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ORDER-2020-74 : Acceptance of a Seventy Thousand Dollar Grant from the Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development Mass Marketing Partnerships/Office of Travel & Tourism Program for Wayfinding and Creative Placemaking

Passed · OUGHT TO PASS [UNANIMOUS] · moved by John N. Tramontozzi, Voting, seconded by Robb Stewart, Voting Yes: Christopher Cinella, Leila Migliorelli, John N. Tramontozzi, Shawn M. MacMaster, Jeff McNaught, Jack Eccles, Mark Garipay, Robb Stewart, Cory Thomas, Maya Jamaleddine, Jen Grigoraitis.

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ORDER-2020-74 Grant Acceptance of a Seventy Thousand Dollar Grant from the Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development Mass Marketing Partnerships/Office of Travel & Tourism Program for Wayfinding and Creative Placemaking Recommend Passage City Council City of Melrose Page 2 Updated 3/31/2020 12:17 PM

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▶ 1:59:03 John N. Tramontozzi: a memorandum from uh the cip chair denise gaffey uh dated is that the one november 13th no there was a memorandum that just came down today i thought um right so i want to make sure that that is part of the order we can submit that as part of the order and based on that memorandum i think we have sufficient information to uh to take a vote on this council chairman

▶ 1:59:33 Speaker 3: is that an official motion to attach to the record? Yes, it is.

▶ 1:59:40 Leila Migliorelli: Okay, so motion to attach Denise Gaffey's memo to record made by Councilor Tramontozzi.

▶ 1:59:48 Speaker 1: Seconded by Councilor Thomas. Call the roll. Councilor Eccles. Councilor Garipay. Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine. Yes. Councilor McMaster. Yes. Councilor McNaught. Yes. Councilor Migliorelli. Yes. Councilor Stewart.

▶ 2:00:11 Speaker 2: Yes.

▶ 2:00:12 Speaker 1: Councilor Thomas. Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi. Yes. President Grigoraitis. Yes. Chair Cinella. Yes. 11 yes.

▶ 2:00:24 Leila Migliorelli: For that memo to be read into committee passes.

▶ 2:00:32 Leila Migliorelli: The if there's no discussion, I will entertain a motion for Pat Tramontozzi.

▶ 2:00:43 John N. Tramontozzi: thank you thank you sorry so this is just according to the memorandum it appears that we this is just for an acceptance of a grant that we've received from the executive office of housing and economic development marketing partnership with the office of travel tourism it doesn't you know that it appears that it is a grant and it's just a matter of accepting of the grant

▶ 2:01:11 John N. Tramontozzi: that's my reading of it thank you Thank You councillor Tremont is a counselor

▶ 2:01:16 Shawn M. MacMaster: McMaster Thank You madam vice chair is there anyone from the administration still on the line who might be able to at least summarize this for the public we didn't get the memo until twenty past five this evening so the public doesn't have the benefit of having the memo in front of themselves to at least look at so i i'm not quite comfortable uh voting on this tonight unless we have some summary from a public summary given by a member of the administration whether that's mayor chief of staff or somebody in miss gaffney's uh stead is there anyone still available is that question to me council

▶ 2:02:01 Speaker 1: mcmaster uh through the chair yes sure i'll uh i'll uh add mayor broder just takes a minute

▶ 2:02:27 Paul Brodeur: in my audio audio on yes so this comes to you from the legislature from back when I was the state representative it was a near mark in the FY 2020 budget for $70,000 for wayfinding and this would this is that money coming to the

▶ 2:02:56 Speaker 1: City Mayor Broder Councilor Tramontozzi yeah thank you and thank you mayor for

▶ 2:03:01 John N. Tramontozzi: for being here tonight with us it's greatly appreciated so I'm assuming that this is a money that this that the state is providing to the city and it does not require any city matching funds that's correct thank you that's all I needed to No.

▶ 2:03:23 Speaker 3: Very good.

▶ 2:03:28 Leila Migliorelli: Thank you, Councilor Tramontozzi. Any other questions for discussion?

▶ 2:03:36 Leila Migliorelli: Seeing no questions, a motion for passage.

▶ 2:03:42 Speaker 3: Motion for passage.

▶ 2:03:45 John N. Tramontozzi: Motion for recommendation. We're still on the Appropriations Committee. So motion for recommendation.

▶ 2:03:52 Speaker 2: Second. Second.

▶ 2:03:55 Leila Migliorelli: Okay, couldn't hear the second. Motion for recommendation by Tramontozzi, seconded by? Councilor Stewart. Councilor Stewart.

▶ 2:04:04 Speaker 1: Yes. Call the roll, please. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes.

▶ 2:04:22 Speaker 1: Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. president Grigoraitis yes chair sanella yes 11 yes