{"utterances":[{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":374.58,"end_sec":381.84,"similarity":0.74,"text":"Evening. Thanks. My name is Monica. Medeiro Solano. I live at three Bay State Road, and I am here to speak tonight on order","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=374s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":382.56,"end_sec":392.03,"similarity":0.795,"text":"2022-152 in support of the appointment of Julie delillo to the board of registrar voters.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=382s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":393.02,"end_sec":409.63,"similarity":0.756,"text":"Personally and I can tell you as I think she expressed here. She is an upstanding citizen in the city of Melrose. She is an attorney. She's a pool worker and she has come to you.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=393s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":410.77,"end_sec":416.07,"similarity":0.731,"text":"Following the due process of how we appoint this position. I also","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=410s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":417.21,"end_sec":418.54,"similarity":0.659,"text":"Wanted to express.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=417s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":421.39,"end_sec":429.51,"similarity":0.78,"text":"not really sure how to put it but I really I am also a former city councilor here for 12 years on this board and I","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=421s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":430.75,"end_sec":452.03,"similarity":0.821,"text":"have not seen a in a pointy come forward and receive so much hostility as Ms. Delilah in all that time and I feel this is really an unequal hostile treatment just a few months beforehand Ms. Bridgette Alverson came before this board a Democrat for the very same position.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=430s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":455.92,"end_sec":457.94,"similarity":0.622,"text":"And her meeting at the finance committee.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=455s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":458.74,"end_sec":482.73,"similarity":0.855,"text":"Consisted of about 10 minutes of discussion in which and she was approved that same night in which she was asked one question. And received a multitude of thanks for coming forward and for having served as a pool worker just as missed a little as but in contrast Mr. Lilo came here and faced about 45 minutes.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=458s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":483.78,"end_sec":493.33,"similarity":0.808,"text":"One very quick. Thank you and a multitude of questions that really go beyond the scope of","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=483s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":495.73,"end_sec":504.83,"similarity":0.803,"text":"Should be asked in a job interview. 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And yes, this is a party position. This is this is not a nonpartisan position. It is something where you know, it's we need to elect and make sure that there are equal representation between the two leading parties and I know that's going to come up today based on what I'm hearing. I haven't seen the ruling myself from the Secretary of State's office. Let me tell you like this is all the more reason why I would say you should go forward with Miss Delilah and why we need And probably should have another Republican. Yes. We are very low in party registration numbers.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=514s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":567.46,"end_sec":583.05,"similarity":0.818,"text":"The Democrats are still not the majority. However do outnumber us and and I'm a republican too and full disclosure and member of the Republican City committee and You know, you can just see that our elected officials.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=567s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":583.94,"end_sec":587.02,"similarity":0.673,"text":"Are 90% plus Democrats?","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=583s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":589.31,"end_sec":642.45,"similarity":0.849,"text":"And you know, I'm maybe because I'm a somewhat prominent Republican in town people come to me from this city and from elsewhere, but it's particular from the city and I can't tell you how often and they've told me that they've changed their party registration from Republican to unenrolled and it's not because they've had you know, real deep seated changes to their core political internal belief system is because they're afraid of Retribution over their party affiliation. They're afraid of it at work. They're afraid of losing relationships with their neighbors and worst of all, they're worried about retribution for their children in our schools and they're innocent children in our schools. I mean, we've so many things to be proud of in Melrose, but this is this is not one of and you know, you ask like, how can we be that?","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=589s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":643.88,"end_sec":659.44,"similarity":0.837,"text":"This city I asked myself. I'm like, how can this be in this city that I grew up in went to the public schools learned about the Constitution learned about, you know, our Bill of Rights and freedom of speech and freedom of Association and all those freedoms that we are.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=643s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":660.62,"end_sec":668.5,"similarity":0.779,"text":"Granted As Americans and yet I have so many people who come to me and feel afraid to speak up. and","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=660s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":669.16,"end_sec":717.6,"similarity":0.865,"text":"you know, I look here and you guys are the leaders here you guys set the tone and the example and with the difference and how Miss Albertson was treated and how Ms. Delilah was treated, you know, a message was sent here that if you are a Republican and you come here for a job, which it is for the board of registry voters. Then you're gonna get your your political donation and support history dug into and I mean, it could be Julie or it could be another person. You're gonna find something that you don't like and you're gonna Grill them and many times that felt more like a Washington DC Congressional hearing than it did like a meeting of the the finance committee of the city council here in Melrose. And if you're a Democrat, you're gonna come here and you're gonna get thanked for stepping up.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=669s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":718.31,"end_sec":758.54,"similarity":0.845,"text":"profusely right for stepping up for being a public servant and You know, the message is sort of need lot need not apply or guess what don't register as Republican. Don't speak up. I mean, we heard Julie herself say that she feels uncomfortable to speak up for fear of having problems at work. You know, this is this is the group that gets to set the example and you know, I'm gonna give everybody a benefit of the doubt and I know not everybody treated her that way and say maybe you didn't realize how far those actions go and what tone that that sets and the message that it sends just I would ask you to consider that and","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=718s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":762.16,"end_sec":770.15,"similarity":0.837,"text":"a primary election coming up in number of weeks early voting is starting, you know","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=762s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":770.75,"end_sec":774.19,"similarity":0.742,"text":"before we know it and it's not the time to have a vacancy and","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=770s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":775.73,"end_sec":777.79,"similarity":0.629,"text":"Julie is is more than qualified.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=775s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":779.03,"end_sec":807.02,"similarity":0.868,"text":"And you know for those of you who I know didn't. Didn't treat her in this way. If you saw something that you know, you made you feel uncomfortable. I encourage you to speak up about it because again, you guys set the example and you set the tone and I you know, I appreciate that. And again, there's many things to be proud of and the city and I know this is really hard to do all of these remote meetings and","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=779s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2022-08-15","video_id":389,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Meeting August 15th 2022","meeting_id":4120,"start_sec":808.48,"end_sec":811.76,"similarity":0.724,"text":"And to do your job, so I appreciate it. And I thank you.","url":"https://vimeo.com/739836436#t=808s","page_url":"/video/389"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":161.94,"end_sec":170.69,"similarity":0.849,"text":"yes councillor medeiros thank you and uh i am not sure if we said it earlier tonight or not but this meeting is being recorded and just wanted to make sure that we yes that's one thing i did","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=161s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":176.94,"end_sec":195.99,"similarity":0.939,"text":"of this order i'm excited that we are discussing this this evening i think this is something very real and simple that we can do to help seniors to stay in their homes and so i'll start off with","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=176s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":196.65,"end_sec":226.63,"similarity":0.928,"text":"some background i think we all you know went through kind of a tumultuous year a lot of discussion about the tax override and you know how would people be able to afford it oftentimes Sometimes this program was referred to including by the administration, the then administration as an option for people that they could basically come and volunteer and work off a portion of their real estate taxes.","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=196s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":227.37,"end_sec":243.05,"similarity":0.882,"text":"This proposal addresses one issue where I recognize that a lot of times there are people who sometimes are actually unable to volunteer. They may be unwell, have physical or mobility issues,","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=227s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":243.71,"end_sec":247.7,"similarity":0.796,"text":"have transportation issues. They may oftentimes be the caregivers for their spouse","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=243s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":248.43,"end_sec":256.57,"similarity":0.876,"text":"or for another family member that would not allow them to participate in this work-off program.","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=248s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":257.47,"end_sec":321.13,"similarity":0.918,"text":"So the good news is is that in looking into it and some of the work that I've done the mass municipal association i was brought to my attention that the state law actually has something that is a remedy and can address this and there's a provision that will allow a community and the state law is included in the order here to adopt a provision to allow for an approved representative for persons who are physically unable to provide such services to the city and i would suggest and hope that we can adopt that tonight in reviewing the state statute i found that actually in addition um our limit on the tax work off program as it's currently in place is a thousand dollars a thousand dollars is a limit for how much any person can receive who's involved in the program in a year and the state has now increased that limit from a thousand dollars to fifteen hundred dollars so i'm proposing that you know while we're making this","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=257s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":321.88,"end_sec":337.89,"similarity":0.877,"text":"other uh change that we do this i do think there are some reasons why this is something that is actually very timely and something that we should consider you know in in realizing that we do have the program without this capacity to address people who are physically unable you know this","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=321s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":338.57,"end_sec":356.77,"similarity":0.923,"text":"This is something that we have a way to remedy this, and it's something that I think we should fix right away and take action on. Secondly, the minimum wage is actually scheduled to increase on January 1, 2020, it's going to go to $12.75 per hour.","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=338s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":357.37,"end_sec":379.63,"similarity":0.926,"text":"So the way the law is written is that we must pay people at least minimum wage. So what's happened since I believe the last change to this ordinance was made to the $1,000 limit was made in 2015. So in 2015 the minimum wage was $9 an hour.","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=357s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":380.24,"end_sec":392.04,"similarity":0.855,"text":"So that meant if you worked the whole $1,000 that's allotted you could work 111 hours. Now as we stand here today you can only work 83 hours.","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=380s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":393.05,"end_sec":406.03,"similarity":0.893,"text":"And as of January 1st, which is right around the corner now, hard to believe, you can only work 78 hours. So you'll see that from 2015 to 2020, that staying at the $1,000 limit, that will result","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=393s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":406.99,"end_sec":432.5,"similarity":0.897,"text":"in a 33-hour annual service hour reduction. And what happens when that happens, it will be a five-hour deduction from last year. What happens when we reduce the number of hours that people can work through the tax work-off program, we are either putting that work on our existing staff, which is already","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=406s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":433.15,"end_sec":451.3,"similarity":0.895,"text":"pretty stretched, or a lot of that work isn't getting done or possibly we have to hire someone else to do that in a full-time capacity, and of course that comes along with probably a wage that's much higher than minimum wage and associated benefits. So I think there's something to doing this before the first of the year.","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=433s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":452.2,"end_sec":468.44,"similarity":0.9,"text":"And lastly, everybody is faced with, we just set the tax rate, an increase of $742 on average for the average tax payer. Their bill is going to go up.","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=452s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":469.28,"end_sec":486.57,"similarity":0.868,"text":"This is a small way to offset that and to help reduce that increase in the taxes. And I think this is something that we can, again, do today. 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to clarify you know i i do wish we had more time to deliberate this i actually filed this order back in august and unfortunately you know it's four months later but this is the first time it's it's really being heard but i did have a chance a few months ago to speak with the new council on aging director i just wanted to pass on too that you know she said most of what they were doing for applications for people into this program were taking applications up until april 30th so really just another wanted to point out that in terms of if there's concerns","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=1216s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":1259.58,"end_sec":1280.61,"similarity":0.864,"text":"over budget or anything like that that um really the any new program changes for the next year really probably won't go into effect major changes until after april 30th but again this is you know i do respect that you know certainly mayor broder will like to look at something much","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=1259s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":1281.41,"end_sec":1288.44,"similarity":0.826,"text":"more comprehensive um however this is one piece that that we can do today and and again i think","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=1281s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":1289.08,"end_sec":1296.32,"similarity":0.774,"text":"it does have a time component and um you know unfortunately um it was out of my hands that it's taken this long to be heard before the committee thank you any other councils we 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you i don't know no thank you very much i want to thank everyone here all of my colleagues here on this board and and our past colleagues that have been serving with","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=4691s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":4703.94,"end_sec":4833.34,"similarity":0.925,"text":"over the time it's been i think as as i want to say alderman Rita counselor his counselor putra said you know it's it's definitely it's an honor and a privilege to be able to have served in this position and i am so grateful to the voters for giving me this experience and boy has it been sort of an interesting experience over the years and you never know what um how many doors and experiences have been open to us and i've been thinking today about czechoslovakian dancing with counselor Boisselle many years back just all kinds of things and it's it's been a great ride you know i've tried as hard as i can to do the right thing for the citizens of melrose and tried to make sure that we do open things up and make everything more understandable and open for the the public and I'm looking forward to the new counselors coming in and I hope they they do that hopefully it's resulted in a more engaged and active and informed public and I hope that that's something that continues moving forward I just I want to thank you know so much of what happens here and in our jobs is not what happens in this room it's what happens outside this room so I I JUST PARTICULARLY WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR CITY HALL STAFF, OUR CLERK OF COMMITTEES AND CITY CLERK AND BASICALLY ALL THOSE WHO'VE BEEN WORKING HARD FOR YEARS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT DO SO MUCH OF THE HARD WORK AND MAKE US LOOK GOOD AND MAKE THINGS TICK. AND I JUST APPRECIATE THAT SO MUCH. I WANT TO THANK ESPECIALLY MMTV AND THE CAMERA PEOPLE, Rita, FOR KEEPING THIS OPEN AND ALLOWING the public to to watch and in particular I want to thank the members of the public that come to our meetings and that watch and you know we go out and we campaign and you hear and it's it feels great when somebody says yeah you know I watched the meeting of the other night and they keep track of what goes on and I really appreciate that to know that it's not just the bubble that happens in this room and that people do pay attention and so I thank you very much and I really appreciate the opportunity to serve here a resolution and","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=4703s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":6312.3,"end_sec":6399.76,"similarity":0.933,"text":"very good counselor council medeiros please thank you uh yes i have an update as liaison to the school committee i just want to update everyone on the some of the happenings at the last school committee meeting they had the school spotlight was on the hoover school so principal christina de coligero and was there along with members of the student council who presented the impact of personalized learning at their school but the big news um is is again on the bb school at their last meeting december 10th it had been expected that they were going to take a vote on how to proceed with that school they did not do so and they're going to hold off for a number of reasons including that the seam collaborative is going to have their own vote tomorrow night december 17th for some options for them to transition out of the building we heard from some members of our kindergarten staff who weighed in with some of the concerns over one of the options which is a pre-k kindergarten and early childhood model and among those concerns was the number of transitions that students would have to make there's a lengthy discussion by the school committee members on some of their concerns not only over the two proposals that have been made which again just in case anybody hasn't caught on to that there's going to be one proposal for a model that is just pre-k and kindergarten at the school and another model","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=6312s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":6400.36,"end_sec":6423.53,"similarity":0.859,"text":"that is k-5 but also with some other options including possibly moving the fifth grade to the middle school or possibly moving the administrative offices to the bb school superintendent taymor warned that although you know the long view is important that we are going to face some immediate space needs next year so next fall in what's next is in january they're","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=6400s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":6424.35,"end_sec":6468.32,"similarity":0.906,"text":"expecting a meeting or forum led by school committee member jen mcandrew that will focus on the financial impacts of the options related to the bb school so i think there is still some time for the public to weigh in and this may go on a little bit longer and into the new year watch for those meetings to be determined in january and also this as you many know superintendent taymor is expected to leave melrose at june 30th and so chairman o'connell announced that the search process for the new superintendent will begin in the new year and among the first decisions will be whether or not to hire a consultant to lead that search thank you very","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=6424s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-02","video_id":878,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 2nd 2019","meeting_id":2893,"start_sec":566.05,"end_sec":675.21,"similarity":0.932,"text":"please thank you I have a hopefully brief school committee report as the liaison to the school committee we've recently had an update the big item on the agenda of course is the BB school and the future of that building for programming etc so just some updates is that we have the superintendent recently reported that we had as of the end of last month in the system just under 4 000 students and last year for instance our 80 percent of the kindergarten class got the first choice for their placement for kindergarten the bb school the update of course they're looking for an option that's going to be sustainable for the next seven to ten years no matter what the model that's chosen there's going to be some increased costs and including for instance the building needs to be brought up to date in including needs to be wired for Wi-Fi and all those kinds of things there's going to be DPW operating costs which are going to be estimated about two hundred thousand dollars per year that's using the horse man as a reference point which is similar in size there's going to be need for additional staff of crossing guard nurse principal secretary special education coordinator so right now the school committee has been presented two options which have been presented to the public one is the K through five option which is estimated would cost an additional 1.7 million dollars in addition to the cost of referenced above there would need to be upgrades and staff in order to be equivalent with the other elementary schools that we have that are k-5 and we have a challenge of repopulating the","url":"https://vimeo.com/377122585#t=566s","page_url":"/video/878"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-02","video_id":878,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 2nd 2019","meeting_id":2893,"start_sec":675.99,"end_sec":684.67,"similarity":0.801,"text":"building and bringing in all grades and moving students from other potentially moving students from other buildings to repopulate that building she the","url":"https://vimeo.com/377122585#t=675s","page_url":"/video/878"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-12-02","video_id":878,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 2nd 2019","meeting_id":2893,"start_sec":685.59,"end_sec":715.78,"similarity":0.892,"text":"superintendent did ask for volunteers in a brief survey with people would be willing to do this and got a response from only eight families which is about ten students that were willing to move now there's another option which would make the building just pre-k and kindergarten and that's it would be an 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coming to their meeting on December 10th or sending them an email and they are expected to take a final vote on September I'm sorry September December December 10th at their next meeting it's possible that could be delayed but that is the plan so the public can stay aware of that of course and there's you can watch meetings and forums on mmtv and see details on our city website thanks thank you council madaris anybody","url":"https://vimeo.com/377122585#t=717s","page_url":"/video/878"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":1243.04,"end_sec":1255.74,"similarity":0.869,"text":"thank you you're welcome okay thank you uh councilman thank you yes i too am not a voting member of this committee i know we spoke about this last week and i'm glad to see the letter from former mayor inferna i do still i have to ask i know you just said that you know you would not","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=1243s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":1259.27,"end_sec":1271.64,"similarity":0.861,"text":"take the turnout gear into your personal vehicle again and i have to ask was this something that was discussed when you came on board about whether or not the position had a car","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=1259s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":1286.6,"end_sec":1291.32,"similarity":0.786,"text":"reason why i wouldn't have one of course director kelly hasn't been here for you know several years","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=1286s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council 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along the way i thought that i thought that was the encompassing of all the salary was later brought on and had to appropriate some additional funds and now there's a car which has kind of come up um you know without originally having the mayor's approval and now you know we have a new mayor and i really","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=1308s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":1336.98,"end_sec":1341.36,"similarity":0.767,"text":"think that before i would take a final vote on this i would like to see his thoughts sorry we","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=1336s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":1350.11,"end_sec":1364.36,"similarity":0.869,"text":"i'll finish up very very quickly um so i would really like to see his thoughts on this but i share a lot of the concerns that that president ford has in terms of the age of the vehicle and uh and so on that it's not well based on the age of the vehicle if something serious","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=1350s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":2044.06,"end_sec":2063.09,"similarity":0.824,"text":"THANK YOU. AND JUST A COMMENT FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, THAT THERE IS A MAP INCLUDED WITHIN THE ORDER ON OUR CITY SYSTEM. SO IF YOU GO FROM THE MAIN HOME PAGE OF THE CITY OF MELROES WEBSITE TO THE MEETING AND agenda portal and look into the meeting for tonight you can see this attachment","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=2044s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":2496.11,"end_sec":2501.74,"similarity":0.857,"text":"MEDEIROS PLEASE THANK YOU ON DISCUSSION UH WILL WE BE GETTING SOME INFORMATION FOR THIS ORDER","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=2496s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":3857.57,"end_sec":3883.78,"similarity":0.89,"text":"uh rule 53. council medeiros please thank you as a school committee representative i just have a brief update that tomorrow night the school committee is going to have a special meeting of the school committee held at the learning commons at melrose high school to discuss uses of the bb school and so this is an opportunity for public comment that's going to be at 7 p.m tomorrow there's some information on the city website and again under meeting agenda portals","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=3857s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":3885.08,"end_sec":3889.95,"similarity":0.755,"text":"what people can see the proposed the items under consideration by the school committee and the public can weigh in thank you thank you counselor anyone else under rule 53 all right we can","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=3885s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":4249.77,"end_sec":4270.52,"similarity":0.808,"text":"much i i think it sounds i'm glad to see your interest in that you've been attending you know just as a volunteer for it sounds like you know quite a bit of time now and i would just really appreciate that and your service to all of this and i know uh speaking of people giving up their time i know we have miss murphy here and i thought she may have something to add in addition i i","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=4249s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":4320.95,"end_sec":4335.32,"similarity":0.82,"text":"very busy year probably ahead and so i'm glad that you're taking the classes and going out there is there any particular area that or anything that you feel is like you have as","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=4320s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":4378.82,"end_sec":4385.57,"similarity":0.708,"text":"requirements very good well you know they have a saying where there's a will there's a way so i'm sure you'll do just fine thank you thank you thank you council Boisselle please i just have one thing","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=4378s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":1186.78,"end_sec":1210.78,"similarity":0.864,"text":"thank you madam chair councillor medeiros thank you thank you very much excited about receiving this grant i think it will be you know doing good work to help keep us energy efficient and my question was in regard to the bb you said the tenant has been paying utilities did in order to prepare the estimates for savings and so on did they share the utility bills with","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=1186s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2967.67,"end_sec":2974.21,"similarity":0.788,"text":"Thank you. Yeah, I still can't get used to our new titles. Thank you very much.","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2967s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2975.04,"end_sec":3015.4,"similarity":0.934,"text":"I have to say I'm a little bit disappointed about the way we are handling this. I really would like to see us have a much larger community conversation. I know we've referenced back to 2008 that we did this as a ballot question. There was certainly a lot of community conversation at that time. I WAS HERE ON THE BOARD AT THE TIME, AND WE HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW WE WOULD WORD THE QUESTION EVEN TO GO FORWARD TO THE LEGISLATURE, AND IT DOES HAVE SPECIFICALLY IN THE QUESTION THAT WAS PROPOSED TO THE PEOPLE AND TO, YOU KNOW, INTO STATE LAW, INCLUDES","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2975s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":3016.42,"end_sec":3050.05,"similarity":0.883,"text":"THE DEFINITION OF A RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT AND INCLUDES THAT LIMITATION IN HOW MUCH SQUARE footage the establishment might have some of this is carried over for instance into our city ordinances in the definition in our zoning ordinances of what a retail food establishment is and what is prohibited from being sold for instance it's not it's really to be food and I think there are some other 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had you know several public forums about this and I attended quite a few of those which were very well attended I think there are a lot of voices that we should be hearing from as","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=3094s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":3112.35,"end_sec":3116.8,"similarity":0.723,"text":"we make this discussion and some of the concerns that that I have is this is","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=3112s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":3118.43,"end_sec":3198.46,"similarity":0.929,"text":"this is something that does have some negative effects it's not all positive Melrose doesn't see unlike with the marijuana we don't have a local option tax on alcohol so you know city of Melrose 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of trash you know so just this week you know I find the empty nip bottles I know that's something that you know people are are consuming and using these they're obviously they're throwing them out it's they're not getting recycled and you know it's it's indicative of the things that things that you find on the street for trash are the things that people usually tend to hide from wherever they're going whether they're you know cigarette butts vaping cartridges nips lottery tickets that are losers you know these are the things that you find out there and I i don't know that you know we want to bring that in i would be supportive of having stronger regulations written into our actual ordinance that would go to the state if we are going to","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=3213s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":3281.66,"end_sec":3295.59,"similarity":0.839,"text":"choose this route um but it doesn't mean that people won't drink hard alcohol it doesn't mean that alcoholics are going to stop drinking because we don't sell nips just in neighboring wakefield","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=3281s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":3296.83,"end_sec":3302.25,"similarity":0.858,"text":"As of October 1st, they just came up with new rules for the liquor stores that are involved and they're not, they're only selling alcohol once a day per person.","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=3296s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":3303.2,"end_sec":3371.31,"similarity":0.94,"text":"And I had happened to go in there before we got this order before us and was kind of surprised to see this posted on the door and asked the owner what was this about. and you know they're having some trouble downtown where people are drinking and then kind of loitering around and going back and drinking some more and you know she said to me you won't have this problem in Melrose because you don't serve this stuff this is a otherwise you will because you're on the bus line and while I was there we actually had somebody come in who you know was well dressed well you know put together who came in and was attempting to buy more alcohol for the second time that day and who had come in and bought a rather large bottle earlier and you know this is this is something that that exists that people are struggling with addiction problems.","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=3303s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council 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And I think this should be part of a larger discussion than something that this meeting was posted just about 48 hours, maybe plus a little bit more, 50 hours ago or so,","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=3377s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":3394.44,"end_sec":3426.19,"similarity":0.9,"text":"and without a lot of time for a lot of discussion and input. And I would suggest that the state legislature is about to wrap up its formal sessions on November 20th. We're obviously going to have a vacancy in our state representative office, which won't be filled probably until March, maybe at the earliest. And I don't think there's a need to rush this, and I think we should have a larger discussion.","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=3394s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":3459.34,"end_sec":3486.14,"similarity":0.912,"text":"you yes well you know since since I've heard here tonight different discussions about how we might change this we might change that I do think that and I didn't you hear from voters and you hear from people out in the street who have wanting things to be expanded we're hearing from business owners that want to be have their their business me more viable I think this is part of the whole bigger discussion that maybe this isn't the way to achieve what the desired goal","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=3459s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":3486.96,"end_sec":3515.09,"similarity":0.889,"text":"If the desired goal is more economic viability for businesses that sell alcohol in Melrose, then maybe there's another way to get to that, and I think we could all be better served, and certainly the community as a whole, I think, would be better served by having a discussion before coming forward and sort of rushing this through with one administration only having a couple of weeks left in office. Thank you.","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=3486s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":4996.66,"end_sec":5010.12,"similarity":0.907,"text":"spoken a lot i'll let all the uh councilmen address that and i think you know my intent in seconding this is to include things that are hard considered hard liquor which would include schnapps and fruit liquors and things like that that would come in potentially in nips and","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=4996s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":5011.17,"end_sec":5014.94,"similarity":0.804,"text":"in small bottles that are apt to become trash and so that's I wouldn't be I","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=5011s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"medeiros-monica-c","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":5492.1,"end_sec":5531.46,"similarity":0.908,"text":"counselor medeiros thank you i feel like this is something where i would like to hear more input FROM THE PUBLIC BEFORE I TAKE A FINAL POSITION ON. I WILL JUST SAY THAT I FEEL THAT TWO DOES SEEM A LITTLE BIT ARBITRARY. IT BEGINS TO A LITTLE BIT OF A STRANGE SITUATION WHERE WE'RE TALKING, ESPECIALLY WHERE WE HAVE TWO LICENSES THAT ARE IN EXISTENCE WHERE WE START SEEMING LIKE WE ARE GIVING LICENSES OR EXPANDING LICENSES FOR SPECIFIC BUSINESSES RATHER THAN LOOKING AT THIS FROM A COMMUNITY perspective and I three would be more equal however I'm not sure that I I'm","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=5492s","page_url":"/video/884"}],"next_cursor":"u|2019-11-14|884|5492.1"}