Special Board of Aldermen 04-26-2021 Page 6
Just moving forward here, I’m just looking to show you a few examples because looking at lockers | know
they all look the same, but we’re looking at here are several of those that aren’t able to close. You can see
a lot of the hinges in the doors along the line don’t close correctly and have problems. There’s multiple rust
that’s occurring. As you can see on the insides, we’ve done our best to keep up with these lockers. We
had multiple lockers repainted on the outside to keep up appearances but as we went through, and you can
see here in the back locker room where multiple of the style lockers we have have just failed for the locking
mechanism as the high usage that we have here.
This is a closer photo. You can see where the rusting and deterioration is starting in a lot of the seams in
the metal of many of these lockers. Here’s another close up of the rusting that is indicative of the majority
of these lockers we have here. Again this is another example of just the bending and the hinges that have
been off. That makes it tough to secure and have any issues there.
So moving forward, out of the $1,550,000 that we are looking to secure its not only for what we believe is
the necessary updating of our HVAC system to get to that point of what that bid had come in as, it’s also
adding some funding in there to operate our lockers which probably would be a smaller portion of the
funding here that we’re looking at. It’s all necessary especially due to the inefficiency of our HVAC system
and the priority that our folks here put on securing the gear and taking pride in where we’re keeping our
personal items while they’re at work.
At this time, | welcome any questions about what our request is here.
Chairman Dowd
Just a couple of things. | will tell you that when we did the window work, the first time | went over to see it
in the winter they had duct tape on the sides of the windows to keep the snow from piling up on their desks.
That was something that was easy to get money to fix because all our energy was going right out the
window.
The HVAC systems I’ve seen and they definitely need replacement and update. There will be a cost
savings downstream with a new HVAC system through heating and ventilation of the police station. The
lockers are in even in worst shape than those pictures show. We hire officers from other departments now.
We don’t recruit new people all the time. We do bring in experienced officers and when they get a look at
the locker room, that’s one of the things that sort of a downer for them. They’re in need of this funding and
the cost have been increasing and they have a locked in cost and we need to act on this fairly quickly.
Hopefully tomorrow night we will do the second reading of the legislation.
Are there any Aldermen questions for Captain Mederos?
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Captain you mentioned that it went out to bid and you took the lowest bid. How many folks responded to
the bid request?
Captain Dan Mederos, Nashua Police
We were actually able to get four bids that came in. One of those vendors actually backed out and pulled
their bid back. We had three bids that came in. This was Turnstone Construction that we’d like to go with.
The other two bids were approximately a little over $4 million each.
Alderman Harriott-Gathrigth
Okay thank you.
