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if | can get the money that's still going to be put in there but at least they know it's the will of the Board and so on that it's
worth negotiating over it. If they came back and said $5 million or $1.5 million, it’s going to be different and then the next
Board will have to talk about that and look at it.
It was spoken about that it would not have a negative impact. | think one of the soon to be aldermen referred to it as it
would not have a negative impact. Everything will still be there. | would disagree with that. | think it will have a negative
impact. If you get rid of the Barker forest which is truly part of a tree line, you're going to affect the trees that are sitting in
Greeley Park. That just makes common sense. So | do believe it would have an impact. Whether it's going to be
separated and the lower portion where the home is and so on has a different aspect, | think that's something that the city
has to look at as a whole. We did move very fast on this. | did file this legislation, literally, | believe it was on Wednesday
that he spoke and by Friday | was contacting legal to put something in. Over that that day, | believe that Director
Cummings spoke to the developers and said we were looking at - he asked to have the weekend to think about it. He
came back and said that he didn't have the authorization to do it. There was this whole history that when he didn't have
authorization to turn it over to the city. He thought about it. The day that he decided he was going to walk away from the
project, he actually reached out to me and said can we speak? Is there something we could do? Maybe there's certain -
and | agreed. | said okay I'm happy to talk to you. Then he sent me another message saying | need to speak to the
owners and then | got the letter that said that he was pulling out.
So that's kind of how things went. It went from we made an offer. We told them we would try to make sure that he was
whole. He was thinking about it, came back said he wasn't able to do it based on the contract, and finally, he's pulled out.
Now the letter very emphatically - and | need to make sure that everybody knows this - he stated emphatically he did not
speak for the family. He's never spoken for the family. He's never negotiated for the family. He only speaks for himself.
As | said, | believe him to be a man of honor.
These 43 homes, every single home that you would add - and that was originally development. We don't know what the
next development will be. The next development could be 70 homes for all we know. It could be 20 homes for all we
know. We don't know. But 43 homes - people can say it's just kind of a spit in the bucket. Yeah, it is but every home
does matter. So | cannot deny the fact that housing, is housing, is housing but | can't deny the fact that putting housing in
that area for a variety of ways - and yes Planning and Zoning can take care of all those issues but we've learned in the
past there's only so much that they will do. | can tell you right now that if this is developed, the homes in there will suffer.
The water supply that goes to the homes is not sufficient as it is and that's going to be my next project and what the heck
we can do to fix that. | spoke to someone to two streets down on Elliot that purchase a pump for his house and it's still not
adequate water.
So that's gonna be another bridge I'm gonna have to cross and we're gonna have to work on but the truth is that this only
allows the Mayor to negotiate in good faith. It gives him a little bit of power behind his words or Director Cummings and
so on. It doesn't authorize him to commit the city to anything. We connect the city. The next Board will connect the city
and maybe funds can come from different areas. | don't know. There are other areas that maybe some of the funding
can be found depending on what we can negotiate. For now | will, again, sit back and listen.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you. In 2017, Moosehead Ecological did a study for us. They did a study on the inventory of open spaces and
recommendations for conservation in the City of Nashua. That was 2017. I'm sorry, Alderman O'Brien.
Alderman O’Brien
No I’m to get the President's attention.
Alderwoman Lu
Right, do you need me to stop?
Alderman O’Brien
Youre fine.
Alderwoman Lu
Okay. This study broke the city into four quadrants. So | did the same. But in 2017, they identify the south west and the
north west quadrants as being the most important parts of Nashua to focus on for planning for open spaces because there
