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ORDER-2020-128 : Appointment of Garin Boyd, 12 Mt. Vernon St., Unit 31, to the Commission on Disability for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023
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ORDER-2020-128 Appointment Appointment of Garin Boyd, 12 Mt. Vernon St., Unit 31, to the Commission on Disability for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023 Recommend Passage City Council
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▶ 13:26 Jack Eccles: Five yes. Congratulations Mr. Phillips. Thank you Mr. Segevich for being here and Mr. Mayor I think you're sticking around for a little bit. Thank you both I will
▶ 13:37 Jack Eccles: make you attendees. The next item on our agenda is Order 2020-128 appointment of garen boyd 12 mount vernon street unit 31 the commission on disability for a three-year term said term to back around the last day of february 2023
▶ 13:51 Speaker 1: so mr boyd i'm only going to be able to unmute you for whatever reason making panelists just grayed out so i'm going to leave you now ask can
▶ 14:00 Speaker 3: you hear us uh yes i can can you hear me i can can
▶ 14:02 Speaker 1: you all hear him i can okay mr boyd you don't have an option to make uh no we'll go with that sorry
▶ 14:13 Paul Brodeur: Mayor, would you like to lead off? I would. I'm sure many, if not all of you are familiar with Karen Boyd. He has been involved in any number of issues in the community through various groups related to social justice endeavors. I think, but I'm not sure, that I met Mr. Boyd the first time when I was in the legislature and there was a lot of interest in our community about reinvigorating connections between our MEDCO families and the city and our community. And that is only a small sliver of Mr. Boyd's involvement in the community. He is, as I'm sure he will tell you, he is vision impaired. And one of the things that is intriguing about his candidacy is the recognition that with, you'll see it in his letter with assistive technology and the ability to access public transportation, he has had a long successful career. And that is a very important part of my vision and the community's vision, I think, for how to engage in issues around disability in terms of being able to be active in the workforce. So with that said, I turn it over to Mr. Boyd for his thoughts and urge favorable consideration of the nominations.
▶ 15:36 Speaker 7: Thank you Mayor Broder and thank you City Council for hearing my nomination.
▶ 15:44 Speaker 7: I have been living in Melrose for about six years. I've done most of my work out of the Melrose
▶ 15:55 Speaker 3: Unitarian Universalist Church. I've been involved very deeply with racial justice and social justice out of the church. I have not had the opportunity to get involved with advocacy for persons with disabilities and that is an area that i'd really like to explore and i'm very excited that melrose is having a a commission on disability and i would very much like to be a part of it
▶ 16:29 Maya Jamaleddine: thank you thank you councillor to speak vice chair gemali thank you chairman um mr boyd i'm very pleased to see you uh stepping into this role i think if we're gonna count uh um the events and your experiences and the moments that you stepped in to help and to advocate for others, it's countless. And we all appreciate your work in our community and beyond. Thank you so much for stepping in and looking forward to see what else you're going to accomplish. And please let us know if we can help you in anything.
▶ 17:13 Jeff McNaught: you thank you mr. chairman again thank you mr. mayor and thank you mr. Boyd for being here I think this is again another fine choice before us this evening I appreciated reading your background your letter very much and I think that you bring both the professional and personal experiences required to help us on this new commission that I think we're all very proud to have so thank you thank
▶ 17:37 Speaker 3: Thank you, councillor. I'll just echo my fellow councillors and thank
▶ 17:49 Speaker 4: you, Mr. Boyd, for applying. This is a new commission, so I'm sure it'll have a little
▶ 17:53 Leila Migliorelli: bit of time to kind of get going, but I can't think of a better person to get involved. You are definitely, you know, I've met you at many events and I know you're dedicated,
▶ 18:04 Jack Eccles: so I think this is a great fit. Thank you. Thank you, councillor.
▶ 18:09 Jen Grigoraitis: I will echo the words of my fellow counselors and say, thank you so much for stepping up to this challenge of helping us bring disability rights into the forefront of this of the conversation in Melrose and to have your social justice viewpoint added on top of that is going to be so critical. So I am grateful to you for being willing to take this on and I make a motion to recommend for passage.
▶ 18:32 Speaker 4: Second.
▶ 18:33 Jack Eccles: Motion to recommend for passage by President Grigoraitis, seconded by Vice Chair Jamaleddine. Madam Clerk? Chair Eccles?
▶ 18:39 Speaker 1: Yes. Vice Chair Jamaleddine? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. President Grigoraitis? Yes. Five yes.