Call to Order

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▶ 37:31 Jen Grigoraitis: and we will begin back up at 745. Recording is resumed. Good evening. It is 745 p.m. on Monday, May 4th, and the meeting of the Melrose City Council is called to order. I am President Grigoraitis, pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of open meeting law and the governor's march 15 2020 order imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather in one 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 mmtv3.org the public can find online access instructions to view this meeting at cityofmelrose.org slash remote dash meetings um i would like to remind my fellow counselors to please be on mute when not speaking and also while we're in this remote meeting format all votes will be a roll call vote and so with that madam clerk can you please call the roll

▶ 38:35 Speaker 1: Councilor Sinella. Here. Councilor Eccles. Here. Councilor Garipay. Here. Councilor Jamaleddine. Here.

▶ 38:50 Jen Grigoraitis: Councilor McMaster. Here. Councilor McNaught. Here. Councilor Migliorelli. Here. Councilor Stewart. Here. Councillor Thomas. Here. Councillor Tramontozzi. Here. President Grigoraitis. Here. 11 present. Okay with 11 present we have the necessary quorum and the council will proceed. At this time I will entertain a motion regarding minutes approval for the April 27th meeting.