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I'm going to call the regular meeting of the Board of Alderman to order on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 at 7.43 p.m.

in the Aldermanic Chamber, which has been duly noticed in two places, including the city's website in accordance with the requirements of RSA 91A.

Prayer will be offered this evening by City Clerk Dan Healy and Alderman Thibodeau will lead us in the pledge to the flag.

Almighty God, we have the high honor and the serious duty to manage the affairs of our beloved city.

Fill us, oh God, with a spirit of unity and understanding, which enables us to face our multiple problems with a serene mind with justice and charity for all, so that any and all decisions made by us will always be for the betterment and greater happiness of all our fellow citizens.

So help us God, Aaron.

I pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, individual liberty and justice for all the questions.

Let's start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance, please.

Alderman O'Brien.

Baldwin Timmins.

Alderman Moran.

Here.

Alderman Sonnet.

I am here.

I'm participating remotely by Zoom due to an illness.

I am alone in the room and I'm able to hear everybody in the chamber.

Alderman Jenny.

Here.

Here.

Aldman Clee.

Here.

Baldwin Dowd.

Present.

Alderwoman Kelly.

Here.

Aldwin Wilshire.

Here.

Thirteen present, two absent.

Thank you.

Also joining us this evening is Mayor Jim Donchus and Corporation Council Steve Bolton.

Mayor, did you wish to address the board this evening?

Yes, Madam President.

I wanted to talk a little about the thing that we all have been thinking about for the last three days, which is the attack by the gunman on these people down at the Sky Meadow Country Club on Saturday night.

And this gunman came in, shot three people, although the reports at the beginning were confusing, but we now know that he broke into the restaurant at the Sky Meadow Country Club, shot three people, including fatal to Robert De Caesar, and a serious injury to another person who was in a mass general in critical condition, and a third person who was also shot.

Now at the country club, of course, there is and in that building there is the restaurant that was attacked by the gunman, but also the event space where there was a wedding going on for 150 people.

And when the shots began and rang out, and people began to realize what was happening, you know, all of those people fled from the building.

And creating a very massive crisis situation.

And I went that night, I was working with Emily Marticello, the emergency management director, and went down to where a lot of these events in terms of the response were taking place, which was at the Spitbroke fire station, and then subsequently at the TARRA or the hotel, the Sheron.

And I you know, I can't say enough about how effective the response by all of our people was.

But there was a lot of other confusion that was going on because not only were there injured people, the people that have been shot, but there were also all the people who fled this fled the um fled the building, fled the the wedding, uh, some of whom Emily tells me did not have shoes on because they because they were dancing on the dance floor in the wedding reception.

Um and so all of the organization regarding handling all of those people and determining who was injured because some people had been injured uh in the rush to leave.

Uh it was all handled by the police department, the fire department who was very involved, and um emergency management and many other agencies.

Uh police agencies from around the area, fire departments, the hospitals, uh many others were involved.

But the uh quick and effective response was in addition to just the law enforcement part of it, uh, was in was a result of the planning and practicing that Ms.

Marticello had been doing with uh the police and fire departments regarding uh shooter incidents.

And a lot of their work had been centered around the idea that there could be an attack at a school, but uh they were able to easily adapt that approach to this situation.

So as a result, uh people were the bus system was involved, people were able were transferred first, the people who were not critically injured were transferred first to the Spitbroke Spitbrook Road fire station where they gathered.

Uh the police department was able to separate those who had witnessed uh anything, eye witness, as opposed to just hearing things, and then they those people were taken to the police station and interviewed.

Everyone else was ultimately then transferred to the to the hotel where we had a uh reunification effort, that's what it's called, and we had many people working there, talking with each of these you know, a hundred and some people, finding out if they have a way to get home.

Many of them were from out of state, uh, a lot of them from Massachusetts, finding if they had a way home, if they didn't uh arranging transportation for them to get home, in addition uh determining who uh was really traumatized by all of this and who meet might need some immediate help.

Um and all of this took place uh, you know, really without a hitch, and took place as a result of all of the work and the dedication of the people that uh work for the city, again, the police department, the fire department, uh public health, everybody was there.

And I mean, I can't name everyone that was down there because there are so many people, but some of the the people that you would certainly recognize uh were Emily Marticello, of course, Megan Caron from my office was there the whole time, Tim Cummings was there, uh Kim Bernard, who is the uh lead public health nurse was there the whole time.

Uh Latanya Mucioli, who's the housing person was there, and many others.

So uh everybody worked hard, they were there at one or two, one or two in the morning, and um just the whole thing was really impressive.

So we, you know, I I and I'm sure you really appreciate it.

Now the police have continued to investigate, they're really on this like full time.

Uh right now we they have identified publicly a couple of the victims, uh Mr.