Board of Aldermen 04-12-2022 Page 32
feel your role as a State official is more important and you have no time for public input or you can't balance the
responsibilities of the State of New Hampshire with the oath that you took as an Alderman of the city of New Hampshire in
Nashua, New Hampshire, you should resign plain and simple.
Madam Chair, | must say that | am proud of the professionalism displayed by those citizens who participated in this joint
committee, but the actions of some of our elected officials during this joint Task Force meeting in which you had the
opportunity to witness (inaudible), | can't help but feel that a refresher on ethics and empathy is surely needed for some
members of this dais. Thank you for your consideration of these concerns.
President Wilshire
Thank you.
REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
Alderman O’Brien
After that, | got nothing.
President Wilshire
Okay, sounds good.
Alderman Klee
Thank you. | want to express my thankfulness to this Board and for the members of the public who both came out and
spoke as well as who sat on the Task Force. Everybody gave it their all. There were some that were more than polite
and some less but putting all that aside, | think in the end everybody got to have their voice heard and so on. But one of
the things that one of the meetings was someone turned around and said, when are we bringing the parades back? We
need to have the parades. We did have a parade and many of the Aldermen elect walked in that parade after the
election. The parades are coming back. We are going to have our outdoor events and so on and they have come back.
So | just wanted to clarify that and make sure that that that had been addressed. It was a long evening and | didn't
address it then.
Madam President, I'd like to send my condolences to my members up in the State House and to the family of
Representative Cathy Rogers who lost her battle. She was an amazing woman. Before | got elected, | met
Representative Rogers and she is a force of nature. When you talk to Kathy and she would find out where your passions
were, she found out that | love Greyhounds and the next thing | knew, | had animal advocates knocking on my door
asking me to help sponsor. | had never talked to them. | had never made that out loud and they dropped the name of
Representative Rogers. When Representative Rogers found out that my husband's sister had been murdered in cold
blood in a public street in Boston in front of her peers, in front of the nursing school at the age of 18, and that he had tried
to get into a VA hospital or mental health issues. The next knock on my door was from mental health advocates as well
as those that wanted a little bit more gun control. Kathy had a way of getting things out of you and so on. Saying no to
Kathy was very, very difficult. Very difficult. She did not take no for an answer. The one thing that amazed me more than
Kathy is she worked both sides of the aisle. She didn't care what your party was. She would work both sides of the
aisles. To her family and to my colleagues, she's going to be missed. | don't know President Wilshire if you serve with her
up there, but it's like she's been there for a very long time and she served from DC, to Concord, and every place in
between. Thank you.
Alderman Moran
Thank you, Madam President. | just want to wish all those who celebrate it Happy Easter this weekend and Happy
Passover. Lucky it coincides. So just wanted to wish all my fellow Christians a Happy Easter and my brothers and sisters
who are Jewish a Happy Passover.
Alderman Lopez
| wanted to thank Director Fauteux in Public Works. | noticed last week that they were doing a great job cleaning up the
Rail Trail, getting all the underbrush. Figured out they did some soil landscaping. At some point during the winter,
somebody put a glass table out across from St. Louis so people could put things out and | guess or stored or whatever.
Said glass table was broken at some point today and she had a DPW crew over there to clean it up within like an hour
