AMENDED
O-20-009
ORDINANCE
RELATIVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT
CITY OF NASHUA
In the Year Two Thousand and Twenty
The City of Nashua ordains that Part I “Administrative Legislation”, Chapter 5
“Administration of Government”, Part 2 “Board of Aldermen”, Article III “Rules and Order of
Business”, Section 5-14, “Order of Business”, of the Nashua Revised Ordinances, as amended,
be hereby further amended by deleting the struck-through language and adding the new
underlined language, as follows:
“A. The order of business for regular meetings of the Board of Aldermen shall be as follows:
(9a) A period not to exceed 15 minutes for the acceptance of orally presented
communications or comments from the public or others relative to resolutions,
ordinances, or communications to be accepted in Subsection A(9b) upon which
final action is expected to be taken at the meeting. If there is a reasonable
expectation by the President of the Board that final action shall be taken on such
an item not on the agenda, the President shall allow comment on that item of
business. Upon vote of a majority of the Board members present, the time for
orally presented communications or comments may exceed 30 minutes due to
additional speakers wanting to comment.
(9b) Communications requiring final approval by the Board of Aldermen, including
but not limited to awards of contracts and expenditure of funds;
(16) Communications, to include a period not to exceed 15 minutes for the acceptance
of orally presented communications or comments from the public or others on items not on the
agenda or regarding actions taken by the Board during the current meeting:-
| Bi Meetings of standing committees of the Board of Aldermen shall include the following:
| (1) G}Public comment at the beginning of the meeting, which comments shall be
germane to the meeting’s agenda fer-a-period notie-exceedfive(S} minutes per
| presentation: and shall be limited to 30 minutes total unless there are others who
