Public Participation

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▶ 16:44 Peter D. Mortimer: Alderman Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis, Alderman Jennifer Lemmerman, Alderman Scott Forbes, and President Donald Elkhorn.

▶ 16:56 Peter D. Mortimer: Is there a motion to open the floor for public participation before I announce the MMTV? We have a motion for public participation made by Alderman Inferna and duly seconded by Alderman Forbes. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, we are open for public participation. If there are any members of the public who would like to come forward and make comments or questions about any order on the appropriations agenda tonight before we begin then because it looks like there will be people please allow me to announce that this meeting is being recorded by MMTV it's available future viewing on the MMTV website and on the city of Melrose website as you begin to address public participation please state your name and address for the

▶ 17:52 Speaker 2: record welcome hi good evening everyone my name is Lauren Grimmick I live at 19 Morgan Street here in Melrose I'm here tonight as the executive director of the Melrose Chamber of Commerce I just wanted to offer the Chamber's support for the parking program that's been proposed that will be reviewed tonight the Chamber of Commerce has about 300 members many of which are located in Melrose and many of which are downtown business owners merchants retailers restaurants and our job is to help them grow and to foster economic growth here in Melrose and we believe that parking is directly tied to that economic growth as part of the parking working group that we've been a part of over the last I think three or four years along with members of the community we feel that the plan that's laid out in front of you is a good stepping stone to addressing the challenges that downtown Melrose is facing and that our members are facing and that our residents customers and clients that are coming into downtown are facing so we encourage you to support the plan and we look forward also to continuing to collaborate with the city and to monitor this program to make sure that it is the best thing for melrose and to continue its success for downtown so thank you thank you so much for your input good evening good

▶ 19:12 Speaker 5: good evening little circuit street mine is just a comment of when documents are posted to the portal for the public to review before a meeting because I felt like I looked today and found documents that I didn't notice before and so I didn't have time to review so be great if they could get out there in enough time for the public to review and I would ask again these some of these documents are not accessible for anybody visually impaired so if we could really look at trying to make them accessible thank you thank you very much are there

▶ 19:51 Peter D. Mortimer: any other members of the public wishing to be heard at this time seeing none motion to close public participation Alderman Forbes has made a motion to close public participation said motion duly seconded by Alderman Boyce L all in favor please say aye any opposed hearing none public participation is now closed and we will proceed to the orders of the evening the first order we have before us is order 2017-25 it is an order to amend section 220-89 of the melrose traffic code to adjust commercial permit parking fees is there a motion to suspend the rules so move mr chairman