Special Board of Aldermen 03-23-2021 Page 16
Mr. McCutcheon
That’s another good question. We did address that, and so what I'll tell you is right now the coverage is
sufficient to provide the demand that you have. However, over time as you begin to develop more along
the Riverfront, get bigger sub-divisions or multi-level buildings there north of the airport or out in the
southwest that there could be a need. We did an optimization, your stations are pretty well sided today so
probably anything, you know, relocations would be additional stations. So what | would say is that station
location optimization is only one piece of the puzzle. You need land, you need it to be zoned in the right
way and grade and highway access and all that stuff. So there’s several other factors, so what | would
suggest is when you reach a point where you can see your performance beginning to deteriorate or there’s
just an area that you simply can’t service to the same level as the rest of the community, so at that point
evaluate those factors and the other factors you think are important and make the best decision with the
data that you have at the time. Does that answer your question?
Alderman Clemons
It does. You don’t think we are at that point yet where we should be planning ahead for that, based on
where we know the growth of the City is going to go or things like that? Or is that something that should be
purely data driven?
Mr. McCutcheon
| think being data driven helps take a lot of the emotion out of the argument because the data is what the
data is. But at the same time, you’ve got travel time overall that is just slightly above industry standards and
the goal for industry standard. Your turnout performance | think is as much as anything effected by building
design and your stations absolutely need a whole of TLC. And so before for me, if it was my decision,
before | invested $2 to $3 million dollars into a station | would want to make very certain that configuration
was going to meet my needs, that it was in the right location for what we have for our demand today and
that when we invest that money we are going to see it pay off on the back end for that investment.
Alderman Clemons
| appreciate that answer, thank you.
President Wilshire
Alderwoman Kelly?
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. | was surprised, | was like, “Oh am | next’? My question was around the percentage of people
in our community who are either disabled or speak another language. And | just thought that was sort of
striking and | was wondering if that’s a typical number or if that’s fairly high?
Ms. Harper
It’s actually indicative of what I’ve seen in a number of the communities that we’ve done in the recent
months, about 25% give or take. You are on the higher side of that but | think to us what the bigger issue is
the fact that you have such a significant population of people that don’t speak English but | didn’t see any
evidence of programming to address that. You know, we go to a lot of communities that have that kind of
numbers but they have got multi-language community risk production programs. They’ve got people that
are on the fire departments that speak those languages that are going out into those areas. And| think
that’s really the disconnect in Nashua is that the population has changed, you have got these people that
don’t speak the language and you are not meeting them in their native tongue.
