It’s a Bad Look To Arrest Citizens in City Hall
At the June 30, 2021 Board of Assessor’s meeting, Deputy Attorney Celia Leonard made a statement on record regarding my February 17, 2021 arrest in City Hall.
He complains that the State is requiring $4+ million in “new” pension plan payments. What, he hasn’t known what’s going on? Did he take his eyes off the Bigger Pictures?
If any Nashua residents still think that our mayor and/or our Board of Aldermen care about our money, they are wrong. Last year while residents were locked down in this pandemic, the mayor was renovating City Hall to make it COVID compliance.
Last week, there was a public hearing in the NH House Municipal and County Government Committee on Senate Bill 52, to restore the spending cap for Nashua, which was struck down by a judge, as well as to protect caps for other towns and cities.
Nashua’s Mayor is proposing an amendment to the City Charter relative to the manner of Appointments to the Nashua Board of Police Commissioners.
Is mayor Jim Donchess trying to pull a fast one on the Nashua taxpayers again? At last night’s Board of Aldermen meeting, they suspended the rules to bring up a new resolution that was not on the agenda; therefore the “paperwork” was not enclosed.
In a September 20, 2020 Board of Aldermen meeting, the mayor and the Aldermen were discussing a Pilot Program for Pennichuck Water. The agenda and/or the actual Pilot Program did not mention the amount of money that the program would cost Nashua taxpayers however it did mention:
I was on the conference call with you a week or three ago in which – through the moderator – I asked what the criteria were for dropping the mask mandate you enacted.
This is how the City of Nashua’s mayor wants transparency but in reality, the mayor is stealing money from the taxpayers’ to pay off for his Downtown Master Plan. Remember the Nashua mayor is only interested in downtown.
First, Nashua residents should insist that our City Hall be open. There is not another community around Nashua that is locked down like Nashua. Enough!
The City of Nashua’s mayor is deceitful. He states that the City of Nashua is the most transparent city in New Hampshire, which is simply not true.
We predicted this from the earliest days of the government-imposed reductions in tax revenue (‘cuz COVID19). Democrats would slaughter their tax base with restrictions then punish taxpayers afterward by raising taxes. Republicans might cut spending to offset the pain they caused.
Nashua residents should get more involved with what their city officials are doing with their tax dollars. They should also consider, the next time they vote for someone running for office, would this person actually represent what the Nashua taxpayer wants and not a political party.
Mayor Jim Donchess vented at a recent Nashua Board of Aldermen meeting to justify the new legal manager positions to process Right-to-Know requests. He came down hard on myself and another citizen who are simply requesting public documents to understand what is happening in our city government.
NH State Rep Jan Schmidt was the sole sponsor for two House bills to restrict access to public records, HB 1170, ‘Adding a definition of “reasonably described” to the right-to-know law’, and HB 1307, ‘Relative to the cost of production of records under the right-to-know law’.
My name is Beth Scaer, I am a Nashua resident, and I am here to support Doris Hohensee. Doris was elected to the Nashua Board of Education because the voters trust her and respect her. There has never been a hint of racism in her life and, in fact, her history on the board of … Read more