Board of Aldermen 10-12-2021 Page 13
Alderman Tencza
Just briefly, Madam President. To echo what the Mayor was saying before just thank you to the committee
members, everyone who came out. We may have benefited that so many of the meetings were virtual and it
was at a time when people had time. So although it's been 20 years since the city has developed a Master
Plan, | think we can all be very happy with the outcome, with the participation, and | think this will serve as well
into the near future and hopefully we're back here in 10 years with a slight update to this plan we're putting
forth tonight. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Alderman Lopez.
Alderman Lopez
Yeah, | want to echo what Alderman Tencza said. | guess we’re echoing each other today. | want to
underscore it as very important that we continue to update this as it goes because we let this one get out of
date very much so the plan didn't really reflect what Nashua’s needs were when the Zoning Board and the
Planning Board were trying to use it. So it's important for us to do our due diligence and make sure that |
guess our future due diligence and make sure that this stays up to date. It was a huge undertaking to update it
and make it what it is today, which is wonderful and | really appreciate all the work that went into it. But we
don't actually have a crystal ball so we can't see the future, so we need to stay nimble as a city and make sure
that we're recognizing the needs of our constituents as they present themselves.
President Wilshire
| did attend many of the meetings and | was so impressed with the participation, and | agree with Alderman
Tencza and | think | spoke to Director Marchant about the captive audience. The amount of people who were
able to Zoom in and participate in this | thought was tremendous. I'd also like to thank Community
Development, especially Amber Morgan for her leadership in Chairing this Committee so thank you very much
- and everyone who worked on it. It's great and Matt back there to shaking his head. Yeah. Further
discussion?
Alderman Klee
Thank you again, Madam President. | just want to echo the words from everybody and | really would like to
thank the community for coming out. | hate to say that anything good came out of COVID but | do believe that
something good came out of COVID and there was more participation than ever before. People didn't have to
leave their homes they could do it. Through Director Marchant and in Amber’s guidance, we had the - and
Matt and everybody. | hate to keep naming people and forget somebody but we had the online polling where
people could literally just put a pin in a mask and say what they wanted or what there was an area and | had a
lot of constituents that called me asked questions. So | know that Ward 3 was quite involved in and so on. So
| do want to thank everybody’s working and all your ideas. They were phenomenal and the community came
up with some brilliant idea. So thank you.
Alderwoman Lu
| want to just reiterate that it's baffling to me that one Ward would not be included in membership and that no
one that was involved in this committee recognized it or thought it was important to in order to rally that
particular Ward while having an actual resident appointed. | cannot monitor the appointments and whether
they comply with the resolutions that we vote on. I've brought up in the past that it seems when a committee
appointment is required to be a Nashuan or it has certain restrictions or qualifications that are required, | don't
understand where the accountability sets for that. There's a reason for them for these appointments to have
characteristics that are described in our ordinances.
