REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
A meeting of the Finance Committee was held on Wednesday, February 15, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
Mayor Jim Donchess, Chairman, presided.
Members of the Committee present: Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Ken Siegel
Members not in Attendance: Alderman-at-Large Mark S. Cookson, Vice Chair
Alderman Benjamin M. Clemons
Also in Attendance: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Brian Rhodes, Asst. Fire Chief
Madeleine Mineau, Waterways Manager
PUBLIC COMMENT
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: | Contract Award for Nashua Downtown Waterfront Conceptual Plan (Value $49,000)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN SIEGEL TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
HALVORSON DESIGN PARTNERSHIP IN THE AMOUNT OF $49,000. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN
DEPARTMENT 181, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; ESCROWS
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
In last year’s budget, we budgeted $50,000 for a master plan. This is the first stage of that. Madeleine and a
group of city employees put out a RFP and received proposals.
Ms. Mineau
The goal of this project is to produce a high level plan for the downtown waterfront that would reflect the
community's vision for the next 10-20 years. The plan would recommend specific improvements, amenities,
green space to really best utilize our downtown riverfront. The product would include prioritizing projects and
associated cost estimates as well as a synthesis of what was learned as part of the public engagement piece
of this project. We felt we needed some assistance from a consultant to do this plan, especially as far as
producing high level graphics and advising us on the public engagement and producing the plan, itself. We put
out a RFP and got fantastic responses. We got 15 proposals, five of which were incomplete so we considered
the ten that | summarized in the memo. Halvorson we were really impressed with the previous projects they
completed that were very similar to what we’re looking for our downtown waterfront plan. We were impressed
with their graphics, how they synthesized some information and how they presented that. They also seem to
have a very well put together team with diverse experience that we found really impressive. Four of us
