Special Board of Aldermen 11-22-2021 Page 6
there were a big concern. We did not look at the traffic impact over there and all of these vehicles - all of the heavy
equipment going in and out in that residential neighborhood, | don't think we really did justice to a traffic study. | think
traffic studies are important and | think it should have been - even if the public didn't come out and complain, | think
we have an obligation to do the work and verify what's going on down there. It's a lot of heavy equipment. | don't
even know how the timing works with making your schedules and your shifts work effectively pushing people out
when they're all consolidated in a parking lot with 170 spaces plus the space for all of the heavy equipment trucks that
will be rolling. So that's all I'm going to say on this part and then I'll talk about the other bonded pieces after. Thank
you.
Chairman Dowd
Anyone else want to speak in opposition?
Laura Colquhoun
Laura Colquhoun, 30 Greenwood Drive. First let me say that this agenda shows that the $3.65 million is from Fiscal
Year 2021 when in fact it is from Fiscal Year 2022. Maybe the Mayor and the Aldermen forgot that 141 Burke Street
sold in July of 2021 which happens to be the start of Fiscal Year 2022.
With that said, the city is now stating that they have extra money of $3.65 million from the sale of the 141 Burke Street
for the construction of the DPW building. Maybe this money should be applied to the outstanding loans that the
Nashua taxpayers are currently paying on this property which is approximately $4.7 million. The city also has $2
million in unexpended bond money from Broad Street Parkway. However, why is the city not applying this money to
the outstanding bonds of approximately $30 million that the taxpayers are still paying on this project?
The City of Nashua now wants to bond an additional $3 million for designing construction of this building. Well if you
add up all these figures, it comes up to $14,650,000 and not the $12,000,025 that the Mayor told the Finance
Committee on November 17, 2021 that would be the total price tag for the DPW building. We do not want this project
to turn into another PAC where the price tag just keeps going up. All Nashua residents are now having a hard time
due to inflation and it does not need the city to keep spending their property taxes when they do not have the money
to spend. Thank you.
Chairman Dowd
Ms. Colquhoun you may not have been on when | mentioned that we had caught the 2021 - 2022 issue and it will be
modified as an amendment to the Resolution at the Budget hearing following this public hearing.
Anyone else in opposition? Seeing none.
TESTIMONY IN FAVOR - None
TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION
Laurie Ortolano
Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. Quickly if | could have an understanding of the protocol for a hearing. Am |
allowed to ask a question in a hearing? Y
Chairman Dowd
You can ask your question and it can be answered now or somebody can get back to you later with the answer.
Laurie Ortolano
Okay, so my question is since | did address my concerns with the parking and my belief is that we didn't have a
comprehensive parking study done. Was there a comprehensive parking study done? | mean a traffic study?
Chairman Dowd
Director Fauteux do you want to address that?
