Board of Aldermen 12-28-2021 Page 15
Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel
I'm not saying anything. I’m saying...
Alderman Dowd
But he will have to come back to the Board...
Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel
I’m not arguing with you Sir. You asked me a question. | answered it as best | could. You want to characterize it as a
blank check. | never said that.
Alderman Clemons
Madam President, | could offer some insight.
President Wilshire
Can everyone hold on a second? I'd like to hear from the Mayor first.
Mayor Donchess
If there were an agreement, it would have to be contingent upon the Board of Aldermen providing funding. | mean I'm not
gonna commit the city to a purchase nor do | think | really legally could without the authorization to spend the money. So
as Alderman Clemons said, you know, there's a lot of things that could be worked out. There are people who are at least
looking at the house kind of interested. So who knows what could happen but | don't want to disagree with Attorney
Bolton at all but | don't know that | have authority to enter an agreement without a contingency on the funding and | would
never do so even if | did.
President Wilshire
Do you want to continue Alderman Dowd?
Alderman Dowd
Yeah. | wasn't trying to - what | was trying to say was | think the wording of the current resolution is not the wording that it
should have to be what we want to do. The reason we tabled the bond is because at the Budget Committee there are a
lot of questions still hanging out there relative to the purchase of this property. There's also a lot of questions relative to
the additional expenses that would have to be if we acquired the property, which hasn't been resolved. | think we'd like an
opportunity to do that. | also think that perhaps this kind of acquisition that we should probably wait for the new Board.
Having said that, | got a lot of communication from other people in Nashua from other Wards that there are pieces of
property being sold for development that these people don't want developed and they say if we're buying the Barker
property, why aren't we buying this property and that property, and where does it stop? | fully appreciate the people in
their respect for Greeley Park. My grandfather was involved in in a lot of the development of Greeley Park back in the day
89 years ago. So I'm not against Greeley Park or any part of Greeley Park. | just think that we have a lot of questions
that need to be resolved and we haven't resolved them yet. | think that we need to know these before we make any
commitments. So $2 million could turn into a substantially higher number. In the end, we don't know them and many of
the most serious concerns brought up by the people that are asking for us to buy the property are things that can be
resolved at the Planning Board. That's where most of these things would get ironed out - traffic, utilities, all of that stuff. |
just cannot support that property purchase as this time.
President Wilshire
Could | ask the gentleman in the back of the room to put his mask on or you'll have to leave the chamber if you continue
to be here without a mask. Thank you.
Alderman Clemons
Yes, thank you, Madam President. | just wanted to state and | apologize for interrupting | was trying to help, but what |
