ORDER-2016-129 : Appointment of Jessica Joy Buster, 164 Derby Road, to the Commission on Women for an initial term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2017.

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▶ 1:03:22 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: item on our agenda is order 2016-129 appointment of Jessica Joy Buster 164 Derby Road to the Commission on Women for an initial term said term to expire on the last day of February 2017 thank you very much miss Buster for being here tonight would you like to make a statement most of my best lines um I did

▶ 1:03:46 Speaker 3: want to say I think I think it was it was Aaron Liebowitz who edited out the part where before I turned Babies Hogs into a business it was actually fully a community venture and everything it was really connecting a hundred or more parents and caretakers of young children for for two years it was it was entirely a community organization before I discovered I couldn't pass it off on to anyone else but I've always been a big believer in building the community that I want to live in and Melrose is the community I want to live in so I'd like to be part of building it thank you very much

▶ 1:04:27 Gail Infurna: Alderman Inferno thank you very much thank you Jessica for stepping up as a Ward 5 constituent it's always does us proud as the Alderman to have members of our board stepping forward and being part of our community so I look forward to hearing what's going on with the Women's Commission so thank you for your time I'm happy to thank you thank you thank you

▶ 1:04:48 Monica C. Medeiros: Alderman Medeiros thank you very much for stepping forward and again I'd like to ask is there any particular agenda item or policy that you feel that you really want to come in and advocate for or is nothing I feel like I'm

▶ 1:05:01 Speaker 3: specifically coming in you know absolutely hot for I have strong opinions about many things and I I feel passionately about about advocating for an awful lot of causes but I think I'm gonna take Julie's Julie's point on that one and say you know I think we're really gonna have to see as a group we really can't put our focus in too many places so we'll have to sort of see what what comes in as ideas and and we're the best place to put focus on is and I feel confident that we'll come up with some with some good some good places to

▶ 1:05:40 Speaker 3: advocate as a group of us and like the others do you feel comfortable you know working with those that you may not agree with I do I do and in fact I look on it as an opportunity to really promote more conversation genuine conversation and and I think it's it's entirely possible to have genuine conversation with with those with whom you may disagree quite strongly and you know if there's strong disagreement then that will actually be a valuable thing

▶ 1:06:14 Michael P. Zwirko: so thank you thank you thank you I just want to make one comment you live on Derby Road so I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that I also live on Derby Road and as Gail in front I said it's always nice to see people from our warden area step up and join and also as many of the streets and models are starting to turn over I frequently go down Derby Road to one way after a certain portion it's always nice to see new families coming in and the strollers down the street as well so thank you so much glad the neighbor of mine is going to be

▶ 1:06:40 Speaker 3: participating on this commission thank you very much