Board of Aldermen 12-28-2021 Page 33
wanted to point something out. We have legislation that's passed, and that's been denied, or indefinitely postponed, or
whatever on the city's website going back to 2002. Just for the heck of it, | pulled up a random ordinance for 2004. So
this is ordinance 0-04-30. It gives me the first reading date, which was 8/10/2004 and then it gives me the approval date
9/13/2004. So if | go back to the meeting minutes of 2004, | can know to look for - in this case, it was relating to a parking
meter. So it probably want Infrastructure but | can take a look at the Infrastructure meeting. | can look at that meeting
minutes and see what happened and then | can go to the approval date - so in 9/13/2004 there was a Board of Aldermen
meeting where this was approved. | can look into that as well. Then if | click on the text details, | can | can get even more
information about the actual ordinance itself. So the availability is there if you want to do the research. I'm sure that you
have to have some working knowledge anyway of how the Board of Aldermen works, but | know that if a citizen was
looking for that, that they could get that information from the City Clerk or from the legislative office.
So | am going to respect the wishes of our legislative office and the City Clerk and | am not going to support this this
evening. If they can find a better or another way forward, I'd be happy to hear it but | think it should come from them.
They're the ones doing the work and | think it's vital that we listen to our employees. So for that reason, I'll be voting no.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. | wanted to say that | think that, you know, the transparency and the ease of information that Alderwoman Lu
outlined | think makes sense, but | am always hesitant to support something that creates more work for our departments
without having heard directly from them how they feel about it. | think codifying it when we know we're already
understaffed is just not an appropriate move at this point.
President Wilshire
Further discussion?
Alderwoman Lu
| just want to clarify that yes, indeed, in 2002 you would have been able to find that but that practice was discontinued at
some point. | don't know exactly what the year was and so that's what led me to attempt to get it reinstated. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Further discussion? See none with the Clerk please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Lopez, Alderwoman Lu 2
Nay: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd,
Alderman Caron, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Tencza, Alderman Jette,
Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws, Alderman Cleaver,
Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 13
MOTION FAILED
NEW BUSINESS — RESOLUTIONS - None
NEW BUSINESS —- ORDINANCES - None
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Jim Tollner
Jim Tollner, | live at 1 Sequoia Circle in Nashua. First of all, | like to commend the Board - the inclusionary zoning
supplemental use regulations is a very good piece of legislation.
Just here to thank you the Aldermen that are leaving the Board for their time and service. Anybody just had to look at
tonight's meeting. It's just a small sample of how much time and sometimes pain you put into these meetings.
