PAULA JOHNSON
15 WESTBORN DRIVE
Nashua, NH 03062
Pii538@aol.com
May 27, 2019
Board of Aldermen
229 Main Street
Nashua, NH 03061
Re: O-19-044
Dear Members of the Personnel & Administrative Affairs Committee:
I’m sorry that I could not appear in front of the committee this evening as I’m out of town.
Please review O-05-115 (this was the ORIGINAL Ordinance).
Adding an Attendance Requirement to The Board of Aldermen’s Compensation.
(No Action was taken).
Brief history: This was written because an Alderman didn’t show up for many committee
meetings and it got to the point that it was out of control. If I remember correctly (since this is
from 2005 — 14 years ago) questions that were asked at the full board and reasons for decisions
could have been asked and better understood if the Alderman attended the meetings. You can’t
do committee work at the full board and that’s why you have committee meetings and your
EXPECTED to attended unless the reasons mentioned in the O-05-115. I felt that if your getting
paid to represent a ward then you need to show up. Back in 2005 we didn’t have the have the
phone or electronics in the Right-to-Know Law as we do now. So, now you don’t have to miss a
meeting unless your seriously ill or out-of-town at a funeral you can phone in, facetime, skype
etc.
The Ordinance/Sec.2-21 Compensation:
Each Alderman shall receive as compensation the maximum sum of five thousand dollars
($5,000.00) per year, quarterly based on attendance at meetings of ihe full board of alderman and
the meetings of the standing committees to which the alderman is assigned. An absence will be
excused only if due to an illness or death in the alderman’s family. If an alderman has more
than five unexcused absences in a quarter, then the alderman’s quarterly compensation will be
reduce proportionally based on the number of meetings attended during the quarter.
