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Mayor Donchess
We are both available for questions if anybody has any at this time or later on or whatever you want to do.
Alderman Dowd
Does anybody on the Board have questions of the Mayor?
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
| do have questions but since this is the Public Hearing | will hold mine for the Committee Meeting, thank you.
Mayor Donchess
And | will be glad to stay around for that.
Alderman Jette
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We formed a Capital Campaign Committee which has been meeting regularly for a number of months. In
order to execute the Betsy McNamara plan, Deborah Novotny of the Enterprise Bank has agreed to be Chair of
the Committee. She is very active in the community, formally President of the Rotary Club and active in many
other ways in Nashua.
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Mayor Donchess
Alright Mr. Chair, well thank you very much. | was going to take a minute to explain what we have
accomplished to date and where we are and then why it is that we need the Resolution that is proposed before
you.
First of all, the bond issue passed back in March of this year so that was about 8 months ago. For the first
couple of months we were working on acquiring the building and the building was acquired in either late April
or early May sometime around then.
A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Monday, November 26, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr., led in the
Pledge to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with 13 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Schmidt was recorded
absent.
Mayor James W. Donchess was also in attendance.
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Alderman Dowd
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Alderman Lopez
| just want to point out, everyone has been thanking me but she’s been working for years, all | did was
nominate her.
Alderman Dowd
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| would like to acknowledge a gift | received from Alderwoman Kelly, it is a bag that says “Plastic ain’t
fantastic” kind of acknowledging the damage that plastic is doing to our environment and my meager
efforts in trying raise our awareness about that.
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Alderman Lopez
| was going to thank Alderman Klee for taking time to bring a bunch of trees that were donated and set
them up with her husband and then make sure they were all properly cared for. | thought that was a
very nice thing to and | appreciated it.
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look carefully at the data, this all began on Berkeley Street, if you look at specific houses, and the
specific factual statements that are made to support some of this, you will find that it is just riddled with
errors. Take the Berkeley Street, that’s where we started is Berkeley Street, the number one example
says the assessment never went up in 8 years. You look at it, that is flat wrong. If you go down one by
one by one, a few of them are correct, but most of them are wrong.
