Board of Aldermen 04-13-2021 Page 24
President Wilshire
Anyone else wishing to give Public Comment? Alicia Houston? Name and address for the record please?
Alicia Houston Alicia Houston, 139 Westwood Drive. | had some questions or actually comments on the current
standing. As many of you know, with regards to the education community and how that is impacting the local
economic levels. My understanding is that Mayor Donchess is aware of the 860 students that we were missing
as of October. | think that my comment is specific to really creating and understanding, perhaps for the Aldermen
and Alderwomen who may not be aware that were three and soon to be four different levels of CARES Act
Funding, that was sent specifically to the Districts under SR1, SR2, the American Relief Program and then SR3
should be rolling out soon as well.
So | think that as a community because we’ve seen what the closures of schools look like in an effort to be more
proactive, | think that it would be extremely beneficial for us to look at what, you know, what is the City Budget
and how do we incorporate some of the educational pieces to support the education system because such a
large portion of our taxes really go towards the education system. | know that there have been a lot of parents
and residents and taxpayers within the Nashua Community who have voiced concems about having another tax
increase as a result of, you know, this horrific pandemic and no one could have expected it. However, our
schools remained vacant for over a year essentially. So | think that, given the community’s standpoint, that is one
of the big concerns that | would definitely encourage any Aldermen or Alderwomen to communicate directly with
the Board of Education and with the Mayor and really create a cohesive approach so that we can be more
proactive going forward. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Anyone else wishing to make comments? Seeing no one, Remarks by Members of the Board?
Alderman Schmidt?
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Schmidt
Thank you, | never get called on first. | am so grateful that Director Kleiner brought us that video and gave us the
information about what is happening at City Hall. | have had questions from people who are wondering when
things are going to be done, what is happening, who is doing it. And this is just perfect. Motor Vehicles
Department is going to be opening next Monday. City Clerk is going up and Assessing is almost complete. And
it's beautiful, it is clean, it is safe. | am just so pleased. And | just can’t thank you enough. | have had one more
question. | had a question about when the Health Department is going to phase out the mask requirement on
their part? And | know that this is information that we certainly can’t make any decision on this, we don’t have
enough information right now. But I’d like them to know that people are requesting it and it is a very stressful
issue for a lot of people. That’s all | needed to say. Thank you very much.
President Wilshire
| have next Alderman Klee.
Alderman Klee
Thank you Madam President. | would like to echo Alderman Schmidt's comments about the renovations at City
Hall. | really appreciated getting the walk through | guess you would call it. It is very impressive looking, very
professional looking and | love the upgrade to it. I’d also want to send out my condolences to the family of the
Nashua student who lost his life recently. And | want to praise the City of Nashua. On Saturday | had a clean-up
of Lock Street and some of the surrounding streets and there were ten volunteers that showed up. Two of them
came from Ward 1, one of them came from Ward 4 and the rest were from Ward 3, French Hill and so on.
