Finance Committee - 4/17/2019 Page 11
3, if you will is really what the New Market Tax Credit Attorney would be providing to us. Basically providing
ancillary support, help us with marketing, help us with providing additional evidence to the New Market Tax
Credit entities, those CDE’s — that we have our act together, this project is serious. We are working as hard as
we can to bring it to fruition. And having this third party type of attorney there to help echo that message is the
type of services that they would be providing and that would be their role in that regard.
Alderman Klee
Thank you | just wanted to make it clear for the listening public and so on. Thank you so much.
Alderwoman Kelly
Attorney Bolton, if we could just go back to what you brought up | just want it to be clear. You said Celia is
going to work on it, is her husband also working on it or just the firm itself?
Attorney Bolton
His expertise is in other areas.
Alderwoman Kelly
Perfect, thank you.
Mr. Cummings
And | should also just note and echo on that point, this firm is a pretty large firm with multiple offices. This is
not the type of firm where there are one or two practicing attorneys, | don’t know how many attorneys they
have but there are quite a number of offices and quite a number of attorneys on staff at this firm. They have a
few different practice areas so this runs wholly separate from whatever Attorney Celia Leonard’s husband
works on.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Fiscal Agent Agreement with City Arts Nashua
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY TO
ENTER INTO THE FISCAL AGENT AGREEMENT WITH CITY ARTS NASHUA
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Mr. Cummings?
Mr. Cummings
Yes thank you so this document that’s before you has been a long time coming a document | would have liked
to have gotten to you much sooner than now but has been a very nuanced process. It is a representation of a
lot of work where City Arts Nashua is coming forward and acting as our Fiscal Agent and they have already
been doing this informally on our behalf. So this just codifies and memorializes the process that has
developed and what we have been working toward. It has been reviewed by the Performing Arts Center
Steering Committee; it has been reviewed by a sub-group of that Steering Committee. It has been subject to a
lot of conversations between the Chair of City Arts Nashua, Lisa Bissonnette and myself.
