The Nashua Finance Committee convened on November 18, 2025, to review and approve a series of municipal contracts, funding allocations, and operational renewals. The meeting featured presentations from various department heads and managers regarding police equipment, legal services, financial advisory, infrastructure repairs, and transit system improvements. All discussed items were approved unanimously, with minor clarifications requested regarding specific quantities in the bus seat replacement proposal.
All right, we're gonna call the meeting of the finance committee to order um on November 18th. Uh um sorry, I don't have a pack. I left it in the car at another meeting. Can I just work out this thing? Um can the clerk please call the role? Sure. Alderman Thibodeau here. Alderman Gove is here, Alderman Moran. Alderman Greg. Alderman Clemens here. Alderman Clee. Mayor Donald Chess here. That's foreign attendance, we have corn. I thought I was gonna have time to go back to the curve. I got this notes. All right, the first communication is for Amy Jured purchasing manager. Oh, we public comment. Sorry, is there any member of the public who would like to um speak to the committee on any of the items on the agenda? Seems like no one. Uh therefore we'll move on to communications. Uh first communication from Amy Juraard purchasing manager. Alderman Goveo. In regard to subscription, celebrate in the amount not to exceed 31,434 funded from loss prevention 68 other expenses. I'll make a motion to accept place on file and approve the purchase of industry standard mobile device and computer extract hardware and software for the acquisition and analysis of data from celebrate ink in the amount not to exceed 31,434. Funding will be through Department 150 police department fund loss prevention 86 other expenses. Uh name's Michael Cacajian, work for the Nashville Police Department. I'm a detective there. Soapright is a forensic hardware and software. It allows us to do examinations of not only mobile devices, but also provides the capability to extract data from computers. We can also utilize the tool to brute force or unlock or identify passcodes to lock devices, so it provides us with a wide range of capabilities. Okay. Any discussion? All is in favor of the motion say aye. Aye. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Um next communication from Amy Juard purchasing manager, Alderman Govea. In regard to software subscription, gray key, any amount not to exceed 31,100, funded from general fund and loss prevention, 55 other services. I'll make a motion to accept place on file and approve the gray key software subscription renewal with mag magnet forensics for data extraction for locked mobile devices for forensic investigations, any amount not to exceed 31,100 funding will be through Department 150. Police department fund general fund and loss prevention, 55 other services. So search warrants to Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook. Allows us to process that data in a readable and presentable manner when we present to court or to some of our peers. I mean, I assume you're looking for like child predators and stuff like that. I mean, how much do you uh how much how much do you how frequently do you come across something like that? I would say all the time. So most of the cases that we deal with would be child exploitation cases where there's images that uh are considered child sexual abuse material that go online and they get identified. So a lot of the time we utilize these tools to do examinations of individuals' devices. We can recover uh deleted information with some of these tools and even identify some other involved individuals as well. We'll use it for a lot of major cases too.