CONTRACT
TO SANBORN HEAD AND ASSOCIATES IN THE AMOUNT OF $270,000 BY ROLL CALL
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Gidge, Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Alderman Dowd, Alderman Klee, Alderman Laws, Alderman Lopez
Alderman Caron, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja,
Alderman Tencza, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Clemons,
Alderman Wilshire 14
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
