Board of Aldermen 10-13-2020 Page 15
for your continued support for making this community -driven vision a reality. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Next we have Kramer.
Nathan Theriault Sorry this is my first time. So | am taking part in this for the overnight parking, lowering of
the fine, I’d like to see it disappear to be honest. But lowering it | feel like is a great compromise. | know
we are talking a lot about the Art Center, you heard the term “starving artist”. Most of the people in the
community that is policed heavily by the overnight parking is the Tree Streets and Crown Hill and by the
way 28A Lowell Street, Nashua is my place of dwelling. Nathan Theriault is my name. So | see it a lot in
the morning, | see the tickets overnight. | mean | understand it’s a lot of revenue in the City but up until a
year ago we didn’t have 20 overnight parking enforcement officers or vehicles, it was policed by the Police
Department.
So we have created a business on ticketing people and the ones most ticketed are ones parking overnight
because they live in affordable housing in the City that has no overnight parking. So you are let to park on
the street. It’s not just people that live downtown, its people that work downtown. So it’s the people that
work at your Dunkin Donuts, it’s the people that — your favorite bartender. It’s your favorite server, those
people work downtown. Yeah they can park in the parking garage, most of the people in this community
are afraid to park in the parking garage. But we are having employees of local businesses downtown send
their employees to the parking garage to walk down there and go in there at 2:00 in the morning when most
of the people that are opposed to getting rid of the overnight parking ban and the ticketing wouldn’t go
down there themselves.
So | think it’s an unfair poor tax, | know Alderman Laws said that and people disagree, but for myself | have
an overnight parking pass but during COVID | paid for it but it took four weeks for them to process it in City
Hall. | got ticketed three times; | had to call every day, | took hours out of my day, waited to get call back a
week later and got ticketed even after | got my sticker because overnight parking department it was a new
person, they had never worked the street before. If we can’t process these tickets through City Hall, and
people can’t get an overnight parking pass and they are not even processing the mail for a week for
someone that paid their ticket but in 7 days their ticket goes up to $35.00, like | had the time to do it. Most
of the people in my neighborhood in French Hill do not have a computer, they do not have internet access,
they frankly just don’t’ have the time to deal with it. So | am against overnight parking tickets, but | would
take the compromise to help the people in my neighborhood and the people in the City that area or don’t
have a voice here tonight because one — they are probably working; two — they don’t have the internet or
they don’t have the time or even the knowledge that this is going on. So Nathan Theriault, 28A Lowell
Street, Nashua, New Hampshire, that’s my thing.
President Wilshire
Thank you Mr. Theriault. Next we have Tracy Pappas, you’re up Tracy, name and address for the record
please?
Tracy Pappas Tracy Pappas, 12 Swart Terrace, Nashua, New Hampshire. | am glad to call in on a night
where folks aren’t getting cut off by the Board President. | am here to speak regarding Public Comment
period and | also would like to speak regarding the overnight parking. So prior to 2017 members of the
public were permitted to speak during the first public comment period regarding new ordinances. This was
very helpful and the public was able to state their position to the entire Board of Aldermen before the
members had made up their mind regarding Legislation. Additionally, it was a way for other members of
the public to be aware of upcoming Ordinances. In 2017 this (inaudible) was put, was put on the public
comment period and as an example of this Board’s objection to listening to the public Additionally the Board
President began to object and interrupt members of the public with who she disagreed. Those she
disagreed with were interrupted, but before the five minutes were up, those she agreed with were not, were
able to go on for quite some period of time. The example | have is 12/23/19 | spoke regarding the DPW
