Departmental Budget Hearing May 21, 2018

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▶ 2:38 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: chairman we have a motion to close public participation by alderman mortimer second by alderman Boisselle all in favor any opposed it's now closed and we will move to the one item we have on our agenda which is order 2018-183 the city of melrose operating budget for fiscal year 2019 in the amount of 79 million three hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred forty five dollars and seventy three cents we do have uh that two budget hearings on our agenda this evening i will note um before we dive into those that we do have a full board meeting this evening as well it's scheduled to start at 7 45 anticipate we will still be deliberating in the appropriations committee at that point we of course our rules allow for a half hour cushion to start a meeting from its scheduled time however we do have two public hearings on the agenda this evening unrelated to this they are national grid items at 8 and 8 15 so we will have to recess the Appropriations Committee by about 10 of in order to have time to start the full board meeting and get to those public hearings and we will return if need be