A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderman Sean M. McGuinness led in the Pledge to
the Flag.
The roll call was taken with 14 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Tom Lopez was not
in attendance but participated in the meeting via telecommunication.
Mayor James W. Donchess was also present; Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton joined the meeting
after being sworn into office.
President McCarthy acknowledged Alderman Lopez was participating by telephone and under the terms of
the state law that allows him to participate, Alderman Lopez stated he was in Honduras, that he was alone
and that he could hear the proceedings. President McCarthy acknowledged he could hear Alderman
Lopez and asked Vice President Wilshire to make a motion to accept procedural actions without objection.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE RULES BE SO FAR SUSPENDED AS TO ALLOW
FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF PROCEDURAL ACTIONS WITHOUT OBJECTION
A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Deane, 15
Alderman Cookson, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Siegel, Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja,
Alderman McGuinness, Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty,
Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
REMARKS BY THE MAYOR
Mayor Donchess
First on tonight's agenda are two appointments; one is Steve Bolton for the position of City Attorney.
Attorney Bolton has served as City Attorney before. In fact when | was Mayor the first time around he was
the City Attorney for a number of those years and he always did a really good job. He is an expert in
municipal law and a graduate of Dartmouth College and New England Law School. | am confident that he
will do a good job for the city and I’ve told him that one of his principle responsibilities is to respond to
inquiries and requests by the Board of Aldermen and to provide even-handed legal advice to us as a city
based upon the law of any question that comes so | would ask for your votes to confirm Steve Bolton as
the City Attorney.
The other appointment is Bobbie Bagley for the position of Director of Public Health and Community
Services. Bobbie is extremely qualified in the area of public health. She has a Master’s Degree in Public
Health in addition to a Bachelor's Degree. She’s pursuing a doctorate in public health policy from the
University of Illinois at Chicago; this is an on-line course. She has previously been a public health nurse for
the City of Nashua, she’s been the Director of the Public Health for the City of Nashua and she has most
recently been running the Master's in Nursing Program at Rivier College and of course has been a
professor there and has been teaching at Rivier for the last few years. She came on as an interim acting
capacity a couple of weeks ago and since that time she has been leading the Mayor’s Opioid Task Force
