Board of Aldermen 12-14-2021 Page 27
Laurie Ortolano
Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. You know | heard what Attorney Bolton said in his last comment there that he’d be
happy to win again. | just spent two full days in court working on my Right to Know trial and | have one more day to go
back. It is wholeheartedly disappointing to see what the city is doing with information. Maybe Attorney Bolton is very
confident that he's gonna beat me hands down on everything and maybe | am going to lose everything. | don't know.
We'll wait and see but | can tell you | feel you have a significant amount of information corruption going on in this city. |
handled a pro se case on December 6" in court and what | heard from city employees really was disturbing to me that
they're just deleting their emails. That they never heard of RSA 33A for record retention and they weren't even familiar
with the email storage and retention policy and this was from Louise Brown who was a Supervisor in Assessing and been
in City Hall for 20 years. You know you have some big problems in there when it comes to information. Attorney Bolton
can chuckle at Fred Teeboom but | think Mr. Teeboom is raising a very valid point and | don't think you should be laughing
about it. Your property for the art center, former Alec Shoe Store, was never valued correctly nor was the assessment
done and it was done again by Greg Turgiss who apparently never visited the property on April 1st when a wrecking ball
was put to it. And | don't know why you think that's funny but | don't think it's funny. There's nothing funny about what's
going on in here regarding these TIF properties and regarding Right to Know issues.
Regarding the barriers. | think the Mayor did a real disservice to that conversation tonight. He wrote a terrible piece of
legislation centered around pandemic politics and | believe that Tim Cummings should have nothing to do with that
committee. Don't let him lead that committee. Let him sit back and be a spectator watching that. Assign one of the non-
restaurant people who's in opposition to these barriers to head it. Let's put somebody who's on the other side of it in
charge because we've heard what the cheerleaders say and all of the anecdotal information out there is just that. Where
are these studies? Why is Paul Shea conducting data research on what downtown people want?
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
30 seconds.
Laurie Ortolano
Why is this even happening? You know it's so disenfranchising and disingenuous when you hear Tim Cummings speak
at a meeting and discount everyone who showed up to give comment. He's simply not a leader who can handle this and |
find when it comes to Right to Know requests, his door is closed, the light isn't shining over there, and he wants nothing to
do with citizens. Okay. He doesn't have to have anything to do with citizens because...
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
Your time is up.
Laurie Ortolano
...he’s the Mayor’s right hand man but let's fix the problems in here.
President Wilshire
Anyone else wishing to give public comment?
Alex Comeau
Yes, thank you. Alex Comeau, Lewis Street. | just have a very brief question about R-21-194 if | could. The $30,000
from the Nashua Rotary, is that in case of the $30,000 that was already approved or is that in addition to it?
Mayor Donchess
In lieu of, instead of.
Alex Comeau
Okay, thank you.
