Board of Aldermen 03-22-2022 Page 17
Other than that, | would just like to remind everyone that the 27th Run and Walk for the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter
will be held on for food and shelter we held on April 3'¢. | will be participating but | will be walking with a team. | won't be
running and | hope many others can join us. Thank you.
Alderman Lopez
| will also be participating in the walk/run. | will attempt to be running but | believe former Alderman Moriarty is
going to beat all of us. So don't hold your hopes up.
| just wanted to comment - first, I'd like to apologize to the Board for being tardy. | had a resident who was playing 52
pickup with her groceries and | didn't notice that when | was trying to help | was kneeling in the tomato sauce. So | had to
go do a little bit of rapid conversion, | guess. So | thought about logging in on the Zoom and then | remembered President
Wilshire did not like that and everyone in this chamber would have had to do a roll call vote for everything. So it took mea
little extra time, but I'm glad to be here with you guys.
And then finally, | was approached by a member of the press over the weekend and was looking to make some - and |
believe he was looking because he essentially opened with questions leading me towards a certain opinion. He was
looking to have my support to criticize one of our elected officials — our State Representative for Ward 4. | found that
distasteful. | think members of the press should be asking questions to learn people's input, understand people's
opinions, and they should do that for fact finding purposes. | don't think that a long and leading attempt to attack
somebody's character isn't necessarily appropriate. So | was not interested in engaging in that and | would like to
reinforce that | am appreciative of all of our workforce State Representatives. They’re only paid $100 a year to represent
our ward. It's a very difficult time in the State House. There are a lot of very important issues being tackled and they have
to tackle it in a lot of different ways. The individual in question has a number of health issues. So it is having just come
through a pandemic, it was extremely dangerous for him to go to a room with 400 other people where alternative
accommodations were not allowed by the Speaker and we're intentionally not allowed. So | understand that individuals
difficulties as a person who’s differently abled himself. | understand what it is to overcome barriers to try to do your job in
different ways and | appreciate all of our Representatives. Thank you.
Alderman Jette
Thank you, Madam President. | wanted to also congratulate the Gleason family on the opening of the Rambling House
and the Tale Spinner Brewery. The Gleasons are a fine Ward 5 family. My wife and | sampled their products this past
week and the food was excellent as was the beverage and | congratulate them.
On another note, April 15'" is coming. | don’t know if it’s the 15th or the 16th this year. It's not only the time to file your tax
returns, but for anyone who thinks that they might be eligible for the exemptions that the city provides for property tax
either the elderly exemption, the veterans exemption, or the disabled exemption. Those applications are due by April 15".
So if you think you might be eligible, check with the city website. There's an excellent explanation there and the
Assessor's office is very helpful in guiding people through it as to what information they need to show whether or not they
qualify. But don't let that April 15 date go by because if you don't file the application by then, you're out of luck at least
until next year. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you,
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. | have two pieces of information | wanted to share with everyone. The Energy Environment Committee is
putting together a sustainable Town Hall in Earth Day would be when we normally hold it, but this year we're going to be
doing it on April 12* at the Nashua Public Library at 5:30. It's right before the Aldermanic meeting. So if you can come
and join in, it's going to be an update from our Energy Manager Doria Brown and also we're going to do a community
brainstorm around some more ways that we can continue to push our sustainability here in the city.
Also happy to report that Nashua Pride Committee met — was it last week? The days all blur and we are going to be
doing the Pride Parade in person again this year barring any additional changes that come at us and that will be the last
Saturday in June as it always has historically been the last few years that we've had it. So that's June 29" and the title is
TBD right now but I'll give you guys more updates as we do it.
