Special Board of Aldermen 02-19-2019 Page 3
PRESIDENT WILSHIRE
Thank you. Alderman O’Brien did you want to say a few words about your friend Brian?
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you Madam President and it is with much prejudice because | consider myself honored to be know
the gentleman and to be considered part of his cohorts of friends and shenanigans and | see many other
friends out here in the audience and remember many great times with Brian.
But | look at him in his political career, you know, we had some great captains of our ships and former
Mayor Lozeau and our current Mayor Donchess and others in the past, but Brian probably filled the role
basically as the navigator of that ship; steering in proper directions and looking at the many different things
that had the common good within this community. That’s what | liked about him, taking the City and
bringing up ideas of looking at the Pennichuck purchase; looking at the different schools that were built
under his particular time. Basically | consider, you know, the ancient Egyptians would build pyramids for
their memory to live on forever, but Brian in a way did. And we look at some of the efficacies that he has
done and some of the influences that he led the City to make it exactly where we are.
We have been voted Number 1 in this country for the City to live in and | think Brian had a big impact as
well as others with that. And so therefore | say to his family, | miss him too and | know you guys do — we
will miss him together. But | tell you, | look around this City and the greatness of this City and | will see
Brian every day. And | mean that, thank you.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Yes thank you. | first met Brian 15 years ago when | was on the Board of Ed. Our conversations revolved
around two things; buildings which has continued in the 15 years we worked together and science
education. Even when the topic of the evening wasn’t science education, at some point during the evening,
our conversation would turn to science education. Sometimes in geeky ways because of things we both
heard on NPR as we were driving home from work that night and it was like — Oh did you hear that? And
we would compare our views of whatever it was that we had listened to.
In the last ten years as a member of the Board of Aldermen, we’ve worked on obviously many projects and
| came to count on him for historical insight as well as his technical knowledge and knowledge of the people
involved and knowledge of the community. We share a very deep interest in the Arts and the development
of the City and science education. And also cooking and many nights our conversation would end up
revolving around the latest spice we had tried and how we prepared it and what we were making.
So Brian, as others have mentioned, had a way of making everyone feel included, and he lent his insight
and his interests into doing what was best for the City. As | listened to the Prayer tonight | very quickly
wrote down some words; justice, charity and betterment for all. And | think that really captures how he
approached his work in the City of Nashua. It was not about self-promotion but about doing what was right
and promoting the City. Thank you.
Attorney Bolton
Thank you Lori. For most of my adult life I’ve been in elected or appointed office in the City of Nashua. I’ve
met a lot of public servants in that time; all of the Aldermen for the past 35 years or so, and the Mayors,
Governors and Senators. Brian McCarthy was the best public servant I’ve ever met, would ever hope to
meet. Circumstances, events the situations we find ourselves in, they can’t be prime the way a number can
be prime. Circumstances and situations are the product of many things, many events that have gone
before, the contributions of many people. So while we can say that Brian worked on a lot of good things for
our City, we can’t really know if we would still have two of the best high schools in the State that his
leadership ensured were constructed on time and millions of dollars under budget.
