Public Participation

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▶ 0:24 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: I am Alderman Lemmerman. I'm the chair and I'm joined this evening by Vice Chair Alderman Forbes, Alderman, Committee Members Alderman Boisselle, Alderman Tramontozzi, Alderman Medeiros, Alderman Lipper-Garabedian, Alderman McMaster, President Search, and Alderman Mortimer. Do we have a

▶ 0:39 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: motion? Motion to open the floor for public comment. Second. We have a motion to open the floor for public comment made by Alderman Forbes, seconded by Alderman Mortimer. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? This is the portion of the meeting where

▶ 0:52 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: any member of the public can come before us to speak on any item on our agenda. Seeing nobody willing to come forward, motion to close public comment? We do have one.

▶ 1:07 Speaker 1: come on up I take it back thank you for being here thank you if you could sign in on the sheet sure with your urine and state your name and address yes I'm David Adario I appreciate the opportunity to speak a few words I'm the a butter to it I live at 268 East Foster Street I'm the the butter to 278 East foster street which is the east side fire station i understand order 2018 190 has some funds set aside to repair or replace a retaining wall that's um in a state of disrepair at our 270 80s foster street excuse me it's it's actually falling over into my yard um in several places the wall is broken it's no longer continuous it's a concrete wall uh the uh in some sections that the trees in my yard are the only thing that's that's still holding it up um i hope that in moving forward

▶ 2:13 Speaker 1: with the uh the repair of the wall that um in benefit to the city of melrose the fire station and myself that the proper engineering is done in reference to the design of the new wall the the fire department and other city vehicles are parked you know at times adjacent to that wall and i just want to be sure that whatever is going to take place next is sufficient for the task at hand with it and i just like to be kept in the with what's going on as far as how it's going to proceed um as i think that the construction is

▶ 3:04 Speaker 1: going to impact my own property excuse me but uh i appreciate the opportunity to speak thank you

▶ 3:11 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: thank you very much sir motion to close public participation matter okay we have a motion to close made by alderman mortimer seconded by alderman boisselle all in favor any opposed