Call to Order

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▶ 0:08 Speaker 1: It's the gift. It's the nature of the game.

▶ 0:12 Speaker 2: It's going to be a good thing. Yeah, it sure is.

▶ 0:14 Speaker 3: Okay, if we could come to order, please.

▶ 0:18 Speaker 4: How are you?

▶ 0:23 Speaker 3: Welcome, everybody who's down here this evening and anybody watching at home. My name is Donald Kahn. This is the regular meeting of the Melrose Board of Aldermen for October 5th, 2015. Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll, please? Alderman Burry.

▶ 0:39 Speaker 5: Alderman Fussell.

▶ 0:39 Speaker 2: Here.

▶ 0:40 Speaker 5: Here. Alderman Forbes. Here. Here. Alderman Carter. Here. Here. Alderman Lemmerman. Here. Here. Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Here. Here. Alderman Medeiros. Here. Here. Alderman Mortimer.

▶ 0:50 Speaker 1: Here. Here.

▶ 0:52 Speaker 3: Alderman Tumor-Townsend. Here.

▶ 0:53 Speaker 5: Here. Alderman Wright.

▶ 0:54 Speaker 3: Here. Here. President Kahn. Here. Here. Okay, we have 10. That's a quorum. If everybody could please rise and join me in saluting the flag. I pledge allegiance.

▶ 1:07 Speaker 1: to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one

▶ 1:12 Speaker 6: nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

▶ 1:17 Speaker 3: As with all of our meetings, our meeting this evening will be televised on Melrose Cable Television in accordance with the dictates of the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law.