Nashua officials, residents air concerns during Pennichuck’s first city-owned shareholder meeting

NASHUA – Karthi Mahendrakumar stuck out in a room scattered with city and Pennichuck Corp. officials at the Nashua Radisson Hotel on Saturday. With a notebook in hand, Mahendrakumar, a freshman at Bishop Guertin High School, woke up bright and early to make Pennichuck’s 9 a.m. Meeting of the Shareholder – its first as a city-owned company – for an assignment to learn how public meetings work. Mahendrakumar didn’t realize, however, that the city and Pennichuck were each navigating the process of a public Annual Meeting for the first time, too. “I think it went fine,” said Thomas “Jay” Leonard, chairman of Pennichuck’s board of directors, after the roughly hour-long session Saturday. “It’s a little bit of an awkward forum.