Call to Order

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▶ 0:01 Speaker 1: Okay, good evening and welcome everyone. My name is Donald Kahn. This is the regular meeting of the Melrose Board of Aldermen for December 21st, 2015. Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll, please?

▶ 0:13 Speaker 2: Alderman Girtz. Here.

▶ 0:15 Speaker 3: Alderman Boisselle. Here. Alderman Boisselle. Here.

▶ 0:20 Speaker 4: Alderman Inverna. Here.

▶ 0:22 Speaker 5: Alderman Lemmerman. Here. Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Here.

▶ 0:25 Speaker 4: Alderman Dearest. Here.

▶ 0:27 Speaker 3: Alderman Mortimer. Here.

▶ 0:29 Speaker 6: Here we have a quorum.

▶ 0:34 Speaker 1: Could everybody please rise and join me in saluting the flag.

▶ 0:40 Speaker 3: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for

▶ 0:49 Peter D. Mortimer: which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. President, I make a motion to open the floor for public participation.