ORDER-2020-113 : Appointment of Eileen Hamblin, 150 Youle Street, to the Cemetery Commission to fill the expired term of Mark Garipay; said term to expire on the last day of February 2022.

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▶ 27:31 Jack Eccles: thank you thank you the next item on our agenda tonight is order 2020 dash 113 appointment of Eileen Hamblin 150 Youle Street to the Cemetery Commission to fill the unexpired term of Marc Garapes said to expire on the last of February 22 I'm having the same issue it's interesting some people in the room I'm

▶ 27:49 Speaker 1: able to make panelists and some people I'm not but miss Hamlin Hamlin can you

▶ 27:56 Speaker 6: hear us can and right now I'm myself I'm gonna exit this screen I was seeing the panel and I tried to turn a camera on I'll leave the I'll stop trying to fill

▶ 28:08 Speaker 1: with technology sorry about that

▶ 28:17 Paul Brodeur: may brother would you like I would so it is Hamlet should you choose to move forward with this nomination would obviously have big shoes to fill as one your fellow counselors. Mark Garipay has a, it's not strong enough to say he has a passion and

▶ 28:32 Paul Brodeur: advocacy for our Wyoming cemetery. I think we have the perfect person to step into that role. If you've seen from her letter of application, it explains well why she has a passion for this work she is very well accomplished in melrose as a as a professional certainly has been active in

▶ 28:56 Speaker 3: any number of committees and causes around the city and i do think with all due respect to those

▶ 29:00 Paul Brodeur: who have come before i think it will be a breath of fresh air to have a woman serving uh serving on this commission i'm not sure if it has ever happened before but i'm pretty sure it hasn't happened in a while so i'm delighted to move forward with ms hamlin's nomination thank you

▶ 29:23 Speaker 6: I'd like to thank you all for this opportunity to speak to you. I didn't mention that I have a passion for open spaces, and a cemetery is a well-preserved open space for flora, fauna, birds. So I think it's a treasure in many ways. And I also don't know and hope to find out, whether I'm appointed or not, I would look into this, what the future plans for the cemetery are, what kind of plans we have looking long into the future when there might be drought conditions, things like that. So I have no idea what kind of long range planning has been done for the cemetery. And I think that would behoove all of us to be aware of it. But I'm also a senior citizen, but a young senior citizen, I want to point out. And I'm aware that this is a place of consolation for a lot of people. And I wonder if it's also useful in other ways that we've not approached yet I know a lot of people have been walking there because parks have been closed but I'm just not sure without overusing it if there are any other uses while preserving of course the dignity of of a final resting place thank you miss Helen any committee

▶ 30:41 Speaker 2: members wishing to speak at this time and vice-chair Jamali um I just want to

▶ 30:44 Maya Jamaleddine: say thank you so much for stepping up and um good luck thank you um before before we hear the will

▶ 30:51 Jack Eccles: of the committee there was some correspondence set from the administration uh late this afternoon is there a motion to attach that to the record motion to attach the correspondence to the record

▶ 31:05 Jack Eccles: motion to attach the letter from miss hamblin made by councillor mingle early seconded by council or

▶ 31:15 Speaker 1: president Grigoraitis madam clerk vice chair Jamaleddine yes councillor mcmaster yes councillor mcnaught yes council Migliorelli yes president Grigoraitis yes chairman eccles yes yes seeing that uh what is the will of the committee

▶ 31:43 Jack Eccles: motion for passage to recommend for passage made by Vice Chair Jamaleddine seconded by

▶ 31:50 Speaker 1: Councillor Migliorelli Madam Clerk Vice Chair Jamaleddine yes Councillor McMaster yes Councillor McNaught yes Councillor Migliorelli yes President Grigoraitis Chairman Eccles yes fixed yes thank

▶ 32:07 Jack Eccles: Ms. Hamlin. Congratulations, Ms. Hamlin. The final item on our agenda tonight, Order 2020-115, Appointment of Dori Whitey, 286 Washington Street, to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term set to expire on the last day of February, 2023. And I believe we have the Chair of the Human Rights Commission and Ms. Whitey with us.