Board of Aldermen Page 19
April 12, 2016
Alderman Siegel
I’d like to thank our colleague, Alderman LeBrun for his participating last night in the opioid forum. | learned a
lot and it was helpful to have someone who was right in the middle of it at the state level to keep tabs on what
was being said and sanity check it and provide some information. |’d like to thank all of the participants.
Alderman Caron
The Senior Center’s big fundraiser, Fire & Fusion is May 4" and tickets are $35.00 and | understand that we
have less than 30 tickets left. | know that Aldermen Wilshire, Siegel and Melizzi-Golja have already purchased
their tickets.
Alderman Dowd
| want to thank Alderman LeBrun for what he is doing at the state level and ask you that if there is anything that
you feel this Board can help with, please feel free to bring it up. The other thing is that | apologize for missing
the last Budget Review Committee meeting but | was on vacation in San Francisco, CA with my daughter but |
did listen to minutes.
Alderman Cookson
In reviewing the minutes, | believe it was a Budget Review Committee meeting, and | believe it was centered
around the pension discussion, and | know that you and | have had a conversation outside of these Chambers.
It was mentioned that you were exploring the idea of possibly bringing in the state delegation similar to what
you have done in the past. | was curious if there’s been any progress in that. | think there’s a lot of dialogue
that would be beneficial in sharing as well as hearing from our delegation especially when it comes to
pensions, pension costs. The fact that we are going from 35-30-25 percent down to zero contribution from the
state, and we’re picking up the entire cost. | think it would be a good dialogue to have with our state delegates.
President McCarthy
| don’t think | have told our legislative assistant to do that yet. | was out of town last week, and | had a lot of
work commitments the week before. She is here now, so she will take care of that.
Alderman Deane
I'd like to ask why the communication that was addressed to you from Pennichuck required a meeting of the
Pennichuck Water Special Committee? Are we required by ordinance to hear that in a public setting, to give
the date, the proxy and the financials of the annual meeting that they are required to hold every year? Could
we have accepted that and placed it on file?
President McCarthy
The Board eventually has to vote on approving the signature on the proxy card so | believe that was the
purpose of referring it to the Pennichuck Water Special Committee. My understanding is that it will come back
with a recommendation that the Board approve the signature of the proxy card.
Alderman Deane
I’m looking forward to attending tomorrow nights’ meeting about out front. | just hope it doesn’t turn into what
last Thursday nights’ meeting turned into. That’s all | have to say about that, Mr. President. | think you ought
to watch that if you have a chance.
