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the Mayor indicated, Deb Novotny, but before Deb Novotny, Rich Lannan, so Rich Lannan could say a few
words. So if | may, Mr. Chair.
Chairman Dowd
Sure, go ahead.
Director Cummings
So | just shared my screen and the first elements — | am going to keep my comments tonight very high
level. A lot of us here on this meeting have been intimately involved with this project. So a lot of what | am
doing tonight is | am just going to speak in very high level terms and obviously touch open what | think are
the important elements. But! am going to try very hard not to get into the weeds. Over the weekend, | was
given some great advice and counsel by a member of the Board of Aldermen who | won’t name, Brandon
Laws, who made it very clear that | know this project very well and | get, sometimes | get lost in the details.
And that’s the last thing | want to do in terms of confusing everyone. So! am going to keep my comments
at a very high level, but of course, happy to answer any questions.
So with that being said, the design is complete. We've had our architect working on this project for over a
year now. This summer we got to 100% construction documents and those documents have been
transferred to Harvey. Harvey not only is going to be developing cost estimates, but they’ve the sent the
project out to bid. The bids were due last week and they are formulating the plan to get to us in terms of
cost estimates. We are on track for the $15.8 million figure which we had been originally anticipating.
The total project cost is just under $25 million; that’s something we have discussed from time to time both
with status updates here to the Full Board of Aldermen and at the Steering Committee level in terms of the
differing elements we have incorporated into the design and how that has progressed the project into the
direction that we are now. Relative to program, not a lot has changed. We have secured Peter Lally who
is actually on the call this evening as our operator. We are under a Memorandum of Agreement. We are
going to need to switch that over to an Operator Services type contract. | have included Spectacle
Management's web site in this update for folks, at their leisure, to be able to go to and kind of see and get
familiar with them. But they are a very competent and credible operator. As the Mayor alluded to, have
operated venues across New England very successfully and more recently we sent around an Op Ed
author that was the Union Leader, | believe, or maybe the Nashua Telegraph, I’m not 100% sure. But
nonetheless it was a piece that outlined Spectacle Management's commitment to the project and how they
are working especially during these times of COVID-19 which | am proud to say they are very well
grounded and able to perform and they are doing well despite the challenges in front of them. And they
have a plan that will allow us to be successful as this project gets on-line.
So I’ve given you cost estimates, I’ve talked to you about design, I’ve talked to you about the program.
Probably the one most important thing you guys don’t want to hear about is fund raising. And what |
thought would be best on that, is | am going to hand it over to Rich Lannan to talk a little bit about the
efforts of the Capital Campaign Committee. Rich and Deb, after you say the update, if you could turn it
back over to me | would appreciate it. So Mr. Chair, if | may, I’d like to turn it over to Rich Lannan.
Chairman Dowd
Mr. Lannan?
Rich Lannan, Chairman of the Performing Arts Steering Committee
Yes, Good Evening everybody, thank you Chairman Dowd and Tim. As | think people know, | am the Chair
of the Steering Committee. Also, | am President of the Nashua Community Arts which is the 501(c) 3 non-
profit for the Capital Campaign and | am on the Capital Campaign Committee as well. | know there’s been
