The Nashua Board of Public Works held a regular meeting on May 28, 2026, at 4:00 PM (presumed) to 5:32 PM, addressing a wide range of city infrastructure, parks, and operational matters. The meeting included public comments, discussion of speed humps on Middle Dunstable Road, approval of numerous contracts and change orders, a decision on a sculpture relocation, creation of a Holman Stadium activation committee, and a non-public session for personnel matters. All votes were unanimous unless noted.
I motion to approve the minutes of the Board of Public Works meeting of April twenty first, twenty twenty-six. All those in favor of the motion say aye. Aye. Motion passes. Yeah, yeah. Just uh sit right there. There's a mic. It helps it helps record. No, absolutely. I get it. Thank you. Um, good afternoon, everybody. My name is Patrick Como. I'm a national resident of twenty years. I live at eighteen Middle Dunstable Road currently. Uh, been there for eleven to twelve years. Give or take. I actually bought the William Sisters House. If anybody knows that, that's the eight daughters that the house is custom built for. But um, I'm here today just to uh kind of give support to my neighborhood to all the residents that live on eighteen middle Dunstable Road. Um, we actually really love the speed bumps that are there. Uh it's been discussed that maybe you consider removing them. Um I think on my side of the street alone is five families with two or more kids on the other side of the street. There's four families with two or more kids. Uh, we are in a school zone. It's a walkway to the uh two bicentennial. And uh, I don't think as though that would be the greatest. Yesterday in the meeting, we went to the automatic chamber, one of the residents stood up and said, I used to deliver peep newspapers in on the street. She goes, now I live on the street. She goes, I was here before the speed bumps. She goes, It was crazy. So that was kind of cool to hear from the local newspaper lady who's now has children that go to the school. Um we talked about maybe saving a seven thousand dollar line item for a budget. I've been there for ten years. Say seven grand, these speed bumps haven't been replaced. Say they cost the town seven hundred dollars a year to have that speed bump. Uh I think that's a small price to pay for a life of a child that possibly gets hit by a speeding car on that road. Um I have in my 30s, I drove plow trucks for drum hill construction, so not little ones, big ones. And I didn't drive over speed bumps, but I know how to control my truck to make sure that we go over the speed bump correctly. So the whole damage on the truck to the DPW truck, uh, I don't buy it. I feel like if you're a responsible snowplow driver, you know how to do it. So if there is damage to the snowplow truck during said speed hump issue, um again, I would take that cost and I would divide it and say, is this worth the life of the child as we speed through the neighborhood and possibly pick off a couple kids? I don't think it is. It's really all I have to say about it. Um I think it's easy to make the DPW jobs easier. No offense, guys. I would love to plow everything that has no islands in a parking lot, okay? But sometimes we have to make exceptions. And uh, I think the speed bumps on the 18 Middle Dunstable Road would be the exception for the case. They've been there, let's not remove them.