ADJOURNMENT
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL THAT THE JUNE 9, 2016, SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD
OF ALDERMEN BE ADJOURNED
MOTION CARRIED
The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:15 p.m.
Attest: Patricia D. Piecuch, City Clerk
educational debt, the cost of living in southern New Hampshire and the failure to at least meet the expectations and
the pay scale which other communities are willing to fulfil but not Nashua? | am concerned about that only $800,000
being put in to be used for salary increases. Thank you.
Mr. Teeboom
| didn’t know Manchester had a higher average than Nashua. Last | checked it was lower. For a form of reference,
the loaded cost of an average teacher for the City of Nashua is $89,111/year. The average pay, not counting
attending a Nashua charter school. Right now we have about 7-8 bus runs that we run morning and afternoon for
children for both ASD and the new Micro Society Charter School. When ASD came about, we added two buses into
our budget. It costs about $90,000. Since then we have added additional routes from within existing buses. A
second area of responsibility is to provide special education services to any Nashua student attending a charter
school wherever that charter school may be. Primarily we’re providing services at this point to the Gate City Schools
Mr. Teeboom
I’m not saying anybody is misappropriating the money. I’m saying there’s ways to handle it. There’s clever ways to
handle it; there’s good ways to handle it; and, accounting sound ways to handle it. | suggest you handle it in a
sound manner and not with a Spending Cap override legislation.
Department 191, School Department
Mr. Teeboom
So it’s talking here about $3.73 million. Where did that money go?
Mr. Griffin
In some years we escrowed the money forward to future periods and in some years we lapsed it to fund balance
and then used a certain amount of that fund balance to buy down the tax rate.
Mr. Teeboom
spend it on spending and put half of it into the school capital reserve fund. The school kept the reserve fund built up
to $20 million. Then what happened? Then we started spending. The first time it was an insurance shortfall,
instead of making up a priority someplace else they took the money out of the capital reserve fund; they collapsed
the fund and took the $6 million out of it and re-established the fund. Then when the school has a shortfall it was
increased above last year is $3.1 million, which is still under the spending cap by $100,000. Based upon the tax
base that we have, which is a little over $8 billion, given this budget as proposed, we think the tax rate increase will
increase to 2.5% or in that vicinity. As far as revenues go, the city has been budgeting conservatively on revenues
for many years, | would say decades to we don’t run into problems with not having the revenue that we had
SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN
PUBLIC HEARING
JUNE 9, 2016
A Public Hearing was conducted by the Board of Aldermen on Thursday, June 9, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. at the Nashua
High School North Auditorium, 8 Titan Way, Nashua, New Hampshire.
President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderman Richard A. Dowd led in the Pledge to the Flag.
From: James B. and Mary E. Cutter
86 Palm St., P.O. Box 69-Nashua, NH 03061 Ph. 889-4246
Date: June 14, 2016
To: Alderman-At-Large Brian S. McCarthy, President
Ce: Jim Donchess, Mayor, Steve Bolton, Corporaion Counsel,
Thomas Lopez, Alderman, Ward 4.
Subject: 1949 Plat Plan error at 88 Palm Street.
Dear Alderman McCarthy,
You have heard me talk many times about the City error that gave a
large part of our driveway/clothesline area to
We would like it very much if the
But, as far as I know,
Lovering, Susan
From: Bob <rhkkeating@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 10:26 PM
To: Lovering, Susan
Subject: in support of 0-16-003 Adm. Enf. Ordinance
To the Nashua Board of Aldermen,
