Board of Aldermen 04-12-2022 Page 10
we have a Police Department for that. We don't need to expand. We don't need to shut off lanes of travel because we
can't control traffic and speed.
| live close to Hayward farms and | do business near the Riverwalk Cafe. The only reasonable way to do that is by going
through downtown and | find it very childish for the downtown merchants and property owners to feel that it's wrong that |
travel through their space and don't stop and spend some money. A lot of us are in this position where there was a main
street between our home, and where we're going, and we are used to using the roads and it's very, very problematic for
me to see these lanes shut down. Oh my god.
There exists privately, privately owned vacant lots behind the restaurants on downtown Main Street. These lots are
mainly used as leased parking that generate revenues for the property owners and these property owners mostly...
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
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Elizabeth Lu
...are the business owners also or they rent to the business owners. What attention was given to the option of using
those areas for expanded dining? This would have been - this would have increased our parking revenue.
Lastly, | asked to speak - | wrote to all of you, asked to speak with my at-larges and not one of you contacted me. | know |
could call you but | know that I'll probably get a message.
Joanne St. John
Good evening, everyone. My name is Joanne St. John. | live at 25 Beauview Ave. in Nashua, New Hampshire. Just
quickly | want to give a history of Main Street - Main Street USA, Main Street Nashua, Main Street anywhere. Main
Streets evolve over the years and we have to evolve with changes. So when | first moved here in 1977, | remember Main
Street and it was very different than it was then. | remember Martha's had this big orange and turquoise, lovely little sign
but you know, everything was sort of like | came from Massachusetts. | came from the North Shore so it was like Michael
what did you get me into moving up here? So that was my late husband. Anyway, but he loved it here in Nashua. He
was a teacher for many, many years and I'm very proud that we ended up making this our city and loving it as much as we
did.
So just quickly, | want to say that | remember - so | don't know how many years everybody has lived here but I've lived
here a long, long time and I've seen too many changes. | remember when Main Street was not what it was today. It went
many, many years. It looked pretty desolate and pretty sad. | have to say that myself, | think that Michael Timothy started
the change for our city and from Main Street. I'm sure that he took quite a risk because there was nothing down there.
But anyway, | just want to give credit to all the people that have listened to everybody this evening. My opinion is, of
course, that we keep the barriers up. It is an evolving thing of now we are used to being like France or having outdoor
dining when we didn't used to do that. So thank you all for your consideration. | do hope that that is the way that you will
vote tonight. | know the many people that | have talked to, we love it and are looking forward to it.
Also in addition to the teachers’ contract, I'm very much in favor of giving - making the teachers’ contract absolute
ascertain. | really, really feel that they really were treated badly this past year.
Donna Graham, Legislative Affairs Manager
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Joanne St. John
| went to almost every School Board meeting and they will not treated nicely. So I'm so sorry to say that but, again, thank
you all for your attention and thank you for letting me speak.
President Wilshire
Come on up, sir. Give us your name and address for the record.
Albert Mueller
