Board of Aldermen 07-09-2019 Page 16
Welcome back Alderman Gidge and | love your scooter.
Alderman Lopez
So first | just wanted to make a public disclosure, | have accepted a position at Greater Nashua Mental
Health, in the past | worked at Harbor Homes. | abstained from any votes that would represent anything like
a conflict of interest. So | just figured | would announce; pretty happy with my position now so that’s
awesome. In addition to that | would like to thank the Board for supporting the Animal Advisory Board, |
think it’s a great example of a public and private partnership. When people in Nashua step forward to
volunteer and they want to help address situations in our community to make them better, | think it is
something we need to support. | Know in Ward 4 in the more urban areas we have had an ongoing issue
with exactly what the role is with animals downtown, whether they are eating in restaurants, whether they
are doing their business on sidewalks, whatever they are doing. So | appreciate having a venue for public
input to that effect.
| want to thank everybody who helped out with the Fourth of July event at Riverside Barbeque. | want to
wish Dave, the owner, a Happy Birthday as well. And then | just wanted to remind the public who might be
watching that Dancing in the Streets is coming up. Alderman Laws is going to lead the break dancing, so |
invite everybody here. Thank you.
Alderman Laws
| too would like to welcome back Alderman Gidge it is good to see you. |’d like to personally thank Amber
and Cole to help make this Dog Advisory dog thing a reality, Animal Advisory and that’s it thank you.
Alderman Klee
Yes, I'd also like to welcome Alderman Gidge back. Then | have a couple of other items. First is I’d like to
thank Amber and Cole and especially Amber for all of the work that she’s done. | know you’ve done a lot of
work with DES and CDC etc. | do think that this Advisory Board is going to be very good. |’d like to thank
Alderman Lopez for all his work with and the Riverside Barbeque for the veteran’s event that you did on the
Fourth of July, thank you so much for all of that.
And then I'd like to address something, and | am sorry | am blanking on the gentleman’s name that was
here from Tyler Street and who spoke about the ADA issues and so on. What I'd like to talk about is the
bushes and the sidewalks. I’ve called DPW and Code Enforcement and so on and especially Code
Enforcement they do go in, many of these bushes that are hanging over onto the sidewalk that are blocking
our children’s way, people with disabilities and so on are from private owners. The City can only do so
much, if it is City property, we should be right on it and taking care of it | agree with that. It is the private
property owners that are letting the shrubs and so on go over. I’ve called a number of times, | just recently
called on Hills Ferry because the children trying to walk to school had to go out into the streets and so on
and they got, I’m sorry Ferry Road not Hills Ferry, and Code Enforcement got right on it talked to the
owners of the home and if they don’t do it | believe that the City does take care of things like that.
So | think in that respect | do think we take care of it when it is brought up. But is the private ownerships
responsibility to also keep your bushes trimmed for sidewalks and so on. We need to think about our
neighbors. Thank you.
Alderman Dowd
I'd like to welcome my friend and fellow classmate back, Alderman Gidge, got to keep the fires going here.
The other thing I’d like to congratulate Nick Caggiano and his staff for the Fourth of July Fireworks and the
entire day. As Alderman Caron well knows they go and start early, early in the morning and they are there
sometimes until midnight, that’s along day. | heard numerous people tell me just how great they thought
