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Vote for School Committee Chair and Vice Chair (10 minutes) vote required
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(ID # 6082) Announcements - Chair Vote for School Committee Chair and Vice Chair (10 minutes) vote required City of Melrose Page 2 Updated 1/3/2018 9:49 AM Minutes Melrose School Committee December 12, 2017 Note: The listed agenda items are those that are reasonably anticipated by the Chair to be discussed at the meeting. Not all items, in fact, may be discussed, and other items not listed also may be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law. City of Melrose Page 3 Updated 1/3/2018 9:49 AM
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▶ 1:05:37 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: community events that it is the privilege of the committee to participate in so that is certainly there for our incoming folks and as much for the community to show the importance to us of community involvement taking the opportunities to listen and participate and support the many organizations and families in the city of Melrose so any questions on the rolling agenda that will be updated periodically as always if you have suggestions for changes please bring them forward and there's certainly a process for agendas last on our agenda this evening is the election process of the school committee chairman and vice-chairman the there is a packet document that explains this the superintendent oversees and facilitates this process and I will sit in the horseshoe while this process I'd like to
▶ 1:06:50 Speaker 6: ask the newly elected members to please join us at the horseshoe
▶ 1:06:57 Speaker 6: Mr. Umpremsky, Ms. McAndrews, Ms. Rozzi-Thomas, enough seats can we start with a
▶ 1:07:20 Speaker 6: go-noodle activity yes I want Mr. O'Connor to lead us in a go-noodle activity
▶ 1:07:32 Speaker 6: go right into that I think we could we could use that as a fundraiser people
▶ 1:07:41 Speaker 6: would pay to see it in partnership all right thank you everyone welcome to our new members I am requesting nominations for chair madam secretary if I'm a tooth for the 2018 calendar year mr. O'Connell no I didn't know if was 2018 thank you
▶ 1:07:55 Speaker 1: madam secretary I would like to nominate Margaret Driscoll to serve another term
▶ 1:08:06 Speaker 6: as chair of this committee uh seconds are not um required in this process are there any other
▶ 1:08:14 Speaker 6: nominations seeing none is there any discussion by members miss casatelli i've known margaret
▶ 1:08:20 Christine Casatelli: driscoll for was it 10 10 years now seems like an eternity doesn't it and i've always found her
▶ 1:08:35 Christine Casatelli: leadership to be collaborative and she inspires me as a committee member to do my best work she is relentless in the work that she does for her for the committee and I feel like with her leadership and training our new members
▶ 1:08:52 Christine Casatelli: this committee will continue to do its best work any other comments second
▶ 1:09:01 Speaker 6: let's just go would you like to say a few words I think my colleagues for
▶ 1:09:05 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: their support as always it is a privilege to serve the people in this horseshoe our families our staff our students and all the larger community of Melrose there are many people out there who depend on our schools and our children to be their guiding light for the future so it's a privilege to serve I am grateful for your confidence in my work and I am grateful for your support with that I will do a roll call vote
▶ 1:09:35 Speaker 6: Ms. Cassatelli yes Mr. Selm yes Mayor Dolan yes Ms. Driscoll yes Mr. Obradsky yes Ms. Rozzy Thomas yes Ms. McAndrews yes Mr. O'Connell yes Ms. McAllister-Grand Ms. Dugan yes and I think that
▶ 1:09:56 Speaker 6: is unanimous vote Ms. Hogan we will repeat the process for the position of Vice Chairman for
▶ 1:10:06 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: the 2018 calendar year Ms. Driscoll I would like to nominate Mr. Ed O'Connell as Vice Chairman of the Melrose School Committee for the FY19 school year are there any other nominations
▶ 1:10:17 Speaker 6: or 2000 2018 2018 calendar not the school year right it's the calendar um are there are there
▶ 1:10:29 Christine Casatelli: any members of the committee who wish to comment miss casatelli again mr o'connell has been a wonderful colleague always bringing up new ideas i remember him sitting at the public participation table with um with his students who he was helping to become civically engaged so i think we're a better committee with you on it and thank you for all your hard work now and in
▶ 1:10:56 Speaker 6: the future any of anybody else mr o'connor would you like to say a few words um no thank you very
▶ 1:11:00 Speaker 1: much miss castelli and i accept the nomination and i'm happy to serve the committee in any capacity
▶ 1:11:07 Speaker 6: thank you again I will do a roll call vote Ms. Cassatelli yes Mr. Selm yes Mayor Doran yes Ms. Driscoll yes Mr. Obramski yes Ms. Rozzi-Thomas yes Ms. McAndrews yes Mr. O'Connell yes
▶ 1:11:28 Speaker 6: Ms. McAllister-Grant yes Ms. Dugan yes that is again an unanimous vote I thank you all we have a chair and vice chair for next year um just a reminder to everybody we will repeat this process on january 9th unfortunately without miss casatelli miss mcgallister grand and miss dugan