Board of Aldermen 01-25-2022 Page 2
Finally, | wanted to mention a couple of ceremonies that were annual but very nice. The two Martin Luther King Day
celebrations that take place annual, again, occurred this year but virtually rather than in person. The First Baptist Church
for decades now has held a Martin Luther King ceremony on Saturday night of the Martin Luther King Day weekend. |
have been participating for a long time. That went very well. They had a lot of music. It was really good and | just want to
thank the First Baptist Church for doing that every year. OBU held their annual Martin Luther King Day celebration on
Monday morning which is what they do annually. Again, they've been doing this for decades. That was virtual as well. A
lot of music, some good speakers, a youth speaker or a young man from Nashua South who is the School Board Rep. He
did a very good job. So | just wanted to thank them and congratulate them on again holding those very important
ceremonies. With that Madam President, | will conclude.
RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR
Alderman Comeau
Thank you Madam President. Mr. Mayor | just a quick question if you could clarify on the COVID numbers. You
mentioned that there are 60 people in the two hospitals. Do your numbers break down how many of those people are in
there because of COVID versus just with it along with something else? Also on the positivity rate and the new cases, do
we know how many of those people are A symptomatic?
Mayor Donchess
The first question, we get this information from the hospital and | think the report to us the people who are there with a
primary diagnosis of COVID. So that would be 60.
Also in terms of your second question was the number that are a symptomatic. We do not have that breakdown but
typically people test when they are symptomatic. | don’t have a breakdown as symptomatic versus non-symptomatic.
President Wilshire
| understand they’re not hospitalized if they're not symptomatic. Anyone else? Seeing none.
RECOGNITION PERIOD — None
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS
There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the special, organizational, and regular
Board of Aldermen meetings of December 28, 2021, January 9 and January 11, 2022 be accepted, placed on file,
and the reading suspended.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS
From: Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
Re: Communications Received from the Public
There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on file.
PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS EVENING
President Wilshire
| will let the public Know that we do expect to be acting on the mask mandate this evening. So we will allow public
comment on that. What I'd like to ask is that we don’t repeat everything the first person, second, third, fourth, fifth person
has said. If someone gets up and ten people have spoken and you're just going to get up and repeat the same thing, |
would ask that you just come to the microphone and say | agree with so and so said. |’m for it or against it. We could be
here four hours taking testimony. If you don’t have to be redundant, please don’t.
Lou Juris
Good evening. Lou Juris, 56 Haines Street. The mandate should be extended for at least a month. You talked earlier
about the cases in the hospitals and the very least this is going to help protect those who've done quite a great job for us
