Minutes

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Payroll, IT, Purchasing, Risk Management, the Arlington Street Community Center and our Grant Writer.
Together we provide support day in and day out to all Divisions within the City of Nashua. And as you can
here, it’s along list. We also provide support to the community through services at the Community Center,
information on the City Website and programming on the Government TV Channel 16, Access Nashua,
Channel 96, and E-TV Channel 99.

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Susan Lovering, City Clerk

You have 12 in attendance.

President Wilshire

Thank you.

Alderman Lopez

| just showed up too.

President Wilshire

Alderman Lopez, thank you.

Alderman Lopez

| am here, | can see everybody, | am alone.
President Wilshire

Excellent. | am going to turn the presentation over to Administrative Services.

PRESENTATION

Administrative Services

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Mayor James W. Donchess, Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton, Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services
Director were also in attendance.

ROLL CALL

Alderman O’Brien

| am present, | can hear the proceedings and | am home alone.
Alderman Klee

| am home alone, | can hear the proceedings.
Alderwoman Kelly

| am here, | can hear everyone and | am alone.
Alderman Caron

Yes, | am here, | can hear everyone and | am alone.
Alderman Clemons

A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, February 9, 2021, at 6:45 p.m. via Zoom
teleconference.

President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Susan K. Lovering recorded.

Prayer was offered by City Clerk Susan K. Lovering; Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly led in the Pledge to the
Flag.

President Wilshire

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careers and families. If you have ideas about how we can make Nashua an even better place to live, you
can get involved in Imagine Nashua, the citizen led effort to create an updated master plan for our City.

We have a lot of work to do. Overcoming the pandemic, improving our schools, building a stronger
economy, fostering the downtown resurgence, and creating a greener Nashua. Let’s get to it.

God bless the great City of Nashua. Thank you very much.
President Wilshire

Thank you, Mayor. Alderman O’Brien?

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better job of keeping streets clear during snow storms than applying rock salt after the storm
begins. And it also saves money.

At City Hall, the Assessing and IT Departments have put new assessing search and analysis
tools on the City’s website and have put many documents online. Nashua, as a result, has the
most open, accountable, and transparent assessing department in New Hampshire. Thank you
to Administrative Services Director Kim Kleiner and new Chief Assessor Rick Vincent for these
improvements.

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The Performing Arts Center, which you will see at the corner of Main and Pearl Streets next
year, will benefit everyone. This project will attract private investment. It will build our tax base
and increase the City’s tax revenues. It will bring tens of thousands of people downtown for
entertainment and to patronize our shops and restaurants. Even before it has opened, the
Performing Arts Center has already been successful in attracting private dollars.

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As a result, | have opposed three collective bargaining agreements and have vetoed two. In
January of this year, | vetoed a proposed contract for firefighters that granted 15.5% raises. At
the end of 2019, | flagged a Police supervisors contract which included 11 and 12% raises, and |
vetoed a contract for civilians in the PD which granted 11% raises. The Board of Aldermen
passed all three contracts and voted to override both of my vetoes.

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Every time the State does something like this, your property taxes go up. The costs the State
downshifting this time amount to a 5.5% property tax increase forced upon the hard-working
taxpayers of Nashua, all without any involvement by us here in Nashua.

We are working with our legislative delegation and with other cities to help our taxpayers. |

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