Special Board of Aldermen 03-23-2021 Page 14
Alderman Jette
Yes, it does. Thank you very much.
President Wilshire
Does anyone else have any questions for either Mr. McCutcheon or Ms. Harper? Alderman Klee?
Alderman Klee
Thank you Madam President. | guess my question, you probably don’t even have these numbers, but you
mentioned that the Fire Marshall and so on, that only 50% of those that happen after hours we can reach
someone to get out there immediately and that obviously the other 50% we have to wait to at least the next
day or next business day because you said it was a Monday through Friday type of thing. Do we have
numbers to those percentages? So how many of those incidents, the Fire Marshall, needing to get
someone out there, doesn’t happen for a few days?
Ms. Harper
We absolutely do. The 50% number came from the Nashua Fire Marshall's Division and they have a
spread sheet that showed exactly how many calls came in, how many people responded and which calls
had the holdover so that number is readily available from the Fire Marshall's Division. | don’t have it here
with me right now, I’m sorry.
Alderman Klee
From the Fire Marshall’s Division, OK. That’s OK. The reason that | had asked is | guess my question
would be as far as being able to do a proper investigation, | guess we would say, you would probably want
to have that happen as soon as possible and to delay it by a day or a couple days, if it is a weekend thing
could contaminate and hurt the process. Is that correct?
Ms. Harper
You are absolutely correct. And the chain of evidence is a concern as well. You want things to be left
intact to remain the way they were. And to your point, every day or two is going to lessen that and now we
are losing our ability to accurately identify what caused the issue and to get the correct answers out of that
situation.
President Wilshire
Are you all set Alderman Klee?
Alderman Klee
Yes | am.
President Wilshire
Alderman Lopez.
Alderman Lopez
Just two questions | guess, first in relation to other Fire Departments because this kept coming up when we
were talking about the Union contracts. How did you find our compensation level? And in looking at
