Greater Nashua
HUD officials quell Ortolono’s Mulberry Street rant
NASHUA - Earlier this month, resident Laurie Ortolano put out a social media post indicating that Katerina Liti, the city’s program manager of Lead and Healthy Homes, was fired for alerting federal officials about her concerns regarding the then-proposed purchase of 14 Mulberry St. The city intended to convert the property’s existing building into a homeless resource center. However, on April 28, the Board of Aldermen voted 7-6 to indefinitely postpone the project. In her post, Ortolano said Liti was a guest speaker at the Program Manager School Conference. The conference was held from April 27-30 by the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “She conferred with HUD about the Nashua issues and HUD confirmed they would be auditing and visiting Nashua within the next month,” said Ortolano. “She did ...
