Board of Aldermen 04-12-2022 Page 8
Sonia Prince
| thank you all because | know your job isn't easy and you're doing a great job. You know rolling with the punches as they
come. So | hope we keep doing that with reasonable expectations. Thank you.
Charlene Saleski
Thank you all for taking the time to listen to all the objectives, and positives, and negatives represented to you. Charlene
Saleski, 9 Hill Street, Nashua, New Hampshire.
I'm going to start out first by just wanting to say that I'm a little disappointed that the compromises that were suggested
weren't considered. One being that the dates for outdoor dining go from the end of May to the beginning of September
instead of from the beginning of May until the middle of October. | think that was reasonable and considerable. There
was no consideration for the compromise on the amount of hours that outdoor dining could take place, which | had
thought that 5 to 10 evenings, Thursday, Friday, Saturday that would not tie up the whole downtown seven days a week
24/7.
The handicap needs that everyone keeps referring to that every single space as a handicap space but if they don't need
to be marked. Well if they're not marked, anybody can park there. Someone handicap comes along, they have nowhere
to go. | just wondered did the ADA come down and recommend this or how did this come to fruition?
The third thing was the head in parking that used to be downtown. They took away the head in parking to make four
lanes but now we're shrinking down to two lanes and we're supposed to think that that can accommodate traffic. | think
we should go back to the head in parking and make more space for parking for all the other businesses besides
restaurants. | work in a restaurant. I'm for outdoor dining. I'm not against that, I'm against the barriers.
| understand now that the sidewalks are considered a right away. So | don't refer to them as a sidewalk anymore but on
the definition of that, it means that you cannot obstruct a right of way. And I've also asked the question, where in the
middle of the road does a city owned to? Is it 50 feet in from the middle of the road to either side each way because |
know in my neighborhood, it's 25 feet into the center that the city owns and doesn't maintain but owns. Downtown is
being maintained by the city and that's my dollars. So | question whether the people that live on the side streets should
have that detriment of a longer time for a response for police, for safety, for any of that third story people trying to get
where they need to go. | don't | don't think this has been thought through thoroughly. | would like to say that if it needs
more time, | don't think pushing this out to the end of May would be a problem.
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
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Charlene Saleski
And | also would like it to be on the ballot next year. | would like for the cost to go to the restaurants spread it out for
anybody that wants to use downtown space. | want to be able to navigate my time on the Main Street walking. | don't
want to have to say excuse me every two minutes, or can | get this wheelchair through for you, can | help you get
through? | just don't think that the thoughts been put into everybody but only the people that benefit from having that and
I'm not against dining. I'm not against that at all. | would just like to see a few other things taken into consideration.
Maybe a little more time. Thank you.
Cheryl Roy
Cheryl Roy, 11 Hill Street, Nashua. I'm here once again against the extended dining - the barriers. I'm not against dining
outside. | think that's great, but | am against the barriers completely. What I've heard at these meetings all these
meetings I've come to hasn't changed my idea about it. My feeling is once emergency, fire, and police mentioned there
was going to be delayed times, | think all conversations should have stopped. | don't understand why the safety of the
citizens isn't a priority.
| also think this should be hit should have been put on a ballot vote. The taxpayers should be the ones that are making
the decision here. We're the ones that are going to have to foot this bill and |, for one, don't want to pay for it.
Another concern | have is about ADA compliance. | quickly went online and looked up a compliance checklist. | can't see
where this drawing that you have for these barriers as of right now even is in compliance. Van accessibility - where you're
