A Special Meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, September 21, 2021, at 7:01 p.m. in the Aldermanic
Chamber and via Zoom teleconference which meeting link can be found on the agenda and on the City’s website
calendar.
President Lori Wilshire presided; Deputy City Clerk Allison Waite recorded.
Prayer was offered by Deputy City Clerk Allison Waite; Alderman Ernest Jette led in the Pledge to the Flag.
Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance. If you are participating via Zoom, please state your presence,
reason for not attending the 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.
The roll call was taken with 12 (8 in attendance and 4 via Zoom) members of the Board of Aldermen present:
Alderman Michael B. O’Brien, Sr., Alderman Richard A. Dowd, Alderman June M. Caron, Alderman Benjamin
Clemons (via Zoom), Alderman Thomas Lopez, Alderman David C. Tencza (via Zoom), Alderwoman Elizabeth Lu (via
Zoom), Alderman Ernest Jette, Alderman Jan Schmidt, Alderman Brandon Laws (via Zoom), Alderman Skip Cleaver
(via Zoom), Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire.
Alderman Patricia Klee and Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly were not in attendance.
DISCUSSION
Discussion with New Hampshire Retirement System
President Wilshire to introduce Marty Karlon and Jan Goodwin from the NH Retirement System.
President Wilshire
I’m sorry for all the technical difficulties for our guests. I’m going to turn this over to you Mr. Karlon.
Marty Karlon, Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs
Thank you for the technical difficulties. I’m having some of my own trying to load a PowerPoint on this laptop. | think our
IT Department is (inaudible) and it’s almost impossible to open a file on here. So | did bring hard copies to go through.
It’s a little old school but I'll distribute those because | don’t think this is going to open. While I’m doing that, this is our
Executive Director Jan Goodwin and she can have some opening remarks before we get to the presentation.
Jan Goodwin, Executive Director of NH Retirement System
So thank you very much members of the Council for inviting us to come and talk to you about the retiree system. We've
got a talk that we’ve prepared for you that’s about the past, present, and future of NHRS that will explain to you why the
contribution rates are what they are now and what we're thinking they'll be in the future.
If you'd like, we can start without the electronic slide show and we can just tell you when to turn the page if you’d like.
Alderman Dowd
Excuse me. With the masks, you have to pull the microphone very close.
Jan Goodwin, Executive Director of NH Retirement System
Okay. Thank you very much for that suggestion.
Marty Karlon, Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs
Apologies. It apparently is on this laptop. It won't allow me to open the file. I’m going to close out. Again, apologies.
Would you prefer us to stand when we’re presenting?
