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wrote back “Well Hello, | didn’t know you were on this address”. The address is actually screened by the
Director, the Board of Assessors is her boss. So then | called all the other cities and towns that have these
addresses and | said, “Is your chief or your manager on those addresses or is solely your Board of
Assessors”. Every one of them it is solely their Board, not Nashua. It was inappropriate, it was
inappropriate for me to have to take a blasting e-mail from somebody that | didn’t even know was on the e-
mail chain that was blindly copied or hidden, and the public doesn’t know they are sending it to this
individual.
President Wilshire
Ms. Ortolano is running out. Wrap it up.
Ms. Ortolano
OK Ill just end it with this, it came to my attention just yesterday that there was a Facebook post put up by
our new director that absolutely flabbergasted me on Facebook. It said by Kim Smith Kleiner “It is not my
normal process to respond to Facebook posts, but | feel residents have the right to hear both sides and
then | respect the conclusions they come to. The Assessing Department has received multiple detailed
requests and | am being continually insulted for not responding to two residents’ numerous questions.
When we did investigate, and | respond | am attacked that they were blindsided. Here’s the truth, we had
90 remaining abatements to respond to.
Residents who deserved to have their abatements heard from the deadline of July 1° | asked our
assessors to work as hard as possible to process all these abatements. Everything else was secondary
priority. If a resident feels my decision was wrong, | am happy to sit down and discuss it with you. My
priority has always been to serve the people of the City always”. This was a reply to an April 27" post that
popped up over the weekend from 3 months ago. | am just flabbergasted we don’t have a policy in here
whereby our directors or to management don’t respond on Facebook. You know if you folks all sit here and
think it is a one way street, that | am the problem and you are all the right people it’s more than that, so |
would ask you to consider a policy to stop this. And there was one Alderman that gave a thumbs up to this.
| didn’t respond because | think it is inappropriate to use Facebook to air the dirty laundry like this.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Clemons
| just want to welcome Alderman Gidge back, it’s my first meeting with him here so hello my friend | am
glad to see you are in good health and | look forward to working with you.
Alderman Schmidt
Welcome back Ken.
Alderman Gidge
Thank you.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Yes, | too would just like to welcome Alderman Gidge back, it is good to have you back in the Chamber,
good to see you.
Alderman Caron
