ORDER-2020-33 : Election of the President of the City Council for the remainder of Year 2019 to fill vacancy created by the resignation of Jennifer Lemmerman.

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▶ 18:00 Peter D. Mortimer: committee on public works we will now proceed to roman numeral number four on our agenda it is new business and the first order of new business that we have is order two zero two zero dash three three

▶ 18:19 Speaker 4: madam clerk of committees please order two zero two zero dash thirty three election of the president of the city council for the remainder of year 2019 to fill vacancy created by the resignation

▶ 18:32 Peter D. Mortimer: of jennifer lemmerman thank you very much madam clerk of committees i will now welcome a motion to open the floor for nominations for the office of president for the remainder of this council term which ends in the first couple of weeks of january so moved we have a motion to open the floor for said nominations by councillor mcmaster duly seconded by councillor Letter garabedian all in favor please say aye aye the floor is now open for nominations council mcmaster please

▶ 19:05 Shawn M. MacMaster: thank you president Mortimer it is my honor to make a motion to nominate councillor scott forbes to be the first elected president of the melrose city council thank you council mcmaster council

▶ 19:17 Peter D. Mortimer: mcmaster has made a motion to nominate councillor scott forbes for the office of president for the remainder of this term is there a second please second said nomination duly seconded by alderman medeiros are there any further nominations at this time seeing seeing none is i was going to close the motion to close them that's that's what i was just about to ask for councilman Zwirko councillor Zwirko has made a motion to close nominations second duly seconded by councillor Boisselle. All in favor of the motion to close nominations, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, nominations are now closed. We will now have a vote for the Office of City Council President for the remainder of the term and this will be done by a voice vote called by our city clerk. She will call off each alderman's name and each alderman will respond to the name of the candidate for whom they would like to vote please proceed madam clerk of

▶ 20:22 Speaker 4: committees councillor Bewtra councillor Forbes councillor Boisselle councillor

▶ 20:32 Speaker 4: Forbes councillor Forbes councillor Scott Forbes councillor Lipper-Garabedian councillor Forbes councillor McMaster councillor Scott Forbes councillor

▶ 20:39 Speaker 4: Medeiros councillor Scott Forbes president Mortimer councillor Scott Forbes. Councilor Cimantozzi. Councilor Scott Forbes. Councilor Wright. Councilor

▶ 20:53 Michael P. Zwirko: Scott Forbes. Councilor Zwirko. Councilor and veteran Scott M. Forbes. Thank you

▶ 20:58 Peter D. Mortimer: Madam Clerk. The vote being unanimous for all members present. Councilor Scott Forbes is hereby elected president of the City Council.

▶ 21:24 Peter D. Mortimer: be escorted to the podium by the chair of the Appropriations Committee, Counsel Lippa Garabedian, to be sworn in.

▶ 21:47 Speaker 6: Mr. Frazier, I do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. That I will bear true faith. That I will bear true faith. And allegiance. And allegiance. To the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

▶ 21:58 Speaker 4: And will support the Constitution thereof.

▶ 22:00 Scott M. Forbes: And will support the Constitution thereof.

▶ 22:01 Speaker 6: So help me God. So help me God. I. I, Scott Forbes. Do solemnly swear. I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as President of the Melrose City Council, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Constitution and Laws of the Commonwealth.

▶ 23:06 Scott M. Forbes: So help me God, so help me God, I, I, Scott Forbes, do solemnly swear, do solemnly swear, that I will support the Constitution of the United States, that I will support the Constitution of the United States, so help me God, so help me God, congratulations, thank you very much, all right, I'll be short and brief in my comments, I just want to say thank you to my fellow councillors, your support is the biggest compliment I could ever receive, and I thank you for that, president of the city council is an honor and a privilege and something that I will not take for granted although there were just a handful of meetings left in the calendar year we do have an opportunity to file some meaningful legislation and I do look forward to working with each and every one of you and finally as many of you know I'm not running for re-election so this does capstone the six years of public service to be able to serve in the same capacity as my father who is a 10-year member of this board and truly a lifelong resident and advocate for the city of Melrose so on that I just want to say thank you very much and I look forward to working with each and every one of you thank you

▶ 23:59 Shawn M. MacMaster: councillor McMaster president Forbes I would make a motion for a brief recess to allow your family to come forward for a photograph very good council

▶ 24:06 Michael P. Zwirko: McMaster's made a motion for a short recess seconded by councillor Boisselle on discussion counselors work yeah just a quick comment sorry to delay the revelry but I just wanted to acknowledge the short yet important service of our pro tem president councillor mortimer always available to step in and do the job that is before him so uh personally wanted to say thank you to you for your short but important service

▶ 24:38 Scott M. Forbes: here here thank you very much all right so we have a motion for a short recess uh duly second and all in favor any opposed we are in recess