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Board Of Aldermen - Minutes - 12/8/2020 - P32

By dnadmin on Sun, 11/06/2022 - 22:49
Document Date
Tue, 12/08/2020 - 00:00
Meeting Description
Board Of Aldermen
Document Type
Minutes
Meeting Date
Tue, 12/08/2020 - 00:00
Page Number
32
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https://nashuameetingsstorage.blob.core.windows.net/nm-docs-pages/boa_m__120820…

Board of Aldermen 12-08-2020 Page 32

Unfortunately these people aren’t going to come and play with us knowing that there’s this deadline, they are
going to go Salem, they are going to go to Manchester. | even think our local residents would go elsewhere
and still come back home.

So | struggle to see how it would slow the spread of the Coronavirus. We have done everything possible at
our own location to do the right thing, where we are limiting people at the bar. We hire details, we implement
all of these things, | am ordering thousands upon thousands of dollars of PPP equipment that we supply to
everybody. And it just seems like maybe some places aren’t doing that extreme, | just don’t want to be
lumped into that same group. This is my livelihood, I’ve worked at Boston Billiard Club & Casino for 16 years.
| started as a server, | worked my way up, it is a family run business and | feel for all the other businesses, |
see them closing and | just think it would be a huge mistake and you know it would hurt our neighbors, our
local businesses, and | just hope that we will have the Aldermen support regardless of the recommendation of
the Nashua Board of Health in this matter.

| also want to commend the Aldermen on what you guys decided to do when we reopened in expanding
outdoor dining, | mean you saved a lot of local businesses. | just would hate to see it be for nothing if they
close because it’s winter and the times are difficult. | mean | understand holding people accountable and
everybody needs to abide by the restrictions and uphold the rules, | just hate to lump everybody into one lump
together and all of us suffer, never mind the fact that you know for us this would hurt our local non-profits, it
would hurt us. | estimate most restaurants and bars from research have 15% of their sales are after 9:00 p.m.
and that might not seem like a big number. However in this climate that we live in now, that is life or death.
And so | am really, really hoping that this doesn’t come to be, this doesn’t come to fruition and that we have a
curfew as the only place in New Hampshire.

President Wilshire
Thank you. Anyone else want to give public comment? Chief Rhodes?
Chief Rhodes

Good Evening, thank you Madam President and thank you to the Honorable Board. | just want to express
thanks from Chief Buxton and | for your support of your firefighters. Because they are your firefighters and
they do an incredible job for our community every day and knowing that you have their backs is going to goa
long way. So again, | just wanted to thank you very much for your support.

President Wilshire

Anyone else want to give public comment? OK, seeing none, Remarks by Members of the Board?
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Alderman Schmidt

Thank you, Madam President. | just wanted to thank everybody. | wanted to thank the 10 people that voted

to override the veto. | think it was the right thing to do. | wish there was a better way to do it but | am so
glad that the contract has gone through for the Fire Department. Thank you very much.

Alderman Lopez

Yeah | just wanted to remind the public that we are far from out of the woods with COVID-19. While we do
have a vaccine that is being approved by the FDA and is in the process of being reviewed for longer term
effects, it is not going to stop people from spreading COVID-19. It’s not going to be immediately available,
we do not have any COVID-19 vaccine in Nashua, New Hampshire right now and we will not have them for
Christmas, we will not have them for New Years.

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