Minutes

Unidentified Speaker

Is there a better time of the day maybe to meet for State reps?

Representative MacKay

here to get her through 6" grade; now she’s 26 and a graduate of Nashua High South, we didn’t say what are the
parochial schools like, what are the private schools like. We said what are the public schools like. And to this
day, when | meet young families and talk to people, one of the questions that comes up is what are the public
schools like in Nashua. Just walking my Ward | ran into a family with a little girl in a stroller, she was probably 18

Senator Lasky

Alderman-Elect, did you mean by having public funds going to private and religious schooling? The bill that was
just passed out of committee, is that what you’re referring to?

Alderman-Elect Jette

Yes.

Senator Lasky

from the metro Manchester/Nashua region. Yet when we come up and bring things such as commuter rail, they
don't give us the time of day. Yet the good people of someplace like Bartlett or some other places where they
live, they rely on us for their education. Every lottery ticket that gets sold in the city of Nashua, and how many
lottery tickets do you think get sold, how many Keno will be played in the future in the city that will go back to
some other city and town? | would like to encourage the delegation to bond together, talk to our friends from

Senator Lasky

Well, partly, we’re going to retain them by giving them a living wage, which we don’t do that very well.
Representative Mangipudi

system. They put through the first electronic record. | can say nothing bad about them. So if you thought that |
did, then my apologies. As far as the nursing home, you're right. | should have said that Hillsborough is the only
one in the black. When | spoke to them in accounting and | worked with DHHS, they’re still not getting paid
timely. They are in the black and they do a phenomenal job, but they were not getting paid timely. They had
some cases that were open for over a year that weren’t being paid. You're right on the things that you said. You

Representative Klee

Alderman Dowd

Alderman LeBrun
| have a bill in on that this year, Alderman Lopez. |’ll pass that on to you and let you take a look at it.
Alderman O’Brien

Alderman LeBrun