ORDER-2018-154 : Election of a Clerk of Committees pursuant to the Charter for the City of Melrose, Section 2-8: Appointments of the Board of Aldermen

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▶ 47:26 Michael P. Zwirko: motion made by Alderman Boisselle to lay the remainder of this order on the table has been seconded by Alderman Mortimer all those in favor aye any opposed hearing none the orders on the table where it will remain for a week next

▶ 47:43 Speaker 8: order 2018-154 election of a clerk of committees pursuant to the Charter for the city of Melrose section 2-8 appointments of the Board of Aldermen

▶ 47:54 Manisha Bewtra: Alderman Bewtra I'd like to make a motion for immediate consideration there has

▶ 47:59 Michael P. Zwirko: been a motion for immediate consideration made by Alderman Bewtra is there an objection to said order a motion hearing none you may proceed I

▶ 48:07 Manisha Bewtra: thank you do we first need to suspend the rules there's been a motion made by

▶ 48:12 Peter D. Mortimer: motion to suspend the rules second the motion to suspend the rules alderman

▶ 48:14 Michael P. Zwirko: butcher makes a motion to suspend the rules for this order has been seconded by alderman mortimer all those in favor on the motion aye aye any opposed hearing none the rules have been suspended alderman

▶ 48:27 Manisha Bewtra: butcher sure um well so we uh the clerk of committee's position of vacancy um is our order for tonight and um there was a committee of uh presidents worko alderman Tramontozzi clerk of committees amy camosa who will soon be in the city clerk role and human resources director marianne long we interviewed a few candidates for this role and are excited to bring forward um our nominee tonight kristen foote and first wanted to ask her if she wanted to say make a statement or share her thoughts i we're really excited to have you potentially come on board if the board will you may come up

▶ 49:13 Michael P. Zwirko: and sit down just state your name for those that are watching at home and folks here hi thank you

▶ 49:23 Speaker 5: alderman Bewtra i am kristen foote good evening and you're being joined by the current clerk of

▶ 49:28 Michael P. Zwirko: committee soon to be the city clerk amy camosa so you go ahead okay thank you so i i went through

▶ 49:37 Speaker 5: this process i am a 25-year resident of melrose i am raising a family i currently work at public works and i am very excited for this opportunity and feel my experience will very much benefit working together and i'm looking forward to going forward thank you can i say yes please

▶ 50:04 Speaker 8: so i never sit on the side it's broken um so you have miss foot's resume before you see i don't need to go into that but i wanted to kind of give you a little bit more information kristen um who first reached out to me during the website transition. She was one of the few people who was actually very proactive in reaching out to me, knowing that we were doing a new website. She's been managing all the DPW communications on the web, which, if you spend any time on the city's website, you realize that's a significant portion of the website itself, and I've been impressed with how professional she was, how organized she was, and how enthusiastic she was in the process. And if you look in her resume too, you'll see just how committed she really is to the city of Melrose. She's served on the library board of trustees, the late start task force with the school, as well as grad night. So we know that she's committed and is familiar with many people and I think she'll be a great asset. So I'm really excited to work with her.

▶ 51:05 Michael P. Zwirko: Great. Thank you for that. At this time, Misha, if you just, we had Alderman Tremont Tozzi at the moment.

▶ 51:12 John N. Tramontozzi: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Just to comment, I just want to thank Ms. Foote for giving us the opportunity to interview her. And I was quite impressed with the resume, impressed with meeting her in person during the interview process. And I know that one of the important roles that the clerk of committees has is dealing with the public and your experience with the Department of Public Works and your commitment to the city demonstrates that I think it should be wonderful in handling and fielding calls, emails, communications.

▶ 51:50 John N. Tramontozzi: between the public in us here on the board so I want to thank you for and look forward to working with you on the on the board so thank you thank you

▶ 52:15 Michael P. Zwirko: I'll go back now to Alderman Bewtra to complete I apologize I erroneously cut

▶ 52:21 Manisha Bewtra: you off there so please okay I just wanted to I you all see Miss Foote's resume I think in many ways it speaks for itself I think you know one of the things that I my takeaways is that I left the interview feeling really energized and really excited about the possibilities of what we can do as a city not just with miss foot on board but I think the partnership that the two of you would bring to the city I think you both are very pragmatic but also have really creative and I was really impressed that you know I think you brought a lot of ideas and the and thought in terms of how to execute those ideas I think again you've miss Foote has been in these very public facing roles first person you might encounter if you visit the hospital similarly in TPW and as somebody who's going to often be the first person that the public encounters to represent us I'd be very proud to have her representing me in that way additionally I think a couple notes from her resume I you know she's a certified mediator um has web development and graphic design experience i think all of those details really put her over the edge and i'm really really excited to potentially bring

▶ 53:39 Michael P. Zwirko: miss foot on board thank you thank you alderman vitro next in queue we have alderman mortimer

▶ 53:43 Peter D. Mortimer: mr president i make a motion to open the floor for nominations for this election second

▶ 53:53 Michael P. Zwirko: we have a motion that has been made by alderman mortimer to open the floor for nominations at this time it has been seconded by alderman medeiros all those in favor any opposed hearing none the floor is open now for nominations mr president if i still have the

▶ 54:05 Peter D. Mortimer: floor i would like to nominate kristen foote for this position for our election this evening there

▶ 54:16 Michael P. Zwirko: has been a nomination made uh for kristen foot by alderman mortimer is there a second second there's been a seconded by alderman wright alderman wright thanks um i just wanted to

▶ 54:27 Francis X. Wright Jr.: add to what we've heard from alderman buter and alderman Tramontozzi um kristen and her family and my family have been residents of florence street for i didn't realize it for 25 years we moved in 25 years ago apparently at the same time you guys were too um we don't live next to

▶ 54:49 Francis X. Wright Jr.: to each other we're about ten houses apart but they know she and her family are great neighbors they're valuable members of our community and you know I'm sure she'll do a great job from us based on everything I've heard and everything I've heard from John Jenna down at DPW and all that so I look forward to having a fellow Florence Street resident here with us on Mondays

▶ 55:19 Peter D. Mortimer: Thursday nights Thank You alderman Wright mr. president make a motion to

▶ 55:23 Michael P. Zwirko: close nominations second there has been a motion to close nominations made by alderman Mortimer has been seconded by alderman Forbes before we get to the vote on that I don't want to move on without allowing Alderman Medeiros to say her piece she's been waiting in queue now for some time thank you

▶ 55:35 Monica C. Medeiros: appreciate that thank you and I think much of it has been said but I also wanted to say that I'm familiar with miss Foote and her passion for the city of Melrose and I think she'll do a great job in this role the public may not see that she's been at the city of Melrose I don't think they can see all of her resume publicly if they're not logged in I could be right wrong but just to say 17 years at Winchester Hospital just impressive long history I hope you know this works out and you'll be with us for just as long and at the city of Melrose at DPW I think it's been talked about the the web experience and that's so important right now and I know that was one of the reasons why we really wanted Miss Camosa for the role when she came on board and so we appreciate that and I think most exciting is to see that how excited Miss Camosa is and it's so important because the city clerk and the clerk of committees really do work and very much in tandem and I think they the more positive that relationship is together that's the bet that's the best for success and I I think it worked well together and I'm glad to see that enthusiasm thank you Thank You Alderman

▶ 56:49 Michael P. Zwirko: Mangeros before we take the vote I just did want to say that I look forward to it as well and you know the first quarter of this year could certainly be summed up by a lot of transition at City Hall and I think we're putting a great team together here in the clerk's office and unfortunately as that team comes together it does mean that we will be losing our current city clerk who's worked diligently for over 40 years so yeah a little bittersweet there but

▶ 57:15 Michael P. Zwirko: she's still here she's still here but you know these changes are good and I really look forward to working with you and greatly appreciative of the process and my fellow aldermen that served on the switch committee for this the nominating committee rather so with that all being said we have closed a motion before us to close nominations all those in favor any opposed hearing none so the nominations are now closed so the question before us is an election for the assistant excuse me the clerk of committees for the sit the board of aldermen clerk madam clerk if you don't mind could you please call the roll

▶ 57:48 Speaker 1: Arlen Guilter Kristen Foote Kristen Foote Arlen Rizel Christine Foote Kristen Foote Alderman Forbes Kristen Foote Kristen Foote Arlen Lemmerman Kristen Foote Kristen Foote Alderman Lipa Garabedian Kristen Foote Kristen Foote Alderman McMaster Kristen for Kristen foot Alma dearest Kristen foot Kristen foot Alderman Mortimer Kristen foot Kristen foot Alderman Trematozzi Kristen foot Kristen foot Alderman right Kristen for Kristen foot president's record Kristen for Kristen foot 11 votes have been cast for Kristen foot look forward

▶ 58:39 Michael P. Zwirko: to working with you thank you next is section is orders out of order do we have any orders out of order this evening are there any orders from