The Finance Committee of Nashua, New Hampshire, met on June 4, 2026 (the meeting was called to order on June 3, 2026, per the transcript, but the provided date is June 4, 2026). The committee reviewed and approved a series of purchasing contracts, change orders, and a resolution authorizing transit service agreements. All items were passed unanimously. The meeting adjourned at 7:53 p.m.
We're going to call the meeting of the committee to order June 3rd, 2026. Mr. Clerk, would you please call them? Yes, Alderman Smith. Alderman Sullivan is here. Alderman at large Greg? Here. Alderman at large Clemens. Alderman at large Wilshair? Here. Alderman Cleve, Vice Chair. Here. And Mayor Jim Donchus. Here. You have one, two, three, four, five, six in attendance. And we also have Alderman Paula Johnson. And you've got to be able to do that. No, you were you're on the committee. Mr. Mayor, Alderman Clemens uh reached out to me that he was unable to make the meeting tonight. Okay. Okay, thank you. All right, we have public comment on any of the items that uh are on tonight's agenda. No one's coming forward on that. So we go to the communications. The first being from Amy Girard purchasing manager, uh Alderman Sullivan. Yes, I'd like to make a motion to accept place on file and approve the purchase of various replacement parts for the Gillig bus fleet and the amount not to exceed $70,000. Funding will be through Department 186 Transportation Fund, transit grant 61 supplies and materials. Good evening, committee members. Matt Sullivan, community development director. This is an annual authorization or request to the finance committee in the form of aggregate purchasing power for the fiscal 27 uh purchasing year. Uh Gilly is the manufacturer of most of our bus fleet down at NTS. As you know, we have a somewhat aging fleet, they're sort of midlife right now, uh, but we buy a lot of replacement parts from Gillig, whether that's uh sort of OEM parts or body work that needs to be replaced from time to time. We're making a fair amount of purchases through them as the original manufacturer of that equipment. In the past, we've been able to purchase keep these purchases below $50,000 or about $60,000. With the aging of the bus fleet that we have right now, we're looking at it spending about 70 up to $70,000 in fiscal year 27. But again, because it exceeds in aggregate that $25,000 threshold, we're required to come forward before you. So again, these will all be smaller purchases most likely than the $25,000 number that you typically look at. But together they ref reflect something over $25, and so that's why we're here. I will just note for the record that in the past we've in on some occasions had to come and get even further authorization later in the year. I don't anticipate that being the case, but certainly if we need to again come back during fiscal 27 above $70,000, any request above and beyond needs to come back to you before review. So I just wanted to be really clear about that. Happy to answer any questions that you all might have. Alderman Sullivan. Thank you. Uh uh two questions. Are these uh are these um replacement parts or are they parts for any uh piece of equipment that's offline right now? They are uh Alderman Sullivan, these are these are fiscal twenty-seven. This is sort of a uh a future predictive asked, so these are actually going to be parts that we anticipate having to buy in the future, so it's nothing to replace or or fix anything right now. Uh this is anticipatory of repairs that we expect to have to make.