ORDER-2020-7 : Appointment of Jennie Wengrovius, 585 Main St., #402, to the Commission on Women for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February.

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▶ 1:53 Peter D. Mortimer: We have a motion to close public comment by Alderman Boycelle, duly seconded by President Lemmerman. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, public comment is now closed. And this is the first order. It is order 2020-7. It is the appointment of Jenny Wengrovius of 585 Main Street, apartment number 402, to the Commission on Women for a three-year term. said term to expire on the last day of February. Alderman Boycelle has made a motion to suspend the rules, duly seconded by President Lemmerman, so we may hear from the candidate. Please come

▶ 2:39 Speaker 2: forward. That's all right? Good evening. Good evening, Ms. Petroulis. I'm here to nominate

▶ 2:41 Speaker 3: her to present to you Jenny Wingrovius for the Melrose Commission on Women. We are very excited that she put her application in she isn't from the arts community she's a singer I believe and a really excited about helping us out in different ways on the Commission so I wanted to we are very happy to have her application in

▶ 3:10 Peter D. Mortimer: thank you very much would you like to say a few words miss one grovious I just

▶ 3:13 Speaker 4: wanted to say that I'm relatively new to Melrose and I have two young kids I have two daughters three and six and so I was really looking for a way to get involved in the community and when I found out there was a Commission on women I was very excited this has really been a passion of mine for my life and to basically have an opportunity to explore that and to serve my community is wonderful and even just having been here for a couple years we want to settle in Melrose so this is yep so I'm just very excited that this opportunity came up

▶ 3:48 Peter D. Mortimer: Thank you very much. Are there any questions or comments from members of the committee at this time? Or the President, because she is completing our quorum this evening? President Lemmerman, please.

▶ 3:59 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you very much for being here this evening and for being willing to step up into this role. I also just want to say thanks to, we have a few members of the Commission on Women here this evening supporting this nomination. So thank you all for being here and for everything you do. did provide us with a letter stating some of your background and some of your interests as well as your as well as your resume you currently work at one of my favorite downtown shops so that's great do you want to maybe just take a minute to talk a little bit about whether you've thought about any of the activities that you'd like to get involved in on the Commission or what

▶ 4:40 Speaker 4: some of your priorities might be sure so for activities I have a background in event planning and how would you say schmoozing just meeting people and kind of doing networking and things so I want to put together an event basically to kind of as a debut obviously the Commission has been around for a long time but kind of an event for us to reintroduce ourselves to the public and have everything organized with women so female entertainment we can have female we have many restaurants and many organizations here that are run by women and owned by women and so just kind of create a space where we were putting this event on we invite everybody from Melrose and it's just a good time and we can introduce some of the things that we're looking to do and one thing that I know that we're we're working towards is just kind of I know that we keep a pulse on what's happening politically with with women and girls and i'm hoping that we can continue to expand kind of um our base of people just having people know what's going on more so maybe engaging more with the newspaper or doing a bit more um you know through the through facebook and things like that so that's my first thoughts of what i would really like to do and support the commission in

▶ 6:02 Peter D. Mortimer: doing great thank you very much thank you thank you president lemmerman motion to recommend we have a motion to recommend from alderman Boisselle duly seconded by president lemmerman please let the record reflect we have also been joined this evening by non-voting member of non-voting on this committee alderman monica Medeiros uh seeing uh no further comments all in favor of the motion to recommend this order for passage to the full board please say aye aye any opposed hearing none this order will be recommended to the full board for passage at which time your nomination for this position on the commission on women will probably be passed by the full board you need not attend again okay if that becomes necessary you will be notified but it's a 99 chance we will not need to interview you again thank you very much for coming this evening thank you and thank