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”

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▶ 1:30:47 Speaker 3: 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

▶ 1:31:03 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: council that order will be will be sent to the committee on appropriations if i may just take one quick moment of personal privilege i would like to extend an offer to all of my colleagues in the chamber to join me as a co-sponsor should they wish to on this order i was advised by the city solicitor that in order to open that offer to everyone i should do it in an open meeting such as this one in order to remain within the confines of the open meeting law i'm doing that right now if anyone in this chamber any of my colleagues are interested in co-sponsoring this order please reach out to kristen foot only and with your interest in doing so i would advise that you do it before the next agenda comes out which could be as early as tomorrow afternoon if we could go to orders out of order there are none if we could go to the orders from committees

▶ 1:31:53 Manisha Bewtra: Alderman Bewtra thank you so I'd like to make a motion to remove order 2019-64 from committee transfer of one hundred and sixty nine thousand dollars one hundred and sixty nine thousand one hundred and three dollars from account number zero one nine one four two five four nine two zero one health insurance to various accounts as set forth herein second the motion to remove the order