Board of Aldermen 09-28-2021 Page 16
citizens of Nashua such as being able to use it at crime watch meetings, Ward meetings, NFR, Public Health, teachers,
DPW, even if it's not a police service, if there is a language barrier to include our hard of hearing and deaf residents, we'll
be able to use this service. It's a very progressive piece of technology. It's an application driven technology.
We already have the hardware with smartphones and iPads that was donated to the Police Department and this
organization, the aldermanic chamber voted last year on the T-Mobile Heroes Project and all of our cellular data for those
smartphones and iPads are free for 10 years. So we have the hardware for free. For $2,500, we can use unlimited
licensing on all of our devices indefinitely. We're asking for an additional $1,000 to get the ball rolling to use the services.
It was brought up at Finance, It was a very good point - what happens if we do not get the Department of Justice funding?
| can assure you this. On a daily basis, we're already providing interpreting services to the citizens of Nashua. We will
continue to do that despite Department of Justice funding from our own budget as we always have. The Department of
Justice money will allow us to do it for those instances that are non-police related or non-investigatory instances that we
just can't do now. But! assure you if we don't get this money, this is a great tool for our toolbox. It gives us access to
over 240 languages to include American Sign Language. We just hired interpreters for American Sign Language for a
very serious domestic violence case a couple of weeks ago to the tune of over $600. We're already doing that within our
own budget. | assure you we will not come here asking for more. | can answer any questions. | also have Mrs. Karen
Smith and Captain Craig Allard.
President Wilshire
Thank you Deputy.
Jim Testaverde, Deputy Police Chief
Thank you very much.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette,
Alderman Laws, Alderman Cleaver, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright,
Alderman Wilshire 12
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Engineering Consulting in the amount not to exceed $2,600,000 funded from accounts SFR Loan (Engineering
Department)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE THE ENGINEERING
CONSULTANT CONTRACT WITH HAZEN AND SAWYER OF MANCHESTER, NH, FOR THE CMOM
IMPLEMENTATION PHASE II IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $2,600,000. FUNDING WILL BE THROUGH
DEPARTMENT 169 WASTEWATER; FUND: SRF LOAN; ACTIVITY: CMOM PHASES II (PENIDNG APPROVAL) BY
ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Jette
Is there anyone prepared to make any presentation on that?
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Madam President I'd be happy to give a brief description what this is. Dave Hudson, City Engineer. So this is the CMOM
Program it's called which stands for “capacity, management, operation, and maintenance”. This is a contract with an
engineering company Hazen who will provide us engineering support services. This is for operation of our storm water
collection and our wastewater collection systems. Having the CMOM program is required by EPA.
