SPECIAL BOARD OF ALDERMEN
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
7:00 PM
PRESIDENT BRIAN S. MCCARTHY CALLS ASSEMBLY TO ORDER PRAYER
OFFERED BY CITY CLERK PATRICIA D. PIECUCH
PLEDGE TO THE FLAG LED BY ALDERMAN TOM LOPEZ
ROLL CALL
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Brian S. McCarthy, President, Board of Aldermen
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting
ADJOURNMENT
City Hall Auditorium
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION BY ALDERMAN DOWD TO ADJOURN
MOTION CARRIED
The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:50 p.m.
Patricia D. Piecuch
City Clerk
were tracking through committee. This year, we expect it to be much more streamlined, and we expect those
emails to start going out shortly. Certainly, there are some bills at the city that we’re discussing already. We've
had quite a bit of discussion on SB 193 in the Mayor’s office and with the Superintendent, but those delegation
emails will go out shortly once we get the automated process back from our division directors.
President McCarthy
Representative MacKay
| think | would be too.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Representative MacKay, | totally appreciate the difficulty with evening meetings, but | will say some of us have
day jobs, and night meetings are what we do. You’re right, | get it. It’s really difficult to try and get people to
come together. We probably would have had a better representation. Again, | think a lot of tonight’s issue is the
holiday. | concur. Sometimes it’s really easier to have people at night. It’s just hard to choose.
Senator Lasky
Unidentified Speaker
Is there a better time of the day maybe to meet for State reps?
Representative MacKay
here to get her through 6" grade; now she’s 26 and a graduate of Nashua High South, we didn’t say what are the
parochial schools like, what are the private schools like. We said what are the public schools like. And to this
day, when | meet young families and talk to people, one of the questions that comes up is what are the public
schools like in Nashua. Just walking my Ward | ran into a family with a little girl in a stroller, she was probably 18
Senator Lasky
Alderman-Elect, did you mean by having public funds going to private and religious schooling? The bill that was
just passed out of committee, is that what you’re referring to?
Alderman-Elect Jette
Yes.
Senator Lasky
from the metro Manchester/Nashua region. Yet when we come up and bring things such as commuter rail, they
don't give us the time of day. Yet the good people of someplace like Bartlett or some other places where they
live, they rely on us for their education. Every lottery ticket that gets sold in the city of Nashua, and how many
lottery tickets do you think get sold, how many Keno will be played in the future in the city that will go back to
some other city and town? | would like to encourage the delegation to bond together, talk to our friends from
Senator Lasky
Well, partly, we’re going to retain them by giving them a living wage, which we don’t do that very well.
Representative Mangipudi
system. They put through the first electronic record. | can say nothing bad about them. So if you thought that |
did, then my apologies. As far as the nursing home, you're right. | should have said that Hillsborough is the only
one in the black. When | spoke to them in accounting and | worked with DHHS, they’re still not getting paid
timely. They are in the black and they do a phenomenal job, but they were not getting paid timely. They had
some cases that were open for over a year that weren’t being paid. You're right on the things that you said. You
