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don't listen to them. | must say to that comment as |, and Laurie Ortolano, and many others have said that the Board of
Health does not offer public input. If our Board of Health doesn't listen to our residents and stakeholders, why do we even
have a Board of Health? Thank you.
Justin Rosenberg
Thank you Madam President. Justin Rosenberg, 30 Kessler Farm Drive. I'd just like to say thank you for actually allowing
public comment during this meeting. We should not have any other meetings where public comment is not allowed. | hope
this is the last instance that we have this issue.
To the Aldermen that voted no on this ordinance, the citizens of Nashua and | we thank you for your recent vote and we
remember these things at the ballot box. Thank you.
Linda Harriott-Gathright
Thank you Madam President. First | want to send condolences to Donna Graham and her family. | didn’t get information but
hopefully we can send out information that we might be able to send cards or something of that nature because she was
instrumental in my success within the Board of Aldermen.
| also want to thank the Board for their commitment today to continue with the mask ordinance. So I’m happy about that
vote. Until the next meeting, thank you.
Alicia Houston
Thank you. Alicia Houston, 139 Westwood Drive. I’ve heard a lot of talk about the Board of Health and | appreciate the new
Aldermen who (inaudible) position of extending this mandate. It’s unfortunate that the others have voted for it because it
doesn’t seem to me like you're actually listening to the total population. | did want to mention something that in November |
had actually sent a Right to Know request to Ms. Bagley who is the Director of Public Health system here in Nashua. There
was question one — does Nashua, New Hampshire, isolate this SARS-CoV 2 virus from all other viruses in testing? Ms.
Bagley responded and | quote, “In response to question one, Nashua Division of Health and Community Services does not
isolate SARS-CoV 2 virus. We don’t have lab capacity to do this type of work. Therefore (inaudible) any documentation that
states we isolate for a (inaudible) virus.” So for those who have voted in favor with the Board of Health, | would like to
remind you not just that Ms. Bagley has come across and literally said we do not isolate the virus, you have another Board of
Health of member who's on vacation in a different country where they’ve been for two months, and you have another one
who is a dentist.
President Wilshire
Okay, that looks like it wraps up our public comment period.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman Thibeault
Yeah | have a few. | appreciate that me and Alderman Comeau actually agree on something. That’s a start | guess. |
apologize to Ms. Scaer. | know the mandate. | just for some reason thought it was five years and up so thank you for
clarifying that. That is all on me.
To clarify Facebook, I’m not against people doing informal polls. It’s more that social media sometimes you don’t know if
it’s that person or like somebody said, you don’t know where somebody lives. You don’t know whose following that site
and not site. So to me it’s just not — the information just isn’t’ as good as talking to people on the phone, or seeing an e-
mail from someone you know, or someone in your Ward that you can verify. One thing | wish is that the public comment
for that public hearing was explained why. | don’t think people understood — the citizens didn’t understand why there
ended up being no public comment last time where as opposed to this time, there is. This is because it’s a regular Board
meeting. There’s two public comments. One for the agenda and one for anything they want to talk about. The other one
was a public hearing. Very different and because there was a second reading right away | believe, they went into voting.
| wish that was more explained to citizens that were outraged about no public comment.
| talked to a lot of people in Ward 8 and I’m sorry if Mr. Parks feels differently. He was a candidate prior. | knew exactly
where he stood so | didn’t need to talk to him. | knew he was anti-mask. He said on many Facebook pages before he
was never going to wear one. So why would | need to talk to him about it. | knew his answer. Like I’ve said, I’ve spoken
