← Finance Committee · 2026-02-02 · Finance Committee Meeting 2/2/26
MINUTES APPROVAL
Agenda original PDF
Minutes original PDF
At-Large Present John Obremski Ward 2 Present William Bradley Freeman President, Ex Absent Officio Member Manjula Karamcheti Chair Present Also in attendance were non-voting counselors: Elizabeth Kowal Kimberly Vandiver Ryan Williams II. MINUTES APPROVAL Motion to Approve the minutes by unanimous consent without reading made by Chair Karamcheti RESULT: ACCEPTED [UNANIMOUS] AYES: Jason Chen, Maya Jamaleddine, Manjula Karamcheti, John Obremski, Christopher Park NAYS: None ABSENT: Bradley Freeman III. PUBLIC COMMENT 1 When: Feb 2, 2026 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Finance Committee Meeting Join from PC, Mac, iPad, or Android: https://cityofmelrose- org.zoom.us/j/93811800155?pwd=vSIQZQbqpoAsGUdSlt9bcXcMTXz25a.1 Passcode:982686 Webinar ID: 938 1180 0155 Motion to Open public comment made by Chair Karamcheti at 7:31 PM There were no comments on the floor or via Zoom Motion to Close public comment made by Chair Karamcheti at 7:31 PM IV. ORDERS
Transcript
▶ 7:05 Manjula Karamcheti: Good evening, everyone. It's Monday, February 2nd at 2026. It's seven 30. This is the meeting of the finance Committee. I am Councilor Modular Carm Shady. The chair. Joining us tonight are Counselor Park, who is the Vice Chair Counselor Chen, councilor Jamine, councilor Reky and non-voting members, counselor Williams, councilor Cal, counselor Van Vandiver. This also provides notice of a quorum for the record in accordance with the open Meeting law. This meeting is being recorded and broadcast on our local cable access channel MMTV, as well as live streamed through mmt v.org. This meeting will be available for future viewing through the City of Melrose website meeting portal as well. Um, we are gonna start by minute approvals. Uh, the minutes we are approving are from the finance committee meeting that was held on September 2nd, 2025 at 6:45 PM Um, I will motion by unanimous consent to approve the minutes. Seeing no objections. The minutes are approved.