Fred S. Teeboom
24 Cheyenne drive
Nashua, NH 03063
(603) 889-2316
fredtee@comcast.net
April 23, 2019
Lori Wilshire, President Board of Aldermen
Members of the Board of Aldermen
Mayor Donchess
City of Nashua, NH
Ref: (1) Communications on the BoA April 23, 2019 Agenda: from David Villiotti, Executive Director
Nashua Children’s Home, subject “Clarification of Mr. Teeboom’s Testimony at the April 8, 2019
Human Affairs Committee Public Hearing regarding the Nashua Children’s Home.”
(2) Spread Sheet, Analysis of CDBG and HOME funding, dated April 7, 2019
Dear President Wilshire
On your Agenda this evening under Communications for “Procedural Action” is a letter wherein the
Executive Director of the Nashua Children’s Home claims I gave false or erroneous testimony before the
Human Affairs Committee during the Public Hearing on April 8, 2019 concerning CDBG funding (ref.1)
] gave testimony during this Public Hearing wherein I summarized the applications submitted for CDBG
funding of $803,000 and HOME funding of $398,000 in a detailed spread sheet which you'll find
attached to the Minutes of this Public Hearing (Ref. 2), and also enclosed with this letter.
1 concluded that the applications were not adequately reviewed and validated by the Nashua Urban
Programs Department or by the Human Affairs Committee. On my direct question to the committee, “Do
you review these applications,” acting Chairwoman Caron stated “NO.” (see page 8 of the minutes).
For example, I determined that the Nashua Urban Programs Department collects $252,000 of the
$803,000 in CDBG funding for the combined “Administration” and “Project Delivery”, representing a
31% management fee, well in excess of the 20% HUD limit.
I cited several applicants, including $250,000 for repairing the roof of the City of Nashua’s Court Street
building. Together with the management fee, nearly 2/3 of the entire CDBG grant was requested by the
city. To its credit, the Human affairs Committee rejected the Court Street request.
I noted that the Executive Director of Entrepreneurship for All, a non-profit with an agency budget of $4
million serving 100 clients, earns a compensation of $185,000 and its Program manager earns $145,000.
I find that excessive compensation.
I asked the committee a few questions about the Nashua Children’s Home. The application listed 12
Nashua children to benefit from a request for $45,600 to replace windows at its Concord home. No one on
the committee could tell me how many children were served for its $5.1 million budget
The letter on your Agenda from Mr, Villiotti clarifies that Nashua Children’s Home serves 85 children.
With a budget of $5.1 million that means the support for each child costs, on average, $60,000. Is this
standard for these services?
