Call to Order

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▶ 0:08 Speaker 1: Okay, if the room could come to order please. Welcome everybody. My name is Donald Conn. I'm the president of the Melrose Board of Aldermen. I'm joined here this evening by Margaret Friscoll, chairman of the Melrose School Committee, and we are assembled here this evening so that Mayor Dolan can discharge his duty of giving a budget presentation which is required by the Charter of the City of Melrose. Ms. O'Shea, could you call the role of the joint bodies please? I'll start with the Alderman. Alderman Boisselle.

▶ 0:33 Speaker 2: here here alderman forbes here here alderman inferno alderman lemmerman here here alderman

▶ 0:46 Speaker 2: mccarty-margolis alderman Medeiros alderman mortimer here here alderman Tramontozzi here here alderman wright here here alderman Zwirko here here president khan here here eight present

▶ 1:00 Speaker 2: oh no the school committee members christine casatelli here here was um to sell them here here mayor robert dolan here here margaret driscoll here here jessica dugan here here jamie mcallister grande here here and edward o'connell yeah yeah and superintendent Cindy came over here representative is here representative is in attendance is she any time representative is in attendance oh okay miss Patty white Lambray is here representing the superintendent seven members present

▶ 1:36 Speaker 1: okay we have a quorum of both parties could you please rise and join me in saluting the flag of the United States of America

▶ 1:45 Speaker 1: One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

▶ 1:58 Speaker 1: In accordance with the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law, this meeting is being videotaped and will be rebroadcast on local cable television. We're going to do things a little bit differently this evening. We are going to hear from Mayor Dolan, if you vote that you wish to hear from him, which I hope you will. And then we are going to entertain public participation. participation chair would entertain a motion to suspend the rules so that we can hear from the mayor don't move mr. second all the morning removes that we suspend the rules to hear from mayor Dolan the motion seconded by alderman Forbes on the motion all those in favor aye anyone opposed mr. May could you