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And | agree there are some outliers that we continually need to educate and support their efforts to
make this better. It was never meant to be a punitive act against a select group of Nashua citizens who
we all support and endorse, but rather as an ordinance as one medical short-term effort to decrease the
spread before a potential complete shutdown encroaches upon all of us in the next few months. Healthy
people drive healthy businesses, we won’t have either if we continue in the way we are going.
Lastly, as a frequent patron to so many of the great Nashua businesses, | am torn in my role as a citizen
and in my role as health educator. By my allegiance and oath that | took over 32 years ago as a
physician to uphold and protect to the best of my ability ones health above all is the singular driving
force here in trying to make a difference. And for this reason, | believe we have to try this emergency
ordinance before it gets worse. Thank you President for listening.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Kevin McMann?
Kevin McMann Thank you. My name is Kevin McMann | work at Boston Billiard Club & Casino. | want to
just — coming right after Charles | wanted to sort of bring up that we certainly appreciate everything that
you have done for the community, everything that you know, your group the Board of Health has set out
to do. Unfortunately the way you opened your comments it mentions a lot of ifs and the concept of sort
of measuring the effect of a curfew like this after the fact. And based upon everyone that we see on this
call tonight, everyone that we’ve heard speak already, it seems to me that it is going to affect a lot of
people much more than it might help a few. And | think everyone here is agreeing upon that.
Two other things | wanted to underscore quickly; you Know | see stories almost daily in the Union
Leader, the Telegraph, New Hampshire Business Review about charities that are struggling. People that
are coming to charities and they don’t have the resources that they need or that they used to have. In
October alone, Boston Billiard Club gave away, excuse me, donated $326,000.00 to Nashua based
charities. Certainly the River gave away I’m sure a significant number as well. So we are talking about
just per month, several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of donations, unmarked donations going to
Nashua based charities, those would be nearly evaporated if we were to see this curfew go through.
And finally a couple of our employees have mentioned the health screener app that is part of our daily
process of each and every shift. We take that very seriously, there are repercussions if we discover that
someone has not filled it out, if someone has filled it out untruthfully, there are disciplinary actions, there
have been terminations based upon people not giving that seriousness that we want them to. So to all
the people, | appreciate your nay votes on this measure. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Next | have someone who has identified with their hand up as iPad. Seeing no one, | will
move on to Angela. I’m sorry? OK.
Chris Wokowski 41 Kingston Drive in Nashua. | am a manager for Boston Billiard Club and | just want
to touch a couple things, you know. Working at the club like everybody from the cleaners to the
bartenders to the dealers and you know and you know Lyle touched on this and Heather and my entire
BBC family, it’s like we take pride in keeping people safe. You know if people take their masks off, we
ask them to put them back on and if they don’t, we ask them to leave. You know, all of my door staff
takes it very personal because they want to protect themselves, they want to protect everybody that is in
the club. And for the most part, we have a great clientele that comes in that follows the rules and they
understand it. They want a place to go with all the stress going on right now with home and you know
Christmas is a couple days away. So it’s, you know, Barbara touched on it and everything else and we
do a lot and where it comes to holding people accountable, you know, there should be some kind of
thing that we can work out with the Health Department for compliance and everything else.
