A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, January 28, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Susan K. Lovering recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Susan K. Lovering; Alderman Ernest Jette led in the Pledge to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Dowd, Alderman
Clemons, and Alderman Jette were recorded absent.
PERFORMANCE ARTS CENTER (PAC) COST COMPARISON
Public Hearing 6 February 2020
OVERALL PROJECT STATUS UPDATE
Design Update
The current status of the design is in the construction document phase (“CD”), which we entered in January of
2020. We anticipate being in this phase until June of 2020. Leading up to this phase we completed concept
design, schematic design and design development phases, which took approximately ten months.
Cost Estimate
2018 and the first Capital Campaign Meeting occurred in December of 2018. However just because the
Capital Campaign Committee was formed does not mean solicitations started. Once the recruitment
period occurred, an onboarding and educational process ensued. A lot of the volunteers acknowledge that
this was their first capital campaign and an education effort transpired during the better part of the winter
of 2019, into early spring. Ironically, as the Capital Campaign Committee was being formed, the design
B\ THE CITY OF NASHUA "The Gate City”
Economic Development
To: Lori Wilshire, President Board of Aldermen
From: Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development
Date: February/2020
Re: Project Status Update for the Performing Arts Center & Analysis of R-18-001
Purpose of Memo
Iam writing this memo to provide an update for the Performance Arts Center project.
Analysis of R-18-001 — “What Does the Legislation Do”
This legislation strikes the two-year time period for raising the $4,000,000.
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period, | can assure the public and ensure this Board. Our Committee that we meet originally was once or
twice a month and we are literally meeting weekly and you know Deb and | and a few other people that are
here on the Capital Campaign Committee, | mean there is not a day goes by that there is not conversations and
there is not a day goes by that one us if not multiple many of us that are meeting with potential donors.
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So what | am asking is yes | understand that were in the process of an amazing thing, however, and there is
some work still to be done, but what | do ask as you cast your vote and as you are thinking about this, is not to
have an open deadline. What is realistic? What is your commitment back to the people of a deadline so that
everybody does the work that is necessary to achieve this goal.
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Ms. Novotny
| am not a CPA however | provided a CPA with all the information for 2019 and that CPA has not asked and
they do all of the 990’s for several non-profit organizations; they haven’t asked for the names.
