Board of Aldermen 09-28-2021 Page 15
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
Time is up.
President Wilshire
Times up.
Laurie Ortolano
Time to move on. Thank you.
President Wilshire
| don't see anyone on Zoom that has requested to speak. Do you Donna?
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
| do not.
President Wilshire
Okay moving on.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL
From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Multi Year Interpreting Services Contract in the amount not to exceed $3,500 funded from accounts 55699 Other
Contracted Services (Police Department)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE A MULTI- YEAR
INTERPRETING SERVICE CONTRACT WITH LANGUAGE LINE PHONE SERVICES, INC., INAN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED $3,500. FUNDING WILL BE THROUGH DEPARTMENT 150 POLICE DEPARTMENT; FUND: 55699 OTHER
CONTRACTED SERVICES BY ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Dowd
Yes - | believe this is for the Police, correct? Last night at the Police Commissioner's meeting this was brought up and |
think it probably would be best if we had someone from the Police Department come up and just give us a couple minutes
of the reason for this Resolution and the actual cost.
President Wilshire
I'm okay with that.
Jim Testaverde, Deputy Police Chief
Good evening everyone. Jim Testaverde, Deputy Chief of Police. Madam President, Mr. Mayor, Alderwoman and
Aldermen, thank you. I'll be brief. | spoke before Finance a couple of weeks ago and it was unanimously voted on. One
of the main cornerstones of the Chief's administration is strong community relationships. | believe you all know that and
this is one step in the right direction for our agency to continue to become a culturally effective organization as a
communications access plan is one of the main tenants of becoming a culturally effective communication.
Captain Craig Allard who's with me tonight found the Language Line Solutions, Incorporated, which we found out is being
used by NYPD an agency of 40,000 officers and they've invested $800,000 into it. We're not nearly asking for that
amount. On a daily basis, we provide interpreting services to the citizens of Nashua to conduct our business. We have
recently applied for some money through the Department of Justice Byrne Discretionary Funding and we'll find out what
the end of the month if we're going to get that money. If we get the money, we'll be able to use this device at a rate that
we've never been able to use it before for things that we've never been able to do before in order to communicate with the
