Board of Aldermen 05-14-2019 Page 44
addicted to tobacco are victims, | was one of them. | know people who not only suffered the
consequences of tobacco addiction with disease, but death. And my motives were, you know | had the
best of intention and if trying to save lives, if some people think that’s a waste of time, I’m sorry, | don’t
agree with that. | think it was an effort worth making, I’m sorry it didn’t work, and hopefully our State
Legislators will pass a Law that makes it, that prohibits purchase of tobacco State-Wide. Thank you.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
| just wanted to comment on the appointment of the Administrative Services Director and | too have
had the opportunity to work with Ms. Kleiner and as I’ve come to know her, | believe that if she sees
things that she thinks aren’t right, she will bring them to our attention. | also believe that she will give
us a fair assessment of needing a Chief Assessor there or whether or not we at least start with outside
consultation. And my reason for supporting her appointment was that | believe she will let us know
when we need someone there or she needs additional support.
Also a reminder to everyone, you may want to, if it stops raining or snowing or whatever else it is
doing, stop by the Picker Building, the Picker Artist's Building, because the Sculpture Symposium has
started and our sculptors are there working, unfortunately in some cold, damp weather. But they will
be there through to the beginning of June so | invite you to stop by and support them. Thank you.
Alderman Tencza
Thank you. Just very quickly | too wanted to just congratulate Kim Kleiner, | think one of the nice
things for here, for people in City Hall, is that there is a comfort level with Kim. There will be good
communication both ways, for employees and for the Board of Aldermen. And | also wanted to
congratulate Paul Shea, the Great American Downtown; | had a chance to go down to the Nu Muse
Festival for a couple hours. | am always impressed with the level of the musicians that they are able to
bring in to Nashua, the number of people that they get downtown to enjoy. It was the one couple of
hours when it wasn’t raining this whole month, so it was a great time and | can only imagine the effort
that he puts into pulling it all together. He makes it look easy; so congratulations to Great American
Downtown.
Alderman Schmidt
Thank you, | too would like to congratulate Ms. Kleiner and | would like to make it clear to people in the
City that everyone here has had dealings with Ms. Kleiner. | first did with the School Board and was
totally impressed with how she maintained relationships with people that perhaps did not always
agree. And she looked at every issue as very important and treated people who cared about things as
very important as well. Nobody here just heard what the Mayor said and agreed along with it. We all
have our experience with her and we are so grateful that she is doing this for us because | think she is
the best person. Thank you.
Alderman Clemons
Just to follow up what Alderman Schmidt had just said and everybody really. | was on the Board of
Alderman before and Mayor Lozeau was Mayor and | was called a rubber stamp and now we have a
Democrat as a Mayor and I’m a rubber stamp so | guess I’m just a rubber stamp. But no, Ms. Kleiner
is the one for this job absolutely in the City. And you know it’s funny because one of the speakers
tonight Mr. Teeboom went on and on and on about the amount of money that is being handled and he
then went on to say that how Ms. Kleiner has over 20 years of accounting experience. Well who would
you want better than an accountant to handle all that money?
So you know | think we are making the right decision there; we made the right decision. | have all the
respect in the world for her. | think she is doing to do an amazing job and if she feels that Assessing
Department needs a manager, I’m confident that she — number one, has the independence regardless
