Special Board of Aldermen 12-21-2020 Page 20
President Wilshire
Thank you Shaun. It looks like | have a Jeff Watt?
Jeff Yes hi, thanks for listening to us tonight and thanks to the rest of my colleagues for chiming in. | am
Jeff Bois, Stella Blu on Pearl Street in Nashua. | think it’s been fairly well articulated how many jobs will
be lost. | think it’s also important to consider that it’s a pretty tight knit industry so there are many
couples, married couples, parents that both work in this industry and this will affect whole families
obviously, children and others. In addition to that, | think it’s important for the Health Department and
for the Board to understand a little bit more about how we operate. | mean are you in the restaurants,
have you gone to restaurants, have you spent the whole night and see how we control our patrons? |
think there’s very few industries that can affect their guests like we can. We take their name and their
number when they come in. We tell them where to sit, we tell them basically how much they can drink.
We tell them how long they can stay, we clean, polish, sanitize everything they touch, no one touches it
except for them and the server. We have a lot of control so | guess my recommendation, obviously |
am in opposition of this is to work with us not against us.
Again we have a lot of control over how our patrons interact with us and each other. If you are not
together with someone when you come in, you don’t get sat with them. We are following all of the CDC
Guidelines as far as how close in proximity you can sit. And others have said it is a fraction of our
guests that we are seeing now that we saw even a month ago, never mind two months ago when we
had the outdoor dining, which again was (inaudible) by Nashua to pass. So again, you know, | think
what was striking to me is how the Health Department started the last call which was basically saying
there is absolutely no evidence that this will work but we’ve got to try something. Well | don’t think we
can just try anything, | don’t think hope is a strategy. | think hope and optics isn’t a reason to make this
decision. | think if you follow the science, you follow the data and not just generic data about cases.
Data about the decision you are making and how it affects those lives. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Anyone else? Name and address for the record?
Emily 92 Harris Road in Nashua. | work at Boston Billiards for Kurt and Sue Mathias. | find it extremely
infuriating that this conversation even needs to be happening and how detrimental this is going to be for our
economy, for our business, again that we are a gaming facility and a lot of our profits go to a lot of people.
Kurt and Sue are there constantly, making sure that everything is the way that it is supposed to be, the
guidelines, masks, we again as someone has said, when people are not wearing their masks, they are
asked to leave. We don’t give them another shot, we (inaudible) for the safety of my fellow coworkers,
employees and also people that are coming in there. So to me, it’s very infuriating that this is a
conversation that needs to be happening. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Anyone else?
unidentified Speaker
Hold on, | spoke before but | didn’t use my three minutes, do you mind if | take 30 seconds just to reiterate
something?
President Wilshire
If you have something new to add? Name and address, please?
