ORDER-2019-80 : Petition to the Great and General Court to enact a Special Act to authorize the City of Melrose to amend the Melrose City Charter to replace the term “Board of Aldermen” with “City Council”

Transcript (~2 min @ 13:40)

Speakers identified by voice; unnamed voices are numbered within this recording. Auto-caption text — verify against the video.

▶ 13:36 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: seconded by Alderman Medeiros is there any discussion on the order all in favor of passage aye any opposed the order passes are there additional orders

▶ 13:50 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: to remove from committee so yes madam president I would move to remove order number two zero one nine dash eight zero petition to the great and general court to enact a special act to authorize the city of Melrose to amend the Melrose City Charter to replace the term board of aldermen with City Council we have a

▶ 14:07 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: motion from alderman Letter garabedian to remove order 2019-80 from the appropriations committee second the order was the motion was seconded by alderman's worko any discussion on the motion

▶ 14:24 Francis X. Wright Jr.: to remove it from committee alderman wright thank you um i'm president um i wasn't here the other evening when this was discussed discussed i had a work obligation um and i I did view the discussion on the MMTV website after the fact. I absolutely agree, and I've told the mayor that I thought the handling of the filing of this matter and the presentation to this board could have been handled better.

▶ 14:56 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: Alderman Wright, I apologize for interrupting you. This one is on the petition to the Greater General Court for the change from Board of Aldermen to City Council.

▶ 15:04 Francis X. Wright Jr.: Oh, I'm sorry.

▶ 15:12 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: apologies myself okay so we have the the motion to remove that order from committee has been made and seconded all in favor all right any opposed the order is removed from the Appropriations Committee I'd like to move to amend the

▶ 15:25 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: order as recommended by House counsel to strike the phrase quote to authorize the city of Melrose in quote second the motion to amend we have a motion to

▶ 15:35 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: amend this order made by alderman libra garabedian seconded by alderman mortimer this is an amendment that was recommended by house council it's a just a language change to remove the phrase to authorize the city of melrose from the title of the order is there any discussion on the motion

▶ 15:59 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: all in favor aye aye any opposed the order is further amended it was um if all will recall