A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, October 12, 2021, at 7:p.m. in the aldermanic
chamber as well as via Zoom teleconference.
President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Susan Lovering recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Susan Lovering; Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright led in the Pledge to the Flag.
To join by Zoom — please refer to the agenda or the website for the meeting link and telephone number.
Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance. When each member states their presence, please indicate if
participating via Zoom state why you are not meeting in person and whether there is anyone in the room with you during
this meeting which is required under the Right-To-Know Law.
City Clerk Lovering called the roll and asked them to state the reason he or she could not attend, confirmed that they
could hear the proceedings, and stated who was present with him or her.
The roll call was taken with 12 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.,
Alderman Patricia Klee, Alderman Richard A. Dowd, Alderman June M. Caron, Alderman Benjamin Clemons (arrived
at 7:06 p.m.), Alderman David C. Tencza, Alderwoman Elizabeth Lu, Alderman Ernest Jette, Alderman Jan Schmidt,
Alderman Brandon Michael Laws (via Zoom), Alderman Skip Cleaver, Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright, Alderman
Lori Wilshire.
Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly and Alderman Thomas Lopez were recorded absent.
Mayor James W. Donchess was also in attendance.
President Wilshire
We have a public hearing this evening on the operation of sports book retail locations within the City of Nashua and
I’m going to ask Director Charles McIntyre from the NH Lottery to come up and just give us a brief overview of what
this is and then we'll open the public hearing.
Charles Mcintyre, Executive Director of NH Lottery
Good evening everyone. Charlie Mcintyre — I’m the Executive Director of NH Lottery for the last 11 years. I’m here to
submit for your approval or for you folks consideration a ballot item that has to go before the voters in order for a
physical sports book location to be located within the confines of Nashua. Under the term of law, there are a
maximum of 10 locations available across the State. As you can imagine based on our needs and maximum sort of
economic potential, select locations would be (inaudible) so we would ask for your consideration and I’m here to
answer any questions you have.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you Madam President. Mr. Mcintyre right now by putting this on the ballot just basically puts a roof over what’s
really what’s going on now. Am | correct? The people would be able to go on their phones and to...
Charles Mcintyre, Executive Director of NH Lottery
So there’s really two elements here. There is mobile and computer and then there’s physical sports books which are
very much like a kind of high end sports bar and they attract (inaudible). So it’s really two customers. Most of the
retail book traffic is well off people and tend to be from Massachusetts who spend money in retail sports books. They
like the physical activity. They like to be in person, and watch the games on TV, and order food. They don’t like to do
it through their phone. Its two very different customers. People use the phone and computer as well but we like to
have both.
Alderman O’Brien
Follow up if | may? So it wouldn’t be that far of a stretch cuz when | wrote this, it was my intention to help out
charitable gaming. Although this portion of it does not any of it go into charitable gaming, it will enhance the
opportunity for somebody who did go in like you say in the example to go in and watch the game live, enjoy it with his
friends. He may walk over to a table of chance and make his first million or good luck to him or whatever.
