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ORDER-2018-116 : Appointment of Melissa Ripley, 27 Ravine Terrace, Melrose, MA as Assistant City Clerk commencing March l, 2018; term ending on the first Monday in February, 2019
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ORDER-2018-116 Appointment Appointment of Melissa Ripley, 27 Ravine Terrace, Melrose, MA as Assistant City Clerk commencing March l, 2018; term ending on the first Monday in February, 2019 Recommend Passage Legal & Legislative Committee City of Melrose Page 1 Updated 1/24/2018 4:46 PM
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▶ 2:06 Scott M. Forbes: Motion to recommend for passage. We got a motion to recommend for passage made by Alderman Lemmerman. Second. Seconded by Alderman Tramontozzi. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes will be recommended at our full board meeting later this evening. Final order of the evening is order number 2018-116. It's the appointment of Melissa Ripley, 27 Ravine Terrace, Melrose, Mass. As assistant city clerk commencing March 1st, 2018. Term ending on the first Monday in February 2019.
▶ 2:37 Francis X. Wright Jr.: Motion to recommend.
▶ 2:38 Scott M. Forbes: We have a motion to recommend made by Alderman Wright. Second. Seconded by Alderman Lemmerman. Is there any discussion?
▶ 2:46 Francis X. Wright Jr.: alderman wright i'd like to suspend the rules to allow uh ms ripley to come forward we have
▶ 2:49 Scott M. Forbes: a motion to suspend the rules made by alderman wright seconded by alderman Tramontozzi all those in favor any opposed rules are suspended ms ripley welcome thank you for joining us this evening just for everybody at home we do have a letter of recommendation made by the city made by the city clerk also your credentials are included in the packet in the file we know that you've We've been working at the city clerk's office since April of 2017. That's correct. At this point, is there any statement you would like to make before the board or before the committee?
▶ 3:24 Speaker 1: I don't really have a statement other than I'm really enjoying working in the clerk's office. We're making some additional strides with electronic offerings. We've already been using the electronic vital records database. We were one of the five pilot communities in the state of Massachusetts when they started implementing it 10 years ago.
▶ 3:51 Speaker 1: We helped the office itself helped create the rules and directions for using the database. Now we're moving forward with online ordering of vitals, death, dog, birth and marriage. had 86 dogs that have been registered online as of last wednesday that's it putting mine oh
▶ 4:13 Scott M. Forbes: so we do have a motion on the floor that's already been seconded is there any discussion
▶ 4:20 Scott M. Forbes: any questions from the committee seeing none all those in favor any opposed motion passes this will be recommended before the full board you don't have to be here if you'd like to stay for the vote that is your prerogative but thank you very much for coming tonight thank you everybody thank
▶ 4:35 Scott M. Forbes: you have a great night motion to adjourn i got a motion to adjourn made by alderman Tramontozzi seconded by alderman lemmerman all those in favor aye opposed finance committee