Finance Committee — 12/01/2021 Page 31
Alderman Klee
Thank you. This is not really on this purchase so much as a question about the sweepers. When we do the street
sweeping does it also pick up the debris that's kind of hanging around the sewers, or the gutters, whatever you want to
call it? Because | know when | walk the streets sometimes I'll see that they're all clogged up and...
Mayor Donchess
Catch basin.
Jonathan Ibarra, Superintendent of Streets
Yeah, they sweep the gutter or we call the curb line year to year. It's hard to keep up with some of it depending on the
leaf fall. But yes, that is what they do. They maintain the drainage ways and curbs.
Mayor Donchess
But if it's clogged, you’ve got to have someone come out and clean it.
Alderman Klee
Yeah, that that is one of the things that | do notice especially like when I'm walking through French Hill and everything like
that. | see a lot of like overgrowth and so on by some of those. | know the one by my house, like we go out and clean it
regularly but not every everybody does that. So | just was wondering whether or not the street sweeper have the ability of
really kind of getting down and cleaning because there's a lot of very thick and you can't always clean it in the holes there.
Yeah.
Jonathan Ibarra, Superintendent of Streets
No. They can take just the surface material. If it's more involved in that, we would ask wastewater to go out there and
clean the basin.
Alderman Klee
Okay. Thank you.
Jonathan Ibarra, Superintendent of Streets
We're happy to do so if you have a particular area that you need done.
Alderman Klee
And | have. | have called and you guys have been wonderful. You’ve come out and taken care of it. | just was wondering
if the sweepers did any of it as well. So thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Alright, anyone else? Please call the roll.
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderman Harriott-Gathright, Alderwoman Kelly,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 6
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Change Order for Nashua Conservation Commission Technical Assistance Contract (Conservation Commission)
