Board of Aldermen 12-22-2020 Page 7
Rich Lannan Hi good evening, Rich Lannan, 11 McGrath Road in Pelham. | do own a couple of buildings in
the downtown area that happen to include three restaurants. | did not speak last night, but | did listen to the
entire 3 hours and it was interesting to note that during those 3 hours it was | don’t how many people spoke
but it seemed like it was 50 or 60 or whatever and with the exception of a couple of the Board of Health
members, there was nobody in favor again, if | am not mistaken, of imposing this Ordinance. It was
obviously a lot of people that had businesses or were employees of businesses but also just general
citizens of Nashua that felt strongly that this was not the right move to make. | appreciate like a lot of
people said last night of everything the Board of Health has done and continues to do; this is a very crazy
time for everybody and especially them. But | don’t see the purpose of having a curfew and | also don’t see
where the arbitrary 9:30 timeframe comes from. And | think as much as the health and you know the public
safety of everybody is so important, | just feel strongly that the safety or the health and safety of the people,
the businesses, their employees, of losing their jobs and losing the businesses is something that this Board
should consider as well at the same time. So | would just urge the Board to vote no to the curfew and just to
try to help keep on telling everybody and including other businesses to do the right thing and to be safe and
just kind of control the business a little bit more to insist that they do all the necessary things. But doing a
curfew | don’t think makes a lot of sense to me. So thank you for listening.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Aaron, did you have your hand up?
Aaron Yes.
President Wilshire
Ok, you’re up, name and address for the record?
Aaron
Can you hear me?
President Wilshire
Yes.
Aaron Howard My name is Aaron Howard, | live at 366 Main Street in Nashua. | did speak briefly last night
but that was impromptu and | will try not to repeat anything | said last night. I’d like to start by saying that |
have an elderly father who has an artificial aorta. | haven’t been within 10 feet of him since March. So |
take this very seriously. | have taken precautions. | have made him take precautions. But! urge you to vote
no on the curfew, because Nashua has worked hard to be the safest place in the State in an unsafe world,
with the tightest restrictions and mask requirements, an environment has been created here that is safer
than other options like Manchester, for example.
Nashua residents that now go out of Nashua will be forced to be entertained in less safe locations and they
will bring the virus back completely defeating the purpose of the curfew. In the Charitable Gaming Industry
we pride ourselves, here at Boston Billiards, in being the safer place to play. Thanks to all our efforts and
the efforts of Nashua, customers come here because we are safer than alternative charitable gaming
locations. Don’t make those efforts go to waste be eliminating the safety entertainment options in the
State. Please vote no because there is no end date on this proposal. This is too serious of a matter to be
left open-ended. In a theoretical world where the Board never removes it, it would continue forever. There
must be a reasonable end date and extensions need to be voted on every four weeks, for example, based
on some data point allowing for removal. As written | question if it is even legal without an end date.
