Call to Order

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▶ 1:26 Jeff McNaught: Good evening, everyone. Can you hear me? Mr. Clerk, give it another minute here. Folks, we'll get rolling here. It took a minute here to dust off the WebEx cobwebs.

▶ 1:36 Jeff McNaught: Good evening. The time is 647, and this is a meeting of the Appropriations Committee. I am Councilor McNaught, the Chair of the Appropriations Committee. and in lieu of calling a roll call attendance joining me this evening are the following counselors we are all voting members of this body all 11 members vice chair Eccles counselor Tramon Tozzi counselor McMaster counselor McLeorelli counselor Gara pay counselor Gregor itis counselor Stewart counselor

▶ 2:11 Jeff McNaught: Thomas and President Sinella. This provides a notice of the quorum for the record. Pursuant to the suspension of certain provisions of the open meeting law, this meeting of the Appropriations Committee will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible. We will post a comprehensive record of these proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting on the City of Melrose website and on mmtv3.org the public can find online access instructions to view this meeting at the cityofmelrose.org slash remote hyphen meetings this can also be viewed on the local cable access channel for the folks at home this is the portion of the meeting that we start out with every time it's public comment um you may come forward and speak to any items on the agenda but only two items on the agenda like to remind people of that to keep it to what we're discussing in this meeting um and if if there's no objections at this time i'll move by unanimous consent to