Call to Order

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▶ 0:00 Jen Grigoraitis: We are recording. All right. Good evening, everyone. It is 7.47 p.m. on Tuesday, September 8th, 2020. This meeting of the Melrose City Council is called to order. I am President Grigoraitis.

▶ 0:16 Jen Grigoraitis: Pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12th, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of the Open Meeting Law and the Governor's March 15th, 2020 order

▶ 0:25 Jen Grigoraitis: Imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather in 1 place. This meeting of the city council will be conducted via 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 3.4.

▶ 0:50 Speaker 1: Madam clerk, can you please call the role? Yeah. Councilor Eccles. Here. Councilor Garipay. Here. Councilor Jamaleddine.

▶ 1:01 Speaker 1: Councilor McMaster. Here. Councilor McNaught.

▶ 1:06 Speaker 2: Here. Councilor Migliorelli. Here. Councilor Stewart. Here. Councilor Thomas.