perhaps by the first meeting in october, if we could have an update on the lease negotiations for the portsmouth square garage. president buell: thank you. i think we discussed -- there was a discussion earlier, but we got some sense of the preliminary results of last night's events for the park trust. doles the commission get an annual report from the trust and expenditures and the amounts they raised? did we get one from last year? >> the trust puts out a report and they have interim requirements. i can make sure they're included in the commission binders. also, at the last meeting, we talked about an information item with an update on the park's trust and their projects . they were obviously focused on -- president buell: now that they're rich -- commissioner lee: trust me, they're a far cry from that. president buell: you're never rich enough in that business. any public comment on commissioners' matters? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are on item 14, which is new business agenda setting. commissioners? any public comment on item 14? item 14 public comment is closed. and 15 is com

the second issue is with where to get an update on the progress on the contract negotiations for portsmouth square. >> do you want that to come to the commission or do you want -- if you get it personally we don't have to go into executive session. i think that would probably -- mr. lee: that -- commissioner lee: that will work. commissioner sullivan. commissioner sullivan: we get communications from the public every month about the park. we know on a few occasions we'd like to have that come back for a hearing. maybe it could be the genre port next time but in the near future, i'd like to know what is the plan for a hearing of that? mr. buell: -- president buell: i would say to the degree you can get out and see the site, i think that's one place where it's going to help. >> commissioner sullivan, are you looking for an update on the hearing or the hearing itself? commissioner sullivan: several of us asked for a public hearing on the topic, there's confusion as to whether it was ever approved. we've all said we would like to have a public hearing, but there hasn't been any evidence of that

their benefits, i spoke about nancy who's worked in the insurance industry all of her life from portsmouth, rhode island, she's coming in. steady workers, solid people and they don't know what to do. they're right up against it and it's their homes that are at stake, foreclosure, able to keep their health care going, it's knowing that they have a future and i think that it's important that we continue to speak to them and assure them and we have to point out that, you know, what the republicans are doing is just wrong. >> what do you say to senator lemieux from florida, who obviously is a short timer. he's not running again. so it's like the republicans pick somebody that nobody could get back at when it came to a vote. what do you say to him when he's concerned about the debt? >> george is a good man and i've worked with him on a lot of things. he is delivering a message for the party when he is forced to go to the floor and do that. >> no doubt. >> if you take a look at arlen specter's wonderful speech on the floor the other day, he was a republican for decades. he says he's never seen a

but 12 of the last manufacturing plants built in portsmouth, i built. i have been engage in business my whole life. common sense says if you have got a broken car, said a mechanic, and right now, we have a broken economy, and a thing common sense says send a businessman. i did forward to every republican and independent voting on september 14. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. binnie. ms. ayotte? >> over the years, u.s. see me as your attorney-general. i took principled stands even when the legislature and government disagree with me and said so publicly. i did not back down, and i will not back down as your united states senator. the matters that i handled, whether is prosecuting the murder case when a police officer was murdered here in manchester or arguing a case for the united states supreme court, i worked hard, and i did my best for the people of the state of new hampshire, and that is why i am running for the united states senate, so that we can go down to washington. i will stop the uncontrolled spending that is going to devastate our chil

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