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development of the plan. And the drafting of the legal language would be by an outside contractor. That would, of
course, come to the Finance Committee.
A couple of other things Madam President. This is Red Ribbon Week. The Nashua Prevention Coalition, of course, is
spearheading that and this is encouraging young people not to use any kind of substances or addictive drugs of any kind.
The Prevention Coalition held their annual event at Leda Lanes last night and was attended by (inaudible — lost the
sound) The Prevention Coalition held their annual event with a group of young people from the middle school and high
school schools around the city at Leda Lanes last night and that was, of course, a very nice event as usual.
And finally Madam President, | wanted to mention the results of the Your Voice, Your Choice project. This is the second
time we've run it in the tree streets and the neighborhood gets together, develops a group of projects, and then votes on
which of those projects should be implemented, given the funds that we've allocated. There were about 8 or 10 projects
that were voted on and the top vote getter was improvements to Los Amigos Park on Ash Street. Alderman Lopez was
very involved with this and has been each year we've done it. | think he predicted that Los Amigos would probably be this
successful project. (inaudible — lost audio)
Sarah Marchant who is the Community Development Director and unfortunately we discussed last week will be leaving
soon but one point she told me this (inaudible — lost audio) | just have a sentence to go really. | was just gonna say that
Sarah Marchant mentioned to me that this project made her feel better than anything else she'd worked on for the City of
Nashua. So 337 people voted, and | think we got a good result, and we will make a significant improvement to the
neighborhood. So that's all | have Madam President.
President Wilshire
Thank you, Mayor.
RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR
Alderman Lopez
Yeah - | want to thank the Mayor for recognizing the Your Choice, Your Voice Project and Director Marchant for
organizing it. | wanted to add that to the people who submitted ideas that didn't meet the top criteria, this is an opportunity
to continue working on them. So there were some ideas about improvements of the Rail Trail that this process creates
attention to and if the city can work on it through other means and other ways then we do. An example of that - the
second runner up was the Ash Street Skate Park - one of the oldest ones in the State. There was a very good community
effort to try to champion that cause. They were organized a little bit late, but it did yield some interest from some private
partners who want to kind of further the equipment there and some opportunities. So we will continue to try to work on
that. So if your project wasn't necessarily the one that was voted on the most by the community, that doesn't mean it's not
going to happen. It means that we can work together and that you've raised awareness of it and that the champions that
brought those projects forward can continue to work on them and we can probably still see a lot of them done. Thank
you.
President Wilshire
Anyone else? Seeing none.
RECOGNITION PERIOD — None
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS
There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the regular Board of Aldermen and Special
Board of Aldermen meetings of October 7, October 12, and October 14, 2021 be accepted, placed on file, and the
readings suspended.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS
From: Lisa A. Fauteux, Director of Public Works
Re: Referrals from Board of Aldermen — R-21-165, R-21-166 and R-21-169
