Board of Aldermen 12-28-2021 Page 6
You have to represent your constituents. | get it but how many have spoken in opposition? Tens maybe 100. Earlier
today | e-mailed you the spreadsheet with the signatures from the change.org petition imploring you to purchase the
property. We currently have the overwhelming support of almost 3,000 people with 1,300 of those — 1,300 in Nashua and
majority of those being outside of Ward 3. Now Alderman Klee is estimated at the annual cost of the 20 year bond to
purchase this property is about $158,000. According to the US Census Bureau, population of Nashua is about 91,000.
So we're talking about $.175 per person. For comparison...
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
30 seconds.
John Sullivan
...walk up a Dunkin Donuts coffee - $2.27. So that stewardship thing, what's going to make you prouder telling your
children and your grandchildren that you saved them the cost of a small coffee or that you did the right thing and that you
personally helped save the forest for them. Thank you and again even if you choose to vote no, | thank you for your
service to the city.
Tim Root
Hi many name is Tim Root. | live at 63. Berkeley Street. A longtime resident of Nashua - my entire life. | grew up here
with my family, four brothers. Three of us still live in the city. | want to thank the Aldermen for holding this session tonight.
| Know it's a busy time of year, and | hope you all had a happy holiday, and | look forward to a new year.
| personally walk Greeley Park all the time. | actually have a plot in the garden down there as well and so really have a lot
of first-hand knowledge of the beauty of the park as well as seeing thousands and thousands of people enjoying the
space on a regular basis. If any of you have not walked the backside of the park going by the Barker land, | strongly
recommend you do that to get a feel for what we're talking about and how much of that land will change on the backside
of Greeley.
| think it's really important to see this as a short term investment but a long term opportunity for the city. There aren't
properties like this that exist anymore in Nashua. This is a lot of space where there's a lot of things a town could
potentially do with it. | think number one, though, is looking for keeping a feel of Greeley and keeping that open space.
As was mentioned earlier, really critical. It brings people to Nashua. It's highly recommended the Greeley Park for people
to go there. It's just a great experience.
So a lot of people have mentioned a lot of the reasons. | just wanted to add on to that and hope you're strongly, strongly
in favor of both of these resolutions. | think it's critical for Nashua to think long term and look at properties like this as
something that is not available. You're talking about the plan. | agree the plan probably didn't talk about expanding
Greeley because there were no options (inaudible) It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for Nashua to grab this space and
then looking to do what we want with it to enrich the city over time. So that's all | want to say. Please thank you for your
time and appreciate your recommendations that the folks on the Aldermen that are in favor of it and in hope those that are
not appreciate the time in listening to the comments.
Bob Born
Hi. I'm Bob Born, 28 Farley Street. Thank you for the time this evening. I'm speaking in favor of R-21-203 and 202 the
acquisition of the Bartlett forest property. A lot of things have happened since the last meeting all leading us tonight's
discussion and your ultimate vote. We know that developers who had the first purchase and sale agreement for the
Barker Family Trust has backed out thus giving us a little bit of time on this more of the community and | pray to your
hearts. We know that there are at least two more offers pending on this property, neither of which will be as clean and I'll
put “clean” in quotes as a city adding the acreage to Greeley Park. Please don't let this get away.
The last time | spoke, | mentioned that there will be many topics to address. There still are all germane to the community
issues, topics including traffic, water, sewer, environmental, safety, etc. all of which are critical but tonight I'm going to
address our collective responsibility to the greater good of Nashua. As parents we make decisions about and for our
children. Some decisions are difficult. Difficult because they may result in short term pain but ultimately we believe in the
positive result. As family members, we do similarly. We defend what needs to be defended, we protect what needs to be
protected, we help our families often times making those difficult decisions. As members of neighborhoods, we do the
same thing. We assist in helping our neighbors with the needs of the neighborhood. Neighborhood Watch is a great
