I call the meeting of the Board of Public Works to Order on November 20th, 2025.

Commissioner Shay.

Present.

Commissioner Lemon?

Present.

Commissioner Speedy.

Here.

And we have Alderman O'Brien.

And I'm not sure.

Commissioner Shay.

I move to approve the agenda as submitted.

All those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Motion passes.

We have item three.

Commissioner Lemon.

I move to approve the minutes of the Board of Public Works meeting of October 23rd, 2025.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All right.

Motion passes.

Public comment.

Is there any member of the public who would like to speak to the Board of Public Works about any of the items on the agenda?

All right.

We'll go to Wastewater.

Item A.

Uh Commissioner Speetia.

Move to approve the user warrants as presented.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Motion passes.

Item B, Commissioner Gregg.

A motion to approve the energy recovery generator three year maintenance contract with Southworth Milton Incorporated.

Milton Catt of Milford, Massachusetts, in an amount not to exceed 338,069 dollars.

Funding will be through Department 169 Wastewater Fund Wastewater Account Classification 54 Property Services.

Mr.

Boucher.

Good evening.

Dave Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent.

The wastewater facility has been in the contract with uh Southworth Milton Cat.

They were doing services on our two energy recovery generators.

We're at the end of those contracts, so we'd like to enter into another three-year contract.

This is to do the uh minor major and uh warranty services for the next three years.

Uh they've been a good company for us.

Uh this is also gonna we did a uh pre-bid sourcing program uh called Sourcewell, so we'll get that discounted rate with that.

Be happy to answer any questions.

Anyone all those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye opposed.

Motion passes.

Item C Commissioner Shea.

Uh to prove uh to I move to approve the memorandum of agreement between the City of Nashua and AFS CME 93 local 365 relating to holiday coverage sign up procedure and pay structure for operators at the wastewater treatment facility.

Dave Boucher Wastewater Superintendent.

Uh so this like you says it's a memorandum for an agreement between the city of Nashua and ASME.

Uh the wastewater facility uh never shuts down.

We get we're a 24 hour, seven days a week facility.

Uh we have operators that are on three shifts.

Uh so it's very difficult for us to sign up operators calling the day before for holidays.

Uh so this uh agreement would allow us to uh post six months worth of holidays uh two months ahead of time to allow us to establish uh who's gonna work those shifts.

Anyone answering questions?

What do you currently do now?

Uh we wait until like the day before to fill those shifts.

It's uh not easy.

Sounds like a good plan then it's also a real benefit for the staff because they can plan ahead and out which holidays they'll be working.

So it's it works out well for everybody.

We spent a lot a lot of time.

This has been in the works for how long?

Quite a while.

All right, all those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye, opposed motion.

Thank you.

Uh I move to approve the contract for the replacement of the fire suppression system at Holman Stadium by XL Fire Protection Incorporated from Sale in New Hampshire in the amount of five hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

Funding will be through Department 177 Parks Fund Bond Activity Holman Stadium Improvements.

Good evening, everyone.

Uh superintendent of the Parks Department, Brian Conant.

Um this is to uh upgrade the fire suppression system over at Holman Stadium, which was installed in 2001.

Um we went out to bid for this.

We received two bids.

Um this was the lower bid.

Um and um the fire marshal in town for the city of Nashua did look over um the proposal.

He was happy with the proposal, um, and I'd be happy to answer any questions if there are any on this topic.

All right, all those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

Motion is passed.

Item B, Commissioner speaking.

Move to approve the abolishment of one groundskeeper maintenance position and create one groundsman one position at the parks department.

Funding is through Department 177 parks fund general account classification 51 dash salaries and wages.

Uh superintendent of the parks department, Brian Conan.

Um, just based off of our uh operational needs right now.

Um, I think we need uh an additional, well, not an additional, but we need uh a laborer.

Um we don't have any current groundsman one uh as of right now who are ready to take the next step to become a groundskeeper maintenance, which is why I'm looking to make this change, and I'd be happy to answer any questions on this motion if there are any all those in favor of the motion say aye.

Motion passes.

Thank you.

Solid waste.

Um we have item A.

Uh Commissioner Gregg.

Motion to approve an engineering services contract with Sandboard Head and Associates of Concord, New Hampshire in the amount of 38,500 to provide construction quality assurance over site for the 2025 landfill gas collection system modification work.

Funding will be through Department 168 solid waste fund bond activity landfill gas expansion.

Jeff LaFleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste.

So uh this is our annual gas expansion.

I need to have an engineer on site watching over it, and the state requests us to have a third-party engineer reviewing all the uh installation.

All right, all those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

Motion passes.

Uh item B.

Commissioner Shea.

I move to approve the contract with SRS petroleum services of Westbridgewater Mass to provide install and test at start-up a new 5,000 gallon double walled diesel fuel tank to replace the current landfill fueling system in the amount of 242,800.

Funding will be through Department 168 solid waste, fund solid waste activity, landfill upgrade fuel tanks.

Jeff LaFleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste.

So our our current fuel tank that we have is uh out of date.

It it's starting to rust, getting uh a little bit hazardous out there.

Um, and with the new rules and regulations, we have to have a bigger cement pad, a better area to have it under control.

So we're gonna uh hire this company here to uh come in and do it.

We went out for bid and they were the lowest bid.

All those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

Motion passes.

We have item C, which is an informational item having to do with DES a DES rule change.

I don't know, maybe we need explanation of that.

Uh the should you've got a thing in your packet.

Yeah.

Uh so oh, Jeff LaFleur Superintendent Solid Waste.

So uh, as you can read in the packet from DES is a solid waste disposal surcharge that was made into law uh from the from the state for their budget this year.

It's a three dollar and fifty cent a ton charge.

So we'll be we pay three dollars and fifty cents for every ton that goes out into the landfill.

So I use uh 80,000 tons a year as our capacity analysis, so that's what I'm gonna anticipate the charge will be.

So that's gonna come out to be about 280,000 a year that we'll have to uh put aside and send out to DES.

Now there's an opportunity that uh DES is in the rules are saying uh that we'll be get reimbursed for 90% of it or most of it, um, so long as it's within the residential collections and the residential part of it.

Anything commercial will still have to pay out, and you know, we won't be able to refund get a refund for that.

So this is more just information that there's gonna be a 280,000 dollar bill coming, or I'll have to up my budget by 280,000 to cover this expense because the state wants us to pay it into them first, and then they'll go through their records and then reimburse us, which would go back into the general fund, which would be through our revenue.

So it's gonna be a wash, it's kind of a messed up situation, and I know there's gonna be a lot of questions.

Um it's something we could discuss.

Um yeah, I mean, I I would I would imagine yes.

We we'll just have to figure out you know what what makes sense for the city.

If we go by history, if we go by history, um you know we'll get reimbursement for a little while, but then pretty soon.

Oh, well, we're not gonna give you that money anymore.

That's that's the way it'll go.

Yeah, yeah.

Absolutely.

Commissioner Speed, yeah.

And this is um statewide to every uh landfill.

Every uh, yeah, every municipality in the city and the state, anyone that's collecting trash and dispositing it into a landfill.

So it's so real quick follow-up.

It's not like you know we'd avoid national go to Merrimack instead or something like that.

You still gotta pay that 350% got it.

Yeah even transfer stations will be paying that wherever their their disposal places like wheel of breeder for you know for uh incineration they'll still be paying the 350 this is the state's way of uh making their revenue to pay for their solid waste employees commissioner greg how do we determine is it I don't know if it's the state or not but how how is it determined what's commercial and what's residential from a tonnage standpoint for reimbursement for oh well we we have record of everything that comes in so there's a there's a commercial permit and we know which companies come in and bring commercial trash into the landfill.

Okay so it's at the way at the way we have records we are that's what our scale software does it'll it'll break it out into what it is my scale operators enter in a code saying that this is commercial and that's you know we'll have to supply our records to to the state okay interesting commissioner lemon what is the current fee tipping fee for commercial eight eighty dollars a ton for you for MSW and this applies to construction and demolition construction and demolition are 150 dollars uh three hundred dollars a ton I'm sorry and that's covered by this this tax as well right this is a tax basically a tax on the city right yeah yeah state's tax in the city yeah uh commissioner shay so you're saying we're gonna get ninety percent of this back and well what's the cadence of that we we're supposed to we're gonna we're gonna submit all our forms and the state the reason why I said 90 percent is some of the commercial won't get get um reimbursed it's the stuff that we do ourselves we collect curbside the uh residential dumpsters that we do anything that residents bring in that'll that should all get reimbursed it's the small commercial part that doesn't get reimbursed so we're we're paying the ourselves as as opposed to at the tipping the the weight house um when the trash comes into our landfill from residential is is that what I'm hearing no we'll have to we'll have to pay DES and then they'll turn reimburses.

Yeah so so the director and I as soon as we found out about this the surcharge coming up we actually called DES and had a meeting with the d with the director there and and um they pretty much said it it's state law we have to do it we we argued that there's gonna be so much paperwork for just transferring money I'm gonna send money to you're gonna send money back.

It just didn't make any sense to us.

So now we're there they're still trying these are interim rules so now the the the final rules we'll we'll be able to speak to which we'll argue are you know dissent to it but we still have to do from January till whenever the rules are fully adopted we still have to abide by these so I'm sorry I still don't understand what they should have done is they should have exempted municipalities.

Yeah because it you're right it makes and that's what I said to uh when we had the conversation with Director Wims I expressed my display I said this makes no sense so we're exchanging checks why you know and I said this is and this is this effectively is just going to going to increase the disposal fee for all New Hampshire residents.

That's what's gonna happen because you know it's not it's not hurting the landfills they're just gonna you know up the the tipping fees so I I don't think it makes a lot of sense I'm not really happy about it but um but that's that's what that's what they put in place.

Um Alderman Down so this sounds to me like not too dissimilar from when we get federal grants and it goes to the state and they hold on to it for a while they garner interest in the bank on the money they keep the interest so it looks like another way for the state to make money without doing anything.

Yes that's very true.

We can only submit um is it is it quarterly no I don't even think is it quarterly or yeah every every three months we have to s we have to supply the the information and and a check.

Now is the re reimbursement is that in the rule or is this just some verbal thing?

It's in the rule but there's no time limit for them to oh so they could have a problem with budget we we have a time limit to pay them but they don't have a time limit to pay us right tax commissioner Shea do we get any sort of increase in services from the state I can't imagine they do too much around here.

No, we won't get anything.

This is just a fund what they have now.

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And just push it over to Nashville again.

Basically, okay.

And you know, just for the record, there was no input.

You know, we weren't even given the opportunity to express our concerns.

They just put this in place and was this by way of of uh uh rules committee or was it by way of uh state legislature?

This this was actually through state budget.

They the budget told them, so I'm not defending I'm not defending a waste management bureau, but they they got this thrown on them, so now they're scrambling trying to figure out how to implement it.

And now we're scrambling how to to do it.

So I don't think anybody realized that it was this was coming.

They kind of buried it in the budget.

And honestly, I don't think the waste management bureau thought they would get it.

Because it wasn't well thought out.

Good place to bury something.

Yeah, just one of the things all of them down.

We're gonna pay them.

We're gonna request the money back when we get the checks in.

Are we gonna have to do take legislative action to accept the revenue into the general account?

It would just go through my landfill, so it would be revenue through the landfill, just like when I take in uh billing for commercial customers.

Are we sure?

Yeah, it should it should just we should just be able to budget for it and then and then also have it in the in our revenue line.

So whatever's left over, of course, would end up going into the general fund.

Um but it should just be a wash, we you know, primarily, except the commercial.

We're hoping it's a lot.

Yeah, which is why it makes no sense.

It's a lot of paperwork for nothing, really.

And forgive my ignorance, but who writes the state budget?

I mean, the legislature is huge, and they're not doing it.

Um the finance committee.

The finance committee.

The yeah, the state house finance committee.

Oh house and it's and then also the governor has their proposed budget and they can they can amend and stick these writers on the budget that stuff like this that wasn't originally there.

Do a lot of things on HB1 in HP.

Well, sometimes they have nothing to do with the budget of the sorry this wasn't a fun informational item A, Commissioner Lemon.

I move to approve the purchase of two 2026 freight liner cabin chassis with body and snow fighter package from Viking Civis of Williston, Vermont, in the amount of three hundred thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars of each through source well contract pricing.

Additionally, to approve the purchase and installation of radio systems in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars.

Funding will be through Department 161 street fund bond activity, DPW street trucks and loader.

Michael Rush, fleet superintendent.

Uh so this is a scheduled surf purchase to replace uh two assets, and we're going to put those assets on the back line.

Uh the new assets will come with a full snow fighter package, um brine system, which we've been using for quite a few years now.

Um so we're also going to trade in some older units towards the purchase of these two newer trucks.

Um the expected timeline for delivery is about 14 to 18 months.

That could change a little bit.

Um a little bit sooner for one, a little bit later for another one, just depending on how the order goes in.

Um it comes with a five-year, 150,000 mile warranty on most of the components, and one year on the snow plow fighting equipment.

I'm happy to answer any questions you have on this scheduled purchase.

Uh all those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

Motion passes.

Item B, Commissioner Speetia.

Move to approve the the purchase of one tandem axle 2027 Freightliner cab and chassis with body and snow fighter package from Viking Civis of Williston, uh, Vermont in the amount of 319,729 uh each through sourceful contract pricing.

Additionally, approved the purchase and installation of radio system and an amount not to exceed $5,000.

Funding will be through Department 161 Street Fund Trust Activity Surf.

Michael Rush, fleet superintendent.

Similar to the last vehicles that we were just talking about.

This is a tandem axle dump truck, so it's a larger dump truck than the other, equipped like for like with a brine system, and there will be a trade towards this purchase as well.

Comes with a full snow fighter package with a brine system, same warranty as the previous package.

The unit that it will be replacing will be moved to the back line.

Happy to answer any questions you have on this scheduled purchase.

Commissioner Shea.

Has the brine system?

I I know it reduces our like the amount of salt that we put on the roads, essentially is the purpose, right?

Yes.

Has that um has that reduction in materials saved us any over the years in your observation?

Um I believe it has.

Um the street superintendent might be able to speak a little bit better on the volume of which it's used.

Um, but I do believe there is a financial benefit there.

Um I think there's some specifics on what it costs to use straight salt as opposed to what it cost us to make the brine, and I believe it's a significant difference.

I want to say it's pennies on the gallon.

Yeah, that's good.

So um, you know, with the upgrade, we get that added benefit, which is correct.

Thank you.

Welcome.

All right, all those in favor of the motion say aye.

All right.

Motion passes.

Item C, Commissioner Gregg.

I motion to approve the purchase of one 2025 RAVO R2 sweeper from Alta Environmental Solutions in the amount of 238,556.53 cents pursuant to source well contract.

Funding will be through Department 161 Street Fund Trust Activity Surf.

Michael Rush, Fleet Superintendent.

Uh so this scheduled replacement is going to replace our sidewalk sweeper.

It's the mini sweeper that you may have seen going around the city scraping up the sidewalk debris.

Um the current sweeper um is starting to become obsolete as far as parts.

Um it's a tenant brand.

Um it's it's not very maintenance-friendly either.

Um, it will be traded towards this purchase.

Um, the sweeper that we spec'd out is um a much cleaner version of the sidewalk sweeper.

It filters out a little bit more fine particles, so you don't see a lot of dust flying up.

Um it'll it's also equipped with a hose on the back so that we could get up to real close to curves or catch basins or even along the sidewalk, like where there's fences.

Um, that's an option that the old sweeper just doesn't have.

And it's also equipped with a little pressure washer, not a very high volume one if you need to get some larger debris up.

Um, happy to answer any questions you have on this purchase.

There's two trade-ins that are gonna happen for this.

Correct.

There's two older um back line units that we were holding on to to use towards a trade.

And each one is only worth 8500.

Yeah, they're non-functional units.

Okay, yeah, that'll be a good reason.

Take what you can get.

Right.

All those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

Motion passes.

Item D, Commissioner Shea.

I move to approve the three-year renewal of fleet tracking software from Fleadio in the total contract amount not to exceed 128,642.

Funding will be through Department 163 fleet fund general account category six seventy-one equipment.

Michael Rush, fleet superintendent.

Um, so this is renewal fleet software that we use for our everyday inventory tracking, fleet tracking, maintenance schedule tracking.

Um, we also hope to implement our fuel tracking um in this program this coming year with a little bit of uh help from our um fuel stations so we can get that online and it'll also start tracking the fuel for each vehicle and kind of give us a little bit more of a breakdown.

Um, this has cut our paper reduction significantly.

Um we used to kind of lose work orders every once in a while because they're paper, the shop gets windy, things will blow around.

So we've we've also eliminated that.

Um, so it's a fantastic system.

Um, there's definitely room for expansion in the future for other things that we may want to use it for.

Um, but it's it's working great for us now, and um, we're looking to extend that contract for three years.

Commissioner Greg.

Um, as part of the contract, do they offer hosting services for this?

So we're not having to install this locally.

We're in the um yeah, it's it's a cloud-based software.

Okay.

Um we only paid an onboarding fee for the first year, and we're not obligated to do that every time we renew.

Um, it's just a renewal contract for the amount of units that we're using in the system.

So it's like a pay per place.

Um, so for each section that we have for each unit, you pay per unit.

So there's no software maintenance costs at all.

Hardly any.

Okay, great.

Excellent.

And we're also not paying for paper um storage either.

That's kind of been eliminated.

We scan everything into the system, all the documents are held in the system.

Gotcha.

Thank you.

All those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye, aye.

Motion passes.

Thank you very much.

Engineering.

Item A, Commissioner Lemon.

I move to approve the sewer service permits and fees as submitted.

All those in favor of the motion, please say aye.

Aye.

All right.

Motion passes.

Item B, Commissioner Speetia.

Move to approve the poll license petitions as listed in the staff report.

All those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Motion passes.

Item C, Commissioner Gregg.

I motion to approve amendment number one to the construction engineering services contract for the 2025 CIPP lining of sewer interceptor project with Hazen and Sawyer PC of Manchester, New Hampshire, and an amount not to exceed 51,257.

51,257.

Funding through Department 169 wastewater fund bond activity sewer rehab.

Uh good afternoon, Dan Hudson City Engineers.

So we have previously brought in a uh contract change order with In situform, who's the company that's actually doing the lining of the pipes, uh, our sewer interceptors, large large uh diameter pipes.

Um we had uh neglected to bring a change to Hazen and Sawyer's contract.

Hazen sorry is the engineer, they're the ones out there providing daily oversight of the work for us and managing the project.

Um so we need to amend their contract so they can oversee that expanded work of in situ form.

You're happy to address any questions.

All those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye, motion passes.

Item D, Commissioner Shea.

I move to approve change order two to the Amherst Street fiber optic expansion and signal integration contract with Phoenix Communications or Shrewsbury Mass in an amount not to exceed $25,000 funding through departments trust fund, Amherst Street Traffic Mitigation 12,500, and DW Highway Spitbrook Road 12,500.

Uh so this contract with Phoenix we entered into they're gonna be expanding our fire bear optic network out Amherst Street.

Um that was the base contract basically, but as part of that contract, we included uh some some day rate work so they could come in and make some fiber system repairs.

We get mice in our cabinets and they chew up the fiber optics and um make a mess of things, and and so we lose communication.

Um so we've had them come out, they've repaired a couple locations, but we have others to repair, so we're seeking to expand their contract, add in additional time for these repairs so we can use them on uh basically as needed basis to to make such repairs.

I'd be happy to address any questions.

Commissioner Shea.

The mice in Nashua or something else.

Yes, we've we've got them uh in our house again this year.

But um for these cabinets, um, is there anything that we can do to uh kind of stop them up?

Um I imagine that they're very attractive places without people around and heat inside and yeah, yes, you noted all the reasons that mice are there, uh, and the fiber cabinets themselves are kind of a nice tidy little spot for mouse nests.

Um we we do make every effort to keep them out.

Um where conduits come into the cabinet, we uh we spray foam, sometimes a mix of like spray foam uh with uh wire kind of kind of creates something that they have trouble getting through.

Uh but they're they're crafty little things and they do get in.

Um we also place mace mouse bait in the cabinets to you know try to try to ward them off uh but um but unfortunately we do this this is a kind of a recurring situation that we're dealing with.

Um I might consider not putting mouse bait in the cabinets and see what happens.

Um I have a friend who um had a moth problem started with one moth and he got some of these pheromone moth traps in his house, and all of a sudden he had a lot of moths being caught in the traps.

Um and so it in and a similar thing happens with uh Japanese beetle traps.

So you put out a Japanese beetle trap on your farm.

Next thing you know, your farm is where all the Japanese beetles are.

You're catching a lot of them, but you're also attracting a lot of them.

So just food for thought and not for the mice.

And um if that um is something you try out and it works, um that would be exciting for me.

Anyway, thank you.

All right.

All those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Motion passes.

Item E, Commissioner Lemon.

I move to consider the hardship request from Greenman Peterson Incorporated to excavate for construction of parking services, office renovation in addition to the Elm Street garage.

So I'm going to briefly introduce this, but I'm going to uh have members of the consultant team.

This actually is a quest of the city because it's an offshoot of the parking garage project.

But just to highlights Garden Street was last paid in September 2024.

They're seeking an amended restoration of just a 12-inch strip along with curbing.

They're not gonna encroach way out into the street.

So they're just uh planning to do a patch along the curb versus uh curb-to-curb milling and and filling.

So with that, I'll turn it over to Tim Lamere who can uh speak further to this.

Great, thank you.

Um thank you.

So my name's Tim Lamir, and I'm the owner's project manager for this for economic development.

Yeah, uh so I'm here on behalf of parking.

And uh just some context of what this project is.

But as most of you are aware, we have a multi-phase ongoing uh project for the high street and Elm Street garages to perform uh various uh repairs and also a uh renovation of the parking office in Elm Street.

And as uh we've gone into concept design for that uh office renovation to meet the operational needs of the parking office.

We we do need to expand that office and not just renovate in the current footprint, and uh part of that reason is how many uh parking employees work in that office space, but also um we uh run all the uh permanent permitting through that office, and we need space for uh running the permits and uh customer service.

So that's that's really uh conceptually what's what's happening with that space on the Elm Street garage and why it's part of the the multi-phase um construction ongoing there.

Commissioner Shay.

Um I I support this.

Um that parking office is so very small and it is so very dingy, and it reminds me a lot about the challenges that the department the division has had um with office space and and the need for this kind of investment.

Um so thank you for being a part of that.

Um it's it I think it's meaningful to um employees of the parking division to give them uh a decent space to work in that that serves their needs.

So great, thank you.

All those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

Motion passes.

Item F, Commissioner Baspitium a move to approve the purchase of a grid smart overhead uh 360 degree, 360 degree vehicle detection camera from the New England traffic solutions of Glastonbury, uh Connecticut in an amount not to exceed 2700.

Uh funding will be through Department 160 admin slash engineering fund, main street traffic mitigation.

So this item uh small dollar wouldn't be before you, except for the fact that it's traffic quarter account and all approvals uh to expand funds out of there come through you.

So um as the uh memo submitted speaks to we've had sort of recurring issues at the water street main street intersection where water street calls are getting missed sometimes, uh creating long cues and and frustration.

Um right now we there's one one grid smart camera at the intersection, it's not atypical to have two, so we're seeking to add a second one, which we hope will improve detection on that approach.

Um it'll be integrated in with the rest of the system, which is currently a grid smart system.

So seeking approval of the funding to take that those funds and use that for that purpose.

Be happy to address any questions.

All those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

Motion passes.

G item G is an informational item, and unless there are questions about that.

We will go on to administration, and we begin there with a presentation.

We thought that this would be a good time to provide you with an update on some of the many projects that we're working on in each department.

So that's what we're doing.

Um, we're gonna do a fairly quick overview and um answer any questions you might have.

And if there are any projects that uh you may want to take a deeper dive in, we certainly um can present some additional information in another meeting, but we thought we'd start here.

And we're gonna start with solid waste.

So Jeff Flefleur, Superintendent Solid Waste.

So here's a here's a quick uh picture of our new phase four landfill that's being constructed as we speak.

Uh we're working right along.

There's a picture of the liners going down and then the sand going down on top of it.

Uh we're hopefully gonna have this thing open and running in the end of February.

We'll be able to put trash right in there.

So uh you know, so long as DES works with us and we get all our approvals, we'll be putting trash in there in February.

Do you want to just go through all of them and then ask questions or if you guys do you have any questions on this one?

This is the small setback barrier wall.

This is the setback between the uh the MSW, the trash that we put in the landfill in our 500 feet that we have to be away from our residents.

It's just another section of it.

You hear me coming in once in a while for some uh expansion money.

I just wanted to show that's another project that we just finished the big you know, big uh raising phase three temporary capping.

You've heard me come in a couple times for this uh for monies for that.

This is what the cap looks like, it's going right up over the trash.

Any water that comes down off of the cap now goes to stormwater instead of into our uh wastewater treatment plant.

Flare installation, our flares well over 30 years old that we have out there is becoming obsolete.

So any time that the engines for the uh energy transfer place uh if their engines go down, we have to flare off all the gas.

So this was that million dollars that I asked for uh almost a year and a half ago.

They're finally starting to install it, and we should have it installed uh by the end of December, up and running.

And the relocation of the fuel tank I just spoke about today.

So here's just a picture of it, and it's just uh some of the little ones that we have is an actual access road construction that'll be coming up.

A litter fence installation for our new phase four.

You'll you'll hear some of that coming along.

More groundwater monitoring.

As I had to just do uh out here by the fire training grounds, I came in for an approval for that, and uh, you know, there'll be more monitoring that I'll have to do.

So those are just a quick synopsis of all the big projects that I've got going on.

Next is uh parks department.

Good evening, Brian Conan, superintendent of the parks department.

Um, this picture right here.

You can see the old lights from 1948 coming down at Holman Stadium.

Um we had uh received a three million dollar bond for Holman Stadium improvements.

Um we went after the lights.

You guys approved that for 815,000.

Um and this is some pictures that just show those lights coming down.

Epoxy flooring.

Um we went last year and asked for 75,000 dollars to redo the pool locker room floors.

Um there before this, they were just bare concrete.

We would paint them every year, year after year after year.

Uh the goat and cow pass would come in um after the season because people always walk in the same direction.

So not only is this enhanced the aesthetics of the pool locker rooms, but it also provides a safer environment because the floors aren't as slippery any more.

So and this is completed.

Superintendent, do you want to take just a minute to talk about the pools that and the work that needs to be done and the requests we're gonna be making might be the time to do that?

I that you're right.

Thank you, Director Ford.

Um, we have three pools in the city of Nashua.

We have Crown Hill Pool, Centennial Pool, um, and we have rotary pool.

Um centennial pool and rotary pool have um you know they're in pretty rough shape.

Um we rotary pools losing water.

Um I looked at the three-month water bill when the pools are in in session.

Um centennial pool and crownhill pool were normal.

We spent around three to four thousand dollars at each one of those pools with water, which is typical.

Rotary pools losing water, um, probably roughly three to four thousand gallons a day.

We spent sixteen thousand dollars on water at that pool in three months.

Um, so we've got a leak.

Um can't seem to figure out why.

Um, we're still trying to investigate it more, but um you know both of these pools, Centennial and Rotary are going to need to be replaced.

Um they are very close at the end of the life.

Um I can't predict exactly when they're gonna fail, but they are close.

Um so I think we will be coming before you at some point and asking for monies to redo these pools.

We did do a pool assessment um from HL Turner Associates who has worked with the city of Concord to um develop bid specs and help them with their pool uh renovations and rehabilitation.

So thank you, Director Photo, for bringing that up.

There's a chance the hyping to the pools where the leaks are occurring, and we had that happen at the condo association.

Yeah, we we think it might be in the main drain at the road rotary uh pool, but um we're we're not quite sure.

But I mean, regardless of just the the loss of water, you're talking about concrete decking that has become sunken, and you know, we've we've tried to lift it with expandable foam.

Some spots have been successful, some spots haven't.

Um it's just you know, it's Rotary Common was relined um and it was a cement pool underneath it that was cracked at the time.

Centennial pool was put in in the 1950s with steel plates.

They used to paint them, sand them and paint them up until 2018.

Talked to the company that did that work, they really didn't think a liner should have gone on that pool back then.

Currently, right now the pool liner actually bubbles.

Um these aren't good situations.

So how long do you think it would how long a project this would be?

Like, is this something that takes a year?

Is it something that takes six months?

No, I I well, in terms of just completing the work.

I think you know, once uh proper procurement procedures have been handled um and all approvals have been given.

I think this is something that they could probably accomplish in uh a month to two months tops.

Yeah, I live really close to rotary pool, so I see how busy it is.

Very busy.

The the plan would be uh Commissioner Lemon to repair the the pools, uh make the repairs before so they could be open this season.

Yeah, yeah, so we wouldn't have wouldn't have to close them for any would be ideal.

Commissioner Shay.

And so the the pool with the big water issues, that the one from the 1950s?

No, that's the uh rotary pool on Cleveland Street that Commissioner Lemon just mentioned.

Okay, um I I'm just you're you're saying end of its useful life, but this sounds like we're at the point of catastrophic failure, uh essentially.

Not not to not to catastrophize the situation, um, but but in any case, um these pools have been limped along for you know, even even before I got here.

Yeah, and and projected life on these pools when constructed, I'm I'm sure is not uh uh anywhere past 50 years.

Um so I I think we're well at beyond the the projected life, and and yeah, so it's um it's good that you're attending to this and bringing it to us.

Thank you, Commissioner Shaw.

Mayor, based on the cost, shouldn't these be part of our uh bonding plan?

Yes, um in terms of usage, pools get pretty packed, don't they?

They do.

Yeah, could heavily used.

Could we use bigger pools?

Not that I'm asking to spend more money, um, but but but it's something we should invest in, and if we're gonna do it, um that that might be worth looking at, I I think in the in the in the process of devaluating it.

I don't think you're wrong.

We can look at that.

They're pretty large.

The pools are pretty large.

Yeah, and it's like it it's it is a super important resource to to families in the summer.

Rotary rotary is 170,000 gallon pool, Crown Hills 210,000.

Um Centennial is actually our smallest pool, a little bit over 110.

Um how many gallons is an Olympic-sized pool?

Uh that I don't know off the top of my head, Mayor Donchus.

I apologize.

Google might have the answer.

Um yeah, so I would just ask that we we look at that.

Um I think city pools are a super important resource.

You have some families that can't really afford to keep the AC on during the day.

Um, and this is like a place of respite for uh a lot of um children and families from from the hot hot days.

So it's uh really important resource to the community.

660.

Let's let's hope it's not that big.

So the mayor says we need a six hundred and sixty thousand dollar pool.

Six gallon gallon, yeah, yeah.

You say square do you say square feet?

Oh gallon.

Yeah, just a bigger, a little bit of a bigger pool.

Um all right, any other questions for Mr.

Curman.

Okay.

Oh, you you got other projects?

I got a couple other slides.

Yes, we got a lot of projects going on in the parks department.

It's nice.

Um one of the things that's being redone currently right now is the band shell up at Greeley Park.

Um I believe it was built around the late 1980s, uh, maybe 88 if I'm correct.

Um someday I'm gonna be a parks historian and know it all.

Um but the uh frame of it has been repainted.

Um there's a new roof going on.

Um the uh new panels have been actually put in.

If you were to drive up there today, you'd notice that.

Um the only thing I think we might have to wait on the spring just because of cold temperatures is we were we were going to clean in um provide a sealant on the concrete, um and that that might have to wait until the spring.

But other than that, uh that project's going very well.

I'd be happy to answer any questions on that if there are any upgrading the sound system.

So we repla we replaced the speakers.

Um, me and Matt LeBlanc actually, uh my first year on the job.

So the speakers have been pretty good.

Um I think some people still try to come in there and play the music too loudly.

Um, and that's when the speakers become distorted.

It's not the quality of the speakers, it's people trying to amplify too much music out of speakers that will only do so much.

So I think that's it for me.

You want me to do that?

Okay, all right.

Um that was more thunder here.

I apologize.

One other thing.

One other thing on the parks, uh the sidewalk, additional sidewalk at Stellos.

We're gonna put off till the spring, April, because to do it now would cost a heck of a lot more money because you have to buy twice as much asphalt for some reason.

So we're gonna rebid it in the spring and have it done in April.

Yeah, it's a great idea.

And I I just want to thank Superintendent Conan for taking care of the child of the millennium.

I get your voicemail today, and um it's uh that's great.

So thank you for attending.

I think we have a picture coming of that.

Okay.

No problem.

Ask you to come sail away with me.

Johnny Bear Streets.

Um, we have a lot of talent at streets.

We do a lot of projects.

I chose to showcase this one.

Uh this is the press box over at home, and we put a street screw over there.

Uh Jake DeBoak is the lead foreman.

Mike De Bo uh, Mike Duby Sr.

Lead Mason.

We had Andy Joyle, Jeffrey Morse, Anthony Bibo, and Matt Duby.

The Doobie brothers.

Uh, they went right through this, stripped it down, and brought it up to an amazing finished project.

Just compliments Holman Stadium.

So much.

They went right through it.

Interior, exterior, added a deck.

Nice.

Um that's the only slide I have, but it's the best one.

You know, if you get a chance to go over and see it, you should tour it.

It's pretty incredible.

The Silver Knights are all excited.

They have all sorts of ideas.

I think it's the best view there.

Right now, yeah.

That's great.

So that's all I have.

Thank you.

That's all you need.

Good afternoon.

I'm having uh Mark Saunders come up, deputy CD engineer, because he managed this uh renovation of the stone house, so he'd be better able to answer any questions you have.

Good evening.

So the stonehouse started to show its age and was in need of repair, so engineer, and we did work with park department.

Um Brian Connor was also uh instrumental being on the team to help uh bring this project to life.

So uh the project it was advertised in spring, and cock pill construction was a little bitter, and uh construction started in the summer.

The project included uh a roof replacement, bathroom updates, uh redid the concrete floor, upgraded the utilities, repaired the fountain and made the structure 88 compliant.

Um as of today, the project is substantially complete.

There are still a few minor details to be completed and a few touch-ups, as well as some lighting to be installed, but other than that, uh the structure looks great and it's um it's in good great shape and should be enjoyed by uh many free for years to come.

Happy to answer any questions on the stone house.

Commissioner Lemon.

I just want to say I drove by the first day that they had taken the fence down.

It looks fabulous.

You guys did a great job.

It really glows.

It looks great.

Thank you.

I mean, I was really impressed.

I mean, you don't usually stop your car like you're trying to pull over.

And but I was really amazed at how how it has the same um it's in keeping with the way it looked, and but it's just improved.

It really looks nice.

And I'm excited about these.

Yeah, I I would welcome um if you go up there and you're actually kind of taking a walk walk around, you'll actually see all the woodwork getting all the all the trim features.

It really is a shop structure, and uh it does pop.

Yeah, absolutely.

Very nice finished work.

Yeah, yeah.

Um I'm very excited to see the inside.

So that's locked for the winter, I assume at this point.

Yes, yep.

But we can unlock it.

Yeah, uh the next uh project is uh near and dear to our hearts is a riverfront project.

So we are working uh jointly with uh economic development on this project, but um the contractors have been working feverishly.

Uh sea and shore contracting is the company is doing the boardwalks, Morns landscaping is doing uh the park renovations, and those uh you you may have been by and seeing that's those are uh becoming obvious now that we've we're uh removing some of the barrier fencing and stuff.

So um they're on track to have uh that stuff opened by the holiday stroll on the 29th, and uh I was down there today.

It's it's uh it's a great uh it's really coming together nicely.

I think everybody everybody will be proud of it.

And then uh rapid fire, just give you a quick update on some of the LPA projects, those are the local project administration projects that we do uh jointly with DOT, they they provide 80% of the funding for these usually.

Um so the Route 11 bridges, the Taylor Falls, and the Veterans Bridges, though that rehab work is complete for the most part.

We've done the deck rehab sidewalk, guardrail repairs.

The only thing remaining to be done is light poles replacement.

Um so we that that is uh been change ordered into the contract, and that'll be occurring soon.

Uh the step project, which says safe transportation for every pedestrian project.

That's the uh pedestrian crossing improvements on Kinsley Street and Canal Street.

That work is complete.

Hopefully you've had an opportunity to see that in the RFBs, and uh we trust that'll improve safety on the corridor.

Heritage Rail Trail East is still in the design process.

We're in the final design, um, and we'll be kicking off some uh right-of-way uh efforts as well soon.

East Hall of Street Bridge Street Intersection project, kind of in the same uh tracking in the same way.

We're we're in final design, uh be kicking off some right-of-way efforts soon.

Um Wall and Oval Project, uh it's starting to sound like a broken record.

It's pretty pretty much the same too.

We're in preliminary design, almost at the end of preliminary design.

Um, but that is moving through the design process and right-away process, and um that'll be coming as well.

And then the Lock and Whitney bike pet improvements.

We're in the preliminary design on that one.

We expect to have a second public meeting on it, which is uh preferred alternatives meeting that that we expect to schedule in early January so we can uh continue with the design process on that one towards moving towards construction.

So be happy to address any questions on any of those.

Okay, thank you.

I was going to see real quick.

Commissioner Speed to you, I think I mentioned this in the last meeting, but I do I really appreciate the the work out done on uh on uh uh Kinsley Street.

Um because I live right there.

Um and so I you know as somebody who is a pedestrian who walks to St.

Joe's and you know, back as uh you know with my child uh with the stroller and with the dog.

Um it is you know it is nice to be able to have some flashing lights and uh a little bit more of a narrower uh intersection because I think people people do get aggressive on Kinsley Street unfortunately, and so um you appreciate the the efforts on that.

No, thank you.

I have a friend who's like, oh boy, those bump outside curl trade on, you know, you gotta slow down.

Like that's kind of the point.

So yeah, I'm glad I'm glad that you uh we're happy to provide that and uh hopefully it works well.

Thank you, thank you.

I just um Superintendent Ibera was a little bit humble, and I just wanted to mention that there's a lot of things that the street department is doing is saving uh taxpayers a lot of money, and I just want to mention a few others because you didn't mention them, but you are doing all of these, and I know it gives you gray hair.

Um but uh the sign that you're you they hopefully you saw that it's finally being built.

Um our very own street department is doing that.

Uh they're gonna be doing the waiting pool at Greeley Park.

We're gonna the bids came in very high, so we're gonna be doing that work ourselves in the spring.

Uh the Los Amigos stage, um, they're gonna be rebuilding that in the spring.

Finally, that that and then we'll be putting in a new playground there, hopefully.

So that'll that'll be a great, another great inner city park.

The recycling buildings that you see over here in the landfill, those are all done by the same uh crew, uh, which saved uh is a significant amount of money.

There'll be existing parks with the Jeff Moran Park when we start building that in the spring.

And they're starting in, I think a week, the disc golf park that's getting started.

We're gonna be starting with underbrush and trees, and then we'll be building bridges and and putting all the tea pads and all that in.

So that that's also uh very exciting.

And should we get approval for the uh garage and the water line for the fire training room?

Uh the street department will also be doing a lot of that work as well.

So they just wanted to kind of give them one.

They're doing an awful lot of work, which you know most public works uh divisions can't do that work, and and uh you know comes at a significant cost of the taxpayer is the uh issues with getting the fire new fire training center open holding anything up um well we have we're going to zoning on Tuesday for the water line, and hopefully um we're confident, pretty confident that that that will get approved.

Uh and then um I believe um after that we'll be able to get started.

The rest of the planning board piece of it, I think is it is going to be administrative.

So and then we on I believe December 9th, we're going to the uh wetland uh impacts for the DPW garage.

We're going to zoning.

So we have that as well.

But we have to we also have planning board.

We have a few other hoops to jump through for we're going through conservation commission.

We have good.

We have a nice people on conservation.

Okay, anyway, and I have uh director's report wastewater.

Oh, wastewater, sorry, Dave.

Dave Boucher, wastewater superintendent.

Uh so this is our pump station phase two project.

Uh upgrades to approximately eight pump stations in the city.

Uh the goal was to uh put in new buildings, new generators where needed, emergency generators, new pumps and controls.

Uh this is our blackstone pump station.

Received a new building.

Uh there's a room for a generator on one side and the pumps on the other for easy access and maintenance.

There we go.

Uh a couple of other pump stations.

Uh, one at Harris, uh some received a uh prefab building, like the one on the left.

Uh the others, the one on the right is Spaulding.

It's got the new controls, and it's a shallow pump station, so it just needed a new pit.

And there's uh controls on one side and uh the pumps on the other.

Here on the left is our North Gate pump station.

Uh that pretty much remained the same as far as the building goes because it's a multi-level building, uh, but it did receive new HVAC system inside, new pumps, uh, new siding, uh new OTA control system on the left, and new generator in that site received the new force main under the Nashua River.

Uh the right-hand side is just a new transformer at our CSO5 pump station.

Uh the dry well pipe and valve upgrade took place at the wastewater facility.

Uh the dry well is where we house the piping and uh pumps, which carries wastewater from the lowest point in the collection system and pushes it up to ground level so it can receive treatment.

Uh in these pictures, uh there's one section of pipe that was underground.

Uh so there's a guy inside the pipe doing some uh minor repairs.

Uh that that section of pipe wasn't too bad, so we're able to epoxy coat it.

And then it received new piping on the connector pipe on the left.

Um this is inside the dry well.

So just to see the gravity of some of the pumps uh the valves that were replaced.

The guy's pulling out the old ones and putting in the new ones.

So it's a two-story um section of the building.

Receiving new piping.

I think next slide.

We'll see.

This is the lower level, so it's got the new piping, uh, new paint job on the floor and the walls.

And part of that project, uh, one of the rooms is probably the worst smelling at the wastewater facility.

It's called the rag cam room.

So all the the heavy materials, rags, and debris that gets pulled out of the wastewater at the dry well point, uh, gets put into a room until it's shipped out, which is the worst smelling room.

So it received a new auto control system.

And that's this, it's a carbon system.

Upcoming pro uh actually, this is a current project at the wastewater plant to bring the fire alarm system up to code to make everything addressable.

Uh so all our buildings will receive new smoke detectors, fire uh uh heat detectors, audible alarms, lighted alarms, and new control panels.

And this is an upcoming project at the wastewater facility.

A lot of the buildings have uh wastewater going through them, a lot of gas is potential gases, so all our gas alarm systems throughout the facility will be replaced, all the sensors and all the uh controls.

That's it.

Answer any questions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um that's it for that.

That's it for that.

So now we've got uh the director's report.

Just can't see.

There you go.

Continental paving completed the installation of sidewalk and a stop sign to increase safety at the Arlington Crown intersection.

We've had positive feedback about that.

This is also uh a raised island and pavement markings on East Dunstable Road at the Lamb Road intersection to improve pedestrian safety and compliance with the stock condition.

Again, we've initially people were a little bit nervous about it, but we umce everybody get used to it.

We've we received positive feedback.

So that's good.

This is uh Morne's landscaping, installing light poles and sod in bicentennial and renaissance parks.

Everybody that goes to the stroll will be able to see that.

Uh site walk for the Taylor Falls and Veterans Bridges uh rehabilitation project was attended by City, Beck in Balucci, Well Tanner, Tana Hudson, and New Hampshire DOT representatives, and the base contract work is complete with only the light pole uh replacement remaining.

I wanted to showcase uh Jeff McGaugh.

He actually came to us, he's an engineer, and he is volunteering part-time in the engineering department, which is super nice.

Um, and uh we really appreciate him.

He's made a significant contribution.

So thank you, Jeff.

The parks department responded to eight trees down in the roadways on uh October 31st of all days.

Oh, yeah.

On October 29th, some park staff attended the New England Sports Turf Managers Association, sports forum, um, held at SNOO.

Uh that was a great opportunity for them to interact with other departments and see um best practices by other departments.

So staff got a lot out of that.

We had our annual June Karen Senior Outing with 250 Nashua residents and an afternoon of food, entertainment, prize giveaways, and uh a great time was had by all.

So a special thanks to uh June Karen, uh David Fred, Alderman, Will Shire, Jad and Kelly for joining us.

Uh we have uh one last trip planned before the end of 2025, and uh it is sold out to New York City.

It usually is a big trip.

Um it's a great chance to see all the lights and do some Christmas shopping.

The our um Boston Celtics trip uh on it was on Wednesday October 29th.

That was is always again a big hit, and the best part was 15 of our kids were able to go down on the court for the national anthem and scan with the Celtics.

It was very exciting.

Our final recreation event for the year is Santa in the park, which will be on December 6th at Greeley uh at Greeley Park from 12 to 2.

Hopefully, it's a really warm day.

Sometimes it's brutally cold.

Um each year Santa arrives on a fire truck, has a meeting greet, and uh takes pictures with the kids.

Each kid leaves with a small present and a candy case.

So the event is free uh for all residents.

The street department crew installed the new berm to improve drainage and prevent water from entering a residence yard on eight Northwood Drive.

This the street department uh assisted the by the street sweeper, of course.

Um cleared commercial street of heavy overgrowth and accumulated leaves that had been obstructing drainage and roadway access.

Uh this is the reconstruction of four manhole structures at 13 Lamb Road, installing new brick and concrete to restore its integrity.

The street department crews assisted solid waste and the resetting of the gas collection component due to settling of the old landfill at Haynes Street.

Uh the work took place at Russell Gardner Fields.

And in addition to raising the gas collection, the surrounding area and the sidewalk were restored.

So the original elevations and the section of sidewalk approximately 150 feet was repaid.

This is a millinfill on Thornton Road from Amateur Street to the Merrimack Line.

This was done because we were having uh issues with the number of potholes so this will hold up better throughout the winter this is brush removal and trimming at the curb on 17 Maywood Drive to enhance driver visibility and just overall roadway safety we remove some overgrown brush along the street at 30 sergeants out that had been obstructing the sidewalk and in so that um our pedestrians can access it safely our extended hours for soft yard waste drop off the landfill will be open from 8 to 4 on Saturday November 22nd and 29th for residents to drop off soft yard waste.

And curbside pick pickup of yard waste will end on Friday December 5th so that'll be the last day although residents certainly can still bring soft yard waste to the landfill themselves the four hills landfill will be closed on Thursday November 27th for Thanksgiving curbside collections will be delayed for one day it's important to note even though City Hall will be closed on Friday the uh we will be picking up um trash and recycling and and uh soft yard waste so just want to make sure everybody's aware of that and that's it all right I just want to say thank you to for having the you know uh department heads kind of talk about the projects um I think it's wonderful you know we as commissioners vote on a lot of these um a lot of these contracts but we actually seeing the you know some of what it actually turns into is always really nice um you know I think it shows that we're we're really investing in our city so I just want to say thank you to uh Lisa and to all the um director photo and all the uh directors who the superintendents who made you know who keep making Nashville a great place to live all right uh personnel I have commissioners motion to approve and unseal the non-public minutes for personnel from the Board of Public Works meeting of October 23rd 2025 item B Commissioner Shay I move to accept the resignation of Raul Vasquez engineering inspector effect of November 4th 2025 non-public session uh commissioner I move by roll call that the board go into non-public session to RSA 913 2 B the hiring of any person as a public employee commissioner Shay uh yes commissioner Lemon yes Commissioner Gregg yes Commissioner Speedia yes mayor don't we go in a non-public session

Since we're in public session, ready to go.

I move by roll call to seal the minutes of the Board of Public Works personnel, non-public meeting of November 20th, 25 until such time as the majority of the board votes that the purpose of the confidentiality would no longer be served.