Call to Order

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▶ 1:00:44 Jen Grigoraitis: mayor broder i'm sorry to interrupt speaking of laws um we this body needs to comply with open meeting law um so we need to recess from this so that we can open public comment for appropriation yeah sorry welcome welcome to a busy night don't worry so um just for the public watching at home where i will entertain a motion recess from legal and ledge motion recess second we have a motion

▶ 1:01:10 Jen Grigoraitis: to recess made by councillor migliorelli seconded by councillor mcmaster madam clerk

▶ 1:01:17 Speaker 2: yes vice chair migliorelli yes councillor Tramontozzi yes councillor mcmaster

▶ 1:01:29 Jen Grigoraitis: yes councillor eccles yes president sonella yes success success so this meeting is recessed i will turn it over to councillor mcnaught for the opening of appropriations and then we can

▶ 1:01:41 Jeff McNaught: hopefully return to legal unless thank you thank you council Grigoraitis um just to be clear what i'm going to do here is get us to open public comment and then i think we should recess and come back and finish here everybody's okay with that that said good good evening the time is 802 p.m this is a meeting of the appropriations committee i am the chair of that committee counselor mcnaught and in lieu of a roll call attendance i will announce who is joining me this meeting and please note that the Appropriations Committee is comprised of all voting members, the full council. This evening we have with us Vice Chair Eccles, Councilor Tramontozzi, Councilor McMaster, Councilor Migliorelli, Councilor Garipay, Councilor Grigoraitis, Councilor Jamaleddine, Councilor Stewart, Councilor Thomas, and President Cinella. This provides notice of a quorum for the record. Pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law and the Governor's March 15, 2020 order imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather together in one place, this meeting of the Appropriations Committee will be conducted by a remote participation to the greatest extent possible. We will post an audio or video recording, transcript, or other comprehensive record of these proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting on the City of Melrose website and on mmtv.3.org. How's my audio, folks? Is that working well tonight?