Board of Aldermen 01-25-2022 Page 22
Steve Bolton, Corporation Counsel
The cited section is in your code — your big black book if you will which basically says that the penalty for violation of any
ordinance where no other penalty is specified is a maximum fine of $1,000. So the amendment would basically eliminate
that from having any applicability to the ordinance under consideration.
President Wilshire
Further discussion on the amendment?
Alderman Lopez
Can | request it by roll call?
President Wilshire
You can request a roll call.
A viva voce roll call was taken, which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Sullivan, Alderman Moran, Alderman Clemons,
Alderman Comeau, Alderman Gouveia, Alderman Cathey 6
Nay: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Lopez,
Alderman Jette, Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Dowd,
Alderman Thibeault, Alderwoman Timmons, Alderman Wilshire 9
MOTION FAILED
Alderman Thibeault
Yeah | have of points. One clarification. Just to make sure. | said 95 percent of the e-mails | was getting from my Ward
not 95 percent of my Ward. | don’t want my Ward 8 freaking out. I’m getting more — like | said, 95 percent of my e-mails
and probably most of the people | talk to have said they are for the extension. So | don’t know if it’s just the part of the
city, is it the specific people I’m talking to? I’m trying to talk to anybody. It doesn’t matter political party. It doesn’t really
matter. Id’ like to talk to everybody in my Ward if | could and | got almost 10,000 people or over 10,000. You can’t get to
everybody but that’s what I’m kind of getting. | just wanted to clarify that.
Alderman Lopez
It’s worth noting some people may not have noticed it because it’s very subtle but a large number of the e-mails that we
received very early this year were actually a form bot. All of the e-mails were identical. People’s names were inserted
into it, in caps sometimes, and sometimes multiple times. Additionally, | do look at the e-mails that come through
specifically to see who’s weighing in from Ward 4 that | might not know or may not have reached out to me before. None
of the ones that | received that were forwarded to the Board at large were from Ward 4. The majority of them were not
from Nashua.
Alderman Thibeault
Sorry. | remember what | was going to say. So one of the Ward 8 people that | did talk to wanted me to mention this. I’m
just going to throw it out there. If the Athletic Director is listening if we could have — | agree that kids playing sports inside
— basketball if they could take down their masks to play because they’re running back and forth, back and forth. | think it’s
taking a lot of them air out of their lungs. | wish at least that we could do. | know we can’t debate on it but | would like to
just throw that out there because | think that’s a concern. It’s not an outdoor sport where you can kind of get the air.
Thank you.
Alderman Comeau
It may shock him as much as it shocks me but | agree with Alderman Thibeault. | just watched my son wrestle in a mask
and | don’t know how they do it.
