| Board or Commission Name | Description |
| 14 COURT STREET COMMISSION | A 14 Court Street Commission is hereby established. The Commission shall be responsible for making recommendations to the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen for the operation, improvement and maintenance of the building and grounds at 14 Court Street. Expenditures for proposed improvement to 14 Court Street will be through resolution approved by the Board of Aldermen. The Commission shall also make recommendations to the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen concerning the development of short-term and long-term strategic plans for the use of 14 Court Street. The Commission shall consist of six members. One member shall be the Administrative Services Division Director or his or her designee. One member shall be the Economic Development Director or his or her designee. One member shall be a representative of the Mayor's office. One member from the Board of Aldermen, whose term shall be concurrent with the Alderman's term of office, and who shall be appointed by the President of the Board of Aldermen and confirmed by the Board of Aldermen. The remaining three members, who shall have a general interest in the arts, shall be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Board of Aldermen. The three members appointed by the Mayor will serve for three-year terms. Initially, the terms will be staggered. The first appointment by the Mayor will be for a one-year term, the second appointment by the Mayor will be for a two-year term, and the third appointment by the Mayor will be for a three-year term. The Commission shall elect a Chairperson by majority vote and adopt bylaws as necessary to regulate their affairs. [NRO 5-58] |
| AIRPORT AUTHORITY | The management of said corporation shall be vested in a board of five directors, to be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the board of aldermen, one of whom shall be designated as chairman. Not more than three of such members shall be of the same political party. [A-1204] The Nashua airport authority shall be a corporation in the state of New Hampshire and shall have the power: to sue and be sued; to have a seal and alter the same at pleasure; to adopt form time to time and amend bylaws covering its procedure, rules and regulations governing use of non-federal air navigation facilities and any other services made available in connection therewith, to publish the same, if such publication is necessary or advisable and to cause records of its proceedings to be kept; to own, construct, maintain, reconstruct, develop and operate airports or other air navigation facilities and may do so jointly with the United States, State of New Hampshire, other states or with cities and towns of the state; to extend, enlarge, improve, rehabilitate, lease as lessor or as lessee, maintain, repair, and operate all projects under its control; to acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for its purposes; to acquire in the name of the authority by purchase, condemnation lease or otherwise, any real property and rights or easements therein, deemed by it necessary or desirable for its purposes, and to use such property as it may deem necessary; to acquire real property by the exercise of the powers of condemnation in the manner provided by law by which towns and cities, or the governor and council are authorized to acquire real property for public purposes; to sell or lease plots of land and to charge and collect fees for services made available in connection with a non-federal air navigation facility or in the development of non-aviation revenue; to make contracts with the United States, the state of New Hampshire, public and private corporations and individuals; to accept grants and the co-operation of the United States or any agency thereof in the construction, maintenance, reconstruction, operation and financing of airports and other air navigation facilities and to do any and all things necessary in order to avail itself of such aid and cooperation; to employ such assistants, agents and servants as it shall deem necessary desirable for its purposes; to borrow money, make and issue negotiable notes, bonds, and other evidences of indebtedness or obligations of the authority to secure payment of such obligations or any part thereof by pledge of any part of the, or the entire, revenue of the authority; to do all other lawful things necessary and incidental to the foregoing powers; to certify annually to the mayor and board of aldermen the amount of tax recommended to be levied for airport purposes, not to exceed one mill on the dollar upon the assessed valuation of the taxable property in the city and the mayor and board of aldermen may levy and collect the taxes so certified at the same time and in the same manner as other city taxes are levied and collected and the proceeds of such taxes when and as collected shall be set aside and deposited in the aeronautical fund authorized in the following paragraph; to establish an aeronautical fund in accordance with the provisions of RSA 423:6, 7 and 8. [A-1205] |
| AUDITORIUM COMMISSION | The Commission shall be responsible for making recommendations to the Board of Education for the improvement and maintenance of the Edmund Keefe Auditorium. Expenditures for proposed improvement to the auditorium will be through resolution approved by the Board of Aldermen. The Commission shall also make recommendations to the Board of Education concerning the use of the auditorium including, but not limited to, scheduling, rentals, and the determination of rental fee(s). The Commission shall consist of eight members. Two members shall be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Board of Aldermen. Two members shall be appointed by the President of the Board of Alderman and confirmed by the Board of Aldermen. Four members shall be appointed by the Board of Education. Two members shall be from the arts community, each of whom must be currently affiliated with a registered music or theater group. One of the members to be appointed by the Mayor, and one by the President of the Board of Aldermen. Two members from the Nashua community at large with an interest in the arts. One member will be appointed by the Mayor and one by the President of the Board of Aldermen. [NRO 5-57] |
| BOARD OF ALDERMEN | All the powers vested by law in towns, or in the inhabitants thereof, shall be exercised by the city councils by concurrent vote, each board having a negative on the other. [RSA 47:1]. The administration of the fiscal, prudential, municipal and other affairs of the city and the government thereof shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be vested in a principal officer to be called the mayor, and a board to be called the board of aldermen. The board of aldermen shall consist of fifteen aldermen, sitting and acting together as a single body. The mayor and six aldermen shall be chosen by the qualified voters of the city at large, voting in their respective wards, and the other nine aldermen shall be elected, one from each ward, by the qualified voters thereof. The board of aldermen shall be the final judge of the election and qualification of its members. The board of aldermen shall choose one of its own members, an alderman-at-large, as president, who shall be its presiding officer. A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The city clerk shall act as clerk of said board. [Ch. 4] |
| BOARD OF ASSESSORS | The mayor with consent of the board of aldermen shall appoint...three assessors...each of whom shall serve an indefinite term at the pleasure of the mayor...Said city officers shall receive such compensation as may be set by ordinance. Each assessor shall prior to his appointment have demonstrated knowledge of property appraisal or assessment and of the laws governing the assessment and collection of property taxes. It shall be the duty of the board of assessors to assess all taxable property in the city in accordance with general law and such administrative regulations as may be promulgated pursuant thereto, to maintain a standard system of assessment records, and to perform such other duties as the board of aldermen may prescribe by ordinance. The powers and duties of officers and heads of departments appointed by the mayor shall be those prescribed by state law, by this charter or by ordinance. [Ch. 42] An alternate member to the three (3) member board of assessors shall be appointed by the mayor and approved by the board of aldermen. The tenure of this office shall be for a three (3) year term. (c) The mayor or his designee, the city clerk, treasurer-tax collector and the chairman of the board of assessors shall constitute a municipal records committee pursuant to RSA 33-A who shall govern the disposition of city records in accordance with the provisions of state law. [NRO 5-121] [See Also RSA Chapter 74, 75, 76] |
| BOARD OF EDUCATION | The City of Nashua shall continue to constitute one |