Board of Aldermen 01-25-2022 Page 25
Alderman O’Brien
Time.
Sara Dobbins
Thank you. Sorry. | wish | could say more.
President Wilshire
Anyone else in the chamber that wants to give comment? I’m going to go to the people on Zoom.
Beth Scaer
Hi. It’s Beth Scaer, 111 East Hobart Street. | wanted to just tell Alderman Thibeault that the mask ordinance does apply to
age two and up and I’m disappointed that he didn’t read the ordinance before voting to extend it. | think it’s innumane to do
that to little kids and to the parents trying to care for them.
Also hopefully the Mayor is listening. One of the cases he cited for taking down my (inaudible) and sports flag off the he
citizen flag pole was the case of Boston taking down or refusing to fly a Christian flag on city hall plaza and | wanted to let
him know that that case is in the Supreme Court and it’s not looking good for Boston. If Boston loses, | will likely be seeing
him in court to get my (inaudible) sports flag back up there on the citizens’ flag pole. Thank you.
Sonia Prince
Hi, I’m Sonia Prince, 49 Tufts Drive. | just wanted to thank everybody on the Board for listening to the health professionals,
for listening to the science. A lot of Aldermen spoke to the most vulnerable who don’t have a voice — the little ones, our
seniors or may or may not be on Facebook, and on these big Facebook groups (inaudible) who are not from Nashua. So it’s
not really a good sample but yet all the e-mails help but very few people are active to send e-mails which is unfortunate
90,000 people, we should have more people. The same thing during municipal elections — a lot of people don't vote. It is
what it is. But just to say that 50 e-mails do not represent the whole city. | appreciate you doing the right thing and looking
out for the most vulnerable and our medical community. Thank you so much.
Chris Parks
Hey I'd like to thank especially some of the new Aldermen that got elected tonight in voting to end the mandate. | moved
here from California so | can to the Live Free or Die State to where | would be free to make my own choices. Apparently we
can't do that. I’m really not even mad because I’m not going to comply or pay attention to it. You can’t do anything to me and
| really don’t care.
| would like to congratulate the ones — the 9 or 10 — that did vote to extend it to continue to legislate yourself and significance.
| will continue to shop in Nashua because | care about Nashua business. | care about the small businesses in our
community. They don’t have a choice that they fall under your little made up rules. | just don’t acknowledge your mandate.
There is one thing I'd like Ms. Klee asked the question about churches and private schools. | (inaudible) said no searches
but they said that private schools do stand a chance of falling under it. My kids go to private school because of some of the
things that have been enacted via the Board of Education and the Nashua Teachers’ Union. | pay for that and if you think
that you or any of you all are going to try to come in and force something in a private school in Nashua, get ready for a fight
because that’s when you're going to see my indifference turn to anger.
My entire family just had COVID like three weeks ago. The best we can figure out is that | got it from a double vaxxed and
booster individual. So yeah the vaccine is doing fantastic. So you know it was great. | was really worried considering they
had a fever for about six hours and | had a fever for about twelve. Really terrifying. So | tell you | congratulate the new
Aldermen. Thank you. You did a fantastic job tonight minus mine. | don’t Know who you talked to in Ward 8 Thibeault but
it's not anybody | know. So maybe you should expand your group. All right. Thanks have a great night. Bye.
Matthew Gouthro
Thank you Madam President. Matthew Gouthro, 104 Fawn Lane. | wanted to thank you for allowing public comment for this
mask ordinance. Although I’m disappointed with the outcome of this vote, it means a lot that you’re finally listening to your
constituents. It’s a bad look when you legislate these items like you have in the past without zero public comment. You the
one thing | heard repeated over and over again by our elected Aldermen tonight is why do we have a Board of Health if we
