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R-19-122
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
DISCONTINUING THREE EXPENDABLE TRUST FUNDS
Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President Wilshire
R-19-123
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
RELATIVE TO THE ADOPTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2020 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR
THE CITY OF NASHUA GENERAL, ENTERPRISE, AND SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS
Given its first reading;
There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the first reading of R-19-123, referred it to the
Budget Review Committee and scheduled a public hearing for Thursday, May 16, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.
at NHS-North Auditorium
NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES
O-19-040
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Tom Lopez
Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza
Alderman Jan Schmidt
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
ESTABLISHING AN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DIVISION AND DIRECTOR POSITION
Given its first reading; assigned to the PERSONNEL/ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE by
President Wilshire
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Lori Ortolano Good evening, Lori Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. Just wanted to share my concerns again
about this new director position. | hope that there is more discussion about the Assessing Office itself and
getting some outside leadership in that office. | just cannot fathom or imagine promoting from within or not
having a Chief down in that office given the amount of work that’s there. | think that the Mayor's comment
on the position, replacing the Chief with this Director position, | really believe there are other positions down
there you are missing. I’m not certain why in the 3 months they haven’t been identified, but you are
definitely short in a few areas and it doesn’t seem like we would want to stay in that mode for another entire
year but maybe we missed our window.
Regarding the comments at the last week’s meeting | really want to offer this challenge out to you and the
Mayor. | become concerned when | hear the Mayor say that we are going to reevaluate in 5 years. 5
years is too long, and that what KRT did was sound, everything is equalized, it was a job well done. You
know we need to recognize that KRT did the best they could but it was a garbage in, garbage out scenario.
And if we can’t get down to understanding that the data that they used wasn’t necessarily good and
resulted in not necessarily equalized evaluations, you know, | certainly won’t be on any common ground
with this Mayor any time soon. And the case in point for that is wnat happened on Berkeley Street. And |
brought pictures to show you. Berkeley Street is the case street on why the KRT model really didn’t work.
