Finance Committee - 4/19/2017 Page 2
NON-PUBLIC SESSION
MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS THAT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE GO INTO
NON-PUBLIC SESSION BY ROLL CALL PURSUANT TO RSA 91-A:3,II(e) TO CONSIDER A
PENDING GENERAL LIABILITY SETTLEMENT FILED AGAINST THE CITY
SECONDED BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE
A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:
Yea: Mayor Donchess, Alderman Cookson, Alderman Wilshire, 5
Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Caron
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
The finance committee went into non-public session at 7:04 p.m.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS TO COME OUT OF THE NON-PUBLIC SESSION AND RETURN TO
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING
MOTION CARRIED
MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS THAT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE SEAL THE MINUTES OF THE
NON-PUBLIC SESSION BY ROLL CALL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE MAJORITY OF THE COMMITTEE
VOTES THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE CONFIDENTIALITY WOULD NO LONGER BE SERVED
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
We will have another meeting of the finance committee before this settlement is released, and certainly one
shortly thereafter. We could vote on unsealing at that time if you wish.
Alderman Cookson
| would like to amend Alderman Clemons’ motion by making it a time specific at the time that the settlement is
signed.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN COOKSON TO AMEND THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR SO THAT THE MINUTES
WILL BE UNSEALED ON THE DATE WHEN THE SETTLEMENT IS COMPLETED AND THE PRESS
RELEASE GOES OUT
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Deane
If the department heads come in and you have a non-public session discussing the strategy that was used, you
are now releasing the strategy and techniques that are being implemented through our risk management
department out to the public. To me, that really kind of handcuffs the negotiation and strategy that is being
used by our risk management department. That’s just a point | would like to make. We struggle with some of
these cases and some of these techniques that are used are sometimes one of a kind, sometimes they work:
sometimes they don’t. We normally get a pretty good roll out with what transpired during the whole process. |
