Public Comment

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▶ 1:29 Jeff McNaught: of the open meeting law and the governor's March 15th 2020 order imposing strict limitations number of people that may gather in one place this meeting of the Moro City Council legal and legislative committee will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible. No in-person attendance members of the public is permitted but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time or in the event that we are unable to do so we'll post on the MMTV website an audio or video recording transcript or other comprehensive record of proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting a link will also be made on the city's website cityofmalrose.org

▶ 2:24 Speaker 1: at this time um i will entertain a uh motion to suspend the rules for public comment you need a

▶ 2:29 Speaker 2: roll call attendance we did it we already took it motion open the floor for public comment

▶ 2:47 Speaker 2: shall i call the role mr chairman i'm clark thank you sure uh vice chair training tozy

▶ 2:54 Speaker 2: yeah council of snella councilor eccles council of Migliorelli president Grigoraitis here

▶ 3:02 Speaker 2: chair mcnaught yeah five present and um the motion to open the floor for public comment

▶ 3:16 Speaker 1: do we need to do a roll call for that as well that was a vote we're good there

▶ 3:17 Speaker 3: i do have a member in the public who has notified us that she would like to speak so i'm going to make um thank you madam clerk i have a weird echo on my end but i think it may be calvin

▶ 3:42 Speaker 3: Tramontozzi is that on mute all right i'm going to mute him and here we go gina hold on one second

▶ 3:52 Speaker 1: gina can you hear us yeah hi can you hear me can you guys hear her yep everybody can hear you okay

▶ 4:00 Speaker 1: Great. All right. Well, thanks for opening up for public comments. Thank you for letting me be here tonight. I'm here to speak about the change to the implementation date of the polystyrene order that's on the agenda for this evening. As all of you know, as part of Zero Waste Melrose, we obviously were strongly advocating for the passage of the original ordinance with the original timeline and as the you know essentially tonight I'm here to voice the support of zero waste Melrose for the proposed date changes in the order before you tonight we know from experience particularly with the plastic bag ordinance that sufficient time for education and outreach in the community is really essential for a new regulation such as this and the with the original timeline we knew that we just you know wouldn't with the shutdowns and everything wouldn't be able to do that education and outreach plus with all of the stress that's been placed on the businesses in Melrose and everywhere with the shutdown we knew just you know more time would be needed anyway so we're fully in support and and happy that this new timeline has been proposed as you know there's a two-phase implementation timeline in the updated ordinance which is a shift from the original ordinance that was passed however we are very supportive of that change for two reasons one this was the model that we followed in the plastic bag ordinance rollout and I think it worked really well there were larger businesses who operate in other communities and have already implemented polystyrene bands in those communities will have a much easier time to comply with this typically those larger businesses just want to know when it'll take effect and it's really not a big deal or hardship for them to comply whereas with the smaller businesses we know that more education and outreach is needed and hence the additional time for them so I'm happy to see this change is before the committee tonight and hope to see it it's go through and um and then we can begin our work when things start to get back to

▶ 6:23 Jeff McNaught: normal thank you thanks thank you miss mcneil and if we if if i could just get you to state your name and your address for the public comment record yes yes of course it's gina mcneil 97 maple street thank you so much and thank you for being here this evening thank you great i believe

▶ 6:37 Speaker 3: there's a another person also waiting to speak um i believe rebecca into bartolo is here Rebecca, can you hear us? Rebecca? Rebecca, can you hear us? Let's see. Rebecca?

▶ 7:02 Speaker 4: Yes, I can hear you, but you obviously cannot hear me.

▶ 7:06 Speaker 2: We can now.

▶ 7:09 Speaker 1: Senator Bartolo, the floor is yours.

▶ 7:17 Speaker 4: Okay, sorry. Did that work?

▶ 7:19 Speaker 2: Yes.

▶ 7:20 Speaker 4: Okay, sorry. I could not figure out how to unmute. I apologize. Thank you for allowing me to speak as well. rebecca into bartolo 33 woodland avenue also a member of zero waste melrose um and karen of three children at roosevelt public schools uh roosevelt elementary school karen melrose um i just wanted to also speak in support of the delayed implementation of the polystyrene but just uh to just give everybody a little bit more background about the work that we did with the schools particularly at the roosevelt school i've been working with um kendall chart wells for oh four or five years now trying to get the schools to stop using the styrofoam trays they're about 90 there which is great they've transitioned from the traditional um tray with the segments to paper boats for most of the lunches so it's only about five to ten percent of the lunches that they're still using the styrofoam trays that have the section so they just need to purchase an alternative material for those lunch days i know that obviously with the shutdown they probably have some styrofoam trays still at the school so i think the delayed implementation would give them time to use up what the stock that they already have And then be able to roll out with the new implementation with some alternative trays, just for those messy lunch days, they can continue to use the paper boats for the other lunch days.

▶ 9:05 Jeff McNaught: Thank you for your time. Thank you for being here this evening.

▶ 9:11 Speaker 3: if there's any other member in the attendee list that wishes to speak a public comment if you could raise your digital hand that would be great wait a couple seconds most of the people are participants this evening later on

▶ 9:29 Speaker 3: there's only one potential person let me just I'm going to try this person Trudy

▶ 9:35 Speaker 4: yes no I'm just here to support and Rebecca for the zero waste Melrose

▶ 9:45 Jeff McNaught: committee i'm speaking thank you thank you um that being said no no one else um wishing to speak on public comment do does anyone on the uh committee or counselor have anything that

▶ 9:59 Speaker 1: they would like to say motion to close public comment second madam clerk will you please call

▶ 10:09 Speaker 2: the roll. Vice Chair Tramontozzi? Yes. Councilor Cinella? Yes. Councilor Eccles? Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. President Grigoraitis? Chair

▶ 10:33 Jeff McNaught: McNaught? Yes. Okay so the first order of business tonight on our agenda is order

▶ 10:47 Jeff McNaught: 2020-119 and order amending article 7 section 198-20 of the revised ordinance of the City of Melrose sustainable food containers and